> I've heard enough instances of people paying others to take exams for them Back in the 90s I was becoming a math teacher at one university while I was workin

> I've heard enough instances of people paying others to take exams for them Back in the 90s I was becoming a math teacher at one university while I was working on getting admitted into an IT engineer course at another. Strangely enough, the other admittance exam besides math was physics and I sucked at that while obviously I was far ahead in math compared to my peers at the physics preparation course. So someone offered an astonishing amount of money to take the math entrance exam for them, enough to buy a small apartment with it -- and perhaps I would've been young and foolish enough to go with it except for one fact: they offered a falsified national id to go with it. That's five years in prison if you get caught with it and I noped the hell out of it... In the case OP describes, the situation is similar: it's the documentation that catches you.