Correct. Essay companies don't "train" or "test" their writers; they don't even know how well they really write until after they're already hired and they start submitting company projects. They hire writers based on their resumes and whatever writing samples they furnish as part of their applications; but just as is the case anytime prospective clients ask freelance writers for samples, there's no way ever to be sure who really wrote those samples. Every essay company hires some writers who end up getting fired almost immediately, because the work they submit after being hired makes it obvious that they couldn't possibly have written the samples on the basis of which they were hired.

There's no difference between essay-company writers and independent writers, either, because all essay-company writers are simply freelance independent contractors who also take on as much freelance work as possible. Perhaps the one difference between them is that only the very best of the best essay-company writers ever manage to cultivate a sufficiently large private clientele to rely exclusively on private work and eventually stop writing for essay companies, altogether. In fact, the vast majority of essay-company writers can't even rely on writing essays for a living, at all, except as one of several part-time gigs. Almost none of them ever actually worked as professional writers before, in any capacity; in fact, typically, their own college essays are the only "writing" that most of them have ever done prior to applying to essay companies.

Many of my adult clients returning to school think nothing at all of it. They resent having to return to school just because a particular promotion requires a degree, in the first place, and they view their continuing education as a useless exercise that they just want to complete as quickly and as easily as possible. Some of them are perfectly capable of writing their own essays, but it's worth it to them not to have to spend their time on it at night after working a full-time job all day and/or at the expense of time they'd much rather be able to spend with their families. Many of my nursing clients, especially, have zero patience for writing academic essays after working the kinds of shifts their jobs entail. They view their writing assignments as totally unrelated to and unnecessary for their professional qualifications, and I have to agree with them. In my opinion, essay assignments serve a purpose only to whatever extent a student's expected vocational field actually requires writing. Journalism students, for example, should know how to write well for obvious reasons. By contrast, engineers and nurses, in particular, will never have to use essay-writing skills in their careers, nor will most people whose jobs will require no writing besides emails and the occasional office memo. I've also had quite a few clients who work as educators, including at least one high school principal pursuing his PhD, and their only concern was receiving high-quality original work.

Exactly.

How, exactly, are students "learning how to write their own papers" by just typing their assigned essay topics into an AI program? Writing your own paper means, as an absolute minimum, understanding the course material well enough to come up with a workable original thesis and an outline to develop that thesis, finding and organizing source material to support every substantive section of the outline, and then organizing your thoughts into logically ordered paragraphs of grammatically correct and well-punctuated topic sentences expressing specific points of argument relating to the topic sentence. That's the very least of what "learning how to write" papers means. How do you suppose someone can learn how to do any of that by just typing an an assigned essay topic and specs into an AI program so that the program can spit out an essay?


What would be just one example of a "valuable writing lesson" learned through the use of AI instead of actually writing an essay? If the name of the course is "AI Writing Programs for Non-Writers," then I suppose it's perfectly fine to practice writing using AI programs; but how is using AI instead of doing your own writing in other courses any better or different from paying someone else to write the same essay? What difference does it make whether students are typing the essay topic and assigned specs into an AI program or into an email sent to a human writer? What do you suppose college professors say when their students ask them if it's "OK" to use ChatGPT to write the essays assigned by those professors? Do you think that any History or Sociology, or Psychology or English Composition professors believe their students are "learning how to write their own papers" by using AI programs?

That's exactly why I keep advising every one of you victims not to continue posting about your experience here beyond simply sharing the name of the company responsible. After that, stop discussing it publicly and just block every means by which they've contacted you. If they still manage to get through, delete their messages, unread.

Agreed. Even better to ask any new writer for his full name and location. A writer who deserves your trust should have no reservations providing his name and sufficient information for you to confirm independently that you're actually communicating with the person whose name he provided. I don't use social media; but anybody who knows my name only has to Google it + "HHS" to find some of my old US Federal Government reports still available online. That search will also satisfy any skeptics who don't believe that an experienced writer can provide excellent work in areas completely outside of his own degree areas. In my case, specifically, the government reports clearly bearing my name as "Writer/Editor" available on the public website of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General are critical high-level audits of federally funded healthcare programs and entities. I never took a single course in any kind of auditing or accounting, and the closest thing to a course in healthcare policy was a single course in Medical Law that I took in law school. As long as I'm provided with the right source material, I can write extremely good projects in each and every subject area listed on my website, just as I was able to write government reports about healthcare agency program-policy compliance without any "degree" in healthcare policy or accounting or auditing.


That's also a good idea. The vast majority of my clients have shared their names with me; quite a few have also shared their academic institutions, and even the names of their courses and professors, because they're often included in some of their source materials in ways that would be very difficult to remove. Once you know that you can trust a writer, anonymity really shouldn't be a concern; but, of course, before you know that you're dealing with someone trustworthy, it's of paramount importance. One of the reasons that I choose to advertise here is that it provides assurance to new clients that my real identity is known to the administration of this forum, because it's required as part of the payment process. The one indispensable tool upon which blackmailers and all scammers, more generally, rely is anonymity. Once you know the real identity of the person you're trusting with your information (and your money), any chances of being ripped off fall pretty close to zero, especially in the case of anybody who's been doing business under the same ID and email address for decades.


Absolutely. One of the silliest comments I ever read on this forum was someone's advice never to use the same writer for more than a few projects. Your (rhetorical) point is spot on: the goal of any new customer in this business should be to identify a writer who deserves your trust ASAP and, ideally, without wasting your money on any bad writers and/or scammers, first. It's obviously nerve-wracking the first time you do business online with anybody whose work you haven't seen yet. So, once you receive great work from any writer, that should be an incredible relief, precisely because it probably means that you won't ever have to waste any more of your time finding another reliable source for your projects; nor will you ever have to lie awake at night worried about whether or not you're going to get ripped off. I've always told my clients that the main product I sell is peace of mind. My clients know that after I've scheduled their projects, they can (literally) forget about them until they're due from me. Obviously, they can't fully enjoy that peace of mind the first time we do business; but after our first project is behind us, they know that the one thing they'll never have to worry about or waste their time on is finding someone who can (probably) write anything and everything they'll need until they receive their degrees


Hi Caty. I didn't read Joan's comments the same way you did. I don't think she was necessarily suggesting that anybody should recommend a writer or company. I think Joan is suggesting that prospective clients should use this forum to research any writer or company under consideration, which might include asking for information about any kinds of problematic transactions. I read her comment as a suggestion designed more to identify writers and/or companies with reputations as scammers than as a suggestion to recommend specific writers or companies.

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Absolutely not. That's like shooting yourself first because someone is threatening to shoot you. Chances are it's a bluff, because there's no such thing as any essay company that sometimes provides real essays (or tests) and only sometimes blackmails their clients: Apparently, blackmail is their "business model." They probably do this to all of their clients and they probably just forget about those who ignore them. Once you respond, they have you on their hook and they'll start trying to reel you in. They'll also know that they have you worried. I don't know why victims are always so reluctant to take this advice here and/or why they always insist on continuing to post about it more; but that's a mistake. Name the company for the benefit of other potential victims and then block them from contacting you by any means. Don't even think about contacting your school "pre-emptively."

