December 4, 2004
South Korean Students Burned for SMS Cheating
The investigation into Gwangju's exam cheating scheme using mobile phones during the national college entrance exam continues - and the number of students involved keeps rising.
mobilemag reports that "after tracing SMS messages by phone numbers and matching them with test times, investigators of Seoul's Cyber Crime Investigation Squad were able to uncover evidence of over 350 South Korean students that were swapping answers back and forth on their mobiles last week.
This may not be the end of it either, they suspect up to 600,000 students in total to be involved in this type of text-message cheating. Others are being questioned for paying college students to take exams in their place using fake identification.
The photo above shows the Cyber Crime Investigation Squad viewing the captured SMS messages on their jumbo spy-like display.
Related articles:
-- Answers Relayed From Other Organizations
-- Seoul Education Office Took Precautions Against Cheating
-- Students held for (Text Message) exam scam
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