Online class help center is blackmailing me

I've made a terrible decision of hiring someone from this website. I was really struggling with the class and work and thought of giving it a shot as my last resort. They promised me a guaranteed A for a quiz and a final. Received Ds in both, when I reached out for a refund as they promised 100% refund if not satisfied with their work. They did not reply me back, so I realized this is a scam and I disputed the transaction on Paypal. Literally within an hour the rep reached out to me (who did not reply me last 2 days) and says that he was off and just got to the office. I let him know about the exam and then the harassment starts. Within few minutes I receive a message on WhatsApp from someone named Adam Noah who says he works at this company and handles refunds. The way he messaged me asking "why did you submit a dispute and it's messing up our credibility blah blah" was really unprofessional. He kept telling me they would inform the Academic integrity advisor from my school and even provided me with their information with emails, phone numbers etc. I went to my school's website and it all matches. I ignored his messages so he calls me on WhatsApp. From his voice, I could understand he was either from India or pakistan and it sounded like a call center (I could hear a lot of people talking in the background). He was yelling at me and he told me either I pay him $990.00 dollars for the copyright of this exam or he will email my Uni's academic advisor. I hung up stating I needed some time, he calls me twice more and the leaves me a message stating since he did not hear back from me, he will indeed send the email. I am not going to lie, but he did make me feel nervous. I understand they are 151% a scam company. But just can't help but wonder if they will actually email my Uni? Please advise if anyone has similar incidents happen to them and what actions did you take? If any Unis were informed, then what happened? (He currently only has my phone number, chats of receiving the answer, and possibly my school's username.)

Thank you in advance

The first thing you should do is ignore all his threats and block his email address along with his Whatsapp number. Make yourself unsearchable on the app. That way the harassment will end /stop. They can only threaten you if they can reach you.

Next, continue this thread by helping other students. Make it clear, by naming names, which company you hired from this forum since you claim to have found the company / writer via this site. That way the victimization of students coming across them here can be prevented.

Finally, stop worrying about the threats. Although there are some instances when they do try to contact the school officers, these actions often result in inaction from the school since the schoolk are conscious of these tactics.

Let this be a lesson to all concerned. Never hire a company or freelance writer to take exams for you. They will just Google the answers anyway which is something you can do yourself. If you are still getting a D anyway, you may as well save the money.

Consider yourself lucky that your school does not do an lP trace when you log in for exams. Had you been l P traced, the school itself would have immediately known that you cheated, locked you out of the test, and had the strongest evidence to immediately expel you from school.

You should definitely tell us which company it is, especially if you found the site here. Either ignore any and all future messages from them via any medium or respond once to ask them to leave you alone and to say that if your school notifies you that they actually emailed your school, you'll post all of their messages and the horrible work that they provided right here so that anybody who Googles the name of the company sees exactly what kind of garbage they provide and how they threatened you and blackmailed you for simply holding them to their own guarantee. Also tell them that if they contact your school or continue harassing you in any way, you'll immediately file a report here: ic3.gov/Home/ComplaintChoice. Then, block them on every medium that they've used to contact you and don't respond at all to any other messages, regardless of what they say; better yet, don't even read them. Don't delete them, so that you can provide them to any authorities; but don't read or respond to them, and definitely, do not, under any circumstances, actually send them any money. If you do end up posting their messages, remove your name, email, and anything else that identifies you or your school, first.

Thank you both for your replies. I did not find them from this (essayscam.org) website. When I wrote the forum, I meant this as my title of " Online Class Help Center" from google. Sorry for the confusion. And the people I dealt with is Marcus Norman & Noah Adams.

@freelancewriter: I have not replied back since this afternoon and after his last threat via WhatsApp he hasn't messages me yet. Should I leave it alone or write back stating what you advised?

If he stopped messaging you, I'd wait and only do it if they continue bothering you. Most of these crooks don't follow through on their threats; but if you respond again, they may think they can still get something from you. Hopefully, they've moved on to their next victim.

@freelancewriter: Thank you, I will ignore him unless he reaches out. Also just wondering if I do get an email from my Uni, how should I proceed? Is there any way out or better to come clean? Can I get expelled or suspended for this? Any advise?

It depends what the email says. You definitely wouldn't want to volunteer more info than they actually have; but if they confront you with evidence showing that they already know that you submitted work written by someone else, you probably have no other choice but to ask for leniency. Chances are they won't follow through on their threats; and if they do, chances are that your schol will ignore them.

@FreelanceWriter
What makes you so sure these blackmailers don't follow through on their threats?

Admin: What's wrong with the quote function? It doesn't seem to be working, because I tried to quote the question to which I'm responding below.

Welcome to the forum, Longboarder.

I'm not "sure" that they don't; I said "chances are" that they don't, which just means I think it's less likely that they will follow through than it is that they won't. In the 14 years that I've been on this forum, I've read quite a few posts from customers who reported having been threatened; but, to date, I don't think there's ever been a case where any of those customers reported that his or her school had actually been contacted. I strongly suspect that they're just bluffing and that their bluffs may pay off, sometimes, when some of their victims pay their ransoms. When customers ignore their threats and block their emails, I suspect that they just forget about them and move on, because what they really want is the money they're extorting. They don't really have anything to gain by actually following through on their threats once they realize that they're not going to get their money. If anything, they're much more likely to motivate those customers to publicize their experiences if they follow through on their threats, which would only make it harder for them to get more customers. On the other hand, I've also suggested that it probably isn't a good idea to antagonize them unnecessarily, either, (beyond blocking them and ignoring their payment demands), because that could, conceivably, motivate them to retaliate just for spite. That's why my usual advice has been to stop responding, block their messages, immediately cease any further communications with them via any medium, and never to pay their ransoms.

@FreelanceWriter
Ah, i see. It's a pretty big gamble though, if they do end up contacting the college. But like someone else said, the school might not take it seriously if it's coming from a sketchy source.

Well, if you're asking what my actual advice would be, I'd suggest immediately blocking any and all means of communication and stop responding to anything from them at all the instant it becomes clear that they're actually threatening to do something to you unless you give them money that you don't really owe them. Even if you do what might seem like the "safest" thing by paying, why would you trust someone who already extorted you once not to try to continue "milking" you with more threats once you've already demonstrated that you're sufficiently scared to give into the threat by coughing up money the first time? After the first payment, you'll find yourself right back in the exact same situation of having to "gamble" between the exact same two possibilities: Either (1) they'll really leave you alone, this time, if you just pay one more time; or (2) They'll really contact your school if you don't pay again.