He said that he already cancelled both the unauthorized charges and the original £150 payment that was authorized. That's exactly why I advised him to cancel the dispute he already filed on the original payment.


Yes. You should take my original advice: email them to apologize for accidentally disputing the original payment and immediately reissue that £150 to them. Otherwise, you'll greatly increase the chance that they'll follow through on their threats. On the other hand, if you reissue that £150 payment, they might leave you alone after all of their subsequent emails to you are ignored. Never give in to backmail; but if you also take back the original payment by fasely claiming that it was "unauthorized," you're practicay guaranteeing that they'll retaliate by contacting your school, even if they were only buffing in their original threats.

Much more often than not, they're just bluffing because all they really want is your money. In your case, they're probably much more likely to actually do it for revenge and spite, because you also disputed the original charge that was authorized. That's why you should cancel your dispute (only) of the original charge and then block their email immediately after that.

Yes. Dispute the fraudulent charges and cancel the card. As far as dealing with them, the less communication you have with blackmailers, the better. Ideally, anybody in your situation should just delete their first email without even responding and block their email address. If you already made the mistake of responding, just stop responding immediately, delete their subsequent emails, and block their email address. For them, it's like fishing: the first demand is their version of dropping the lure into the water; if nothing bites the lure, they'll just pull it out and drop it back in, looking for fish somewhere else; if you bite, they'll continue trying to pull you in; but if the line suddenly goes slack, they'll just re-bait the hook and drop it in again, looking for fish (meaning other victims) in a slightly different spot. They don't really have anything to gain by contacting your school, because they lose any leverage once they kill the hostage; and if they do, it only increases the possible risk to them, because you'll publicize your experience and make it searchable by their company name on forums such as this one. So, regardless of how much contact you've already had with them and/or how many mistakes you've already made responding to them, just let the line go slack ASAP by not responding again, at all. Proceed with the credit card dispute of the fraudulent transactions on a totally separate track without any direct communication with them.

However, your unique situation is slightly different because of one new element that I don't think anybody else here has ever described doing: If I'm reading your post accurately, you also disputed the original (authorized) transaction. That wasn't a good idea; because you've now put yourself in a situation where they actually have much more incentive to retaliate. If you never submitted their project, I guess you could ignore them and take my general advice, above. However, (especially) if you did submit their project, you should immediately cancel your dispute of the charge that was originally authorized, so that they don't have that extra incentive to retaliate for that. Send them one last email apologizing for accidentally disputing the original authorized charge and informing them that you'll be cancelling (only) that part of your dispute, and then, follow all the rest of my advice above and don't respond further to anything more from them. Block their email address so that you don't even see their subsequent messages and ransom demands.

Dishonest as always, deliberately omitting parts of quotes to misrepresent what they actually said to imply that they meant the exact opposite:

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was preceded by this:

OK. Let me just get this straight: They only provide work that's designed exclusively as study aids and writing models that violate absolutely no law, because they're not designed or intended to be submitted for credit, right? Then, why would they have to cancel orders from students at English schools, or at any schools, for that matter, since there's nothing illegal about the product they're providing? Huh?


And how many customers are actually dopey enough to contact you from their ac.uk email addresses, or to send you materials clearly identifying their schools, or to announce to you "Hi. I just want you to know that I attend Cambridge University!!" Answer: Almost 0.0 students, right? Therefore, this "warning" really serves the exact same purpose of (barely) plausible deniability as the version of that provision common among US essay-company TOS, that say "If we become aware that you intend to or have submitted the project for credit, we reserve the right to refuse any continued work on it." In reality, aside from (barely) plausible deniability, this is also routinely exploited by essay companies to refuse to honor their quality "guarantees" and related promises of free (sometimes "unlimited" rewrites), such as anytime a customer complains: "I ordered and paid your price for a 2:1 but my essay only got a 3." Typically, (from complaints documented on this forum), if the low grade were awarded for the exact essay, as delivered, the company refuses to revise it because the client "violated" their TOS; but if the same client substantially rewrote it so that (at least arguendo) it's no longer a case of violating your TOS or cheating, then, the company refuses to revise it because the lower mark was attributable to the client's changes that made it worse than the essay originally delivered by the company. So, as to the company vs. the disappointed student who simply hoped to be able to rely on your grade-level and revision "guarantees," it's really just "heads/I win or tails/you lose. Got it. Very clever.


