For 1000’s of faculties throughout the nation, "ghost students" — subtle thieves who use stolen or pretend identities to enroll in courses on-line and join Pell grants and loans — are committing id theft.
The scammers then disappear as soon as they get the cash — robbing the federal authorities of a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} and leaving an untold variety of victims of their wake.
ABC News’ Steve Osunsami studies.
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