CA Community Colleges Have Handed Out $5 Million in Aid to Fake Students Since 2021 

Published on April 6, 2024

California’s community colleges have handed out more than $5 million in financial aid to fraudulent students since 2021. The bogus students are often bots who enroll, apply for a federal Pell grant – which can provide up to $7,600 – collect it and then disappear. Instances of financial aid fraud became widespread after 2021, when scammers began submitting fraudulent applications for federal aid and COVID-19 relief grants, according to state news outlet CalMatters. Since then, such schemes became so prevalent that the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office began requiring in 2021 the colleges provide monthly reports regarding fraud. It also implemented bot detection software on its websites, according to an August 2021 memo from the chancellor’s office....

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