Why did they change their registration to the UAE in the first place? Let's please also apply similar scrutiny and the exact same supposed high ethical standards that you've always conveniently claimed, for the purpose of calling me "deceitful" for choosing not to provide a phone # on my website, (the way almost every complete scam company provides a useless phone # and for which I provided a half-dozen very sensible reasons), and for "concealing" my price list (mainly, because I can't price many projects without reviewing them and all of their details, requirements, and deadlines first, since I'm the one who'll be writing them). Just imagine what you and "Noted" would be screaming about until you both turned blue if it turned out that I actually lived in Buffalo, NY or in Elmira, NY or in Manhattan, KS, instead of in Manhattan, NYC? You'd both be screaming about how my url and my entire website name is "fraudulent." So using YOUR logic and standards, if ukessays is really registered in the UAE, why does it use such a "deceitful" url and company name that "conceals" its real location (if one wants to call a POB in a mail facility a "location," that is), instead of something more "honest" like "ukessaysinuae.com" or "uaeessaysforuk.com"?

Maybe I should invest in a POB in the United Arab Emirates, like ukessays: "UKEssays is a trading name of Business Bliss Consultants FZE, a company registered in United Arab Emirates. Registered office: Creative Tower, Fujairah, PO Box 4422, UAE." https://us.ukessays.com/

This is the company to which the above poster is referring: https://essayscam.org/forum/es/ukessays-nowhere-near-specified-standard-155/

Obviously, nobody whose real motivation for posting on this forum is to "protect" students would ever recommend any company with this kind of history documented on this forum. Only someone pretending to be a disinterested "retired" writer who really still writes for such a company would continue to promote or vouch for it here. Anything and everything he posts about what companies to trust and (especially) which of his company's direct competitors not to trust should be considered in that light. Keep in mind that this is the same person who has been screaming and carrying on for almost a year about how nobody should trust a writer with degrees only in Law, Psychology, and History to write any project in Nursing or Business, or Philosophy, or any other area outside of his own degree areas.

No kidding.

The case that you've referenced and incorrectly interpreted is from 1972, which is how far back you'd have to go just to find any related prosecution. Neither of the statutes you referenced either targets or has ever even been attempted to be applied against any student or customer of any essay company in connection with submission of any piece of academic writing. Students have much more to be concerned about when they foolishly choose to do business with any essay company whose TOS expressly say that the essay company reserves the right to contact the student's educational institution to "protect" their copyright anytime they suspect that students might have violated their TOS by submitting their projects for credit. None of my clients has to worry about that, because my clients have exclusive copyright ownership of any project that they pay me to write. Obviously, I advise every client to use my work as a model for their own writing; but I don't monitor or police their choices once they receive my work. I no longer own (or share) copyrights to their work; so, I have no copyright to "protect." Whatever decisions my clients make about using my work is entirely their private business.

If I were a student, I'd never do business with any company whose TOS limit my use of the work for which they paid a lot of money to "reading," "studying," and "citing" it as a source and whose TOS expressly say that the company continues to own the work, exclusively. If the company owns the copyright, that, by definition, also means the company has the legal right to resell the work or publish it as a sample, without limitation. My transfer of copyright ownership, by definition, means that I'm prohibited from ever making any kind of use of any project written for my clients, because my clients own the work entirely and exclusively. I even need permission from my clients just to use part of an old project as a free sample, which is why I've actually agreed to provide free work to clients who have allowed me to do so. Essay companies that retain copyright ownership need no such permission to resell, publish, or post the essays they sell as samples on their websites.

Be even more wary of doing business with any company whose url purposely implies that it's a "UK" company, but whose disclosure page indicates that it's actually registered somewhere completely different, such as in the United Arab Emirates, for example, and whose UAE address is really nothing but a POB. Always read the TOS and the small-print disclosures and disclaimers on the websites of any essay company before deciding to do do business with them, because many of them strictly prohibit you from doing anything besides "reading," "studying," and "citing" their projects in your own writing. Some of their TOS actually say that they reserve the right to contact your school to "protect" their copyright if they suspect that you violated their TOS. Never waste your money on work whose copyright a company or writer refuses to allow you to own, exclusively. If you paid for it, you, and you alone, should own every word of it. Whatever you, as an adult, choose to do with work that you paid for in full and now own should be nobody else's business but yours.

