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Since June 2016, colleges have seen a rise in cyber criminal activity and an increase of fake The following articles below pertain to the recent rise in fraudulent applications coming in through CCCApply.
The web service is built for the CCCApply Standard application, with a back-end user interface that will be accessible in the new CCCApply Administrator (deploying in June). Both the spam filter service and the admin interface are under-development now - with an expected release date of June 2018. This is a huge project and will require the cooperation and participation of all colleges - not just the colleges being targeted with spam - in order to "train" the algorithm with accurate data - both good, legitimate applications as well as the bad, fraudulent applications.
A comprehensive communication plan is mapped out, beginning with the announcement about the Spam Filter as part of the new CCCApply Administrator release- going out the week of March 19. Training webinars and user guides are being developed to accompany the new system.
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, the research study conducted to learn more about this problem, and the development of a Spam Filter Web Service that was built to prevent these applications from reaching your college.
- Issue: Rise in Fraudulent Applications in CCCApply
- Ways We Are Addressing Fraud in CCCApply
- Machine Learning Research Study
- Spam Filter Web Service & User Interface
- College participation and best practices
- Ways to prevent fraud at your college