apessay.com and studybay.com - likely suspicious paper services

apessay.com and studybay.com facts and real review:

1. 100% operated from Ukraine or Russia, staffed almost exclusively with non-native English speakers.

2. Possible direct ties to notorious cyber-criminals in Ukraine and Russia.

3. Hacked thousands of websites injecting hundreds of fraudulent links. Including MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), ITT Tech, Harvard, UIC, among others.

4. Continue hacking and redirecting unsuspecting Internet users to their essay fraud website. A visitor may search for something on Google and after clicking on a link from a completely different website gets redirected to their essay site.

5. They try to hide their tracks by...... completely removing their own (apessay.com) domain from Google and Bing. Their robots.txt page content: apessay.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

It means that no search engine bots are allowed to crawl and index their websites.

The reasons? There are actually three:

1. They know their alleged criminal activities are already documented by Google / Bing and if they removed the block, the sites could be immediately banned. So - thinking they smart - they self-banned itself hoping that maybe in the future Google or Bing will get stupid and forget the criminal history (hint: not going to happen).

2. They don't want to get even more attention from the annoyed webmasters and students of whom they publish content as their own. If their site was indexed in Google, webmasters and students would use the Google / Bing spam report. If there were enough reports, Google / Bing would take enough time to connect the dots and ban all of their criminal websites. They don't want that obviously.

3. They fabricated reviews on some essay writing sites. When a student searches on their name (especially apessay.com) the fake reviews show up.

On their own website they ask this direct question in the Q&A:

"Which country are you based in?"

Their answer? "You don't have to visit our office" - they don't answer that "We are based in Russia." Or "We don't have any serious copyright or cyber-criminal laws to protect people in our country. Whoever we do business with we may screw as we please".



Annoyed organizations keep adding their website / bot to their bad bot list:



They want to pay good writers as low as $3 per page! Their customer service people lie to writers. I was shocked to know how much personal information about students / clients they have. Students don't know their information is kept on Russian servers and have no adequate legal protections? I guess they don't. My English is not great, but it's light years ahead of their "top 5" writers. So you get what you pay for. I hope this info will open eyes of the Internet security companies, scammed writers and especially students. Good writers will NEVER write for less than $10-15 per page. Unless they live in non-Western country and their English skills fail the acceptable standards.

Really??
I am Shocked after reading this.

Why would you find this so shocking? It makes perfect sense. It's apparently much easier to just redirect web traffic from legitimate providers than it is for them to convince customers to order from them voluntarily and with full knowledge of who they are.

No. studybay.com (as far as its clones aka apessay, etc) are founded by RUSSIAN scammers. Their leader German owns other affiliate program "Author24", that sells essays for Russian students. In 2015 they wanted to extend their business to the US market, so they created studybay.com affiliate program for local webmasters to generate traffic from the US, UK, Australia.

Here lays his lecture for SEO Conference, where he says, that writers are from Ukraine, Russia, Belorussia, etc.
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Creation and monetization of sites under the US and Russia: differences and cases Herman DIRECTOR FOR SALES Seo conference 2016
1 2 3 4 The authors respond The student chooses the author The author proceeds to work How do our projects work? The student creates an order
4-5 orders from the client in a yearLTV to 55% of the application for payment% conversion Teachers from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus Executive students Students of Russian universities, SEO experts Clients Customers - are trying to get a job for free. Authors try to give someone else's work for their Mentality Absolutely legal The elegance of LTV

What works Direct, adwords Seo Affiliate program b2b Direction, adwords CPA-networks CPA-networks What does not work SMM Teaser SMM bloggers Coupon services Kump services Median

4-5 orders per customer per year LTV up to 85% of the application for payment% conversion Teachers of India, Kenya and the Philippines. Executors A large proportion of newcomers, small non-residents. Clients In the US, the direction causes a lot of negativity. It is customary to knock on those who write off the Mentality. Activities are prohibited in some states. Legality

What works for White SEO Adwords, BING Black SEO FACEBOOK Adwords, BING FACEBOOK Affiliate Affiliate for physicists What does not work CPA meshes Median Instagram (in very rare cases) email spam PR and bloggers email spam

CASE 1

To order term paper

Result of the season 2015-2016 Site traffic in the season 460K per month Total consumption 400 000 rub. Total income from a partner Author24 806 600 rub. Number of paid orders 1754 (651 rebills) Plan for 2016-2017 Site traffic in the season of 900K per month Total consumption 50 000 rub. The total income from a partnership Author24 2 000 000 rub. CASE 1

The main tasks of the method Buying accounts with a positive balance in Adwords Testing the cloaca, choosing the optimal Testing of landings, reducing the cost of the lead For 3 months (from March 23 to June 23) Total expenditure $ 13,578 Transfers 4709 Number of paid orders 759 (321 rebills) Total income from the partner studybay 24709 $ Total income from the studybay affiliate business

CASE 2

Tips for our partner Google AddUrl, 50 domains per account, you can buy a bundle Ping services in 2016 are working Creating their own Twitter farms Results for six months of work: Number of created posts per month 100 Total expense (domains, servers, index services) 3000 $ Transfers 1.1 million Number of paid orders 1018 (440 rebill) Total income from the studybay partnership 21270 $

CASE 3

Promo Code:
SeoConf 2016

Thank you for your attention! Шкляр Герман DIRECTOR FOR SALE



- Screenshot of Herman's lecture on how to earn with essay writing.

