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Listen guys, I wouldn't exactly call it a scam.  I've been working there for a few weeks now and our main job is to verify the information, but after we verify First+Last Name, Address, Phone Number(s), and your Email Address, the verification is complete and the rest is simply to gauge interest in going back to school.  You must be:  18+ years of age, a US citizen, must have a GED or HS Diploma, and you must not currently be enrolled in a school to qualify for enrollment in College.

It's simply lead generation - if you are not looking to better yourselves with a college degree, then simply say so.  There may be some reps that are more aggressive than ones like me, but if you vehemently say "No thanks, I'm not interested in going back to school" when that questions arrives, they should be almost done with the call.

As far as I know, once we verify the information and submit, it goes straight into the back office (the little workstation the employer has access to via CareerNetwork or a different job board) and that is the end of that, if the employer is interested, he will take your now verified and by extension correct information and get in contact with you.

If you seriously don't think that you applied for a real job, say to the Rep:

"Listen, [name], I'm really just not interested in doing this.  Please give this number [number] to your manager and have it removed from your dialer."

This should end all the calls coming to you, but remember that this is a vital step to getting your application to the employer and by not going through the process, you are effectively taking yourself out of the competition for this job.

If you are interested in going back to school, say so and this person will give you a number to contact our education advisers and see if they can help you get matched with a school (either online (which is really what we're garnering for, I believe) or campus, and if our specific set of schools don't offer the program (such as a CDL License or a program for Butchering (yeah I had one of those)), I believe we give the person information about some schools that actually do offer that program) and I believe they have you fill out a FAFSA.  Student loans may come into play, but I'm pretty sure it isn't 100% student loans, there are some grants and scholarships and such involved.

We, as reps, get paid not by if the person enrolls in school, but simply if they call in and are genuinely interested in talking with a school about what the program entails, how fast they can get their degree, etc.

If you took the time to read this, thanks, and sorry for the supreme amount of parenthesis two paragraphs up.