Deceptions that control the essay industry

1) Deception 1: Students buy essays to use them as `model papers` for their own. Truth 1: Students cannot spend thousands of dollars just to get model papers. They hand in the papers as their own.

2) Deception 2: Registered companies produce quality papers. Truth 2: Competent writers produce quality papers irrespective of whether they work independently or are hired by unregistered `companies` located in Meokhan`s Pakistan.

3 Deception 3: native writers are better than ESLs: Truth 3: competent writers are better than incompetent writers.

4) Deception 4: American based writers are honest. ESL writers outside of US are dishonest. Truth 4: Dishonest writers are everywhere irrespective of their geographical location, ethnicity and mastery of the English language.

5) Deception 5: WB helped unearth scams. Truth 5: Any industry self regulates itself and gets rid of scammers through adaptation, ethical evolution and consumers` increased knowledge. Busted scams were/are as a result of the players'(students and writers) collective efforts NOT the efforts of one deranged nutcase.

To be continued.

If this were true, the "deception" would be a legal necessity for operation in many locations.


This is generally true, though there are of course registered companies that are generally more trustworthy if only because their operations can be examined and interrupted by legal issues if fraud occurs.

Also, though, writers will tend to put their efforts where the pay is better. Company work might not be lower quality, but better writers will tend to work directly with customers as much as they can, leaving others to do a great deal of the company work. The situation is more complex than presented in the dichotomy you describe.


Very true. Again, the situation is more complex when it comes to the link between competence and English-language status; there are highly comptent ESL writers that nonetheless make grammar and usage mistakes that would not be expected of a native speaker, and native speaking writers that will use language unexpected for an ESL student. Students need competence first and foremost, but competence includes language mechanics.


Unequivocally true. The only country that matters, after a writer's competence and appropriateness has been established, is the country to which a payment is sent. If making a payment means the money is completely irretrievable, think twice.


I don't think anyone ever credited WritersBeware as the sole reason any scams were exposed. It also seems as though most of the scams exposed here, by WritersBEware and others, are still in operation. I don't know that an industry such as this, which operates in a very grey area of the law and has a constant source of new and inexperienced customers, truly can be cleaned up, but WritersBeware was certainly effective at responding to requests for information about various companies and often substantiating those responses with off-site evidence. It seems like using a spoon to keep back the ocean, but it was something.

Which simply means that US registered companies have no problem lying about their papers' eventual use, provided it saves them from legal reverberations.

Let there be no doubt: This WB thingy did put considerable efforts into exposing fraudulent outfits; however, it based its investigations on nasty vindictiveness, sadistic hatred of competitors and a clear commercial agenda of subtly promoting a particular site under the guise of exposing the scams.

In the end, it made the whole industry seem (at least viewed within the narrowed perspective of essayscam's residents) a big, muddled pit. That is why the mod found it fit to banish it into oblivion.

Whatever the motives were, the information was valid.


I have heard three different stories about why WritersBeware was banished from the forum, one from each of the three different posters who still seem to care. Does anyone actually know what happened?

I found an essay related to the topic:

Deception and Ethics in Social Research

Despite obtaining some interesting and significant results, the Milgram experiments and the 'Tearoom' observations certainly violated research ethics in key ways that probably would not be permitted today. Stanley Milgram did not inform the 'teachers' that they were the real subjects of the experiments and that they were not really inflicting electric shocks on the 'learners', while Laud Humphries did not inform the homosexual men in the 'tearooms' that they were being observed as part of an experiment and later interviewed fifty of them under false pretenses. Most of these men were deeply closeted and in denial about their homosexual identity, which is why they sought quick, anonymous sex in places like public restrooms. They were also frequent targets of police harassment and blackmail, and even though Humphries claimed to be sympathetic to their situation, the experiment was an extreme intrusion on the most private and intimate details of their lives which they wanted to keep secret. This was also true of the follow-up interviews, conducted under the pretense of a 'public health survey.'

Many of Milgram's 'teachers' did suffer temporary emotional distress because they thought the experiment was causing actual pain to the 'learners', although a large percentage of them did not. Of course, one of the important findings was that they were able to carry on with the electric shocks even when they thought the 'learners' were dead or unconscious, simply because an authority figure told them it was necessary. They quickly became accustomed to pain and suffering, and some even became enthusiastic about. One of the most disturbing results of the experiment was that the 'teachers' were not distressed enough and could not take a moral stand against participating in (simulated) torture in the face of orders from 'superior authority.'.

