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 Mexico a private university programme is valid only if it holds a Reconocimiento de Validez Oficial de Estudios (RVOE) from the federal or state education a…
In Mexico the right to practise medicine rests on a cédula profesional issued by the federal education ministry, the SEP, and searchable in its public register…
Mexico licenses doctors through the cédula profesional, a licence number issued by the federal education ministry, the SEP, and searchable on its public regist…
Mexico issues a cédula profesional, a national professional licence number, for every registered degree, and keeps it in a public register. An earlier case on …
Mexico has a large, legitimate medical-education system that trains thousands of foreign students, particularly from the United States. It also has a long-runn…
📍 Mexico City, Mexico
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.