I definitely wouldn't do what the last few blackmail victims have done. They posted endless details here about their exchanges, including screen shots of documents. In my opinion, you should simply name company here for the benefit of other potential victims and then completely ignore all future communications from that company. Block them on every medium through which they've contacted you and if anything from them still manages to get through, simply delete it, unread. They will stop bothering you much sooner if you don't respond at all than they will if you engage them in any kind of communication about it.

Obviously, I don't know anything about your personal experiences; however, I don't think anybody has ever been bullied on this forum for being an ESL writer. I've always had a mutually respectful relationship with several totally legit ESL writers on this forum, several of whom have referred clients to me for work outside of their abilities, and two of whom recently chimed in to defend me against some of the defamatory lies posted about me by a1writer. I believe the only ESL writers who ever encountered harsh criticism here in the past were those who tried to argue that it's perfectly fine for ESL writers not to disclose to their prospective clients that English isn't their first language, because "it doesn't matter."

I happen to agree with that criticism and I've always practiced what I preach in that regard, such as by always disclosing to UK students that I wasn't educated in the UK. If I have a high level of confidence with their projects, I tell them that; but I don't misrepresent (or merely fail to disclose) that I'm a US-educated American writer, because whether or not that "matters" to them is for them to decide, not me. My only expectation of ESL writers is simply never to conceal from their prospective clients that they're ESL writers, because whether or not that "matters" is for their prospective clients to decide, not those ESL writers who want to get their business deceitfully. That clearly doesn't apply to you, because you've openly disclosed that you're ESL, for which you deserve respect, especially because you write well enough that prospective clients probably wouldn't even realize that, otherwise.

Thanks. Obviously, I have no choice but to respond to defend myself against the constant lies and false accusations. I see that his ID has finally been suspended, along with all of his many previous IDs. Hopefully, it's a permanent ban. Unfortunately, he'll probably just be back shortly under a brand new totally fake identity and, as always, he'll be immediately identifiable, because his only focus will be on me, and the vast majority of his posts will be more attempts to undermine the great reputation that I've spent 14.5 years establishing on this forum by providing nothing but the highest quality work to all of my clients and to clients of my fellow legit writers who needed work that was outside of their areas and/or too advanced for them.

No problem. I wouldn't take any credit for having created any part of the community, though. Those of us who used to write for the essay company to which I alluded were all asked by the company to come here (back in 2007 or 2008), to respond (truthfully) to some of the attacks on that company by a different disgruntled ex-writer. For the most part, it was a naturally evolved community of essay-company writers, freelance writers, a few disclosed company reps, and a few undisclosed company reps masquerading as "observers" or "industry researchers." All of the legit writers were respectful of one another and none of us ever engaged in guerrilla tactics of disparaging one another. We backed one another up on projects outside of our respective areas, referred clients to one another, and we helped protect one another against the baseless attacks of jealous competitors who resorted to slander because they couldn't compete in respectful and ethical ways. If you review some of the threads to which I provided links, you'll be able to identify all of the legit writers and the few trolls whose only "contribution" to this forum was slandering other writers and instigating nasty highly personal attacks. Now that most of those legit writers are gone, it would be very nice to have more writers who aren't here for the sole purpose of trying to harm writers whose relative success in this business they covet and resent to the point of hateful rage.

Hello Joan, and welcome to the forum. Allow me to bring you up to speed:

There used to be quite a few legitimate freelance writers here, most of whom were, simultaneously, also writers at a large American essay company, along with me. There was also one very nasty, disgruntled troll, whose ID was "Editor75" and "RustyIronChains" before that. He'd been fired and discredited by essay companies, and routinely announced that this industry is a "cesspit" in which, unlike the rest of us "losers," he "didn't need" to work, because he was a "published author" with a "pretty big house," etc. He took a very particular and intense dislike to me and used to disparage me constantly, by stalking every post of mine in any thread, as well as by disparaging me in other threads in which I hadn't even posted. Back then, other writers who knew me (i.e. ProfessorVerb, Pheelyks, ResearchPro, JohnsMom, srandrews/99essays, MeoKhan, and Wordsies) used to defend me and keep him in check. They all expressed the same observation that his animosity was obviously inspired by jealousy over the fact that I clearly write better than he does and that so many of my legitimate colleagues respected and vouched for the quality of my work. We were all direct competitors; but none of us ever tried to compete by attacking or lying about one another. In fact, we routinely defended one another against unfair accusations, such as in this thread, even though it would have been very easy for me to keep my mouth shut and just allow that other writer to absorb as much damage as possible. I defended him because I knew his work and practices and that what was being said about him was both unfair and untrue: https://essayscam.org/forum/es/pheelyks-versus-freelance-writer-comparative-analysis-3051/

Here's a typical example of what "a1writer" used to do as Editor75, along with the responses of some legitimate writers: https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/thing-paper-1619/

Now that some of them have either died, retired, found other careers, or just stopped contributing as much to this forum, he's taken full advantage of that relative vacuum to stalk and disparage me using at least a half-dozen fake IDs, and without any real push-back, except from me. Four of those writers listed above have returned and chimed in here a few times recently, just to defend me against his non-stop trolling and daily disinformation-campaign posts disparaging me. His entire current persona of a "retired British writer" is a complete farce, which I demonstrated right here in Post #28:

https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/flexible-academic-requirements-new-freelance-writers-3569/#msg87089



Here's the documentation of his other most recent banned IDs that he burned through trolling me before settling on "a1writer" to perpetuate this highly personal hate campaign against me that he first started more than a decade ago. If you just click on the ID of any poster, you'll see that person's profile, which includes the dates that the ID was created and of the last post before being banned, in addition to that person's entire posting history on this forum:

LawEssayUK: Suspended on May 16, 2022 and last posted on that same date. His profile info is right here: https://essayscam.org/forum/index.php?action=userinfo&user=8520

EssayScrutiny: Registered on May 16, 2022, the same day that LawEssayUK got suspended, and promptly got suspended on that same day. His profile info is right here: https://essayscam.org/forum/index.php?action=userinfo&user=13668

Jeannie: Registered May 17, 2022, one day after LawEssayUK and EssayScrutiny were both banned. "She" immediately proceeded to resume the same attacks against me (and in the same thread, no less), before getting banned on June 9, 2022. "Her" profile info is right here: https://essayscam.org/forum/index.php?action=userinfo&user=13671

Writeruk: Registered exactly one day later, on June 10, 2022, and was also promptly banned on the same day. His profile info is right here: https://essayscam.org/forum/index.php?action=userinfo&user=13691

A1writer: Registered 4 days later, on June 14, 2022, and immediately resumed the same series of attacks on me that he's continued ever since. His profile info is right here: https://essayscam.org/forum/index.php?action=userinfo&user=13696

Of course. No sane person without a pre-existing malicious agenda against a specific individual would ever join any online forum community (about anything) and immediately proceed to trashing one of the most senior active members with a 14-year posting history and almost as long a record of support (even admiration, in some cases) from at least a half-dozen other writers, and despite that fact that, without exception, each of them was and/or still is a direct competitor. Professor Verb, Pheelyks, ResearchPro, JohnsMom, and I were all high-volume/highly requested writers at the same essay company until 2013. They also competed directly against me for private clients, along with MeoKhan, Wordsies, and srandrews/99essays. Each and every one of them has repeatedly referred to me either as the best or one of the best writers in this business over the last decade; and four of them actually came back here recently to defend me against this 10-month-long, non-stop malicious daily barrage of lies and false accusations posted by one very disgruntled jealous failed writer who simply cannot live with anything in this paragraph except by lashing out in an obvious jealous rage.

