Financial aid fraud is on the rise. Here’s how scammers are stealing funds

As fake enrollments for online courses surge, some professors discover that no one in their classes is real. 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 to Arizona community colleges in her name to scam the government into paying out financial aid...