Thai Med Students Caught Using Spy Cams And Apple Watches To Cheat Of Exam

#1 Prestigious Medical Program

Over 3,000 students in Thailand must retake a university entrance exam after a cheating scam involving cameras and smartwatches was uncovered. The sophisticated scam happened at Rangsit University in Bangkok where the hopeful students were testing to gain entrance into a highly prestigious medical program.

#2 Tiny Cameras Inside Glasses

The university says five people filmed their test papers using tiny cameras embedded in their glasses. They wore the specially designed glasses that were equipped with the cameras and unnoticeable to anyone looking at the wearer. The camera was on a hinge that would flip out for filming the test papers.

#3 Answers Sent Back Via Smartwatches

The students then transmitted the images to an outside team, who sent the correct answers to the smartwatches of six other students taking the exams. They would receive the correct answers and then enter those on to the test papers. All the camera glasses and watches have been confiscated by officials and they are still not sure where the equipment came from and who was behind the techy scam.

#4 The Students Paid A High Price For Answers

One student admitted he was being charged $24,000 (£17,000) to receive the right answers to get into medical school from an unknown source. Another student was paying for his correct answers with a brand new Mercedes Benz. There is tough competition to get into medical school in Thailand but potentially high rewards, as patients from around the world travel to Thailand for medical treatments of all kinds. Some of the graduates are offered high paying jobs in other countries including Germany, Japan, Canada, Great Britain, and the USA.

#5 Students Blacklisted from Med Schools

The university's rector, Arthit Ourairat, told the Bangkok Post the students involved had been blacklisted and would not be allowed to apply to study there again. The newspaper said the people filming the exams left part way through so they could transmit the films of the test papers to the outside team. After the news article, the students involved were also blacklisted by three other medical universities.

#6 Elaborate Cheating Scheme

The students involved have not been named and it is not clear whether they are part of a wider network but the school suspects there were at least 12 graduate students providing the answers from the outside. The search is still ongoing for the person behind the elaborate scheme but it is implied in the newspaper article that it is a group of technical experts who enlisted the medical students to help with the correct answers from previous testing. Mr. Ourairat made the scam public in a post on Facebook which was shared tens of thousands of times, prompting thousands of comments.

"If they had passed and graduated, we might have had illegal doctors working for us," commented one person.