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The fake IDs list her as being under 30, because young women get more business.

She's also lied about her height.

She's on the short side.

And she's lied about her faith.

H is Muslim.

But sometimes she pretends she's converted to Hinduism, if that's needed.

Clinic directors say some couples only want eggs from a woman who matches their faith.

Piecing together how the industry functions was not easy.

Doctors and clinic directors don't want to go on the record about their clients or their dealings.

But here's what one prominent fertility doctor told us about the process, on the condition that we don't use her name or voice because she doesn't want to come into the government's crosshairs.

We confirmed her account in dozens of other conversations with researchers, fertility clinic directors and women who sell their eggs.

The doctor said when a couple comes to her and the woman can't produce her own eggs, she tells them that her hospital will help them, but it's going to cost a little extra.

And one way she procures those eggs is through an agent.

An agent is the person who will often end up finding women.

They move them through the process of extracting their eggs and they pay them.

This go-between person allows the fertility clinic to plausibly say, we aren't paying women for their eggs.

We're paying an agent to recruit women for us.

It was even harder to get an agent to speak to us.

But we found one woman.

Her name is Ruby.