""I speak with people, for example, who work at boiler room call centers for for-profit colleges and the lead generation companies that provide the industry with many of its students. Recently I've been learning more about one particularly offensive trick the industry uses. Multiple companies maintain fake websites promising jobs, food stamps, heating assistance. But these are just fronts to draw in people -- mostly low income people -- so they can be sold for-profit college programs. Before they can proceed on these sites, people come to a popup window asking for their contact information, and next thing someone is calling and trying to steer them to a for-profit college. According to people who have worked inside the lead generation industry, this particular bait and switch scam steers students to schools operated by Kaplan, ITT, Corinthian, Bridgepoint, the University of Phoenix, Career Education Corp., EDMC, and others. It's an awful scam, and I plan to report more on it soon.".....http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/as-for-profit-colleges-fi_b_6031046.html
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but slowly have begun doing this crap again. UOP used to be famous for buying leads for prospective nurses( UOP has no ASN program) and management would tell you to spin these students into BSHA programs, a degree costing 50K plus, but yielding a job as a receptionist in a proctologist's office, or no job at all. I bet UOP goes back to their shenanigans again in order to staunch the enrollment bleeding. Shameful.