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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.
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The Canadian case is the clearest demonstration anywhere that a fraud can look like complete success for years — visas granted, studies finished, work permits …
📍 Canada
Not every credential scam targets students from the developing world. This one targeted Italians. According to reporting by Žurnal in Bosnia, the Italian Insid…
📍 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Belarus has been a steady, unglamorous destination for medical students from India, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and elsewhere: state universities, Russian-influenced cu…
📍 Belarusian State Medical University, Minsk, Belarus
Belize is a small English-speaking country in Central America with a handful of private medical colleges that market themselves, mostly online, to students fro…
📍 Central America Health Sciences University Belize Medical College, Ladyville, Belize
Australia is one of the world's most trusted study destinations, and its medical schools are not part of this story. Its private vocational college sector is —…
📍 Australia
The University of Health Sciences Antigua (UHSA) is not a fake school. It was founded in 1982, teaches its basic-science semesters on a 50-acre former NASA tra…
📍 University of Health Sciences Antigua School of Medicine, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
The Kenyan case reported by the Daily Nation did not need forged university letters. It needed a radio microphone. According to the Nation, in May 2021 a busin…
📍 Nairobi, Kenya
In September 2016, Free Malaysia Today and Malay Mail reported that about 150 Malaysian students of medicine, pharmacy and dentistry at eight Egyptian universi…
📍 Cairo, Egypt
In early December 2018, Israel Police arrested around 40 doctors, medical interns and pharmacists on suspicion of obtaining their professional licences with di…
📍 Yerevan Haybusak University Faculty of Medicine, Yerevan, Armenia
When the fraud is run in the name of the regulator itself, the usual advice — "check with the authority" — stops working. That is what makes the Pakistan Medic…
📍 Islamabad, Pakistan
Bangladesh is a common destination for medical students from Kashmir and the rest of India, and its private colleges are real, recognised institutions. That is…
📍 Bangladesh
On 16 May 2026, the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office raided 95 educational consultancies across Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur and detained 69 op…
📍 Kathmandu, Nepal
The most dangerous version of a study-abroad scam does not end with an empty bank account. In August 2025, Africa Defense Forum reported on warnings from sever…
📍 Russian Federation
In December 2022, France 24's Observers team documented a recruitment machine aimed at students in Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa: age…
📍 Cyprus
Not every harmful school is a fake one. Saint James School of Medicine is a real, for-profit Caribbean medical school with campuses in Anguilla and St Vincent,…
📍 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Washington University of Barbados received a charter from the Barbados Ministry of Education in 2016, admitted its first students in April 2017, and was closed…
📍 Washington University of Barbados School of Medicine, St. Philip, Barbados
The largest MBBS admission fraud in recent reporting was not run by a street-corner agent. According to Gulf News, the Enforcement Directorate uncovered a rack…
📍 India
This case did not begin with an ad. It began with a classmate. According to Careers360, after NEET results were declared in June 2024, a Faridabad resident nam…
📍 Faridabad, India
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.
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