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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">SWOSU has seen a growing number of fraudulent applications come through in the past several months. While others were easier to spot/track, they are becoming increasingly more difficult to identify.
</span>In a recent example, the fraudulent applicant used someone else’s identity to gain admission (and Financial Aid), and someone is actually submitting assignments in their enrolled courses (asynchronous fully online).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Here’s my question for you all - what are you doing to help prevent these kinds of fraudulent applications coming through? Are you using some kind of in-house process to verify every student’s identity or partnering
with an outside vendor? If in-house, is the process in your Admissions area or Financial Aid office (or both/other)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your insight! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:.1pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#293F6F;mso-ligatures:none">Dr. Adam Johnson</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:.1pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#000001;mso-ligatures:none">Vice-President for Student Services</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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