Anticipating the predictable strawman argument in response: Am I suggesting that the length of someone's membership on any forum entitles him to automatic trust and confidence? Of course, not. The same goes for the fact that I have also paid to advertise here for years: by itself, it means nothing. All I'm suggesting is that anybody who has ever participated in any online forum before recognizes that this is highly abnormal and that there's no other remotely reasonable explanation for these kinds of persistent and so obviously disingenuous attacks. Likewise, to engage in such a prolonged, nasty, totally unprovoked series of attacks against one person a decade ago and then return here years later to pick it up all over again is already disturbing enough. To do so using one new fake ID after another reflects an unbelievable level of personal hatred that obviously has absolutely nothing to do with any "principled" justifications or the motivation to "help" anybody.


I don't actually think he's a lunatic. It's plainly obvious to (at least 4 or 5 other writers here and) me that this is about as classic and recognizable a case of rage induced by sheer jealousy as you'll ever see. In both of his first two forum IDs (RustyIronChains & Editor75), he regularly referred to this industry as a "cesspit" and he always had the same excuse for "differentiating" himself from the rest of us "losers" who earn our living this way, such as making sure we all knew that he only did this for pocket change, because he actually had a lot of "irons in the fire," lived in "a pretty big house," is a "published author," and doesn't "need" to do this.

In all 3 or 4 of his most-used IDs, he also routinely referred to me as someone who "thinks he's God's gift" who "enjoys the respect he gets on an anonymous online forum," who "thinks he's wonderful," and who "brags" and "boasts." Anybody who knows any 12-year-olds recognizes this language immediately for exactly what it is. That's especially the case when, in 14.5 years and roughly 2,500 posts, I don't think I've ever actually typed anything that could reasonably or objectively be considered "bragging" or "boastful."


Thank you for noticing that this seems to be the case. Anticipating the predictable strawman response again (as always): Am I suggesting that catyradidbanana should automatically assume or prematurely conclude that I'm as good and honest a writer as so many of my clients and colleagues have said I am on this forum? No. I'd expect him/her to read more, to whatever extent he/she is interested in spending time coming to an informed decision about it. The point is that to any normal person without a very specific malicious agenda to try to harm my business out of jealous spite, the available evidence seems to suggest that the attacks on me here are neither truthful nor reflective of anybody's good-faith desire to "protect" anybody.

LOL @ this attempt to continue masquerading as a "retired British writer" even after having been proven to be a complete fraud. This is simply Editor75 AKA RustyIronChains returning to this forum to resume the same series of attacks on me for the horrible sin of being more successful than he was as an academic writer: https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/flexible-academic-requirements-new-freelance-writers-3569/#msg87089 (Post #28)


You certainly should know:


https://essayscam.org/forum/es/experiences-bestessays-2885/#msg51275


Just one small correction: He's here to perpetrate only ONE hatchet job, not jobs. In an industry thoroughly saturated with outright scams against customers, he's had nothing to say about any of them, or, for that matter, about the fact that, without exception, every other writer who advertises here also handles a much wider range of academic areas than those in which any one person can possibly hold degrees. Just as was the case when he spent years disparaging me as "Editor75," his sole and exclusive focus is always on falsely disparaging ME, the one writer who earned enough respect from fellow (competing) writers that no fewer than four of them (ProfessorVerb, Meokhan, Wordsies, and srandrews/99essays) have defended me against his recent attacks, while also referring to me as the best writer any of them has ever known in this business. They also offered their own opinions of what motivates this deranged animosity:



https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/avoid-dishonest-clients-3489/#msg86534 (Post # 17)


https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/wondering-anyone-writing-services-actually-follow-6562/#msg86497 (Post # 11)


https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/thing-paper-1619/#msg61131 (Post # 30)


https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/thing-paper-1619/#msg61131 (Post # 29)

First, the number of papers written by a given writer is totally unrelated to whether that writer works for essay companies or independently. Second, with very few exceptions, every writer who does actually make a successful transition to complete independence started out writing for essay companies. It takes time to build your brand and to establish the kind of reputation for good work that enables any writer to maintain a sufficiently large clientele to work without needing any work from essay companies. Most writers never actually manage to do that and simply take as much freelance work as possible while always still relying on essay companies for the majority of their work. Only the very best essay-company writers ever manage to make that transition to complete independence.


First, the transfer of copyright is totally unrelated to what customers choose to do with their projects.


Second, I don't just "claim" to transfer copyrights to every project to every client. My clients own every project they receive from me, exclusively, and without exception. This is prominently displayed right on my website and, therefore, it's a binding term of our agreement, just by virtue of that, alone. I have always transferred copyrights to my clients simply because I believe it's the right thing to do:if someone commissions me to write a project, he or she owns the copyrights to that project, exclusively, and permanently.


Allow me to explain something extremely basic to you about how contracts work: There's no such thing in law as "backsies" or "pinkies crossed" in any contracts between adults about anything; that's something for children in playgrounds, OK? Anytime a website and/or private communications between a writer and a client specifically say that the client owns the copyright to the work, that's (technically) a permanent and exclusive "assignment" of the copyright without any expiration, qualification, or any other limitation. If there's nothing else written there to say that that transfer "expires" or that copyrights are "shared" by the writer, there's no such thing as any additional contractual terms that exist only in the mind of the writer that could be exercised later to reclaim any of those rights that were originally transferred to clients.

A time-limited or otherwise limited or qualified right to use a piece of written work is called a license. Guess who provides only a license and never transfers copyrights to customers: Essay companies. Essay companies do the exact opposite of transferring copyright, and if you just read their TOS, they specifically say that they retain exclusive copyrights and that no copyrights are transferred to their customers. Their TOS also typically define the license that they do provide as allowing their customers only to "read," "study," and "cite the work as a source" in their own writing. Guess what else that exclusive retention of copyrights allows the essay company to do: Resell those essays anytime they want and to anybody; it also allows them to publish them as samples, right on their websites. Many of them do publish their projects on their websites, the exact same essays to which their customers only receive a limited "license."


