The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application goes live on October 1, but with student aid season underway, there is an onslaught of new and convincing scams within the education ...

Scammers disguised as thousands of fake students are flooding colleges across the U.S. with enrollment applications. The “students” are registering under stolen or fabricated identities, getting ...

(NewsNation) — Criminals are stealing identities to apply for federal financial aid fraudulently, creating “ghost students” who enroll in online college courses. These fake accounts, often powered by ...

In 2025, California’s community colleges lost more than $13 million to identity fraud — not from hackers or ransomware, but from so-called “ghost students.” Ghost students are not real learners — they ...

The instructor thought something was off when she looked at her online class registration. And she was right. The students weren’t real people at all. Instead, they were scammers, using stolen names ...

A new consumer alert for parents and students trying to apply for federal student aid. There’s a new crackdown to stop financial aid fraud. The U.S. Department of Education announced it will launch a ...

There’s a scam targeting student financial aid, and it’s leaving some Americans with “phantom” student debt. As of October 1, applications for Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) are now ...

Criminals are stealing identities to apply for federal financial aid, creating “ghost students” who enroll in online college courses. These fake accounts, often powered by chatbots, stay enrolled just ...