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Has anybody been blackmailed by an essay service website?


Jonasbros  1 | 1  
Apr 22, 2022 | #1
I have been a user of some essay writing services.(Many years before) The experiences are generally good/ satisfying my need. However, recently, I am worrying that one of the websites I used might blackmail me as it knows my name(through payment information) and my ip address(hence most likerly my uni). I am wondering whether someone has experienced a backmail after he or she was satisfied with the orders.( the most blackmailing (extortion) cases here on this website are about asking for a refund). Also, I am wondering what happen when a service is running out of business (like that elephant essay one). Will it start to blackmail its past customers when its reputation is no longer important?
FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Apr 23, 2022 | #2
I am wondering whether someone has experienced a backmail after he or she was satisfied with the orders.( the most blackmailing (extortion) cases here on this website are about asking for a refund).

If you think about it, you've already sort of answered your own question. Most blackmailing situations arise when a shady company -- usually one with a 100% refund-if-not-satisfied "guarantee" -- that ONLY provides horrible work that never satisfies any of its first-time/last-time customers responds to totally justified refund demands with threats to report those customers to their schools if they don't cancel their payment disputes. Even these rip-off sites don't typically pop up out of nowhere with blackmail demands of clients who aren't pursuing refunds from the company. They use blackmail more as a way of keeping money they didn't really earn than as a way of actively chasing previous customers for more money. That's not to say they couldn't be simultaneously engaged in other shady or criminal schemes; but that would much more likely involve selling your credit card # and/or ID info to brokers, etc. They probably wouldn't be waiting for all of their customers' info to go stale before digging through their old payment and ID info years later to try to find and blackmail them. Even if you were inclined to being a blackmailer, that would be about the dopiest and most inefficient and unsuccessful way you could possibly do it.

Legit companies (and writers) don't blackmail anybody. Think about it: Could you actually picture someone diligently working for hours to make deadlines on high-quality essays that would most likely qualify for very high grades also working a scam as a blackmailer? Those ways of earning a living are usually mutually exclusive, because the types of people who become predatory criminals usually just aren't also the types of people inclined to sit at a desk all day researching and writing academic essays. If you were going to try to rob people, why would you waste your time also writing the kinds of essays that customer would be happy to receive? That takes a lot of time, and effort, and a skillset that most criminals probably lack. At most, they'd send you some garbage pasted together from Wiki in 10 minutes if essay services were nothing but a "front" for a blackmail scheme; or they wouldn't bother sending you anything once they had your info. So, just the fact that you received good work from them should probably be enough for you not to have to worry that they're suddenly going to blackmail you out of the blue. A company with writers on one floor, billing department on another floor, and a blackmailing department in the basement just isn't anybody's business model. (Nor are there really any brick-and-mortar essay companies with "offices" and rooms of on-site writers, in the first place, but that's an entirely different topic.)
noted  8 | 2052 ☆☆☆☆☆  
Apr 23, 2022 | #3
I have not come across any cases of graduated students who have been blackmailed by an essay compan or companies. The blackmail scenario seems to work only on enrolled students and not graduates. If compared to the recent Varsity Blues scandal, only active students have a lot to lose if found out as accomplices to a crime. Do not misconstrue my statement. Academic writing assistance is not a crime provided the student uses it as a model paper. We do not control the results of what happens when it is submitted for a grade.

The companies that go out of business do not normally chase after previous clients. That is not to say that some might do that in the future. Let's not give them any ideas now. International data privacy laws are in place to protect the students globally. However, protecting your privacy starts with you. Avoid using bank and credit cards when you can. Prepaid cards are fast becoming an option when it comes to digital payments. These seem to have a better cloaking system in terms of protecting your information.

Having said these things, I cannot assure you that you won't be blackmailed in the future. I will not worry needlessly about it for now. Not all companies are blackmailers. You may have chanced upon an honest one for all you know. If you tell us what company you dealt with, we might be able to put your mind at ease (or not) depending upon what we know about it. Can you tell us the company name?
The opinions are that of the author's alone based on an individual capacity. Opinions are provided "as is" and are not error-free.
OP Jonasbros  1 | 1  
Apr 23, 2022 | #4
@noted @FreelanceWriter
It is one of the websites that popped on the first page if you googled writing service( not including those ads) Thank you so much for your response
LawEssayUK  1 | 26   Freelance Writer
Apr 23, 2022 | #5
@Jonasbros
A newly created profile just in the nick of time. Another log-in for @noted @FreelanceWriter to memorise.
It's just so obvious that @FreelanceWriter rather than addressing elementary grammatical errors on his website, chooses to salvage his reputation (such as it is) by having a three way conversation with himself.