First, the "original digital paper" to every project sold by every essay company also "remains in the possession" of both the original writer and the essay company. Second, essay companies have no control over what their writers might choose to do in violation of their contracts with their writers. Any essay-company writer can resell or reuse portions of any project that actually belongs to the essay company, even if the company itself waits a fair amount of time to do that. In fact, nobody is more likely to do that than essay-company writers who often resent being paid only 50% (or less) than they know the company charges for their hard work.


First, to the extent there is any dry season, nowadays, they affect essay companies just as much as independent writers. Second, I've been explaining for years that since roughly 2010, I haven't really noticed as much of a fluctuation in demand during what used to be the "dry season," because people seem to be attending school throughout the summer months much more often than they used to. Third, and most importantly, I've never "resold" or "reused" a single essay out of approximately 10,000 that I've written in 20+ years. The market for pre-written essays has been dead since 2007. More importantly, no writer doing business for decades under the same ID (and email) would ever take the risk of reusing any of his old work for anything, because it just wouldn't be worth the potential damage to his reputation if a client discovered his having done so.

I'm also fascinated at your comments relating to your incredible inside knowledge of other people's finances. Among other proclamations, you've previously announced that I must have gone back to writing for the essay company where I first started out because of my financial situation, that Professor Verb must be experiencing financial difficulties because he chose to come back here to defend me against your totally false accusations, and (amazingly) that university professors are actually ghostwriting essays for students because professors are "falling on hard times." How is it that you would ever have all of this private information about other people's finances, let alone how you could possibly ever know what "hushed tones" professors are using to discuss any of this with their colleagues in private?


Exactly how would you ever know about any of this?
https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/proof-cases-may-lead-american-companies-give-clients-1081/#msg85469


As catyradidbanana pointed out, the entire concept of "QAD" (in any real sense) at essay companies is a joke, as is the nonsense that you and your buddy have been pushing here, ad nauseam, about essay companies "assigning" projects to writers who are "experts" with "degrees" in the area of every project. Nobody is reading every project written by every writer at essay companies. If you believe that there are any "editors" at essay companies who are carefully reading and making corrections to the essays uploaded by writers, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. Typically, essay companies run their essays through their own plagiarism scanners just to make sure they're original; and I don't think they even scan more than a small random sampling all of them; but I don't know that for sure. Nobody at the essay company gets involved in any project unless a customer complains, in which case, they check the essays involved anytime the writer doesn't simply resolve the complaint himself, such as by promptly uploading a requested revision. Except in specific complaints or accusations, it's all automated.


Really? This suggestion is ridiculously foolish, because it necessarily means there's (literally) no such thing as any independent writer who is honest and conscientious. In fact, none of us would ever have been able to establish a decades-long reputation for delivering exceptionally good work if we were either unable to edit and proofread our own work or if we didn't care enough about our reputations to do so, and very carefully. In my case, my specific job title at the US Department of Health and Human Services was "Writer/Editor"; so I think I'm qualified to edit my own essays.

In general, all academic writers are always much more careful about the work we do for our private clients than we are about the work we do for essay companies. For many years, I continued writing for essay companies while simultaneously trying to build my own private clientele. My essay-company projects were always good, but my private projects always took priority in every sense, and anybody who thinks about it for 10 seconds will immediately understand why: As company writers, our income is only related very loosely to how well the company is doing. Obviously, successful companies have more work available for us than unsuccessful companies; but when we're writing projects for private clients, our work is our reputation and we have much more to gain (directly) by providing our best work and much more to lose by providing anything less than our best work. At essay companies, projects might be taken by their best writer or by their very worst and/or newest writer who might be trying this kind of work out for the very first time and who might get fired in a few weeks for submitting horrible and/or totally plagiarized writing. Conversely, when you do business with a writer who has established a great reputation under the same ID for many years, you know that you're dealing with someone who has nothing to gain and quite a lot to lose by submitting any kind of recycled or otherwise subpar work.

Right. You're a retired British writer and "not" just the same jealous failed/fired American writer-turned-stalker out of sheer jealousy, who spent years prosecuting the identical vicious personal hate campaign against me as "Editor75." Just as you did back then, you make constant references to me, even in threads that have absolutely nothing to do with me and/or in threads in which I haven't even posted. Likewise, you respond to any post of mine in any thread with some nasty attack and/or highly personal insults. Let's just consider some of the evidence in your posts under these two (main) IDs of yours, in addition to your posts under several other IDs (RustyIronChains, orchidgoblin, spacemic, and masonaid) in which you specifically admitted to being the same person as Editor75:

a1writer is "retired," is "not competing with" me, thinks I'm a "dumb" "boaster" "hack" who likes to "brag," and is highly offended that I "need to advertise on a forum."

Editor75 wasn't "here to get clients," wasn't "competing with" me, thought I was a "dumb" "boaster" "hack" who liked to "brag," and was highly offended that I advertise on this forum.

Despite your 10-month "British" masquerade, you haven't even thought to change your go-to vocabulary or most other elements of your vicious personal hate campaign. The only differences are that you now write in UK English and your claimed justification has evolved from Editor75's "principled" opposition to my paid advertising back then, to "protecting UK students" now. Let's just compare "their" word choices, insults, style, and claims about their purpose for being here and for perpetrating this non-stop highly personal vicious hate campaign against me motivated by nothing but sheer jealousy that I've actually managed to make a decent living at this since you got fired by an essay company, which you also admit (below). The one thing "both" of you also swear is that none of this has anything at all to do with jealousy over the fact that I've built a very solid reputation as a reliable writer who even managed to earn the respect of many of my legitimate competitors.

Right. In an industry absolutely polluted by outright scam companies and totally fraudulent writers using anonymous emails and websites, ESL hacks, and criminal blackmailers, your main focus is on the one writer who's been doing business here, honestly and openly for 14.5 years under the exact same ID that was also my writer ID at every essay company for which I ever worked, whose complete personal ID info is well known to the forum Admin (because I pay them to advertise here), and who has received support from many other legitimate writers with very long histories on this forum, even though they are (and/or were) my direct competitors.


https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/integrity-client-satisfaction-big-problem-custom-164/#msg86396


https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/thing-paper-1619/#msg61106


https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/thing-paper-1619/#msg61106


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/top-ten-ways-becoming-better-academic-freelance-writer-3486/#msg86340


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/quick-freelance-writers-5636/#msg75451


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/legitimate-writing-sites-work-347/2/


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/quick-freelance-writers-5636/#msg75459


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/legitimate-writing-sites-work-347/2/


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/initiate-process-writer-2565/#msg50816


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/top-ten-ways-becoming-better-academic-freelance-writer-3486/#msg86340


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/new-anyone-luck-writer-1742/2/#msg61852


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/new-anyone-luck-writer-1742/2/#msg61852


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/avoid-dishonest-clients-3489/#msg86536

On the topic of "boasting" and "bragging, let's just see which one of us is actually in that particular habit. Keep in mind that under both of these IDs, he lectures other people about "psychological projection."



https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/thing-paper-1619/2/#msg61212

Before he was a1writer or Editor75, he was RustyIronChains, which Editor75 also admitted, in addition to also admitting that he used to be a "fraudster" and that some of his other IDs include "spacemic" and "masonaid" and "orchidgoblin" (below). Naturally, orchidgoblin/Editor75 and spacemic all magically show up to pile on with a1writer, right in this thread: https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/legitimate-writing-sites-work-347/2/#msg86185 But let's get back to some of the evidence of his (own actual) bragging and boasting over the same exact claims (the size of his house, being a "published author," his Mercedes, and how much money he's made) under at least three of his many IDs.


