I post information and evidence in this forum to help honest, respectful, innocent people avoid scams and fraudulent sites
To sum up, what you do is these two simple steps to do your "research":
1. Look up the domain WHOIS info.
2. Does the registrant name sound English? If the registrant name doesnt sound English -> the site must be a scam. (no matter if domain was registered by webmaster or another 3rd party person - you don't know that and cannot know that but you still assume registrant = site owner).
3. IF registrant name sounds English then you move on to check the phone number and address. If it's PO Box - the site must be a scam. If it's a UPS store or listed address is not US/UK, the site (what a coincidence:D) must be a scam.
4. If you cannot find anything from the WHOIS info, you check links. Does the site link to other 'foreign' sites or other 'foreign' sites link to it? Sure - that must be a scam.
5. If the above points don't bring anything useful, you search for the owners possible names. You check Facebook, Myspace and other similar garbage. You check Twitter too - if the supposed owner twitted something completely unrelated to show who they really are, like "I shipped some stuff to India." - hell yes, they must be Indian scammers.
Your "research" could be done with the same result by a 7 yo. You repeat yourself and waste the resources of this forum.
What's the most important - you are the owner of one of the biggest essay services and all you care about is your bottom line. The fact that you own a competing website AND try to discredit your direct competitor directly discredits you. Your posts here are only because you are an essay site owner yourself -> how can any of your message have any unbiased opinion? It just can't.
There are other site owners here but even if they try to advertise they don't discredit other sites. You do it "the honest, American way" - you fear your competition and your bottom line so you attack them because you and your site is unable to provide a better service. Your only choice is to dumb down to your level and discredit other sites and its sad you cannot do it in a fair way.