Federal investigators have more than 200 open cases probing these scams.

Identity theft happens every 22 seconds in the U.S. and now, artificial intelligence is making it easier for scammers. What used to be rough Photoshop jobs has evolved into slick, AI-generated IDs ...

In 2025, California’s community colleges lost more than $13 million to identity fraud — not from hackers or ransomware, but from so-called “ghost students.” Ghost students are not real learners — they ...

A WhatsApp message claiming an APAAR ID had been generated circulated widely, alarming students and parents. Screenshots were shared online and prompted warnings about unsolicited Aadhaar-linked ...

About 30 percent of a sample of 362 Virginia Tech students said they had a fake ID, according to a Campus Alcohol Abuse Prevention Center study conducted in fall 2003. Most of them used IDs to go into ...

Now, fake IDs aren't rare among college students, you know, to get into bars or nightclubs when you're under 21. But this year, some students have their sights set on a new forged document - fake ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — A serial scammer will spend over two years in prison after she defrauded the U.S. Department of Education out of nearly $1 million in financial aid by enrolling fake students in college ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Department of Motor Vehicles is sharing data on how many fake IDs police have seized so far this year in New York State. The DMV is also warning people that, when you order a ...