Likewise, don't trust any essay company, whether it claims to be based in the US or the UK, regardless of the reviews it posts on its own page, its promises that all projects are always "assigned" to the perfect "specialist" writer with an advanced degree in the academic area of every project, and regardless of having perpetual banner ads at the top of every page of any forum. Be especially wary of forum participants who seem to post much more here than all other active posters combined, despite claiming that they no longer have any financial interests in this industry or in any of the essay companies that they recommend, or vouch for, or any company about which any of these posters indicates that he know exactly how they do business. Chances are always much higher that anybody here who posts often and passionately hasn't "retired" from working in this industry. Most likely, anybody who posts a lot here is either (currently) employed by an essay company in some capacity that includes a financial interest of one kind or another with any company he recommends or vouches for, and from which he is hardly "retired." There are no active posters on this forum who don't derive income from writing essays (or handling other tasks) for an essay company, except for students and independent writers. If a person's autobiographical references (and/or his responses after being confronted with the obvious evidence of his previous dozen forum IDs) sound implausible and/or if a person's stated reason(s) for posting here sounds less than truthful, it probably is. Other posters who should not be trusted are prolific posters who never provide any real information about exactly what companies they've worked for and/or owned in any of their thousands of posts on this forum, and/or exactly what they're doing for work now "instead" of working in this industry.

Term #5 of this forum's Disclaimer & TOS specifically warns, as follows: "Most users may have commercial reasons for participating in the EssayScam Forum. Any and all information posted on the forum should be considered as a personal and subjective opinion or 'alleged fact' only" essayscam.org/disclaimer-privacy/

Naturally. That's why it's so important to know that a writer doesn't just accept projects automatically and always honestly discloses his relative level of confidence with every project to every prospective client, in advance.


Obviously, that answer would have been the same regardless of what your job background was.

I worked briefly for this type of organization and I was miserable. Everything is supposed to be written at roughly the reading-comprehension level of an 8th-Grader and I spent much more time in "meetings" with various principals and department personnel than actually writing. When I was in charge of writing for a federal OIG, there were a lot of things I disliked about the job; but at least I knew that everything I wrote ultimately contributed to an important purpose. In my office, that meant conducting investigations and issuing reports whose purpose was to recover hundreds of millions of dollars that had been lost to waste, fraud, and abuse. Writing PR and advertising materials wasn't the least bit rewarding in that regard.


Actually, what "limits the income of a writer" is choosing to write for a living, in the first place, not choosing to do academic writing instead of some other kind of writing. Nobody becomes a professional writer seeking wealth. Just do a search for the average income of writers by category. Having written for commercial PR/Advertising entities, I can tell you, from firsthand experience, that it takes much more talent and ability to write good academic projects, especially in many different areas, than it takes to do commercial writing. Any good academic writer could do the work of most PR/Advertising writers; the reverse isn't true, at all: only one of my PR/Advertising co-workers (the department head who hired me) might have been able to write academic essays for a living. Advertising and PR writing require very little intellectual ability, by comparison.

I've worked as a writer at a very traditional "respectable" job, and I was miserable. Working a regular 40 hours at an office left me with almost no free time to pursue any non-work interests. If I just went to the gym after work, I'd have to take a sleeping pill as soon as I got home, and still had a very hard time getting enough sleep. By the end of every week, I'd inevitably have accumulated enough of a sleep debt that I had to sleep half the day on Saturday, just to catch up. Most of my Sundays were spent on errands like food shopping, dry cleaning, and seeing my dad; and I had to get to bed by 10:00 PM to have any hope of minimizing my accumulation of sleep debt the following week. I'd never have been able to start playing hockey in a men's league again or being on the board of directors of my building. Today, I earn approximately the same as I'd be earning in government; but I can make my own schedule and fit my work into my life in a way that allows me to actually have a life away from work.

