Posted on 06/09/2026 5:22:06 PM PDT by CFW
A 19-year-old Indian student who scammed his way into a top US university spoke about his “very structured fraud” in a Reddit post which ultimately led to his downfall. Aryan Anand falsified documents and even faked his father’s death to secure admission at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania on a full scholarship.
His carefully structured scam unravelled after he bragged about it in an anonymous Reddit post. In the confession titled “I have built my life and career on lies and fraud,” Anand revealed how he faked his Class 12 boards degree, his school principal’s email address and his father’s death certificate to study in the US.
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After barely passing Class 11, he decided to get serious in Class 12 and even studied hard for two or three days - but soon fell into old habits again. “There was a time in my life when I was just eating, sleeping and watching movies,” he wrote.
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“One college, I wouldn't name for obvious reasons, it's a top 25 in the US and a reputed college. I don't know how they accepted me, but gave me a very very good financial aid package which covered almost everything except my meal plan cost,” he wrote.
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“I got a marketing intern position at a small insurance firm based in New York,” he wrote on Reddit. “It's remote work, all I have to do is send some emails and sometimes make some phone calls. It's part-time. I do it like 2-3 hrs a day, and most of the time, I just clock in and watch movies or do anything unless there is something assigned to me, and I make around 1500$ a month from it, like 1.2 lakhs in INR,” he said.
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I wonder how many of these fake "students" are in universities across our nation?
“However, his carefully constructed web of lies unravelled after a Reddit moderator came across his post, did some digging and realised he was a student at Lehigh. The moderator alerted the university, following which an investigation was launched.
Although Anand could have been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for his fraud, his university reached a plea deal where he would not face a prison sentence. Instead, Anand was expelled from Lehigh and deported back to India.”
The world’s best and brightest from India are so critical to our economy that after Trump imposed the $100,000 fee for H1B visas, only 8 visas were paid for by US companies since Sep 2025. Oh, and they were for Chinese citizens.
Aryan....would of thought!!
A ton of them from China. The children of CCP officials who don’t make the cut on merit simply pay for forged school documents. Only the little people have to worry about social credit scores.
Dood, the internets are like forever.
But I have been assured for decades now that all the foreign students at American universities are paying full price and not getting any aid what so ever.
Huh.
How odd.
Lehigh should be very proud to have been so easily duped. Perhaps the credentials of the admissions officers and scholarship committee are just as bogus as this student’s.
“Although Anand could have been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for his fraud, his university reached a plea deal where he would not face a prison sentence. Instead, Anand was expelled from Lehigh and deported back to India.””
Actually, I’m glad they deported him back to India. Otherwise the U.S. taxpayers would have been stuck footing the bill for his incarceration. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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