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/fraud-galore-academia-research-1287/2/#msg22726


https://essayscam.org/forum/ot/editor-pathetic-idiot-5123/


(Post # 66) https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/legitimate-writing-sites-work-347/2/#msg86181


https://essayscam.org/forum/es/experiences-bestessays-2885/#msg51275


https://essayscam.org/forum/es/genuine-companies-outsource-esl-writers-personal-473/#msg85599


https://essayscam.org/forum/es/experience-nycfreelancewriter-6683/#msg85719


https://essayscam.org/forum/es/academic-writing-providers-orders-refunds-2897/#msg85799

Precisely. The person constantly posting to the contrary doesn't actually believe a word of what he's been posting, nor is he "retired" or "British," either. It's just his latest effort to try to hurt another writer (me) for the horrible sin of having actually managed to make a living in the industry in which he failed to do so. He's hardly a "noob," though; he actually started this hate campaign more than a decade ago under a different ID and recently crawled back out from under his rock to pick it up all over again, under no fewer than 4 other new and/or previously-dormant alternate IDs before settling on his current one and, so far, managing not to get it banned, the way all those other IDs of his got banned, literally within days of one another, for trolling me, and in the same exact thread, no less, from which his previous ID was banned, and starting with some of the very first posts of those new IDs.

Post #23 here, to bring you up to speed quickly: https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/position-numerous-academic-paper-around-3880/#msg87068

Actually, this would only qualify as advice about how to trick a plagiarism scanner to commit and then conceal plagiarism rather than sensible advice about how to use a model essay without violating academic honor codes. Using the ideas of another author without attributing those ideas to the author is also plagiarism, even if you were to rewrite (literally) every single word. You'd still have to cite the original author, and (obviously) no student is ever going to add any kind of "citation" along the lines of (XYZ Essay Company, 2023) to his "paraphrased" writing. The same goes for citing any of the sources in the original work, because it's also plagiarism to cite (Jones, 2007) if that was just a source cited in the model essay (or in any other source you use). The only way to cite a (secondary) source cited in a model essay and avoid academic dishonesty would be to cite it in one of the ways that the citation style being used requires, such as this option in APA 7th: (Jones, 2007, as cited in XYZ Essay Company, 2023).

So there's really no point to rewriting or "paraphrasing" a model essay, just to commit a slightly different type of plagiarism and academic dishonesty. If you want to use model essays the way they're intended to be used, you'd have to really re-do the entire project yourself, from scratch, including conducting your own original research to find different sources than any of those used in the model essay. In that case, the model essay simply provides examples of how to organize an essay about the topic and how to develop various appropriate sections. "Paraphrasing" the whole thing is a total waste of time, because it's still 100% plagiarism and academic dishonesty to submit someone else's ideas and/or research as your own ideas and/or research in your submitted work. (That's the same whether you're talking about model essays or just about how to use source material in your own essays, more generally.)


Really? What does the Pandemic have to do with the choice to use an essay company? Aside from the fact that you've posted (many times) that the Pandemic severely hurt this industry, what could the fact that students were attending classes from home possibly have to do with their choices to use an essay company or writer? Students never wrote their essays during their in-person classes, in the first place. If anything, wouldn't students quarantining at home only be more likely to try to write their own essays without all of the other social and recreational options normally available before and after the Pandemic? I don't know whether the Pandemic increased or decreased student reliance on this industry; I just know that it can't be both. Likewise, either "Universities worldwide have been stepping up their anti essay mill movements because they caught students openly using the same during the pandemic lockdown" OR university professors stopped checking for plagiarism during the Pandemic. Both cannot be true.


essayscam.org/forum/wc/proof-cases-may-lead-american-companies-give-clients-1081/#msg85445


essayscam.org/forum/es/better-experience-prowritesolutions-3008/#msg85886


essayscam.org/forum/wc/best-sites-write-1228/#msg85548


essayscam.org/forum/es/asked-assignmentmavens-reviews-6600/#msg85456


Precisely. I strongly advise my clients to use my work only as a model, but whether or not they choose to take my advice is entirely their business once I've delivered their projects. Welcome to the forum.

My long-term pattern is to post a few times a week on this forum, and only on the actual substantive topic of existing threads, and without ever directing personal insults at anybody. Unfortunately, for almost a year, I've had no choice but to post much more frequently, just to defend myself against the constant (daily) barrage of both of your efforts to disparage me, falsely.

It's fascinating that you, of all people, would complain about "real evidence" or "proof" of negative comments, considering that, among other things, you've falsely accused me of lying about my degrees, lying about my work history for the US Federal Government, reselling old essays, copying/pasting, "re-purposing" old essays purchased from "essay banks," requiring customers to "bank" large payments with me, "lying" about having many satisfied, repeat UK clients, paying other writers to support me here, promoting an essay company for which I haven't worked since 2013, going back to that company to work as a writer, because my business is failing and my finances are in shambles, and "bullying" others.

Each and every one of those accusations is patently false and completely fabricated by you, without a shred of "evidence," let alone "proof," and mainly, because you're so embarrassed that I've highlighted the abject stupidity of some of your most vapid posts (still, without ever insulting you, personally), and because I once made an innocent reference to the fact that your ESL writing -- to which I referred as "excellent" in that same post -- is, nevertheless, easily recognizable as ESL writing.

Thank you. Just so readers are clear, this was a note added by Admin in conjunction with removing Noted's paragraph-length personal attack; it's certainly not Noted discouraging personal attacks. Admin just forgot to use their red font, by which they usually identify all of their own edits to posts.

Thanks for the support in those other threads, PV...much appreciated, obviously. I've seen one or two ChatGPT essays from clients who tried (unsuccessfully) to use it for their projects. It's deceptive for a couple of different reasons: (1) because it can compose convincing text for very simple questions and tasks; and (2) what it produces for more complex essays might sound pretty good to someone who doesn't write very well or understand what's expected from an analytical essay and/or who doesn't bother to check its content for factual accuracy. From what I've seen, if you try to use it for a topic that requires any real thought or more complex analytical reasoning, such as a comparison of Locke and Hobbes, virtually all of it will be about the most basic biographical facts about each of them, and only the simplest imaginable outline of their respective major ideas, but without any kind of analytical comparison, at all. To an inexperienced student who has trouble composing any kind of essay on the topic, in the first place, it might indeed look like it's a decent essay; but anything it produces on that kind of topic will get completely trashed by any professor grading the essay. The other two major issues that I've seen are that some of the information that it generates is factually inaccurate, altogether, and some of the sources it provides are either unrelated to the corresponding point in the essay or completely nonexistent. Granted, these types of programs will only continue to improve; but I highly doubt that any of them will be able to match any genuine human writing for anything more complex than emails, notes, and maybe the very simplest kinds of essays that might be expected of a grade-school student.