Just in this thread, alone, there are no fewer than three legitimate writers with very long histories on this forum who have known me and my work for more than a decade, all of whom have previously referred to me as the best writer in this business and all of whom have very recently indicated that all of your defamatory accusations and vicious lies are completely untrue. All three of them also happen to share my view that your continuing disinformation campaign to disparage me is motivated purely by your obvious jealousy and hardly by your current cover story of being a "retired" "British" writer interested in "protecting" British clients from bad writers.



https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/avoid-dishonest-clients-3489/#msg86572



https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/integrity-client-satisfaction-big-problem-custom-164/#msg86537




https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/wondering-anyone-writing-services-actually-follow-6562/

No problem. Since you're specifically inviting it, kindly allow me to lay out for you, right here, just some of the extremely obvious, objective, and eminently believable evidence to support the accusation that your new buddy "a1writer," is a complete fraud whose only real purpose on this forum is to falsely disparage me.

Somehow, you seem to have "missed" all of this extremely obvious and easy-to-find evidence, despite your scary research skills that you use to conduct all of your deep informational dives into essay companies, including many that have been defunct for years. Obviously, none of this can be "made up," either, because it's all preserved right here in the profiles of some of (only his most recent) IDs, where anybody (including you) can simply check the registration and suspension dates (along with complete posting histories) for himself. You think all of these registration and suspension dates -- and the fact all but one of these IDs (that was banned after his first post, before he had the chance) proceeded right to the exact same thread where his previous ID's were all disparaging me (and pretending to talk to one another about me in some threads) before getting banned, to continue those identical attacks -- are all just some kind of incredible "coincidence"?

Care to explain why you continually ignore, pretend not to notice, and, apparently, condone the behavior documented by all of this believable evidence, and all while you go on and on about the importance of truth, transparency, and ethics in this industry and 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

It's hardly that I "don't care" about my clients or about how they choose to use my work. My clients tend to be extremely appreciative of my work and I've often reciprocated by going quite far above and beyond what I'm "obligated" to do for them. Some of them have been with me from the time of their college application essays through graduate school, (especially my Nursing clients). In general, I merely write every project to the very best of my abilities and trust my (adult) clients to use my work in the manner that they consider to be in their best interests and that provides them the greatest value for their hard-earned money. Unlike most large essay companies whose TOS specifically do NOT transfer copyright and/or even joint co-ownership of any project that they deliver, I always transfer copyright and exclusive ownership of every project to every customer, because I think it's the right thing to do. When you pay good money for writing that you commission, in the first place, you deserve to own that work 100%, not just receive a license limiting you to "reading," "studying," and/or "citing" the work as a "source" in your writing.

Just out of curiosity, when was it, exactly, that you made your radical 180-degree reversal from your previous position about "clearing plates," academic integrity, and the huge difference between "printing fake diplomas or certificates of completion for them" and doing them "a great service" by just writing their essays?

https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/compromizing-academic-honesty-2164/2/

How, exactly, would you have any possible way of really knowing that any of the writers listed by an ID number on that site actually holds any of those degrees?

Really? You seem to have completely missed their Exam section in your extensive research, because it's pretty clear that they're offering to take online exams for students, too.

"We will take your online exam ... our exam takers will replace you and complete the exam under the fixed time." aaaessays.com/exam

As far as their essay writing goes, here's an example of their English skills. In that regard, readers should also keep in mind that most essay companies use their very best writers to provide the text for their websites:

"Assignment writing is simply not a five-finger practice as it requires a ton of comprehension of the subject point, generally excellent examination abilities, and extremely tentative writing abilities. Only one out of every odd understudy like to work on their tasks all alone as it is very time taking and requests information. Understudy's bustling timetables including classes consider, work, other curricula never pass on them sufficient opportunity to be especially inventive with their tasks. Tasks are nothing that understudy can trifle with very as they the greater part of the circumstance more than 40-half of the whole stamping standards and an all-around done on time submitted task can assist you with getting passing marks."

I wouldn't quite say "regardless of the topic," because, of course, there are some topics that are outside of my comfort areas and/or beyond my abilities. What's most important is simply that I'm always honest about my confidence level with any project proposal and, also, that I always err on the safe side in that regard. However, if I express even "relatively high confidence" with any project, my clients can be certain that they'll be happy enough with my work that they'll be using me for as long as they require academic-writing services; and that's equally true whether they're in the US or in the UK.

