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What’s the point of sending a fake student to a community college? What’s the end goal of the people running these bots?
by apothegm 2y ago
What’s the point of sending a fake student to a community college? What’s the end goal of the people running these bots?
- UncleMeat 2y agoFinancial aid fraud.
- nonethewiser 2y agoHow are they able to profit off that? Doesnt the school cost money which the aid would just reimburse?
- weard_beard 2y agoThey don't pay the school.
- UncleMeat 2y agoTuition aid mediated through a school's financial office is not the only form of aid.
- wildzzz 2y agoThe community college tuition is free but the state will give you some money to help cover living expenses while you study.
- nonethewiser 2y agoSo then anyone could do this even if they arent a bot?
- jccalhoun 2y agoCommunity college isn't free but it is much less than 4 year colleges. You can take out loans that will cover things like books and other expenses. I'm not in financial aid so I don't know exactly how it works. I assume they aren't really "bots" but are people in another country who have faked an identity. Anyone could do it but if they used their real name the government will find them eventually. As faculty I could look at the "student's" schedule and see they were taking multiple online classes from different campuses in our system. I called the number on their accounts and two of them were no answer and the third I called was someone else who didn't know that name. I assume that one person is running accounts for multiple "students" and from the boiler plate that one person submitted I wouldn't be surprised if it was an organized business like many internet/phone scams.
- imtringued 2y agoThey should give you interest free loans with generous payment schedules starting one year after graduation.
- ntlk 2y agoTraining data?
- jccalhoun 2y agofinancial aid fraud
- ourmandave 2y agoThey steal any loan and aid money that in excess of the tuition.
- EDEdDNEdDYFaN 2y agoliterally in the first few paragraphs of the linked article?