How we measure the authenticity of an academic writing service?

I think in our industry students and other people seeking services of an academic writing service is that they want to get top quality, fully referenced and genuine work. A company that is capable of providing such services is reliable. More important is that this is an online business and the standard here is only the quality of the work. That is what does matter..is not it?

Not really.

There are two the biggest groups of criminals in the essay industry:

- Kenya
- Ukraine

Kenyan fraudsters are known around the world so no extra comment is needed.

Ukrainians.. they evolved from the mail-older brides scam. Kharkov in Ukraine is the world leader in brides scam. When the FBI and Interpol have started to investigate them, many of them changed their scam strategy and went into the academic research business. With brides.. what they did was that they posted FAKE pictures of beautiful women. Men thought these were real women. But in fact, they were either prostitutes or fake/photoshoped girls. That's not all - when men contacted the women (they had to pay a fee to contact them first), the scammers would correspond with the men and pose as the girls. In addition to the subscription fees, they would ask the men to send gifts, private money, etc. They pretended they were in love with them. Thousands of men have been scammed this way (annually).

Now the Ukrainians from the same pedigree are in the academic research business. What's funny - they TRY to write essays in English. They start the same way - they LIE about their service, location, and credentials. They SABOTAGE other websites. They CHEAT the system in the long term. They cheat both the clients and the writers. Then... once the FBI and Interpol kicks on their doors, they just move on to defraud a new industry. That's how the scam is going on in Ukraine and in Kenya.

this is an interesting assumption. do you have any further evidence to support this connection?

Yes. Years of experience.

And another funny thing is.. they watch this forum covered with cold sweat. Most of them can understand the meaning of the posted messages (Google Translator is their friend). But they won't sign up and debate... because they realize how embarrasing to their scam operations it would be to try to write in Ukrainian-English (or Keynian- English).

You are an idiot with no skills that's why you can only resort to denigrating competition.
Remember when you told a student to post the email of her writer so that you could 'confirm' she was dealing with a 'Kenyan fraudster'?

well, it turned out that the writer was actually pheelyks. You conveniently stopped contributing to that thread.

You are a pig that thrives only through denigrating competition. You woefully lacks skills to succeed in real world and you can only assert your legitimacy via hiding behind a monitor.

You have a typo in your signature. The correct version is:

"I am involved in some of the worst scams/scammers in the industry."

so basically just random conjecture?

Whatever; it took you 43 minutes to understand the meaning of the word [conjecture] so keep thinking....

i'd like to respond to this, but i need more time to look through the thesaurus to find a new word that is worthy of your intellect. if you would be so kind to return in a few hours and check it would be greatly appreciated.

Exactly. [conjecture] didn't impress me at all. Try [Premium Vodka].

still searching

The Sure Fire Way of Identifying and Verifying Valid English Native Sites

Many students have over the years been duped into ordering essays from sites that claimed to have roots in Native English-speaking countries. Many of these cons lie through their teeth, while many others hide through behind-the-scenes registration and incorporation mainly in the UK and US using proxies and shyster nominees, making it even trickier for their naive victims. But a sure way of identifying the actual country of origin of a service is to trace where the money goes. PayPal shares the details of the recipient of the service fee and gives the location of the bank, regardless of where all other registrations where executed. This is more so a hurdle because these scam sites are in love with PayPal as a payment method.

Fraudulent, foreign "essay" sites often use the following payment processors:

Skrill
Plimus
MoneyBookers

But there are also many Ukrainian and Pakistani sites, including the most notorious one, that still use PayPal as a payment processor. For those that do, this is one way of separating the wheat from the chaff.

As far as I can tell, WB is right - a legitimate company will rather use Paypal only rather than Skrill or Plimuss only.

Leo is also right, to the extent that Ukrainian sites robbing from their workers use Paypal... and what's that to you?

As for Paypal being an identifying point or red flag for scamming, that's painting in some pretty broad strokes.

Measuring the authenticity of a writing service is not something that a student can do on his own. Neither can a writer rate the company he is working for. The authenticity of the writing service, in my opinion, is based upon an individual writer's ability to bring in repeat customers, recommended clients, and requested work orders to the company. The writer is who brings authenticity to the company by providing the best academically written paper possible for the student. Bring in a satisfying grade for the client, the client may be inclined to refer the company and the writer in particular, to classmates and other peers. Successful interactions and business dealings with these other students will create the semblance of a reliable company and expert pool of writers. That will then be the measure of the authenticity of an academic writing service. We cannot use the established years of a company because they can claim to have been in business since 1989 but, due to business problems, they keep changing company names. So that isn't exactly the mark of an authentic academic writing service. That is why I believe it can only be done through the writer - student experience over an undetermined amount of time.