Nope. Here's the thread where you first made that totally false claim last year, and never responded, much less apologized, after I showed you the original post, right where it was first posted, followed by the link to the actual thread where the post about which you're lying (again) was originally posted and from where it was never removed; only the price of the project was edited out by admin, at my request: https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/covid-impact-academic-writing-6579/#msg85870

This is the thread and the original post to which you're referring: https://essayscam.org/forum/es/experience-nycfreelancewriter-6683/


That happens to be exactly what I did: I simply asked the mods to remove only the price that my (real) client had originally posted. The rest of that post is right where it's always been: https://essayscam.org/forum/es/experience-nycfreelancewriter-6683/


Says the guy who's made a career of responding to 10-year-old threads here, such as this one, and of "responding" to posters who were last active on this forum in 2013.

Here, below, is what you posted at the time, which happens to be what you really think of my work and my hard-earned reputation on this forum, since 2008, for my excellent work. The only thing that changed since then is that you took tremendous offense at my comment that your excellent ESL writing is, nevertheless, still recognizabe as ESL writing. The fact that you've devoted yourself to falsely disparaging me and to posting outright lies (and repeating them, even after the evidence proving they're lies has been clearly posted) about a writer you know is totally legit and extremely good demonstrates only how petty and incredibly insecure you are and that you have zero integrity, whatsoever.

Agreed, although I assume you mean First World and not "1st would."

What I care about is that each and every client who uses me once will be so happy with my work that he chooses to continue using me for every future project that he needs between his first project and his graduation. I hope that every one of my clients is able to use every project received from me exactly the way he hoped to be able to use it when he first started searching for an essay company or for a reliable honest talented and versatile writer.


Students look to writers to honestly disclose whatever their confidence level is with every proposed project, to produce a high-quality project, to follow all of the specs provided, to deliver it on time, and to transfer our original copyrights to our work to our clients who paid for the work in the first place. Beyond that, students look for writers who respect their adult clients' autonomy and choices and who mind our own business.


Correct. Part of becoming informed includes reading the TOS of any company before choosing to do business with it. If students think it's a good idea for them to use essay companies that expressly deny customers any ownership of the work and that prohibit students from doing anything with the project for which they paid, except for reading and studying it, and citing the project as a source in their own work, that's fine if that's their informed decision. If customers don't have any problem with TOS that also actually say that the essay company has the right to contact the student's school to "protect" their copyright anytime the company suspects that its projects have been submitted for credit, that's also an informed decision. Students who happen not to like those terms have options like me, because my clients own exclusive copyright to any work that they pay me to write for them, which means I no longer have any copyright to "protect" and no reason to try to find out how they ultimately decided to us their projects.

I believe that 99% of students who search for an academic writer or essay company and that 99% of students who find this forum are specifically looking for papers that can be safely submitted for credit and receive high marks.


If all they need is "relevant sources" for their own work, why would they need to pay for an entire 10 or 15-page original custom essay? They could simply place an order for however many relevant sources they need, and at a much lower cost.


If all they need is a model of good writing and information standards, why wouldn't they just ask their professors or writing labs at their schools for appropriate samples; and why would they pay a premium for custom-written work that's entirely original?


Yes, it's essentially, always about personal situations, lack of time, or disinterest. Another fairly common reason is that they want an essay that is better than the essay that they could write in the same amount of time, often, because of all of the other demands on their time. In fact, more than a few of my clients provide me with all of the details about their personal situations for needing my services, to which I respond by reassuring them that they don't need to explain any of that to me, because I'm not judging them.


And exactly why do you suppose that might be? Usually, when people conceal what their real reasons are for doing whatever they do, they conceal what they might feel guilty about and what might be in their best interest to conceal and they disclose something more innocent, not vice-versa: I highly doubt that there are any students who intend to rewrite their expensive custom original papers completely and use them only as "models" and/or just for their "relevant sources," while coming to forums such as this one saying that they're looking for original writing that will pass plagiarism scanners.If anything, it's students who fully intend to submit their purchased essays for credit who sometimes feel more comfortable saying that they're only interested in using them as models and/or for relevant sources.