That's precisely what you're doing.


Perhaps, not quite as familiar as you think; otherwise, you'd realize that the law applies only to entities actually located in England and Wales. According to the same UK Department for Education document linked above: "The Bill extends to England and Wales and applies in relation to England only. In practice, this means that the offences can be committed in England and Wales ..." (p.57) So that law is totally inapplicable to me, on its face. It's also totally inapplicable to any students, even in England and Wales, because the UK Department for Education specifically says that it will never be enforced against students or other customers of prohibited entities.

I don't know what's more stupid: your suggestion that British authorities are going to be cross-referencing the "dates" that totally anonymous users are asking general questions about finding trustworthy writers and essay companies to notify universities "en masse" about possible violations or Noted's completely ridiculous claims that some universities are now making "allowances" for ghostwritten assignments and that some professors are actually writing essays for students in (other professors') courses, because professors are "falling on hard times."


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As usual, when I simply tried to ask Noted for the source of the information in his claim, he responded with indignation and told me that it was up to me to find that information about his ridiculous and totally made-up nonsensical claim for myself.


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https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/proof-cases-may-lead-american-companies-give-clients-1081/#msg85492

Likewise, I'm not expecting any kind of substantive response from you, either, other than (of course) more personal insults, totally unfounded fabricated accusations about me, and deflections, instead of simply providing the source of your made-up information about British authorities aggressively scouring online forums such as this one to try to identify students using prohibited services for the purpose of furnishing that information to universities "en masse." That's just a laughably stupid thing to suggest; if it isn't, simply share your source of that information.

You should learn what the concept of a "loophole" is before posting such breathtaking foolishness. The fact that (all) laws are obviously subject to interpretation isn't a "loophole." While you're at it, you should also learn what "interpretation" means, as well.


I didn't offer any kind of "interpretation" about anything, whatsoever, much less "bend" anything. The PDF file to which I provided a link and from which I posted a verbatim quote is the 82-page "Skills and Post-16 Education Bill Policy Summary Notes" document published by the UK Department for Education to provide public guidance and answer questions about the new law, which, of course might explain that whole gov.uk/government part of that link.

The most important takeaway for UK students is that the UK Department for Education itself specifically states that the law will never be used against any students or customers of the entities that it prohibits and that one would have to be a real idiot to either suggest or believe that any British "authorities" are busy scouring online forums to piece together the posts of totally anonymous users to identify customers of essay companies to notify universities "en masse" about violations. It's not like anybody is actually dopey enough to post using his own name or that of his academic institution or the actual titles of any courses involved or any assignment-specific details and due dates.

The truth is that the law about which you're both going on and on about changes absolutely nothing for any students -- even UK students -- at all. Submitting work produced by others has always been a violation of university honor codes; but no "authorities" in England, or elsewhere, are going to start trying to identify any students using prohibited services. To the extent it is enforced, it will be exclusively against the commercial entities that it prohibits, and nobody is ever going to intrude on the privacy of students by authorizing the harvesting of any information posted by any students, even for that purpose, let alone to furnish that information to their academic institutions "en masse." The UK Police and Crown Prosecution Service are law enforcement organizations that investigate and prosecute crimes; they're not engaged in the enforcement of any university honor codes, either directly or indirectly, such as by furnishing evidence gathered in criminal investigations to universities in connection with enforcement of their honor codes.

Actually, the new British law to which you're referring expressly states that it doesn't target or criminalise students, at all. In fact, it specifically does the exact opposite, "...to ensure that students that use essay mills are excluded from any liability by virtue of this legislation." (p.58)

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1035459/Skills_and_Post-16_Education_Bill_November_2021_policy_notes.pdf

Will this new legislation criminalise students who use these services?
No.The offence is intended to target those providing essay mills commercially - it will not
criminalise students who have used or are using these services. Though the students'
actions do still constitute cheating this is a matter for the institution they are enrolled at to
address. The Department for Education has been working closely with the Ministry of
Justice (MoJ) and the CPS to ensure that students that use essay mills are excluded
from any liability by virtue of this legislation. (p. 58)

In any case, as my most recent client from this forum has already indicated, I always strongly suggest and recommend to my clients that they use my work in ways that are consistent with applicable laws and with the honor codes of their institutions. They own the copyright to any work that I provide and I trust them, as autonomous adults, to make any related decisions for themselves and to know what's in their own best interests. You, of course, would have absolutely no way of knowing anything about my private communications with my clients.

https://essayscam.org/forum/es/ukessays-complete-waste-time-894/

Nonsense. (Confirmed by my client in Post # 36, of this thread.)



Also nonsense.


Complete fabrication.

I haven't "adjusted" anything. Obviously, neither of you has ever been privy to any of my private communications with my clients, the content of which has never changed with respect to my recommendations about how they should use my work. Your accusations to the contrary, that I "encourage" my clients to submit my work for academic credit, repeated ad nauseam on this forum, are nothing but completely baseless fabrications derived purely from your very convoluted and deliberately disingenuous mischaracterizations of my stated policy to transfer exclusive copyrights to my work to my clients, which continues to be the case.

The two issues (1. copyrights and 2. recommended use of my work) have absolutely nothing to do with one another. I relinquish copyrights to my work simply because I have always believed that it's the right thing to do. Anytime someone commissions me to write something, the client always owns the copyright to my work, exclusively; and irrespective of whether it's a business client ordering a white paper or a veterinarian ordering web copy for his practice's customer blog, or a student ordering an academic project. If you pay me to write it for you, you own it, entirely and exclusively.

What I have said is simply that prospective clients should always read the TOS of any essay company they might be considering before making their decisions, because most commercial essay companies expressly refuse to transfer (or even share) copyrights with their customers. Instead, some of them actually state, specifically, that they reserve the right to contact their customers' academic institutions to "protect" their copyrights, anytime they suspect any violation of their TOS. They grant nothing more than a "license" to their clients to "study" and "cite" their work as "sources" in their clients' own work.

If you two want to help this forum function as a mechanism to enable students hoping to find reliable essay providers, you should focus your efforts on helping them identify and avoid the myriad scam companies and fraudulent writers who provide either nothing, or nothing but copy/pasted garbage, or incomprehensible ESL "writing," and/or who use their clients' information to blackmail them. That would be infinitely better for this forum than continuing a very personal totally dishonest disinformation campaign to try to steer clients away from the longest-active writer on this forum to whom many clients and competitors and former competitors alike have all referred many times as the best and most reliable writer any of them has ever known. While I understand this truth might be very frustrating to you and injurious to your ego and self-image, it is not appropriate to lash out this way as a response. The only thing you're doing is making it more difficult for students to find a great writer when one is already right within their reach as soon as they find this forum.

