Ghost Student Fraud Detection demo

What the demo shows

Enrollment and aid offices flag fake applicants and ghost students before aid is paid

Signal agents work separately on applications, contact details and devices, writing, first-week course activity and aid records. A Linker agent groups the applicants who share signals into rings and names what they share. A Protector agent looks for innocent explanations first, such as siblings at one address, a family shelter or the campus library's network, and clears those students with the evidence before anyone sees them as suspects. A countdown shows the Pell dollars and seats each ring would take before the next disbursement. A reviewer clears or holds each person; an aid hold also needs the Director of Financial Aid, and it sends the federal photo-ID request in plain words. Seats go back to the waitlist only after the deadline, with the Dean's approval. No agent drops a student.

Transcript

1. 0:00Ghost Student Fraud Detection stops fake students before aid is paid.
2. 0:06California colleges reported 1.2 million fake applications in 2024.
3. 0:14Agents read applications, devices, writing, course activity and aid records.
4. 0:22A Linker groups them into rings: twenty-three applications in one weekend.
5. 0:29Sequential emails, one phone pattern, one intro post, no logins.
6. 0:36Disbursement is in six days: $166,750 in Pell, sixty-one seats.
7. 0:46First, the Protector clears two siblings, citing their lease.
8. 0:52Reviewer Dolores Whitcombe confirms them and holds the other twenty-one.
9. 0:59Aid director Sameer Lindqvist co-signs at 10:14.
10. 1:04Each student is asked to show a photo ID by Monday.
11. 1:09No agent drops a student; every decision is logged.
12. 1:15Unverified by Monday, their sixty-one seats go to 148 waitlisted students.
13. 1:23Built on Botminds: agents, data, screens and governance on one platform.

The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.