As millions of Chinese students sat a gruelling university entrance exam this month, stories of how an identity theft scandal robbed hundreds of previous candidates of their dreams set social media alight.
Officials in the eastern province of Shandong said a two-year investigation had found more than 280 people involved in stealing the identities of students sitting the “gaokao”.
China’s top universities rely heavily on a high gaokao score for admissions, increasing the pressure on students. Most of the cases pre-dated 2006 and officials blamed poor ID verification methods at the time for the failure to detect the cheating. Among the victims was Gou Jing, who wrote on social media network Weibo that her former teacher’s daughter stole her identity in 1997.
The government said the imposter has been stripped of her academic qualification and fired from her job. “Impersonation is abhorrent, and the crimes of malfeasance and bribery involved in the process of fraud should be investigated as well,” she said. Family connections Gou, who reportedly works for an online children’s clothing brand, did not respond to AFP’s request for comment.
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