Inside the ‘ghost pupil’ rip-off that makes use of identification theft to steal school loans

For hundreds of faculties throughout the nation, "ghost students" — refined thieves who use stolen or faux identities to enroll in lessons on-line and join Pell grants and loans — are committing identification theft.

The scammers then disappear as soon as they get the cash — robbing the federal authorities of lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} and leaving an untold variety of victims of their wake.

ABC News’ Steve Osunsami stories.

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