There is a warning about “ghost students,” which is when someone steals your identity and applies for college loans and financial aid in your name.
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Scammers targeted Murat Mayor and his teenage son, who is currently a high school senior in Maryland and was listed as a second-year student at a community college in Utah.
The ordeal has been very difficult, Mayor said.
He believes the thieves stole their identities after his wife died in a car wreck, and their health insurance company had a massive data leak.
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