Thank you for your trust, SLP. I really appreciate it.


Here's where I last responded to this exact same foolishness, and in great detail, most recently:
https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/covid-impact-academic-writing-6579/#msg85855

And here's the original thread to which you're referring, totally dishonestly, (yet again), right where it's always been:
https://essayscam.org/forum/es/experience-nycfreelancewriter-6683/

The only thing that I ever asked Admin to "delete" from it was the price that the client had originally included in the review. Aside from the fact that what you're suggesting makes absolutely no sense, how many more times are you going to continue repeating the exact same senseless lie, even after I provide the link directly to the original thread that was never "deleted" and that remains right where it was originally posted?



Actually, you have that exactly backwards: Customers have always been allowed to leave genuine public reviews of writers and essay companies, and there are dozens of threads and hundreds of such posts all over this forum. Paying to advertise is what allows advertisers to promote our own services, directly, which non-advertising writers and companies are prohibited from doing. That's why I choose to advertise here.

All legitimate experienced writers who aren't desperate for their first clients require 100% payment in advance. Only two types of writers ever accept anything less than 100% payment in advance: (1) Brand new writers desperate enough for their first clients to risk not getting paid for their work; and (2) Scam artists who don't care what percentage is paid in advance, because they're not going to be providing anything in return, making whatever they can dupe their victims into paying as a "partial payment" pure profit.


Only if they're desperate new writers.


This isn't a workable option for any busy writer who isn't desperate for work. Even if it's only a "draft," a 20-pg "draft" is still 20 pages of work. If a client fails to pay after delivery, the writer can't recoup his loss by refusing to "edit" the draft. More importantly, for experienced writers who've already written thousands of projects over many years, "draft" doesn't mean the same thing as it does to students, less-experienced writers, or to anybody who doesn't write for a living. Students and inexperienced writers write drafts that are substantially different from their final product. By contrast, the "drafts" of writers with thousands of projects under our belts are 90%+ identical to the final product, with only very minor changes and edits necessary to change our "drafts" into our final product. That means if someone doesn't pay after receiving our "drafts," we're out 90%+ of the total work required for that project.


What does inflation have to do with it? It's more about honesty and integrity.


What about "inflation"? The fact of the matter is that students are just people, and some people are much more trustworthy and honest than others. If writers allowed clients to pay for any portion of projects after delivery, there would always be some students who would take advantage of that opportunity, and others who would have to be reminded many times to please pay their debts. No busy writer can afford to spend time either writing projects that might never be paid for or that require us to keep track of who owes us money and then chase down payments after the fact. There would even be students who ordered multiple drafts for the same project from different writers and then paid only whichever writer whose work they liked best.

I've told this story before, but I had a Criminal Justice client about 10 years ago for whom I wrote dozens and dozens of projects over a 3 or 4-year period; basically, I wrote for her throughout her entire college career until she graduated. We had a perfectly nice and very polite relationship and she'd always been extremely appreciative of my work; I also went above and beyond for her short deadlines many times. So, when she asked me to please let her pay me for two projects after their deadlines because she needed her pay check to come in to pay me, I felt bad saying no, and I just did both projects for her. One was an academic project and the other was something related to her child-custody case vs. her ex-husband, and both had hard deadlines that couldn't wait. Guess what happened: That was her very last academic project and she never paid me for either piece. She responded to my emails apologizing profusely, explaining how bad a time she was having, economically, and promising to pay me in full as soon as she could; but no payment was ever issued. To top it off, she actually contacted me again a few years later asking me to write her an application essay about Integrity for some job in law enforcement, offering to pay me in advance. I'd actually have been fully within my rights to just take her payment and keep it for the debt without sending her anything. I didn't do that; but this was so long ago that I don't remember, anymore, whether I refused the project or accepted pre-payment and wrote it. The point is, trusting clients to pay after the fact just doesn't work, even with long-established clients a writer might believe he has every reason to think he can trust, let alone someone for whom he's never written before.

https://essayscam.org/forum/es/writers-doing-research-work-payment-completed-4646/#msg79975


There's nothing remotely "fair" about writing a project and then not getting paid for it or having to chase down payment after delivery. As I've explained before, there's no such thing as any ClientScamForum where writers can check the reputations of prospective clients going back many years. Writers, at least those of us who have been doing business under the same ID for many years, have infinitely more to lose from disappointing their clients than students have from ripping off a writer.

Luckily, there's a very simple solution that's fair for everybody and very practical. If a client doesn't yet know that he can trust a writer, he can simply order a very short project or a very short portion of a longer project and pay for it in advance. I've had skittish new clients order 2 pages, or even ONE page, at first. The client's total risk in that case is limited to the nominal cost of just 1 or 2 pages. That makes infinitely more sense than expecting a busy writer to deliver a 10 or 20-pg "draft" that hasn't yet been paid for.

I'm not the one begging anybody to PM me, nor have I tried to PM him, which Admin can easily confirm. The information that I posted above provides a perfectly sensible objective approach for vetting any independent writer. However, it only works with writers who have no reason to hide their full identities from their own clients.


I'm not the one who ever had any reason not to share my complete ID information, including my home address and phone number, with any of my clients, either. I just draw the line at posting it publicly for anybody and everybody to see, including anybody with such tremendous jealousy-based animosity towards me that he's devoted himself to defaming me for many months, despite never having seen any project that I've ever written.


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If you're dealing with an independent freelance writer, your first step might be to simply ask the person to provide his full name and (ideally) a (landline) phone #. Once you have the person's name, you can do your own independent search; and the landline provides a relatively reliable means of verifying that the person is actually located wherever he says he's located. In my case, the simplest Google search of my name + US Department of Health & Human Services Inspector General (or just HHS-OIG) would allow you to confirm for yourself, and without taking my word for anything, that highly complex samples of my professional executive writing are available right on the official US Government agency website displaying my full name as the "Writer/Editor." When prospective clients contact me directly, I also provide them the means to independently verify my Law degree with the Alumni Affairs Office of my law school, as well as a link to 350 of my old essays still being sold (and disclosed as being pre-written projects all displaying their dates of submission) by one of the essay companies for which I used to write before transitioning to complete independence. Incidentally, the advice never to trust any writer with "only" a US Law degree to write a UK Law project is nonsense, as is the same advice pertaining to allowing a writer to provide projects in any academic area other than his own degree areas. I never took a single course in Public Administration as an undergrad, and only a single course in Administrative Law in law school; I never took a single course related to healthcare policy (or auditing), either. Nevertheless, HHS-OIG still hired me over roughly 400 other applicants for that job, on the basis of my performance on their writing test and my writing samples. Even that is verifiable independently, without taking my word for anything, because one of the applicants who didn't get my job sued the agency for discrimination and my deposition about the facts and circumstances of my being hired, and about my qualifications for the job are public record and available online, as well.

