I got blackmailed by essayscholars@gmail.com

I got an email from essayscholars@gmail.com a few days ago, that I owed them 350$, that their employee had worked tirelessly to ensure my exams and assignments were delivered on time and that I failed to pay her. I'm in my last year at university, and in fact, I have completed all the courses already and just waiting to graduate. I thought it was a scam at first because I haven't used any of this service for a while now and I don't recall the name of the company. Then I looked up the email history and found out I used their service once, back in early 2016, for a really short paragraph, around 5 sentences, and it cost 11$. Now here is the tricky part, I can't remember if I have paid that since I lost my previous phone number so I couldn't access my old Paypal account. However, the only emails I got from them after that one time i used their service were only promotional emails, and I didn't receive any emails at all from them since 2017.

Then I got another email from essayscholar yesterday that they are talking to their attorney and that they have my local address and personal information, and that they have emailed someone from my university, and told me to say goodbye to my future dream. I tracked their IP, and they are located in Kansas, unless they used VPN or something, and I'm in a different country.

I didn't reply to any of these email and just blocked them, but now I'm thinking whether I'm doing the right thing, and whether should I be worried? Also I transferred to another university at the end of 2017 due to I wanted to pursue a different degree, and a few years ago I found out that my data at my first university got erased already.

Just continue doing exactly this and don't second-guess yourself.

While I do agree that you do not need to second guess yourself, you should still go after giving yourself peace of mind. If you can get beyond the automated system of Paypal, perhaps they can help you trace all the way back to the time that you did use the service. That way you will know if you forgot to pay them or not. However, I believe you did not forget to pay them because they would have harasses you all the way back in 2011 if you did. By knowing the truth, you get preserve your peace of mind. Do not deal with them directly but get information to help you find inner peace. By the way, their server may be located in Kansas, not the company itself. The IP address tracers often give the server location rather than the actual company location. By the way, never engage the services of a private or company writer that does not have a company url attached to it. Gmail addresses are so easy to acquire that most scam companies use these addresses because they have no intention of doing work on the level.

If you are referring to essayscholars.com, based on the contact email you provided, the company url was only registered in 2019, not 2011. The server information is indeed rerouted to show a US location. The location does not exist. It is a body of water in the middle of Chicago. All information points to them hiding their actual location so ignore them. If you respond in any way, they will keep coming after you. So just consider it junk mail knowing all of this information.