A professor at Pierce College has spent months searching for fake students who are enrolled in classes.
So the criminal justice professor settled into the family room couch and opened her laptop to try to root out suspected crime right before her eyes: fake student bots.fraudulent students registered in classes
But the scope of the situation is unclear. The state has asked each college to prepare monthly reports on the number of incidents of suspected and confirmed registration fraud, confirmed number of incidents of financial aid fraud, and its dollar value. It also announced that it would be using a new software to help prevent bot registration. But officials have declined to release the reports on the grounds that the information is involved in a fraud investigation.
She scours class rosters looking for odd patterns in names or a string of characters in place of a name; students’ avatars used in the system to upload assignments that look different than the norm. With research and photo searches, she’s connected some of those images to a dead person, an author, a professor up north and an East Coast attorney — people she suspects could be victims of identity theft.
“That’s completely unheard of,” Rich said. She began looking through other class rosters and saw an unusual number of the same names registered in the same classes. “That many students taking that many of the same classes with the same teacher at the same time was extremely unusual.” But bots can be tricky to spot and are not always inactive. Reports of suspected bots’ odd written answers to professors’ questions has been common at colleges throughout the state.
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