Japanese Major Corporation Employee Arrested for Proxy Online Entrance Exam Participation

Recruiting Job Seekers by Promoting 'Pass Rate Over 95%' on SNS
Exploiting Vulnerability of Cheating with Just ID and Password
Earned 38 Million KRW from About 300 Clients

[Asia Economy Reporter Bang Je-il] In Japan, an office worker who took online corporate entrance exams on behalf of actual applicants for money was arrested.

Tanaka Nobuto, who works at Kansai Electric Power, was commissioned by a female university student last April to impersonate her and take an aptitude test conducted by a company for recruitment purposes, receiving 2,000 yen (about 19,000 KRW) per subject. Although the aptitude test results showed no issues for the female student, she was reportedly rejected during the subsequent interview and was not hired.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested Tanaka on charges of electronic record forgery and public use fraud, and plans to send the female university student who requested the proxy test to prosecution without detention on the same charges.

Upon investigation, the police found that Tanaka promoted himself on his social networking service (SNS) as a "Kyoto University graduate school alumnus with a pass rate over 95%" to recruit job seekers, receiving about 300 requests and earning approximately 4 million yen (about 38 million KRW).

Due to COVID-19, many companies have shifted to conducting entrance exams online, allowing tests to be taken from home PCs with just an ID and password, which made fraudulent proxy testing possible. Experts suggest that this incident should prompt companies to devise measures to prevent fraudulent proxy testing when conducting online exams.

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