Four Chinese citizens arrested on college-entry cheating charges

I run an English resume editing, LinkedIn Profile creation, interview coaching, and academic document(s) and application(s) final editing service in Shanghai (reach out on my profile if interested). We have been approached to do everything under the sun from forging recommendation letters to writing entire Master's level theses from scratch and everything in between. There is a ton of business if you have no ethics. No way, no how.

How often does the arrest and prosecution of visa students for cheating on entry exams happen?

If you know even basic english, TOEFL is not really difficult. If you are unable to get a decent score in TOEFL, it is very likely that you would not understand anything that is thought in a lecture that is administered in English.

What kind of a federal crime does this fall under? Mail fraud perhaps? Also, are tests like these actually administered by govt.?

I'm curious about how they first got admitted and then later got caught.

Stuff like that all around developing countries. Those guys shoot themselves in the foot, but most likely that were their parents.

The true story here, I was going through the immigration control in JFK on Moscow -> NYC flight. In front of me was a guy with a family speaking fluent Russian. I thought he was Russian, but then he pulled out a US passport and began telling his "family" to not to speak with immigration or otherwise "they will be revealed". When it was his time to go through the officer, he was visibly super anxious and he barely managed to put a single phrase in English. The immigration guy called somebody, then policemen came and took him and his "family" away.

It amazes me that in this day, there still are naive people who think that they can get their way in the West with bought or fake papers.