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Since June 2016, colleges have seen a rise in cyber criminal activity and an increase of fake 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.
- Overview of the fraud application issue
- Ways we are addressing fraud across the system
- Machine learning research study
- Pilot project with colleges who've been hit the hardest by fraud
- Development of the Spam Filter Web Service and User Interface
- College participation and best practices
- Ways to prevent fraud at your college