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发表主题: 波士顿一中国哥们考试作弊被抓
http://edu.sina.com.cn/a/2015-05-30/1012260353.shtml
美国检方28日对15名中国学生提起诉讼，指控他们在美国大学入学考试(SAT)等考试中
采用欺诈手段，收买枪手替考。15名中国学生中，10人居住在美国，其中一人已经被逮
捕。如果被控罪名成立，这些中国学生可能面临几十年监禁和几十万美元的罚金。
案情严重
15名中国学生遭指控 作弊者和替考者都有
美国联邦大陪审团在起诉书中说，作弊者花钱雇佣替考者，涉及的考试类别包括
SAT、GRE和托福[微博]，涉案地点集中在宾夕法尼亚州。总计15人在匹兹堡被起诉，包
括作弊考生和替考者。起诉书公开了其中7男5女共12人的身份信息，年龄在19岁至26岁
间。
在全部15名被告中，有人伪造并运送假护照到美国，有人利用假护照进入考场进行
考试，帮助他人获得托福、SAT以及GRE等考试的成绩，有人利用虚假成绩申请美国的大
学。
15名被告中，有10人居住在美国，分处波士顿、匹兹堡、加利福尼亚、威斯康星、
俄勒冈、宾夕法尼亚、弗吉尼亚和马萨诸塞。截至28日，只有位于马萨诸塞州的一名被
告被逮捕。
宾夕法尼亚州律师戴维·希克顿说，已经向其他9名在美国的被告和2名身处中国的
被告发出逮捕传唤。
雇枪手费用6000美元 假护照在中国制作完成
依照美国司法部公开的文件，这些学生花费高至6000美元的佣金雇佣枪手，代替他
们进入考场。作弊考生事先购买到伪造的中国护照，骗过考场管理人员，使考试机构错
误认为替考者就是考生。
文件说，这些作弊考生通过聊天软件传递用于伪造护照的个人信息、枪手照片等，
伪造护照者而后通过邮寄或快递方式把假护照从中国寄到美国的作弊考生手中，替考者
再持假护照参加考试。
涉嫌伪造护照和欺诈 最高可能被判20年监禁
文件说，欺诈主要发生于2011年至2015年，更多调查仍在继续。
15名被告被控罪名包括合谋、伪造外国护照、邮寄和通信欺诈。
欺诈罪在美国可判高至20年监禁和25万美元罚金，伪造外国护照罪最高可判10年监
禁和25万美元罚金，合谋罪最高可判5年监禁和25万美元罚金。检察机关没有公开这些
学生通过欺诈方式就读的大学列表。检察机关认为，在这起案件中，大学属于受害者类
别。
冰山一角
美国学生也存在欺诈行为
“我怀疑有更多类似案件，”律师希克顿说，“我怀疑不仅涉及中国学生。几年前
我们已经注意到有沙特阿拉伯学生这么干。”
美国国家公平和公开测试中心公共教育主任罗伯特·舍费尔认为，这一案件只是考
试作弊情况的冰山一角，不仅有外国学生欺诈，也有美国学生靠欺诈等方式进入大学。
舍费尔说：“(学生的)压力大，特别是在亚洲。为了得到一个能进入美国大学的好分数
，一些学生和家长[微博]想到了作弊。”
另有相关部门官员说，一些外国留学[微博]生不仅在入学考试中作弊，而且还围绕
移民[微博]要求、签证要求等采取多样的欺诈手段。
目前，中国是美国最大的留学生源国。依照美国方面公开的数字，2013年至2014年
，入学美国高校的中国学生总计27.44万，占同年入学外国学生的31%。印度和韩国紧随
其后，占比分别达到11.6%和7.7%。
在美国，学生作弊情况同样严重。美国纽约检方2011年对20名学生提起诉讼，指控
他们2008年至2011年间参加SAT考试时雇人替考或充当“枪手”。20名学生中，15人雇
人替考，出价500美元至3600美元不等；5人充当“枪手”，伪造身份证件骗过考官。
新闻延伸
哈佛大学也曾曝出作弊丑闻
美国哈佛大学2012年5月也曝出建校以来最大作弊丑闻，120多名学生涉嫌在期末考
试中作弊。1个月后，全美公立中学排名极高的斯泰弗森特中学也发现学生“组团”作
弊。
俄亥俄州立大学教育心理学教授埃里克·安德曼研究学生作弊行为多年。他说，85
%的美国学生承认在上大学前至少有过一次作弊行为，其中男生比例高于女生。安德曼
认为，考试作弊问题突出是因为如今的学生们生活在“易诱发作弊行为”的环境氛围中
，其中最具影响力的因素便是过分强调考试、分数。这样的教育氛围促使一些孩子为追
求漂亮的分数“铤而走险”。据新华社
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/29/northeastern-allegedly-hit-
entrance-exam-scheme/Eb2B7G8PHLTSKa3RIkUJJN/story.html
Chinese student accused of cheating to get into college
US officials say he paid impostor to take English test before entry to
Northeastern
By Laura Krantz GLOBE STAFF MAY 29, 2015
When he was in high school in China, Siyuan Zhao wanted what hundreds of
thousands of his peers strive for every year: the prestige that comes with a
degree from a university in the United States.
