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.
Every Indian who goes abroad for medicine starts with a Class XII certificate. Foreign universities accept it on sight, and the regulator at home usually check…
Mumbai's municipal hospitals are run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), and from 2018 to 2024 their intensive care units were staffed through man…
Small nursing homes in West Bengal's districts carry out a great deal of routine surgery, and the person holding the scalpel is often known to a family only by…
NEET-UG is the only door into an MBBS seat in India, and in 2026 the door had to be rebuilt. According to the Free Press Journal, the National Testing Agency c…
Gujarat's industrial cities draw migrant workers from across India, and the dense colonies around Surat's textile and diamond units are served by small clinics…
In India a doctor's licence is a number on a state medical council register, and a registration granted in one state can be used to obtain one in another. That…
Indian students who finish an MBBS abroad cannot practise at home until they pass the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE), run by the National Board of…
Two small cases from 2026, both reported by Careers360, make the same point from different ends of India, and the point is about timing. In Jharkhand, the admi…
West Bengal has had a run of fake-doctor cases over the past decade, and the one from Sonarpur, on Kolkata's southern edge, in September 2026 follows the patte…
On 23 October 2026 the Rajkot Rural Special Operations Group raided clinics across the district's villages and industrial belts and arrested seventeen people w…
In the last days of NEET UG 2026 counselling a document began circulating on social media that looked like an official notice from the Medical Counselling Comm…
The complainant in this Hyderabad case is a 44-year-old obstetrician and gynaecologist, a doctor who knows exactly how medical admissions work, and who still p…
The person who paid in this case was a school principal, which is a reminder that admission fraud does not depend on the victim being uneducated. It depends on…
Uttarakhand reserves a handful of MBBS seats for dependants of freedom fighters and for orphans. In the 2026 admission season both quotas turned out to have be…
Every Indian who studies medicine abroad must pass the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination before a state council will register them. In 2026 Rajasthan's poli…
A medical council registration is supposed to be the last check between a forged degree and a patient. In October 2026 Rajasthan's Special Operations Group sho…
Delhi's police have handled two fake-surgeon cases that between them cover the two main ways an impostor operates: with no identity, and with somebody else's. …
India's medical admissions reserve seats for several categories, and each reservation is claimed with a certificate. In 2025 Uttar Pradesh police arrested a me…
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.