Actually, despite your very best continual efforts to falsely disparage me all over this forum, one of those students decided to use me for his 4,500-word UK project in a subject outside of my own "degree" areas. He ordered it Tuesday evening with a 4-day deadline, and he received it in less than half that time. The adjective that he used to describe my writing in thanking me for my work was "brilliant." He can identify himself if he wishes. When I delivered it, I strongly suggested that he use it as a model for his own work; but he owns the exclusive copyright to the work, so what he ultimately chooses to do with it and exactly how he chooses to use it is entirely his private business and not mine. No adult needs any essay company or writer dictating to him what he may or may not do with work that he now owns.

The last thing that he, or any client of mine, ever has to worry about is being "blackmailed," because I've been doing business (only) under this same ID on this forum since 2008. He knows my full name and I'm also easily identifiable through my payment processor, website, and my AOL email address that I've used for 20+ years. I live in NYC (which the owners of this forum can confirm, together with my full name in response to any complaint, just from my advertising payment information), where blackmail is a felony under the laws of New York State and which is also under the FBI's federal jurisdiction, especially when it involves the internet. I make my living by providing excellent essays and earning my clients' continued business, more often than not, throughout their entire educational careers from their first essay until they receive their degrees. Still, if clients are that concerned about divulging their identities to me, I also give them a foolproof payment option that allows them to maintain their anonymity, completely. Fewer than 10% of my clients choose that option, precisely because my identity and email and website, and the fact that the owners of this forum have all of my personal information, would make it absolutely impossible for me to "blackmail" anybody without going to prison for it the very first time I tried it. That's another advantage of using a writer who advertises here, even if advertising here isn't necessarily "proof" of high quality work, in and of itself.

I've never been embarrassed at all about what I do for a living and when I interviewed for my federal government writing job, I told them exactly what I was doing for work and I disclosed the name and url of the writing company for which I was working at the time, right on my application form. Suggesting that I'm "placing my clients in a precarious situation" for providing them exactly what they're hoping to receive, both when they come to this forum, in the first place, and when they order projects from me -- and quite frequently, after they've already been completely let down and ripped off by some scam essay company or "writer" -- is just plain dopey. My grateful clients are adults who contact me, first; I'm not hanging out in schoolyards whispering to kids "Hey, you want me to write your essays for you?" I trust my clients to use my work in whatever way they think will most benefit them and that's entirely up to them because they own the copyright to anything they pay me to write. Unlike the TOS of most essay companies (which customers should always read before using them), mine don't prohibit them from everything except "studying" and "citing" my work as "sources" in their own work. Most essay company TOS also actually reserve their right to contact their customers' schools to "protect" their copyright anytime they suspect that their work has been submitted for credit. That's "placing clients in a precarious situation," not delivering exactly what they're hoping to receive for their money when they contact me about their projects, and completely respecting their personal autonomy, privacy, and decision-making about how they choose to use the work for which they paid.

They're guessing because they obviously don't even know where you actually go to school. (So, don't post any additional information about yourself here that could help them narrow down the possible choices.) You should post the name of the company here, to help other potential victims avoid the company, and you should read some of the advice given very recently to others in your situation. Essentially, block their emails and every other medium through which they've contacted you, and don't even read -- let alone respond to -- any messages that manage to get through to you. Do not even consider paying them or discussing payments to them, at all. If you pay them anything, they'll immediately demand additional payment under the same threat, because by paying them anything, you're letting them know that extortion can work on you. Don't purposely antagonize them, either, because that could motivate them to spend more time (and/or money) trying to identify your school and really contact your school. Just block and ignore them completely as soon as it becomes clear that they're demanding money by threatening to do something to you unless you pay them. That's the answer to your question and that's the best (and only intelligent) recommendation that you're going to get. Welcome to the forum.