In this respect, the Stanford Prison experiment was even more unsettling in that all the participants came to believe that that their roles were real, including the experimenters. All of them knew from the outset that they were simply being assigned to play the roles of 'prisoners' and 'guards', and to that extent they were participating voluntarily and with informed consent. What no one expected was how quickly they all came to believe that the 'prison' was real, and that even the psychologists began to think they were its 'administrators' whose job was to maintain order in this imaginary 'institution'. They kept the experiment running too long, even after it as clear that they were inflicting real pain and distress on the 'prisoners'. Some of the 'guards' become so zealous and enthusiastic in their roles (particularly the one that the prisoners nicknamed 'John Wayne') that they were downright sadistic. Although this was one of the most outstanding experiments in the history of social psychology, for obvious reasons it probably should not be repeated.

REFERENCES

Ethics in the Research Process. Class Notes.

Essay Scam. https://essayscam.org/forum/fe/research-learning-team-social-media-tools-commerce-5044/

Hess, I.R. Book Review of L. Humphries Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places. New York Times, pp. 581-84.

Russell, N. "Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiments: Origins and Early Evolution". British Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 50, pp. 140-62.

I am not sure if claims 1- 3 should be accepted as deceptions as the claims being made are actually an open secret among the students and writers of the industry. The students have the option to turn in the paper as their own, which is why it is delivered to them plagiarism free. These practices control the essay industry because these are the norms by which the companies run their business. No student complains about it so why are you complaining for them? The deception is not being played out on the students, the writers and students cooperate in order to pull the wool over their teacher's / professor's/ instructors's eyes. Even the educators know that these practices exist and they opt to turn a blind eye to it and pass the student rather than having to see the problem student again the next semester. They can accept the deception provided it is not blatant nor plagiarized. That is why 3rd rate writers have no place in this industry and that is why they often die a natural death in terms of their line of work. They can't create a client base if they have proven to the students that they do not have an academic writing bone in their body.

Let's be open about this. A majority of the claims being made above are deceptions, at least when the writers are posting here in an effort to entice students to hire their services. For example, I completely agree with the statement that students would not spend thousands of dollars on paying a writer to create a paper for them simply for "references" sake. That is a load of you know what. The writers know the students will submit the essay for a grade, which is why they promise to deliver "original" and "never before used" papers to their student clients. They need to write fresh papers because the student will be submitting it for a grade. If they wanted a simple paper just for "reference" ,they would not pay that much money for it or they would do the work themselves.

Exactly. I know I wouldn't pay hundreds or thousands for models. ;)

Honestly, what the student does with the paper after I hand it over to them is not my concern. My concern is that I have given them the best possible writing, backed by reputable sources, and all original writing. If they want to tweak, that's great. If they don't, they don't. They ordered a paper. I gave them a paper. End of story (most of the time). ;)

The academic writing business is all about deception in the first place. The students accept the homework, project, research paper, or whatever on the premise that the professor will get them to actually work on the paper. All that work is part of the learning process for the student. When the student hires a writer, he deceives himself into thinking that he will get the grade he deserves for the paper he did not write. Upon receiving the paper, the student submits the same to the professor. This is another form of deception. The student deceives the professor into thinking that he actually wrote the paper and learned something from the writing process. The professor gives another topic for research, homework, etc., and the vicious cycle starts all over again. Basically, the whole business is based on deception so it is useless to discuss "deceptions that control the essay industry". The deception starts at the academic level, not at the company / writer hiring level.

In my opinion, the only issue relating to "deception" that readers of this forum really care about pertains to deceptions perpetrated by fraudulent and incompetent essay providers on their clients. In that respect, there are essay providers who are totally honest about their experience, abilities, and language of origin who actually deliver the high-quality product that they promise to deliver and essay providers who are dishonest about their experience, abilities, and language of origin who fail to deliver the high-quality product that they promise to deliver (or any product at all). That's the main reason prospective customers new to this industry read this forum in the first place.

The deceptions that the bad actor writing companies were allowed to propagate during the later part of the 20th century and early half of the 21st century proved to be their undoing. Nobody could have predicted that technology would have pushed them out of their comfort zone and become the protection that the students needed from these con artists. They are the reason that the industry is now struggling to stay afloat, and why their businesses have gone down the drain as well.