- July 27, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Nairobi — The growth of online college degrees has created more opportunities for American students to outsource their schoolwork, resulting in a booming billion-dollar cheating industry centered in the East African country of Kenya.
Many impoverished young people in Kenya invest heavily in their educations but find it difficult to find work after they finish their studies. Looking for a way to support themselves after school, they go into the business of helping American students cheat.
“You can’t steal. You have to find something to do for yourself,” William, a young man in Kenya who works in the cheating industry told CBS News. He requested that we not use his real name in our report.
William pays U.S. websites for accounts to connect with American students and then subcontracts the cheating work out to other Kenyan writers. He makes over 2,000 dollars a month but says he’s ashamed of working in the “essays-for-hire” industry.
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