An employee at Suffolk University pretended to be a grad student and robbed the school blind while collecting a paycheck.

Red Alert Politics reports.

College employee pretends to be student, is awarded $47K in student loans

It’s not just colleges that are robbing students blind — sometimes “students” take advantage of the system.

An employee at the Registrar’s Office of Suffolk University has spent the last several years pretending to be a graduate student, collecting almost $50,000 in student loans which she used to pay for vacations and her own personal expenses.

According to an Associated Press report, 28-year-old Ashley Ciampa was able to enroll in an MBA program at Suffolk for free as an employee at the school. She abused her position and access to student records to give herself A’s in classes she did not even attend, and was awarded over $47,000 in student loans.

Ciampa has been pretending to be a student since 2014. She recently pled guilty to student loan fraud and could face up to five years in prison and a $20,000 fine.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “borrowing thousands in low-rate student loans—which cover tuition, textbooks and a vague category known as living expenses, a figure determined by each individual school—can be easier than getting a bank loan. The government performs no credit checks for most student loans.”

The rise of online education has further increased the prevalence of student debt fraud.

Department of Education inspector general reports from 2014 found students enrolled in online programs often spent more than half of their student loan money on rent, transportation, and “miscellaneous” expenses. The report also found schools were lending thousands of dollars to students who were not even enrolled in classes at the time.