Scammed By an Essay Writing Company UK / oxfordacademic.co.uk

Hi all, I am just looking for some advice. I have to resubmitt my Essay paper as I failed it the first time. In a moment of desparation (and after some wine...) I decided to look for some help online. The first website I found looked great - and the online chat seemed helpful. I have ordered an improvement on my essay - send the original and paid. And then literally minutes later - changed my mind as I realized it is not worth the risk and the money.

And as soon as I started requesting the money back the phone calls and messages has started... They started threatening me and basically said that they will inform my university of my misconduct etc....

My question is - is there any truth to their claims? I have saved all of the conversations with them with dates and time stamps. But they do have my original paper that I still have to resubmit. Can I continue working on it? I do not think I can change it completely as I have to RESUBMITT not write a new one. I am gong to speak to Student Union tomorrow but has anyone been in a similar situation? any advice?

The short answer is if you already submitted the work that you purchased, don't pursue the refund and don't publish their name or do anything to antagonize them into being vindictive. Move on, learn from your mistake, and next time, just use this forum to find a legitimate writer. If you never submitted anything that you purchased, post the name of the company right here, ignore their threats, and pursue the refund through PayPal or your credit card company. If they actually try to follow through by contacting your school, you have all of the chats and/or emails showing that you tried to cancel the order and your (truthful) position is that you were going to order a model essay to help you fix your essay, but you never submitted anything purchased from anybody. They may give you dirty looks and warn you about not writing your own essays, but there's no actual violation for them to pursue against you.



This is extremely typical: They're as cheerful and as helpful-sounding as they could possibly be until they have your money. It's all an act. As soon as you have any kind of problem with their work (or simply change your mind right after payment), you'll immediately see their true colors. They also make things difficult for legitimate writers because some of the best of us tend to be a little (or a lot) less patient about holding the hands of new prospective clients. Some clients end up choosing the friendly-sounding rip-off artists after contacting us, based mainly on their phony friendliness act and on their too-good-to-be-true prices. Those of us who actually provide a high-quality product and charge fairly for that quality are usually way too busy for hand-holding and/or for responding patiently to questions already very clearly answered in our FAQs (for one example of how this dynamic typically comes up). I know for a fact that some of my current clients tried out some of those places after contacting both of us, initially, before they decided to start using me, instead.



If you wrote the original essay, you can totally ignore their threats. There's no such thing as "attempted" plagiarism and you haven't violated any university honor code by ordering a model essay that you haven't ever actually submitted for a grade. If this is the situation, you should immediately post the name of the company here for the benefit of everybody else who wants to avoid getting scammed and/or blackmailed by fraudulent companies.


This is a mistake without any possible benefit to you. Don't do it. Your fellow students don't really know anything more than you do about this and those who might definitely aren't ever going to admit that in a Student-Union forum. Meanwhile, you'd be divulging things about yourself to relative (or total) strangers at your school for absolutely no good reason.

oxfordacademic.co.uk - that is the company that is threatening me. Just to clarify - They did not do any writing for me. I have cancelled the order as soon as I made it and realized I do not want to do it. They have my failed paper - that I still need to resubmitt and I am working on it right now. But can they publish it as their own? and if so - if I resubmitt and there are going to be similarities - will I be failed for plagiarism?

I know I just have been naive!
So if I have not purchased anything from the or submitted anything they have written they have nothing to threaten me with?
The last message I have got from them is that my refund has been sent to the Vice-chancellor of my university, which I do not know how to react to to be honest.

I have reported the to the UK Trading Standards, as I really feel threatened and cheated.

And thank you fro your answer.

They might upload your original essay to turnitin just to try to screw you; but, presumably, you already did this first when you submitted it. If anybody were to question you, your response should be that you ordered a model essay to help you figure out how to improve your essay and when you tried to cancel the order, they responded by threatening you and they submitted your original essay to turnitin. You have the date of your original submission, which is earlier than the earliest date that they could have submitted your original essay, and you have the emails and credit card statement to prove the dates.


Correct. Unless or until you actually submit something that you didn't write to your professor, you haven't violated any school honor code. You tried to purchase a model essay and you never even received it. It doesn't violate any honor code to purchase a model essay and nobody can say what you were intending to do with it if you had received it. If you're asked, you were planning on using it to learn how to improve your own essay.


Obviously nonsense. They're not refunding your payment and they know that you're not going to contact the VC to ask about a refund sent by an essay company. If they were going to issue a refund, they'd have simply issued it to you and at least (possibly) preserved some kind of relationship with you for future business. It makes no sense for them to give back the money but in a way that ensures that you can't get it and that guarantees that you never do business with them again. If they were going to refund it, they'd have refunded it to you. They're not issuing any refund.

If you don't think that you can fix your essay satisfactorily on your own, your best bet would probably be to use the info available on this forum -- as long as you're here, now -- to find yourself a trustworthy provider to write you a brand new essay, using your original only for the topic and as a sample of your writing level and style.

Since you have to resubmit your paper, I would like to suggest that you rewrite the paper instead. Rephrase the original content and add more information to the paper to create a totally new paper. Erase all tracks of the original as much as you can so that you can claim that you developed the paper by yourself. The idea, is to prove that you had to rewrite the paper due to the additional information and your desire to make the paper more informative. You cannot be charge with plagiarism if you change the format, the words, and add information to the paper. That negates any plagiarism accusations.

The company domain name is now up for sale. It appears that it did not survive the onslaught of negative publicity not only at this forum, but through word of mouth amongst the students who tried and were disappointed by their services. It is important to note that there is no other information available about the company. It does not appear that they continue to exist under a new name or new name and management.