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 ...

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 Trump administration launches a real-time FAFSA fraud detection tool to fight ghost student scams tied to fabricated and ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- Ghost student scams are draining financial aid from colleges across the Capital Region and beyond as schools race to catch fake applicants before money goes out. 13 Investigates ...

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 bipartisan group of senators is introducing legislation to prevent fraudsters scamming the federal student aid system for their own gain.

An I-Team investigation in collaboration with ABC News is uncovering a widespread identity theft scheme involving so-called "ghost students" -- scammers who steal personal information, enroll in ...

Scammers are using AI to fraudulently apply for colleges and collect financial aid, and they're doing it by stealing identities, leaving the victims on the hook to repay loans they didn't take out.