Unmasking Ghost Students: Safeguarding Higher Education

During this webinar, attendees will learn: 

• The Anatomy of Ghost Student Fraud: Discover the mechanics of modern fraud rings, including AI bot enrollments, synthetic identity application floods and “Pell runner” schemes.
• How to Quantify Your Institution's Exposure to Title IV and Ghost Student Fraud: Explore a simple model to estimate dollars at risk at campuses–grounded in the latest public benchmarks from the U.S. Department of Education, AP, EdSource and Protiviti–so they could brief CFOs, boards and audit committees with credible numbers.
• Best Practices for Navigating New Compliance Mandates: Align institutions with the Department of Education’s V4/V5 verification mandates and prepare for impending legislation like the No Aid for Ghost Students Act.
• How to Build a Layered Verified Trust Approach: Utilize document and biometric verification, real-time risk signals and adaptive step-up authentication to protect vulnerable learners, stop bots and fraud early and secure Day 1 account provisioning and aid disbursement.