Does all of that guarantee that I can write your project as well as you hope? No, not by itself; that's merely the first step in your due diligence to make sure that I am exactly who I say I am, that I'm really located in NYC, that I really did obtain my JD in US Law, that I wrote many essays for large American essay companies for many years, and that I really was a Writer/Editor for a very large US federal agency. After that, your second step, whether with me or with any other freelance writer or essay company, would be to actually order a very small project with a long due date. Leave enough time to redo it yourself or to try another provider in case the first piece of work that you receive isn't up to your expectations. As a UK student, you should already be very familiar with plagiarism scanners. So, your third possible step might be to scan the first piece of work that you receive from any provider to see whether any part of it has been copied or otherwise improperly "derived" from any source other than whatever source is cited in your project. If the first piece of work that you receive from any writer meets your standards and is entirely original writing, you're probably pretty safe ordering longer projects (or the rest of any test project) from that writer.

Obviously, the mere fact that a company or writer pays to advertise here is not, by itself, any guarantee of how good their work will be. However, what it does guarantee is that the real identity of the paying advertiser is known to the administrators of this forum. Their payment form required my full name and street address, which also had to match the information on my credit card, just for the transaction to go through. So, if nothing else, the one thing you can be sure of is that nobody located in the US who pays to advertise here could possibly ever hope to engage in any kind of blackmail without being prosecuted for it criminally on the very first attempt. Anonymity and/or being located overseas and far outside the reach of US (or UK) law are the main tools relied upon by blackmailers.


Whenever you do business with a company whose location is really just a POB in Dubai or elsewhere in the UAE, any recourse in the event that they don't fulfill their promises is entirely dependent on the laws and courts of those very remote jurisdictions, which is usually spelled out quite clearly right in their TOS. I've specifically asked "a1writer" why UKessays has chosen to do business from a POB in the UAE; but the only response I've received, to date, was along the lines of it being none of my business. Personally, I'd also be very wary of doing business with any entity (in any industry) whose enterprise name and url imply that it is located in the US or in the UK, if it's actually located in and/or registered in the UAE.

Blackmail is exclusively the domain of essay companies and writers operating anonymously and/or outside of First-World criminal jurisdiction. It is a very serious crime in every US state, particularly when it's perpetrated online, which makes it a serious federal crime, as well. That's why one of the best ways to protect yourself is to simply use a writer who advertises right here, on this forum. The forum owners have every advertiser's complete ID info, including our full legal names and our actual street addresses. If any of us were ever to be reported to them for having perpetrated such a crime against any client, they'd simply provide law enforcement authorities all of our info on request, making it an extremely short-lived criminal enterprise. Your only risk of being blackmailed is by doing business with essay companies and/or anonymous writers doing business outside of the reach of local law enforcement authorities.

Actually, all essay-company writers are freelancers. Essay companies don't really function as "bosses," per se; they just take their cut from your projects. Obviously, it's better to work entirely independently, as I have for the last 10 years; it's just that it's very difficult to build up a sufficiently large clientele to make a living entirely on your own, especially at first. That's why just about any successful independent writer started off writing for essay companies, first.

Welcome to the forum. At first, your best bet at getting your foot in the door is simply to get yourself hired by an essay company.

Self-publishing used to be called "vanity publishing" for a very good reason: because that's, essentially, exactly all that it is. The vast majority of self-published authors never earn a dime from their books; in fact, self-publishing typically costs them money. Usually, only the most basic publishing services are free, but all of the simplest necessary "options" (such as layout choices, cover design and/or photos, author biographies and/or photo, front and back matter, ISBN and/or Library of Congress filing, etc.) all jack up the price quickly; so does any option relating to listing the book anywhere it could conceivably sell online, along with any promotional materials that are absolutely necessary (but hardly sufficient) to actually sell any books. They also charge extremely high prices for author copies beyond the one or two copies included in any package. The vast majority of self-published authors never actually sell a single book; they just buy a few boxes of their own books to put on their bookshelves, to give out to friends and family, and to be able to tell people that they're "published authors."

It's fake. Ignore it and just take my advice to stop posting about it here, publicly.

Yes, that was a mistake. It also illustrates that if you send them any money, they'll just continue blackmailing you for more. The advice is the same: block and ignore all future contact from them via any medium. If you paid by credit card, try to reverse it through your credit card by explaining the situation. They may or may not help you stop the payment; but don't worry about the credit card company contacting your school; they don't care what services you paid for and any information you provide them will be treated as confidential.

No they didn't. That's just their attempt to lure you into their game. In the event that a university really suspects cheating, they'd never contact an essay company or writer; they'd contact the student, directly. Take my earlier advice in your other thread, don't continue posting about it or responding to them; and whatever you do, do NOT contact your school "preemptively." That's the biggest mistake you could possibly make. Don't fall for fabricated emails "from your school" sent to you by the company, either. If the school really has any suspicions and contacts you about those suspicions, they'll contact you through the regular means through which they've always contacted you about anything else. Block their emails so that you don't even see them.

Don't respond to them at all and block their emails so you don't even see them. Just use the search function here for the term "blackmail," read through those threads, and decide for yourself which contributors' advice sounds most intelligent to you. It's already been discussed in about as much detail as possible, with just about every conceivable approach fully represented in various suggestions.

I've already had one new client contact me after getting caught using one of these programs, first. He shared that essay with me, and some of the sentences seemed pretty good at first glance; but almost none of the cited sources actually had anything to do with any of the corresponding factual/empirical information in those sentences. In some cases, the cited sources were nowhere to be found, and seemed to have just been made up. Likewise, various statements of ostensible fact elsewhere in the essay generated absolutely no confirming or similar results anywhere when Googled, which suggests that the information itself was fabricated by the program just to support the points presented. To me, it seemed the opposite of the many horrible ESL essays provided by many essay companies: instead of perfectly "sourced" (and formatted) work that looks like it might be a legitimate essay on the topic until you actually read it, the AI program wrote decent-reading English sentences whose "sourced" information either wasn't really sourced where indicated or was simply fabricated to sound real.

According to you, professors know that some of their own colleagues employed by the same universities are actually writing papers for students in their own classes, and "they opt not to say anything about it"? Really? How could you possibly even be in any position to know about any of this?


Really? How could you possibly know anything about the financial situations of any professors, much less about what work they're doing on the side, especially work that they'd keep as secret as possible, given that a single discovered instance would immediately destroy their entire careers?


Really? How could you possibly know anything about what professors might be discussing privately among themselves or in what "tones"?

In light of your more recent diatribes about the evils of academic ghostwriting, I'm only much more curious, now, to hear how you know any of this and (especially) how you reconcile all of these prior statements of yours with what you've been posting here more recently.