[FreedomToCreate]

This makes no sense. The main issue here is recruiters in India and the USA promoting these types of universities to students there. These people should be caught. People seeking a better life apply, pay the tuition and show up. Now if they know it is fake is another issue. If you place a million dollars on the sidewalk and someone takes it and never reports it and you arrest them, is it fair. You are basically testing the persons ethics, which is not a criminal offence.

[black_puppydog]

> Meanwhile, seven of the eight recruiters who were criminally charged for trying to recruit students have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced in Detroit, including Prem Rampeesa, 27, last week. The remaining one is to be sentenced in January.

Given that for recruiters "knowing the universities" is their job, I would at least be willing to have a separate argument about whether or not this strategy is a valid one to weed out malicious recruiters. Even in that debate though, I'd argue "confirm that it's officially government certified" is about as high a bar as you can set for a recruiter to cover their ass. If a certified university is still bogus, then the problem lies with the agency that certified it.

For the students, it's entrapment and the people involved with it should be the ones who's careers are ended, once and for all, not the students.

And "by the way" that entrapment is what I would consider the "main issue" here.

[Jamwinner]

While some feel it may border on entrapment in this case, a failed 'test of ethics' generally is illegal. If you do unethical things because the threat of getting caught is all that matters, you are not a good person by any standard.

[thatcat]

Ethics cuts both ways: if you are too lazy to find real illegal acts and contrive one as part of your job because it is more convenient and profitable, then you are not a good person by any standard and are certainly in no position to judge others.