California woman enrolled in college by scammers using AI to collect $9,000 in financial aid—she’s only one of 223,000 suspected fake enrollments in the state

fortune.com/2025/06/10/california-woman-enrolled-college-scammers-ai-collect-9000-financial-aos

It was an unusual question coming from a police officer. Heather Brady was napping at home in San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon when the officer knocked on her door to ask: Had she applied to Arizona Western College?
She had not, and as the officer suspected, somebody else had applied…

This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-06-10 09:51:12.
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