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Pilot Project & College Participation

Pilot Project & College Participation

Jun 12, 2018



College participation in the fight to prevent and combat fraud against fraud is critical to the overall success of the campaign.

Spam Filter Pilot 

  • Top 4 colleges attacked by fraud

  • Data used in deep dive analysis

  • Identified trends for the model

  • Provide insight on motivation

  • Submitting bad apps monthly

  • Participating in ongoing research



College Participation

Participation from ALL colleges is critical to success of model

  • Regular monitoring of spam filter

  • Making determination of fraud status

  • Support continuous learning of model

Understand the motivations of spammers



Out for financial gain





Submitting Fraud Applications for Research

  • Must be in the required format

  • Send other info in a separate file.


Item: Confirmation # of suspected bad apps.
File Format:  TXT File
Naming Convention: CollegeMISCode_Fraud_mmddyy.txt

Confirmation numbers ONLY

One (1) confirmation number per line in .txt file



Best Practices

  • Review onboarding processes and auto-response emails

  • Educate staff to identify fraud patterns & trends

  • Ensure applicants are legitimate students before issuing .edu email addresses

  • Remove ways for spammers to get into our system



Under-development

  • Final phase of web service API and prediction service

  • User interface integration into Administrator

  • CCCApply Administrator system upgrade

  • Enhancing Download Client for fraud status flag



Future Enhancements

  • Email notifications to colleges to monitor filter

  • Filter interface adjustments