Please help me! I was threatened by a legit writing company!

I was bullied and threatened by a legit writing company. I do not want to expose any information yet because last time I complained, they found out and send more threatening emails to me. I want to know a safe way to expose them and my experience with them.

I am more than willing to email all the information to good-standing members here to verify my claims.

Please let me know what I can do to expose the injustice!

paper company threatening me

I wish I found this forum sooner.

I made a mistake of ordering from a certain paper company two months ago.

Well, they asked for numerous deadline extensions and the finished paper was horrible.
It was so easy for me to find all the websites the writer used.... he basically copied and pasted, including examples, and just changed words around.

I could not submit the paper on time, needless to say. But that's fine because it was partially my fault to use a company like this.

However, I'm extremely angry at the service the company provided.
The company is refusing to give me a refund.
So I contacted my credit card company and said it was a fraudulent company and asked for a charge back.

I guess the paper company got a notification from my credit card company because they contacted me and said that if I don't cancel the chargeback immediately, they would contact my university with a note saying that my paper was written by another person who is not a student of this particular educational institution with the paper attached to the email. They will also distribute the paper everywhere so my paper will turn out 100% plagiarized when ran through anti plagiarism software. Also, I will no longer be able to place orders with the company.

They can do whatever they want with the paper because it was terrible and anyone can just google and see that none of the contents in the paper is original anyway.

Has anyone gotten threats from a paper company like this when demanding a refund? Can they really contact my school?

That is pretty shocking behaviour from the essay company.

However, how do they know which university you are studying at? Also, if the essay is that crap and you aren't going to submit it, then it doesn't matter if they post it all over the net anyway.

Finally, why would you worry about not being able to use this company again? They are not only unethical, but produce rubbish and have poor customer service to boot. Why give them more dosh?

littlethingsmatter.com/blog/2010/07/14/there-are-always-two-sides-to-every-story/

There are two sides to every story.

These threats from the digital firms are getting quite common now, you can certainly sit back and relax as they can't and won't do anything! Primary reason behind the cold threat is to get the chargeback reversed which you shouldn't. A chargeback usually acts like a "bullet in the head", a few could even lead to the closure of the organization!


mentioned a couple of alarming points!

@PV: Xugga~ two sides always :)

TheEssays0nline = spamming, scamming piece of trash

Don't worry about any threats from these online companies. Legitimate writing companies will never threaten a client. These blackmail tactics are only used by scamming academic outsourcing companies. These fly by nights try to steal your personal data and coerce you for money because they know that they can do it. Provided you are sure that you never submitted any private information to these people, then you can rest assured that they are threatening you with blanks. Even more laughable is that their threat to tell your university about it won't work because the university will not take an anonymous report seriously. Believe me, they won't be reporting you to the authorities of the university because they know their report will not be taken seriously. Only professor reports regarding plagiarism are taken seriously. This is precisely why students should never deliver personal information with their orders and make all payments through Paypal so that the private information of the client will be protected in the most secure manner possible. Don't take this threat seriously. It is nothing more than an empty threat.

Don't worry about the threat. The company may have misrepresented itself as a legitimate company. A legitimate company will always protect their name and reputation. They are in the business of academic assistance, not academic blackmail. Besides, the company that is trying to blackmail you will not meet any success when trying to contact the university to blow the whistle on you. None of these companies have ever successfully done that. Nobody in the academic world pays attention to anonymous complaints. Besides, even if you somehow shared your university information with them, do you really think the university will take the word of an email sent from a free email account, which is what these companies normally use? Even if they mask their actual domain name, a reverse IP lookup always gives them away. Students who receive these blackmail threats can very well ignore these bums. They can't get to you.

Actually, if the student shared his university information, I suspect the professor and the Dean of Academic Affairs might take the accusation quite seriously, regardless of the source, especially if it included all of the emails between the student and the company, together with the assignment information, proof of payment, and the full text of the same essay that the student actually submitted for credit. Universities have even been known to rescind degrees after having already awarded them if cheating allegations are substantiated, let alone pursuing investigations against students still matriculated at their institutions. If the student never actually submitted any of the work from the company, he would probably come out of the school's investigation OK; but I suspect it would still be investigated, first.

Whether or not he used the essay, that certainly doesn't mean that the student should give in to any blackmail threats, because he definitely shouldn't; he should report it as a crime, because that's what it is. However, you're not doing the student any favors by giving him a false sense of security that there's nothing they could possibly do to him. If nothing else, it could make the difference between the student simply ignoring emails from them and antagonizing them unnecessarily with spiteful sarcastic responses that could motivate them to hurt him to retaliate, even if they were just bluffing to get more money from him, initially. Even if the university doesn't take the accusation seriously because of the source, (and/or if the student never used the essay), the company could just publish their whole email history online, together with the student's full name and all of the information identifying the school and course. That information would be almost as damaging to the student because any future prospective employer is definitely going to Google all job applicants and avoid taking any chances on an applicant whose Google returns include accusations about cheating in college, complete with all that same information and identifying the same school that happens to be on the applicant's resume and a course that's listed on his transcript matching the time period referenced in the emails about the project.

Exactly. From the freelancer perspective, even when I've had clients do a chargeback (only twice in about 20 years), I've been able to discuss the issues and resolve them. Most often, discussing what sparked the issue is the best route to take. However, it sounds like the company you dealt with may not be reasonable and not adding fuel to the fire may be the best action. I know that sucks because it feels like you are letting them bully you into not doing anything, but your academic and professional reputation is what is most important. And, @FreelanceWriter is spot on:

Students should be thankful for the coming of Covid-19. These fly by night scam companies posing as legitimate companies have disappeared. These companies could not be kept afloat during the lockdown as they were not prepared for the sudden change in the way classes and research papers were being done. From what I heard, most of the companies ran out of money, just like other businesses, and disappeared, oftentimes shuttering their businesses without notifying nor paying their writers. So any blackmail scams they had in line also disappeared.

Actually, if COVID-19 has changed anything, I'd imagine that it has only flooded the market with totally unqualified inexperienced "writers" who are now trying desperately to find a new way to earn some income.


Both legitimate and scam essay companies are usually run by people working from home on their computers, not in brick-and-mortar office buildings. What's the connection, in your mind, between the pandemic and the supposed demise of scam companies that already work from home and have had no real changes in their overhead?


The only real change in education is that classes have shifted substantially to the online medium. This will also change the way exams are given, but I can't imagine what changes you're talking about as far as assigned writing projects are concerned. Would you care to explain your theory?


As I've said, those companies (as well as most if not all legitimate companies) are already run by people working from home. Scam companies involved in blackmailing customers don't even have to worry about actually providing the projects for which they're paid. What is it about the pandemic that you think makes it any harder for them to perpetuate the same exact scams that they're already executing from their homes?

I do not believe that the OP was threatened by a legitimate writing company. The legitimate companies would never risk their good image by involving themselves in student blackmail. They know that their company relies on the good relationship they have and the trust that the students have given the company and its service. This student was more than likely hired by a competitor company to misrepresent himself at this forum as a victim. Note that he could not publicly disclose the name of the company. That makes his claims questionable in my book.

The longer that any provider has been doing business under the same name the less you ever have to worry about this kind of thing. Those of us who've built up our reputations for 20+ years would never take the risk associated with that kind of negative publicity just for a quick buck.