Two victims of university acceptance scams are speaking out about their experiences with an immigration scam where they travelled to Canada to attend university and discovered that they had not actually been accepted into their programs. Both individuals paid an immigration consultant who was not recognized by the Government of Quebec to submit their university applications to the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. They received admission letters and documentation, which they discovered were fake after arriving in Canada. CBC reports that these victims are continuing to live in Canada and are trying to find a solution to their cases so that they can move forward. UQAC said that its registrar’s office identified 44 cases of fraudulent admission letters between June and December 2023.