There's no such thing as any payment processor or credit card company that has a "policy" prohibiting payments for writing services; that's just silly. First, most writing services have nothing to do with academic writing. Second, nobody's ever going to interrogate you about what kind of "writing services" you paid for. Third, you could literally say "It was a payment for an academic essay" without consequence. If any payment processor -- such as PayPal, for example -- does actually prohibit academic ghostwriting, that only means that they don't allow seller accounts for those prohibited services; but they still protect their customers. If anything, you're probably much more likely to have a dispute resolved in your favor if it turns out that the seller took your payment for a service prohibited by the processor. It's not like admitting that you're trying to execute a "charge back" for your payment to a hit man who failed to kill your victim or to a cocaine dealer because he sold you baby powder.

Then, that's probably the last you'll hear from them, because they no longer have any "leverage" if they already (supposedly) did what they were threatening to do unless you paid them. I sent you a message with some additional suggestions that I wouldn't want to post publicly, for your sake (and for the sake of anybody else in similar circumstances, in the future).

...from the college or to the college? Because my next comments depend on which one they tried to fake.

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.

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.

I pay for my advertisement here and I demonstrate my basic ability to write the kind of coherent grammatically correct English that my clients hope to find from a writer, simply by posting in only a fraction of the number of threads that you post in, and without ever resurrecting decade-old threads, which is something for which users get suspended or banned at many online forums. Exactly how else do I "advertise my services at every opportunity and turn" that seems to bother you so much?


Neither of you has ever "backed me into a corner." He posts completely fabricated false accusations about me here that I respond to appropriately and with objective evidence that cannot have been "faked." You used to post very different types of comments about me before I, apparently, committed the mortal sin of once mentioning that your English writing, which I said was EXCELLENT, in that same post, is, nevertheless, still recognizable as ESL writing. Since then, you have teamed up with him to try to harm my excellent long-term reputation here, despite the fact that the Random/Off-Topic area is littered with his insults directed at you, according to the age-old maxim "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

These are the kinds of thing that you posted about me before I accidentally insulted your English without intending to:


essayscam.org/forum/gt/good-paper-1546/#msg85332


essayscam.org/forum/es/genuine-companies-outsource-esl-writers-personal-473/#msg85609

Since I accidentally insulted your English writing skills, this is the kind of thing you now post about me at any conceivable excuse:


The point is that they do show up to weigh in on my behalf. Just think about what it means (in any industry, but especially in one as competitive and sometimes hostile and ruthless among competitors as this one) that any service provider's active and retired competitors would actually take the time and make the effort to defend him against obviously untrue malicious defamation. You want to know why they came back here just to refute the outrageous lies about me? You already provided the answer to that question in your first quote above, before you reversed yourself completely as part of a very petty response to a comment that wasn't even intended as an insult and that actually complimented your written English: Because my work and my competition style earned the respect and admiration of some of my strongest legitimate competitors. That's why.

As I tried to explain about two years ago, the OP obviously wasn't actually asking for a "reliable fraud site." He was simply asking for a legitimate company that might be most likely to deliver a good essay, despite the fact that no company always delivers satisfactory work on each and every project. The site(s) for which I wrote as a company writer were all legit, in that they never stole money from customers or blackmailed them or allowed writers to deliver plagiarized essays.They also required writers to provide rewrites anytime they failed to follow instructions and they always fully refunded customers for any projects that never got taken off the assignment board by any writer by their posted deadlines. So, in that sense, they were completely legitimate companies and not "fraudulent"; nevertheless, as I explained in my earlier post above, there were definitely instances when customers complained about receiving bad essays and, occasionally, I took projects that were clearly those customers' second attempts at ordering the same project, in which cases I got to see the terrible essays that they'd received the first time. There were also instances where writers got fired for plagiarism anytime it was caught by the company's scanner and/or anytime clients provided evidence to back up those kinds of complaints; and they definitely had some ESL writers on their roster whose writing I saw in some of those projects that were re-ordered.