Thank you for writing about the Russian essay SEO spam scam. It really helped me understand what was happening with my site.

My website was one of those hacked, resulting in 40 pages of my search engine results being devoted to these crooks. And I can see from my Google Webmaster Tools that about 150 websites are now linked to non-existent academic paper writing-related pages on my site...so they were probably all hacked as well.

Clearly, the security I was using was not up to the task. My sites use both Joomla and Wordpress. Both were hacked. Anyway, I was curious who did it. It turns the attackers are from Russia and / or Ukraine. They redirect hacked pages to their essay mill site: apessay.com. I found they host the site on a Russian server behind a proxy:

Hosted Domains:

apessay.com
a24help.ru
a24-team.ru
edugram.com

Hostname: mail.a24-team.ru (redirected to Gmail)

IP: 193.70.1.15 (OVH and Cloudflare - the notorious hosts known for spam and hack attacks), also related to 85.17.225.+ (Leaseweb - another notorious cloud hosting service)

apessay.com was registered by a Russian domain registrar based in Moscow. It hides behind a Russian WHOIS proxy service.

They appear to be related to: edugram.com, bestwritingessay.com, essaypro.com, essayassist.com and essayservicereviews.com, also hosted on a Russian or cloud server. I also believe they work or are the same as speedypaper.com.

As the other poster mentioned apessay.com is typically the final destination. Users click on a hacked link and are redirected to the site. They block search engines from visiting the site.

If you host a website on a popular platform like Joomla or Wordpress make sure to keep them up to date. Uninstall all plugins you don't use. Install security plugins. Warn your friends from possible attacks. Share your experiences on social media and other helpful communities.

Merged: Example of the malicious redirect to their Apessay site

Here is one example out of hundreds of thousands of websites hacked (or mass created) and redirected to their essay site. User clicks on a hacked link and is automatically redirected to their site. It records site data in the "rid" variable.

Hello, everyone!
It is such a pity to waste time on articles like that, but we must give an official answer.
Obviously, the writing of such texts is the intrigues of unscrupulous competitors who, unfortunately, stoop so low, that they write false statements about us. Our company has millions of satisfied customers all over the world and the coolest support service with tremendous care for users. ANY user can call us, make a test order and make sure of it.

Appeal to the author of the post: Learn to work honestly and conduct a fair competition. The fact that you write such posts makes us only stronger - you just do not know how to defeat us! (The author of this post, "IT Tech Writer", is registered on this site on Jan 08, 2018. The post was written on the same day.)

Now I would like to answer point by point:

1. We are an international company with representative offices in Russia, Brazil, Malta and the US. Among our employees, there are representatives of all these countries.

2. That is ridiculous. We are a well-known IT holding, which includes many public companies.

3. We do not accept traffic from broken websites from webmasters and don't receive that kind of traffic by ourselves.

4. We have an affiliate program in which webmasters direct traffic for our products. The case that described here - is called the "clickunder" traffic. Owners of websites from which redirection occurs, independently sell this traffic through marketplaces.

5. We do not hide our tracks; we have several websites on which there are our white labels. For those who, at least have a little understanding of SEO, this step is understandable. For those who do not understand: it makes no sense to promote several identical websites because Google will not promote them all. "Apessay" - is the domain intended exclusively for webmasters traffic.

Giving answers to other insane theses of the author of this post have no sense because the whole argumentation is given above. Of course, this author cannot prove any of his points.

We do not complete the tasks for students, we are a platform that enables clients and writers to find each other. We also do not influence the pricing in "Studybay", all authors independently put the prices for their work.

Our official website: studyworldmedia.com
For communication / questions: partners@studybay.com.

The following are top Russian / Ukrainian essay service affiliates or "landing pages" (translated by Google from: seogrot.com/essay-nisha-kakuyu-partnerku-vybrat/). Looking closely, many of them engage in suspicious redirections. You are definitely in a bad neighborhood. What about your hacking and redirecting users - see the animated GIFs above. The evidence is right there to see. You cannot deny it no matter what. Google will not promote them because they violate the basic honesty and legality rules multiple times and more.

