DORAL, Fla. — The state’s agency that oversees insurance licensing uncovered testing fraud and arrested five suspects on Wednesday morning in Miami-Dade County, records show.
With the help of a “cooperating witness,” the Florida Department of Financial Services’ criminal investigations division used WhatsApp messages, transactions on Zelle, and other evidence to put together the five cases.
The witness “described a method in which the applicant remained visible to the online proctor while he stayed outside the camera’s view and operated the examination controls to select answers,” an investigator wrote, according to the arrest reports…