Regular visitors to this site can surely see though him. He doesn't even try to be subtle about it.
I referred elsewhere to the photograph strategically placed on his website by Professional Services which is straight out of thinkstock now called iStock.
Where are his qualifications listed? Non practicing attorney or practicing idiot to use USA spelling.
So @Jonas I suggest you google Con Artist.
FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Apr 24, 2022 | #6
his reputation (such as it is)

The only "reputation" I have here is for providing very high-quality work, turning down any projects that I cannot take with high confidence that I can do them well, for doing business honestly, and for competing only above-board, ethically, and honestly against my legitimate competitors. Unlike you, I don't resort to fabricating totally false accusations against my competitors and posting nasty insults about them, totally unprovoked, let alone stalking their posts and their websites. This is my only forum ID, which you already know, and you also know that your accusations that I am also "Noted" and "Writers Beware" are absolutely absurd. WB, in particular, used to start threads here warning students never to do business with any writer without a website, as part of his/her perpetual efforts to steer all clients to companies like his/hers and away from all independent writers. At the time he/she created a thread characterizing all writers using AOL and other email accounts as untrustworthy, simply because we didn't have websites, he/she knew, full well, that the top 3 or 4 essay-company writers whose writing he/she was selling, at the same time, through his/her own essay companies were all here under the exact same IDs that we used as our IDs at his/her company and that we all did our indpendent business through AOL email accounts. In fact, it was that 2009 thread that left me with no choice but to create a website for the first time, in 2010, even though I didn't really think I needed one, otherwise. But the point is, simply, that it's absurd to imagine that any freelance writer would ever create threads like those, because they would only underine our efforts to get more freelance work. Every person who has commented about my work, including both customers and other writers, is a genuine forum member to whom I have no connection; and that can be confirmed by using the messaging system to contact them directly, as well as by contacting this forum's Admin by email.

I referred elsewhere to the photograph strategically placed on his website by Professional Services which is straight out of thinkstock now called iStock.

That's a really clever strategy for argument, there: When Ido respond directly to your false accusations point by point, you completely ignore the substance of those direct responses, and you suggest that either I have OCD or you congratulate yourself for "touching a nerve" simply because I responded directly to each of your false accusations. If I ignore any of your accusations or implications, such as your silly comment about the photos on my website, because it's just too stupid to bother dignifying, you repeat it elsewhere and imply that I should have responded to it. The fact of the matter is that I wouldn't ever expect any person looking at my website to imagine, even for a second, that the photo to which you referred is actually supposed to be me. Obviously, I simply chose from whatever stock photos Intuit provided, because I'm not trying to convince anybody that I create websites for a living. Do I also need to "disclose" that the other photos on my site aren't really my actual customers sitting in front of their laptops or my actual colleagues sitting around a conference table?
LawEssayUK  1 | 26   Freelance Writer
Apr 27, 2022 | #7
@FreelanceWriter
Such a pathetic comment. Do I also need to "disclose" that the other photos on my site aren't really my actual customers sitting in front of their laptops or my actual colleagues sitting around a conference table? Answer: Of course not, that is obvious but the one beside your 'Professional Services' is designed to make people think it is you. You commented on my OP when I wrote about English law and our legislation banning essay writing companies and you launched straight in, missing the point, when it doesn't even concern you. Then you commented on Boris Johnson. Where is the relevance? Then @Jonasbros, another recent creation, comes out of the woodwork to endorse you. It's laughable if it wasn't so crass and obvious.
FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Apr 27, 2022 | #8
If you paid any attention to Noted's earlier content on this forum, you'd see that he spent months vouching for and specifically recommended a totally different essay company that's a direct competitor of mine. In fact, that was my only problem with him. If I were going to adopt an "alias" here, I obviously wouldn't have used it for about a year recommending only one of my competitors instead of my own services. The same goes for your dishonest accusations about me "policing" this forum as WB. That particular forum member repeatedly accused me of "stealing" from his/her essay company because I'd simply mentioned which essay companies I was writing for when I first joined and introduced myself here in 2008. According to him/her, my mentioning those websites amounted to "stealing" their customers every time any forum member decided to use me instead of one of those companies. Your accusation that either of those members (or the actual client of mine who left the positive review that seems to have provoked your attacks) is an "alias" of mine is ridiculous. Nobody needs to take my word for that, because a review of their posting histories would make that quite obvious.

Exhibit A:

You introduced yourself as a "writer for *********," therefore garnering consumer confidence through *********'s name recognition. You then admittedly received several orders from EssayScam members who would have otherwise gone directly to [those]* sites you listed as employers. Therefore, you stole money from the company.

https://essayscam.org/forum/es/academic-help-verification-656/#msg8985

*[Words removed from quote to fit the maximum words allowed in quotes]




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