Within two months of implementation, Voyatek's Application Fraud Firewall has prevented hundreds of scammers from fraudulently enrolling in Kansas's Butler Community College.
COLUMBIA, Md., Oct. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Within two months of implementation, Voyatek's Application Fraud Firewall has prevented hundreds of scammers from fraudulently enrolling in Kansas's Butler Community College. By investing in Application Fraud Firewall, Butler is ensuring that financial aid and institutional resources go to students, not scammers.
Criminals posing as students – AKA "ghost students"— are flooding colleges across the country with fraudulent applications, using a combination of stolen and fabricated identities. Once enrolled, ghost students steal financial aid and tie up course seats that real students need, creating a financial and administrative nightmare for resource-strapped schools.
Voyatek's Application Fraud Firewall leverages sophisticated AI identity verification and fraud models that analyze admissions, financial aid, and enrollment data to identify fraud with precision and accuracy. The solution includes Socure's Predictive Document Verification as part of its IAL2-compliant platform, surpassing Department of Education FAFSA requirements for identity verification and fraud prevention.
"Behind the surge in application fraud are sophisticated criminal networks using complex, evolving tactics. Manual approaches to fraud detection simply can't keep up," said John Van Weeren, VP, Higher Education at Voyatek. "To stop application fraud without creating frustrating roadblocks for legitimate students, colleges need intelligent solutions that will verify who is really behind the computer."
Application Fraud Firewall's best-in-class predictive models analyze and correlate every facet of a digital identity, utilizing over 1000 data sources, 17,000 features, 8 billion rows of data, and a continuous feedback loop of decision outcomes from thousands of customers worldwide.
Valuable insights uncovered by Voyatek's fraud prevention solutions have helped Voyatek's clients reduce their manual review workloads by up to 80% and realize a 10x return on investment in the first year of deployment.
Learn more about Application Fraud Firewall here.
About Voyatek
Voyatek delivers outcome-driven technology solutions to public sector agencies and higher education institutions nationwide. With a focus on helping our higher education clients develop a clear line-of-sight between their strategic goals and day-to-day operations, we provide advanced analytics solutions that drive student success and improve institutional health. Voyatek's Application Fraud Firewall is helping colleges nationwide combat admissions and financial aid fraud. Leveraging sophisticated AI identity verification and fraud models, Application Fraud Firewall dramatically reduces application processing time and ensures that resources and funding go to students, not scammers.
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