Lately, a Chinese lecturer in New York shared an unbelievable and creepy incident in Weibo, a China social media platform, that a Chinese student who passed away a month ago is still attending his Zoom online lessons.
The unfortunate Chinese girl was study abroad in New York and was killed in a car accident on November. The university management did notify all the relevant personnel regarding her passing. The most eerie part was she is still attending the Zoom classes, submitting homework and send email to her lecturer.
Last Monday, she submitted her year-end assignment “on-time” and this week she even submitted assignment to earn extra credits of her academy year. Those work that SHE submitted gave the lecturers a chill!
This lecturer who shared on Weibo wrote, she actually knew who is behind all these after realised the girl who is still attending the online classes never turned on the camera. It’s just no action been taken so far. However, since other lecturers freaked out receiving emails from this “ghost” student, they reported the matter to the management.
The management decided to take action towards the one behind the account who attended the online classes and submitting homework on her behalf. The lecturer was assigned to further investigate on the academic misconduct.
So, the truth is .. it’s not an incident with any supernatural forces. But “Someone” was paid to do the job, including attending classes and submitting homework. Her findings surprised her as the businesses of the “impersonator” is getting big nowadays especially amid COVID-19 pandemic.
This is a big loophole for online classes, where no physical attendances needed. The “impersonator” provided services to either work on certain assignment, attending classes, some even can do for the entire subject. They will outsource their brain, what you need to do is to pay them and give them the login ID and password, that’s it!
“Ghost writing has probably always gone on in some way, but we’re getting a sense that its happening on an industrial scale through websites and things like that. I’m not sure what will happen next,” he said.
A media outlet do a search on ” Canada online classes management” and guess what, there were 6.9 million relevant search results. They advertised online with tagline like ” guarantee credit score”, “one-stop solutions” , ” your education guardian” and so on.
Some syndicate even have a million dollar annual turnover thanks to Chinese international students desperate to pass their courses or too lazy to do the work themselves.
September of 2019, both the 26-year-old ” ghost writer” and the student were arrested as the 26-year-old was caught impersonating a student in order to write an exam in exchange for money.
Seriously, we do not want a fake doctor or engineer that are not qualified. I don’t even dare to imagine what is going to happen to the world.
Info via China Press | Daily Mail