edu-profit.com.DND

paperhelp.org
evolutionwriters.com.DND
expert-editing.org
dissertationwritings.com
essaypedia.com
myadmissionsessay.com
de.paperhelp.org

edu-revenue.com

7essays.com
essayoneday.com
expertwriting.org
power-essays.com
superbpaper.com

essayprofit.com

grademiners.org
royalessays.org
finestessay.com
master-essays.net
essay-vendor.co.uk
essayschreiben24.de
dissertationguru.net
assignment-online.co.uk
proessayhelp.com

edu-affiliates.com

essaybox.org
essayfactory.uk
bookwormlab.com

edu-cash.com

bestcustomwriting.com
wiseessays.com
the-essays.com

ap.studybay.com.DND

apessay.com

essaypro.money

essaypro.com
essaypro.club

mraff.biz

gpaessay.com
essayvikings.com
paperial.com

educashion.net

speedypaper.com
papercoach.net
writepaperfor.me

essaypartner.com

paythegeek.com
essayquake.com
getessaytoday.com
justdomyessay.com
pen.camp

student-profit.net

writing-academy.org
buycustomessay.org

edu-money.com

extraessay.com
essay-homework-help.com
handmadewritings.com

affiliateontop.com

essay-on-time.com
essay-wizard.com

bestedudeal.com

essaysdeluxe.com

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bestqualitypapers.com
bestessays.com.DND

essaytop.club

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Recent forceful security breach of MIT.edu academic website (Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge) by EssayOneDay.com (Edu-Revenue affiliate):

Please stop trying to change the subject. You and "IT Tech Writer" wrote a series of false accusations in our direction. As a proof, you provide us with a gif, with a very interesting URL: q.melc.co/essay-spam-keyword.html

In your opinion, there are webmasters who will call the redirect page like this? :)

You write accusations that can be evaluated by people who do not understand marketing. Absolutely any affiliate network accepts redirect traffic if it does not contradict the conditions (broken sites, spam, phishing).

Therefore, we suggest you to finish this useless dialogue. If you have specific examples of websites that are hacked by our partners, or any other violation - you can send them to us personally.

Good luck! Compete honestly.

Your services are from Russia. You lie to students about this crucial fact. No student from a US or UK university would knowingly want to do business with services promoting criminal behaviors - hacking is one of them. You know nothing about honesty.

From your Student FAQ:

"StudyBay is an online exchange service, NOT an agency! Writers and Students work together directly, without having to deal with intermediaries. This allows for lesser assignment costs."

From the Writers FAQ / Writer Agreement:

"Commission" means the fee Studybay charges for the Services. Studybay charges the following commission fees:



On the same page you lie to Students about other crucial facts, mainly that:

1. Students have to deal with intermediaries (you).

2. The cost of assignments is thus lower. HOW? How is it lower when you take - on average - 34% commission!?


Here is yet another proof showing how you vandalize other websites, deceive students and search engines by: 1 - stealing copyrighted content (including images), 2 - creating door pages and shady redirects (showing different content to users vs search engines). Whatever you and your comrades do is 100% illegal by Google or Bing or even Yandex standards. And by any honest writing service standards. BTW - why do you even target the "Essay Scam" keywords? You want to show true colors or what.

As a student, who have placed orders with studybay.com.DND/ I can confirm that the writers are ESL writers. The only positive thing about this company is that they offer low prices (starting from $5/per page), but it doesn't mean you get to place an order for $5 per page. Usually, their writers demand more when you place an inquiry and it's like a bidding system. So, after you assign a writer there are the hidden fees that this company charges for your order. Of all the orders I placed with different writers, I was disappointed with every paper that was delivered. I don't know how real the reviews are on other sites about this company, but in my experience, I wouldn't dare to place another order. Also, they have a refund policy where you can get a refund but you are required to spend it on studybay.com.DND for another order/writer and it's not a full money refund. Avoid this company at all costs!!!

Ok, the company is under the DND list. Meaning, Do Not Discuss, yet here you are making a statement about the company. Regardless of the negative comment, which is the reason that the company requested not to be discussed here in the first place, you should not have helped to increase the publicity for the company by issuing a statement about their services. There is this old Hollywood saying that goes "Bad publicity is still publicity". That's exactly what you did here. You gave them a venue to be known to students who may just decide to not take your word for it and try their services anyway. Which defeats the purpose of your post. Do not Discuss means simply that, stop talking about them. By ignoring the company, we may just get lucky one day and their site and writers will disappear into oblivion. That won't happen though if people continue to discuss the company in whatever capacity they can. Don't get me wrong, I know your post will be helpful to the students, but could backfire by making other students try them out just to see if you are telling the truth.

@Smiley73 I do not agree with you. I believe that we should keep on discussing this company, even if they requested not be discussed because students need to be warned about them. This isn't about following the forum regulations regarding DND, this is about making sure that the students don't bet scammed by a company that continues to promote itself as a reliable writing conduit when it is nothing of the sort. They don't get a pass for being a mere channel because they collect a commission for every successful transaction. That gives them some sort of responsibility in this area. They can't be collecting a commission for not doing anything. They are merely trying to disguise their actual company as an "agency" which is the same thing in my book. For as long as students have to pass through their services to hire a writer, they are a writing company and their bad practices need to be discussed.

I agree. Daniel did a great job that probably helped some customers who might otherwise have trusted that company.

From what I can see, the company was definitely affected by a collective form of complaints against them, not just the posts here at ES. When one considers that the company found it imperative to hire a spokesperson to go around the forums to defend the company, then one can surmise that there is a validity to the complaints being aired. A company that has the complete trust of their clients will not bother to hire a PR guy. They would simply ignore the complaints because it isn't affecting their bottom line. The move of this company tells me that they felt the financial pressure and thought they could deal with it by promoting their own positive word of mouth, which never works.