Let me see if I understand what you said: Your employer sent about $1820 to the school and the school gave you about $730 in scholarship, for a total of $2550. The school doesn't realize that the $1820 is only a loan, so they've entered it in box 5 of the 1098-T as a scholarship.
If that is correct, you have to use a work around in TurboTax (TT). The easiest thing is to just change the box 5 amount to what the school scholarship amount is (+/-$730).
Lying to TurboTax to get it to do what you want does not constitute lying to the IRS.
The 1098-T is only any informational document. The numbers on it are not required to be entered onto your tax return. You claim the tuition credit, or report scholarship income, based on your own financial records, not the 1098-T.
