Two kinds of story, both first-person and both checked by our team: scam stories — how it started, what was promised, what it cost — and student stories from verified students already abroad, showing the help they provide and what they wish they'd known. Every story is mapped to the college, city and country it concerns. Cases marked 📰 From the news are compiled by our team from published reporting, with sources linked — not first-person accounts.
In Zambia, health practitioners and health facilities are licensed by the Health Professions Council of Zambia, the HPCZ, the body to check before trusting any…
Zambian police announced the arrest of two men who had, they said, operated as doctors at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka — the country's largest — …
📍 Lusaka, Zambia
Why stories, not just reports?
A directory row says "agent X, overcharge". A story says how the WhatsApp group started, what the "university letter" looked like, when the fee changed, and what finally gave it away. That's what makes the next family pause before they transfer money.
Every scam story is either linked to an email-verified, team-reviewed fraud report (when it names someone) or describes the pattern without naming anyone. Every student story comes from a student we've verified — identity, college and live location.