And for Zhao, success seemed all but assured. He had good grades and was
admitted to a one-year precollege program at Northeastern University,
beginning his quest to study there full-time, according to his attorney.
Zhao was accepted, and four years later, his attorney says he is just a few
classes shy of graduation. But all that success was thrust into peril this
week when federal prosecutors charged him with paying someone to take an
English proficiency exam he submitted to Northeastern four years ago as part
of his application.
Zhao is one of 15 Chinese nationals charged in a federal indictment that
describes an international, but relatively simple, scheme that involved
students allegedly obtaining fake passports in China and sending them to
conspirators in Pennsylvania who took standardized tests for them.
The 23-year-old student, hands and feet shackled, stood in a federal
courtroom in Boston on Friday, hearing the charges.
In court, Zhao’s court-appointed attorney, Stellio Sinnis, described Zhao
as a good student who does not pose a risk of flight.
“He’s a very young, very frightened young man,” Sinnis told US Magistrate
Donald L. Cabell.
As part of the scheme, the conspirators in the United States would receive
the passports containing the personal information of the Chinese students,
and then an impostor’s photo would be pasted in, prosecutors said.
Some students allegedly paid impostors to take the SAT and GRE, paying as
much as $6,000 per test. Zhao allegedly paid someone to take the Test of
English as a Foreign Language. Zhao and the other students submitted those
scores to US colleges, authorities said.
An indictment charging Zhao and the 14 others, unsealed Thursday in US
District Court in Western Pennsylvania, includes 35 counts in total. Zhao
faces four charges — one count each of making and using a false passport,
conspiracy, wire fraud, and mail fraud.
Each count of wire fraud, mail fraud, and conspiracy could bring Zhao 20
years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both. The conspiracy charge could
result in five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both, according to
the US attorney’s office in Pennsylvania.
Zhao is the only one of the 15 defendants who was arrested in Massachusetts,
and he was taken into custody Thursday at his home in Revere, attorneys
said.
The federal magistrate ordered Zhao to wear a GPS monitor and remain under
house arrest, and set a $25,000 bond until his next court date, which has
not been set but will be in Pennsylvania.
Two of Zhao’s college friends attended the court hearing Friday but
declined to comment.
During the hearing, federal prosecutor Amanda Strachan questioned federal
Homeland Security agent Robert Fisher, who participated in Zhao’s arrest.
Fisher said Zhao appears to possess ample financial resources, including a
bank account that once received a $50,000 deposit. He also owns, or has
owned, three luxury vehicles, including a Land Rover and two Mercedes-Benzes
, during his time in the United States, Fisher said.
The alleged cheating scheme took place at testing sites in Western
Pennsylvania between 2011 and 2015, the indictment says, but students sent
the scores to schools across the country.
Another student, Biyuan Li, is alleged to have wired $5,990 in 2014 from a
Massachusetts Bank of America account to an alleged coconspirator in China.
None of the other defendants is believed to be from Massachusetts.
Northeastern defended its admissions process Friday and declined to comment
on Zhao. The school receives about 50,000 applications each year and reviews
them for veracity. The school learned of the federal investigation in
August and was instructed to take no action, school spokeswoman Renata Nyul
said in a statement.
“The university will refer [Zhao] to our office of student conduct for
further action. We are prohibited by federal law from commenting further on
disciplinary matters regarding specific students,” she said.
The companies that administers the entrance exams, the Educational Testing
Service and the College Board, cooperated with the investigation,
prosecutors said.
College Board vice president Stacy Caldwell said in a statement Friday that
the organization attempts to identify and stop illegal activity that
undermines the integrity of the tests.
The indictment comes as the number of Chinese students admitted to colleges
in the United States hits all-time highs. There are five times as many
Chinese students on US campuses today as in 2000, according to data from the
Institute of International Education, a nonprofit that aims to boost higher
education globally.
As the number of Chinese students applying to US universities grows, schools
have become more vigilant about verifying pieces of applications found in
the past to be fraudulent, said Anna Katten, associate director of school
operations for the Burlington-based Ivy International Group, which helps
students from abroad who are entering US high schools.
Many of those students hope to continue on to college in the United States.
Laura Krantz can be reached at [email protected]
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