Can an essay company report me for plagiarism?

I bought a paper from a company and they contacted my university to say that I plagiarised. Can they do this????

I am wondering how they can do it. How did they get your university/school details? I hope you're kidding, aren't you?

I gave them teh syllabus and instructions for the paper. There was some problems with my payment and my bank reversed payment. When the company called me I told them my professor thought it was plagiarized and told them that i just handed it in. They told me they would try to contact my school because I violated their policies and cheated them. I never paid for the paper but they contacted my school. Now I'm in big trouble and dont know what to do.

I wonder why you just handed in the paper? This is unethical.

It is complicated. I had to use the service because i didn't have time to do teh research and work full time. I didn't just hand it in but changed some things around when i got it back, but my professor said it was too good for what i usually write and said it was plagiarized. I also had problems with my bank and they reversed payment after i recieved the paper. The company emailed and called and said they would contact my school to prove that i used their work so they had proof for collections or something. I thought it was just to scare me into paying, but they actually did! I am facing academic suspesion now because they contacted my school. I still have not paid for the paper and now i will not pay, but i may get kicked out of school becasue of it. I really just don't know what to do. Is there a law against what they did? I want to sue them but i am not sure yet how.

Can anyone help me? I just wanna know what are my options.

You're screwed, buddy. You illegally turned in a paper and refused to pay the company you bought it from. Who exactly do you want help from, and why do you think you deserve it?

Isn't it illegal for them to contact my school? I told the company i would pay, but then this happened. Isn't there a confidentialty thing? And i did change the paper after i got it back so it was not illegal. What they did was illegal!

Obviously, it is you who somehow involved your school as part of the ordering process, so that's on you.

Joffrey, it is YOU who has committed an illegal act, not the company. You commissioned a product for which you dishonestly did not pay. You had every opportunity to remit payment via a secondary method, but you did not, so your "bank mistake" garbage does not cut it.

The company is well within its rights to take any and all legal means necessary to make sure that you do/did not use its property in any way. In fact, given that you turned in the company's intellectual property for academic credit, the company can sue you in civil court for breach of contract, as well as stealing and misappropriating its property (regardless of the fact that you now claim to have "changed some things around").

Stealing copyrighted "ideas" is also illegal, so you really do not have a legal leg on which to stand.

The doctrine of "unclean hands" is also squarely against you.

If you did a charge back that would surely upset them and they would find a way to get back at you so they might report you for plagiarism by posing your work online.

The burden of proof is on the company. They need to prove that you turned in plagiarized work. It is not illegal for a student to seek academic writing assistance, which is what you could claim to have gotten from them and is also the reason why the paper you turned in was an improvement of your previous work. Your main problem will be if your professor agrees with them and tells the university that he too suspects that you plagiarized the work. In which case, the university student ethics committee will have no choice but to investigate the situation based on accusations of academic plagiarism.

Your professor's complaint, not the company complaint, will be the basis for the ethical inquiry. I know it looks difficult for you at the moment but, provided you can somehow prove that you have academic writing assistance in the writing of your paper, I am sure you can somehow sway the judgement in your favor. Owing to the length of time between the last post and my post, I can't help but wonder what happened to the case of this student. I wish he had the time to post a follow up report.

I would also be interested in an update from the student. However, it's always important that students understand the company's TOS and use the work appropriately. It may also be that the student's past work has been significantly under par and the most recent submission was a clear difference. Even with edits, there are elements of the student's voice that remain. If the work was custom written and turned in as is, a report could spark a closer look. If they haven't noticed already, a closer look would likely result in the professor realizing it is not the student's work.

In response to the issue of the student's bank reversing the payment without their knowledge, I don't buy it. What I do suspect is that the student received the paper, turned it in, then decided he'd get his money back, too. If that is indeed the case, then he gets what he deserves.

This is why I always tell the students to keep the university name and professor's name out of the instructions process. Do not be so lazy that you cannot make your own cover page and running headers for the paper. That is what sinks these students. Can the company report the student for plagiarism? Definitely. Can the student be given an academic punishment if the company can prove plagiarism? His academic career ended right there. No school will accept him once he is blacklisted for plagiarism. I take that back, a third rate university that does not really have academic integrity might accept him. Yes, there are schools like that.

The thing is, essay writing companies have a TOS that protects the students from these types of scams. If a student does not read the TOS of the company before hiring them, then they will not know about the fine prints included in the contract. That includes the company agreeing to not contacting your school or university because they created a model paper for you. There is no school that will accept their complaint. The school might refer it to the teacher in charge if there are enough grounds for an investigation, but schools do not normally give weight to anonymous reports from writing companies or people claiming to be from the department of education.

Legitimate essay companies and independent writers honor everything in their TOS, but (quite obviously), essay companies can say whatever they want in their TOS; so those TOS provide no benefit to customers unless the company is actually legitimate and trustworthy, in the first place. Just about every complaint on this forum about "money back guarantees," "satisfaction guarantess," and "unlimited revisions" (etc.) that were not honored involve scam companies that used their TOS as nothing but another tool to perpetuate their scams by duping gullible customers into trusting them. That's why promises and "guarantees" in the TOS of essay companies mean absolutely nothing without other independent evidence that the service provider you're considering has a long history of delivering high-quality projects and of actually honoring their TOS.