Scammed and blackmailed by a Kenyan writer @ etc.

Today, I received an e-mail from my professor that someone reported me for cheating and he is now forwarding it to the Dean. He uses three e-mail addresses christy_hunter3@aol.com, jamie.hardley@aol.com and david24lennon@gmail.

Someone from essaychat told me that he is from Kenya and he has already made many victims. I should have kept my mouth shut but he already e-mailed my school, so that is why I am spreading the words.

My experience from him was horrible. First he used the e-mail address christy_hunter3@aol.

I posted my inquiry on essaychat. He promised me an A grade and gave him my information on accessing the Blackboard. I know its my fault. He scored one of my test 12/100. I was understanding to him that his internet was interrupted ( that was his reason). I payed him the full amount of $600, even he has not completed my last module. I trusted him so much.

After paying him the full amount, he e-mailed me that if I do not pay him $1200, he will report me to my school that I am cheating, and he did. Just this morning I received an e-mail from the professor with the name Jamie Hardley reporting me for cheating. Therefore, I have no option but to report this person and spread the words. He uses david24lennon@gmail for his Paypal transaction.

I hope that everyone will learn from my mistake not to trust this person. At this point I'm not even sure if it was one person or a group of people who pose as different persons. Students who deal with individual writers should, at the very least, call their number and check the number's location to make sure the writer is located in the US, UK, or Canada, or Australia and not in some African country.

That could be him? - userinfo&user=10995

1. What is the name/address on the Paypal transaction page?
2. When did you find out he was an African fraudster?
3. You didn't pay him the extra $1200, did you.


Is he a real professor? These scammers may use disposable .edu email accounts stolen from students to pretend they are 'professors.'

Yes, that is him.

1. He did not provide the address in his paypal account. Only his name and e-mail address. david24lennon@gmail with his name David Lennon.

2. Someone from essaychat gave a link that he is from Kenya
3. No, I didn't. That is why he is has e-mailed my professor

Nope, he know my information, so he should know the e-mail of my professor, and it was sent on the school's email server.

At this point you may at least try to get the $600 back (if you contact Paypal about the transaction you may then be able to see his actual name/address).

Yes, I did. Still in progress. I am already conducting investigation about this matter to the FBI and Kenyan Authorities as well as PAYPAL.

I just gave my student ID to aKenyan writer to let him access the EBSCO, will this be a problem?

It may be if he demands $1000 from you ;). Seriously, there are dozens of US/UK-based freelance writers and a few legitimate US/UK-based academic research companies; why do students keep making the same mistakes? (the first mistake is using example writing services without proper referencing).

Giving your writer your credentials to access your school's systems is never a good idea. They can track the IP addresses of users anytime they want to and it's tough to explain why someone hundreds or thousands of miles from you was retrieving research for your projects, especially at a time when you were also using the system from somewhere else and/or while you were physically present on campus. Just download all the materials yourself and send them to your writer as files. Your privacy is worth that relatively minor effort.

My guess is that daclhra is more worried about identity theft/extortion than fast-talking out of some IP address nonsense.

'tard

In the first place, you should never have hired a writer to go into your school system to get your work done for you. When I was still an active academic writer, I always declined to work with clients who required me to go into their school server and then work on their class requirement from there. The last thing that I wanted was for the student to encounter a problem with his class or professor and then claim that I most likely had a hand in it. I also warned the students that they ran the risk of identity fraud and they endangered their school server by allowing people from across the world to have a key to get into the school. From there, it was only a matter of time before an evil intent writer can have a hacker friend of his break into the system so that they can create problems for the student. I have a feeling that this is what happened to this user. The complaint about the plagiarism thing may have come from the professor's account on the school server, but it may not have been the professor who sent the email. This could all be part of a very intricate blackmail scheme on the part of the scam writer.

Fellow students be aware of scammers, I pity those who have fallen victims. However, there exist genuine tutors and writers who can help you a lot. My experience with diligent writers helped me complete my coursework and pass excellently. Contact me I share their contacts with you.

Do you know of any legitimate US based sites? I would rather not deal with writers from non-English speaking countries

@vela
We're not permitted to make specific recommendations here, but if you go through old forum threads, you should be able to figure out who's legit fairly easily.

I am more interested in the outcome of the academic investigation, if there was any, as opposed to the reasons why a client would be stupid enough to give a writer, whom he knows nothing about and should never trust implicitly, access to all his private academic information. There is a reason why there is a file upload section in every server for academic writing companies. The students need to upload the required material there. They should not be giving the writer access to their school or other academic website information. Even if they did, which I do not advice, they should have had the common sense to change their passwords and email address accounts as soon as the assignment was completed. I am unclear about whether or not there was a basis for the claim of the writer at this point and the student did not bother to come back with an update so I can only guess that everything was positively resolved later on.

You underestimate how lazy some students can be. There are often instances when students give full access to their profiles/accounts in academic portals to have writers complete several projects for them.


This wouldn't protect against someone with ill motives from the get-go. They can retrieve students' details and info on other contacts with just a single visit to the profile.

As lazy as students can be, they should know that they are dealing with complete strangers, who have access to way too much personal data to begin with. They should never give out their student data when placing an order. The student can forward all necessary materials but refrain from giving their university access codes "just to make the work go faster". Students who do that might as well tell their professors they did not write the paper and get the academic expulsion over with. Kenyan writers are always out to blackmail students, they cannot be trusted. While there are Kenyans who work towards self improvement, there are more of them who sadly, have some of the finest criminal minds in the world. Students who don't really care about their studies will pay the price and only then, will they start to care about their studies. Unfortunately for them, it will be too late for them to change.

Something that was not clear in the original posting related to the professor that sent the email. It seems like that was just some generic professor and not the professor of the student? How did the Kenyan writer get the name and email address of the professor in the first place? Gaining access to the university system does not mean he also gains access to professor information. Unless there was a need for the professor to divulge this for the electronic work the students would be submitting?