About Write It Up

I'm super pis#ed off and I need my voice heard, because as a vulnerable student, I've been completely violated.

Long story short, a woman (someone I found on craigslist, based out of Toronto) promised me she'd have an essay for me in by my school-imposed deadline. She wanted all the money upfront, but after my hesitation, she allowed me to pay half the costs upfront and the other half 24 hours later, after she sent me a rough draft. She ensured me that "she wouldn't hang me out to dry".

36 hours later, I haven't heard from her. I sent her an email demanding any sign at all, and she responded to me by saying that she's never been treated so disrespectfully in her life, and the transaction's over. I was shocked, and ultimately, I missed my deadline. I'm still down my money.

After the shock of being scammed had subdued, I did some research and realized this woman's scamming has a much farther reach then originally thought. She has a website, and company - write it up, and she has ads on craigslist, kijiji, and other classified websites under many names, in many Canadian cities, and at least 3 email addresses:

cityenglish
krussell2008
kmendonca413

I've found postings dating back 2 years of her committing the same scams.

Moderators - I can provide all this information, correspondence and "undercover" correspondence if needed. This scammer has become my passion, I'm seriously offended. What makes it worse is that this person "specializes" in TOEFL exams, preying on potential students who are in unbelievably vulnerable positions.

I don't mind my money being lost as long as I stop her from stealing from others...

We have all been there at some point or other and know how it feels.

How dare you post this. I have a 10 year squeaky clean record of excellence. The essay was completed, because you harassed me and threatened me, I chose not to continue business with you. What you did, how you spoke, was unethical. And by slandering my name is completely wrong, on top of the already unethical behavior of purchasing an essay to submit as your own. I have over 500 references of excellent standing. Because you cannot take responsibility for you actions, you have to go after others.

You in all certainty, should be ashamed of yourself. If you would like to settle this situation, I would be more than happy to send you the essay or notify your school officials.

You are a very rude and harassing individual.

mark123,

i hate getting mixed up in messy situation (because they find me anyway lol!), but from the looks of things, you essentially took this rude individual's money (i've only gathered this from the way you didn't deny it). you don't really have a defense. this person was probably unfair with his expectations, but by taking her money all that you've done is further hurt us writers' reputations. just like ukrainians and others have done in the past. you stole, and should return the money to her.

from my experiences as a writer for phd-thesis, we really have no place dubbing client's behavior "unethical", because we're just as unethical as them... if not worse. once our (questionable) moral compass starts clouding our judgment, we lose sight of our initial goal: to write essays in exchange for money.

and finally, why would you mention that you would notify her school? for someone with a "10 year squeaky clean record of excellence", that's simply beneath you, and once again, hurts all writers' causes.

this website's main purpose is to warn both writers and their clients of the dangers, and to try to give them some insight into who to avoid and why. argumentative defenses are unnecessary. if champs83 feels the situation is resolved, and makes it known here, it will be an endorsement for you. you should've approached the situation like that.

either way, i wish both of you the best of luck and i hope this situation gets resolved ASAP, and lessons are learned by both sides.

Just as a follow up; I've looked into this myself (I'm organizing a collection of writers in Eastern Canada), and it appears that this scammer continues to function freely with no resistance at all. Typing in her name online gives you a slew of results, none positive.

Every 7 days she makes posts on craigslist as a tutor for English-based exams and separate ones to correct and write essays, but she cycles with different email addresses (interesting???) 3 different ones in all; so in any given months, there's never the exact same posting. When I once inquired into her services, she was polite by email and even insisted on speaking on the phone. But once the financials were mentioned, and I told her I wouldn't pay full in advance without references (which she wouldn't provide - yet advertised having 10 years worth of references), she got rude, hung up on me and won't return my emails.

Be aware!

Funny to call the student unethical! Aren't the writers doing the same? Threatening to inform the school!? That is awful!

Has anyone used writemyessay?

I have just been ripped off by Kelly whatever she chooses to call herself today.

If anyone is interested in stopping this woman from perpetrating further crime and obtaining justice for the wrongs that she has committed, can you please email me at info@volcon.

You got cheated as a writer or as a student?

As a student.

That is awful. Hope you did not lose one year. Happened to a student here. She was quite capable of getting good scores on her own; but was after a better grade, got the essays from Academia and failed. Is too frightened to do anything about it, quite naturally.

Where did you find these others posts champs83?

Point taken. However, a professional in this business knows that a work cancellation comes with a complete refund. That is the standard for writer initiated cancellations, which you failed to comply with. I am not saying the student did right by "slandering" you. I am saying that you dealt with him in bad faith so he cannot be blamed for bad mouthing you. Whatever the results of his venting on your business, let's just say you asked for it through your negative reaction to his email.

All writers have had to deal with ass **** clients at some point. How a client de-escalates the situation, without being just as rude and disrespectful to the negative client shows professionalism. something that this writer obviously lacked. Public relations skills of the highest caliber is the basic requirement of the job. The repeat client orders depend upon it. Clients from hell are part and parcel of the job. The writer must always choose to be the angel, not the devil , in such situations. I am not siding with the client. I am not siding with the writer. I see them as both at fault in this situation. communication broke down somewhere and caused all this.

You have absolutely no evidence that the client in this case had any fault in this, whatsoever. He paid for the project in full and there was an agreement about a specific deadline for delivery. According to the client, that deadline came and went without the project being delivered, after which he contacted the writer demanding his project. I don't know what his email actually said (and neither do you); but it doesn't really matter. Assuming, just for the sake of argument, that the client's email was accusatory and very insulting, that still doesn't justify the writer's failure to deliver the project for which she was paid in full. The writer doesn't get to keep money for an undelivered project just because of an insulting email. This reminds me of all those cases on The People's Court where the defendant admits to having borrowed money, but refused to repay it because the lender "harassed" him for repayment.

At most -- and even this isn't really within the writer's rights to do, either -- if the writer was really so offended by the client's email, he could have terminated their relationship by refusing to send the project in conjunction with issuing a full refund. To suggest that an insulting email justifies the writer keeping the money and refusing to provide the product -- a project that the writer claims to have completed -- is completely ridiculous. What the writer should have done in that situation is deliver the project for which she was paid and then terminate their relationship by refusing to take any of that client's future business. I've done that several times with annoying clients; but I always delivered any project for which I was paid. On one or two occasions, I've had clients become so annoying after payment that I just issued them a refund and told them to find themselves another writer; but you can't rightfully do that, either, after a substantial amount of the time before the deadline has already passed, let alone after it's already overdue.

The fact that this writer resorted to accusations about the "ethics" of the purpose of the product and to implied threats to report the client to his school further suggests that the writer was solely responsible for this problem. First, whatever the "ethical" issue is, that's something already known to the writer at the time of the original transaction and the writer is the one earning a living from ghostwriting academic projects. Second, offering to "settle" the issue by reporting the client to his school makes no sense and is nothing but a threat to retaliate against him for sharing his experience. Third, it can't possibly be "slander" (or, libel, more accurately, since it was in writing) because the writer's own response in this thread includes an admission that the client's claim is truthful: the writer admits to having been paid and to having refused to send the project.


The lesson here has nothing to do with "public relations" skills or "professionalism" or "communication breakdown"; the only lesson here is that the reputation of any writer who has been in this business for any length of time can be researched on line quite easily, even without the resources available on this forum. The client managed to find plenty of information about the writer that should have steered him clear of her. The only problem was that the client didn't start doing that basic due diligence until after he'd been scammed. That's the only real lesson here.