Pennsylvania woman to enter plea in Chinese test-taking plot - Chicago Daily Herald
PITTSBURGH -- A Chinese citizen who lives in western Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to charges she used phony passports to take English-language fluency tests used for college entrance purposes for two other Chinese women, including one now... Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh allege they scammed tests run by Educational Testing Service and the College Board - such as the SAT - for nearly $6,000 per exam. The alleged scheme involved tests administered in Pittsburgh and its suburbs since 2011. Sun acknowledged taking the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL, in November 2013 for Yue Zou, 20, of Blacksburg, Virginia, and again in December... Tong, a former University of Pittsburgh student, used a Chinese Internet forum called QQ Chat to contact a China-based business that arranged to have proxies like Sun take SAT, TOEFL and graduate school entrance exams. Assistant U. S. Attorney Jimmy Kitchen told the judge on Monday that Sun provided her photo so it could be used to make phony passports in the name of Zou and the other Chinese woman, which Sun used as her identification when taking the tests. Zou and the other, unnamed woman paid the Chinese testing service, which sent some money to Tong, who split it with. Source: www.dailyherald.com