I tend to agree with @Smiley73 on this one. My 2 decade experience in academic writing has opened my eyes to the fact that the company may be questionable, but the writers are not. In fact, the reason why there are varying levels of work experience between students and their writers at various companies because the writers are the ones that have actual integrity when it comes to delivering the service.

I used to work for a few of the companies that are listed under DND here at EssayScam. Now, I will admit that there are some writers who are bad eggs just like the company. However, there are also writers like myself who deliver everything the client requires of their paper and then some. So I developed a regular roster of student clients over time. There are times when my students come to me and tell me about the negative experience that their peers had with XXX company. My students of course say "I never had that experience with them and I use their services regularly. Why don't you try working with writer XXX and see what happens?"

Basically, it is my honor code that makes the student question the validity of the complaint they heard about. My honor code make the company look good and make them look authentic to the student in terms of reliable and quality services. So yes, I believe that authenticity in the service is something that is built over time instead of overnight and it is done by the writers themselves with little to no help from the company itself.

Hot damn, I wish I had two decades of experience. Where can I get that?

This is true. The end result is what the client remembers most. The best customer service won't help a company if its writers produce crap. The writer's skills is what wins or loses business in most cases. I've worked with writers who hate communicating with clients and typically reply to customer with short, snarky sentences, but there writing it brilliant, always spot on, and original. Their skills is what kept the same customers coming back. That's not to say that a client will forgive any negative treatment simply because the end project is high quality, but it does make a difference. It's not that different from studying under the professor who is notorious a donkey's butt, but has a reputation for having taught students who left his/her class having really learned and to later succeed in their study field.

At the end of the day, flashy websites and guarantees out the wazoo do not equate to quality. Quality comes from the writer! Now, if you find a company with great customer service AND great writers, you've found a gem (a rarity in this industry).

If you're talking about providers on this forum, some of the information you might want to consider might be the length of time a provider has been participating on this forum using the same ID and what that provider's customers and legitimate competitors have said about him or her.

If you mean more generally, the first step might be to consider whether or not the website copy sounds like English you'd want in your project, irrespective of how flashy or functional that website appears to be. Another consideration might be whether or not the website's claims and guarantees sound realistic or entirely promotional in their substance and tone. In that regard, understand that there's no such thing as "unlimited free revisions" in this industry and that there's no such thing as any essay company that hires "only" holders of master and/or doctorate degrees. Not that one necessarily needs advanced degrees to do this work well; but those types of claims by an essay company should be considered a red flag of dishonesty.

Even an "authentic" company (meaning one that actually provides original writing for the projects it provides) employs many writers whose experience, talents, and abilities vary quite widely from one another. There are also independent writers who are "authentic" but who might sometimes overestimate their abilities, even in good faith. So, ultimately, you'll always need to test out any company and any writer with short projects first; and in the case of companies, understand that your experience with any one of its writers means nothing, necessarily, about any of its other writers.

For me so. After all, when I want to order an essay online or bulldog, then I expect high-quality work for which I am crying money. I choose such services from the reviews of friends and acquaintances, various reviews on the Internet and search engine placement. It's so easy to stumble upon some scammers now.

There are no authentic academic writers. There are no authentic academic writing services. There are only reliable writing companies. There are only trustworthy academic writers. These will all take time for a writer or company to achieve. Every student only has a minimum of 4 years in college and they will be using various companies and writers throughout those academic semesters. A writer or company will be lucky to have a student stick to them throughout the educational process. That is the only way reliability and trust can be build. It is difficult, but not impossible to accomplish. Good work, excellent client care, and repeat business helps both to achieve the status I indicated.

Since academic writing services have been folding left and right, only a handful remain and continue to struggle against the rise of AI. We can assume that the writing services that folded are the illegitimate writing companies that were in the business to play the con game. We have AI to thank for exposing the inauthentic services. It appears that the independent writers are the ones that seem to have a good hold on their clients and somehow still manage to grow their client base in the age if academic AI.