Even a legitimate company sometimes gets duped by writers who submit phony samples or credentials (or who have someone else take writing tests for them) and whose work just isn't up to par, once they're hired. All they can do is fire those writers as soon as they discover that their writing isn't good. When a company maintains a roster of 100+ writers, some of them will always be much better than others and some of their hired writers are just trying this kind of job out for the first time without many projects under their belts, besides their own essays from college. Every essay company hires some writers who end up getting fired pretty quickly because their work just isn't good enough. That's obviously not much help to the customers whose projects are involved; but legitimate companies at least try to make good by issuing refunds or reassigning those projects. Legit companies respond to valid complaints appropriately and honor their posted guarantees. Fraudulent companies take customers' hard-earned money with no intention of ever actually delivering an essay, and/or they know that all of their writers just copy/paste from Wikipedia, and/or they use their customers' information to blackmail them into dropping completely legitimate complaints about unsatisfactory work. I believe that's the distinction that the OP was making and that he was simply asking for help finding a legitimate company instead of a fraudulent company, as I've defined and differentiated those two types of companies above, and not a "reliable fraud site."

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.

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.

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. Much appreciated.

This, of course, is complete nonsense, regardless of how many times you and your buddy continue to repeat it, as I've already explained at least three different times, and in significant detail, in the threads linked below. How do you know "most certainly" how many books a Biology graduate might have read about British History, (for one example)? And why wouldn't a good writer who happens to have read a dozen books about British History, and/or who took several courses in British History, as a student, (for another example), be able to write a very good academic essay in that area, especially at the undergraduate level? So far, I've yet to hear either one of you actually address even a single one of the specific counterarguments to your ridiculous proposition; instead, you just keep repeating your same declarations and conclusions over and over again and congratulating one another for sharing the same baseless opinion. One shouldn't need a "degree" in Rhetoric, either, just to address a counterargument directly and in a substantive way.

https://essayscam.org/forum/es/anyone-heard-powerpapers-2684/#msg86445 (Post # 20)

https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/fake-writerbay-application-conversation-3646/#msg86320 (Post # 7)

https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/flexible-academic-requirements-new-freelance-writers-3569/#msg85975 (Posts # 11 & 18)

Exactly how would a student go about "verify[ing] the writer's work quality before finalizing the order or accepting the assigned writer"?

If a PhD candidate wants to stick to the limits of what openly acknowledged and authorized dissertation editors are technically allowed to do, it's really limited to editing whatever's already actually been written by the candidate, which usually means line editing, grammar, word choice, punctuation, spelling, and moving existing text around as necessary to improve the work's organization. Authorized dissertation editors aren't allowed to contribute any research or any substantive ideas, analyses, or thoughts actually expressed in the work. In 20+ years, I've only had 2 or 3 clients ask me for this type of work, and my name appeared on the Acknowledgements page as "Editor." Most of the time, PhD candidates simply order a proposal from writers; and after the proposal is approved, they order the dissertation, sometimes in its entirety, and other times, a chapter or two at a time.

Reviews aren't "worthless," at all. However, there's obviously no way to "prove" that they're genuine; that's for readers to determine independently, such as by reviewing the entire posting history of the writers being reviewed, along with the posting history of the authors of those reviews. My point was, simply, that while any isolated client review about any writer could, at least in theory, be faked, there's absolutely no conceivable reason or any plausible motive that any (genuinely) retired writer, like Professor Verb, would ever come back here, just to weigh in on my behalf, unless he recognized the abject falsity of all of your accusations and also recognized the despicable motivation of your (sole) obsession with me, as well as the falsity of your claim that your intention is to "protect" any customers.

There's also no conceivable reason that any working writer would ever compliment and publicly vouch for the reliability and talents of other writers against whom he competes directly, except for intellectual honesty. Professor Verb (really) retired in 2018 or 2019. Prior to that, he and I were direct competitors and widely regarded by most of the other (legitimate) writers on this forum as the two best freelance writers in this entire industry. Before that, we competed directly against one another for the same projects at various essay companies.


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/put-resume-example-academic-paper-editor-assistant-4776/#msg77470


https://essayscam.org/forum/ot/gone-commercial-say-1319/#msg76343


https://essayscam.org/forum/es/trust-writer-ask-payment-first-order-paid-pontius-4466/#msg78440

All of those posts predated Professor Verb's retirement as a professional academic freelance writer. Just off the top of my head, the (partial) list of other legitimate writers who vouched for my reliability and talent on this forum, as active writers competing directly against me for clients, includes: ProfessorVerb, ResearchPro, Pheelyks, srandrews, 99Essays, Wordsies, and Meokhan.