I am really getting tired of reading the "Are they a scam?" posting here. Mostly because I believe that, if you think the company is a scam, then you do not need someone else to validate that sense of foreboding that you have. If you think it is a scam, then consider it one and move on. Keep looking. Stop asking people if it is a scam or not. All you do is start never ending arguments about the validity of the company, which isn't what you were looking for right?

Then the switch is implemented. Bait and switch. That is what this company is good at. They provide you with an original paper to lull you into a false sense of confidence. Then, just when you think you will be getting your desired grade, they give you a paper that is not worth the cut and paste job that was required to con you into ordering from them. Do not trust any site that offers free samples. They are all the same and the ones from Pakistan, they are the worst.

Prove it. Where is the evidence? This is a claim that can bring a good company down. If you cannot back up your claims with any evidence either in email, chat, or recorded conversation form, why should be believe you? It doesn't work that way. You can't just claim something and that automatically makes it a reality or truth. It is nothing more than a baseless claim that could affect a company that you may have just not been happy with in terms of service.

Maybe you are and that would be a good thing. Most foreign website owners are never committed to delivering the papers as promised, nor do they require their writers to do a good job. If you are actually doing this for your clients, then you must be an exception to the rule. I doubt this claim just the same. The whole post sounds more like you were trying to lay the groundwork for a con more than anything else.

For all the discussions that went on in this thread, we never did come to find out anything about the IP, the person, and his intentions. So what was the point of this entire thread? Just once I would like to see a thread that had an actual outcome after all of the bickering and smokescreen discussions within it.

I cannot believe that you are asking that question after what you have experienced. You actually answered your own question. Why? Just look at the discussion you posted and the information that came out of it. You were definitely scammed and you know it. What was the use of asking the question when you already knew the answer? Misery loves company? Or you just can't believe you were silly enough to fall for the trap?

What made you think that they would adhere to the same policies as Paypal? Never trust an online site that does not have a verified business signature, SSL approval, among others. They used the Paypal approach and scammed you. There was no intention of writing the paper, just getting your private information to be able to steal from you, with your cooperation.

Then why put that number up there at all? Do you realize that you just admitted to wanting to scam clients in an open forum? How brainless can you get? I mean, you want to get clients, then admit to not having a working phone number. In the same breath, you also admit to wanting to reroute calls to make yourself appear legitimate. SCAMMER !

That usually happens on other forums and rating sites because the competitor companies have a whole team of dedicated writers whose sole purpose is to make other companies look bad while promoting their own companies to students. The competition is that fierce in this business. I would rather that students trust the reviews that they see at ES alone. This is the only forum on the web that doesn't allow competitor sites to bad mouth each other on the forum. If the company ends up in the DND list, then it is definitely unreliable. If the independent writers here tell you to run from it, believe them. They speak from experience. If the company isn't part of the advertised companies or independent writers highlighted at this forum, then you should not trust that writer or company 100%. ES will honestly tell you about these companies because that is how we do things here.

It is not an affiliate, it is owned by the same person. I hate it when people here say that the scam companies have "affiliate" websites / companies. They are not affiliated, they are always owned by the same crooks because that is how the crooks skirt the system. They try to make everyone believe that the companies are not related to the same people. They get away with it most of the time because the clients do not bother to check into the company background beyond their price points.

What taxes? That is preposterous! These companies, this one in particular, doesn't pay taxes. They have pinged their location all over the place and made their business records so difficult to find, it would take a team of IRS agents years to figure out where their money really goes. They know how to hide their tracks from the global government. You bet that wasn't a tax that you paid for. No matter what they call it, that was only a mark up that they decided to add on to your final price, just because they could.

Such a glowing review! How much did they pay you to shill for them? Next time, try not to be so obvious about it. You scored A's all right. You focused properly on the target / keywords that they gave you. All in the name of search engine optimization and Adwords relevance. Congratulations, I bet the students here will definitely listen to you and flock to your company. NOT!

That is what the 3rd world, barely speaks English writers do when asked to revise a complex paper. They try to avoid penalties or refunds by applying as little changes as possible. They change just enough to skirt by their own worthless QAD, who then consider the revision "complete" and acceptable. These people will use any reason they can to avoid a refund.

If you were just recently published at the time of this posting, then you are not in the academic writing business. You are some sort of blog. Now, if you had said that your company had just been established, then that would have meant that you are an academic writing company looking for clients. Published tends to refer to you looking for readers, not clients. My guess is, you did not get much clients after a post like that. You were not seeking clients, just readers anyway. Words matter. Vocabulary matters. I just wanted to point that out in case you missed that during your own English classes, whatever sort of English classes you may have attended.

They have been trying for decades. It will never work. The people at ES are far better and always a step ahead of the scammers. They can file all the complaints they want, claim all the copyrights they can, but it won't erase the fact that, when the investigation is completed, ES always comes up not guilty of the accusations. This forum will never go away. Not while there are students out there who rely on the forum for help and legitimate writers willing to fight for what is right and defend ES as best as we can.

Nope. They used to be a good company. They paid on time and actually defended their writers. Then management changed and so did the CPP, writer rating, and fining policy. No writer at that company ever gets their full pay these days. They always dock the salary for one reason or another. Work for them only if you like working for free.

You don't just need pocket money, you need survival money. I am not sure if finding a writing job and starting out without any experience would be beneficial to you in this case. Your bills may pile up faster than the company can pay you and, you may not earn enough to cover your bills at the start.


It would be, provided you work for a legitimate writing company out of the UK and not for one of the posers who will just enslave you then dock your pay till almost nothing is left.


It takes some time to build a reliable client base and income flow but yet, you can actually live off freelance writing work and life comfortably. Debts will be paid with some left over to enjoy yourself sometimes.

These people have obviously never written any sort of academic paper in their lives. Actually, they will make any claim with regards to turn around time because that is the normal concern of the students. They procrastinate, even when they are just simply going to have someone else write their paper, then expect an A paper to be produced. The company knows of this and have decided to flaunt that weakness in the students.

I think the most important part to take note of in this discussion is that:

1. There was an admission of guilt on the part of the company, which rarely happens when dealing with a third rate scam writing company;

2. There was a successful refund on the part of Paypal without any threatening emails coming from Gabriel.

These reasons alone make this situation unique. It allows the user to at least see that the company is "reasonable", or, the student just got lucky this time. Either way, the company lost and the client won in this case. Hooray for refunds!

I believe that is called plausible deniability. They refuse to acknowledge being a part of the other company because of the effects such an admission would have on their currently represented company. Therefore, they claim ignorance. In other words, they are covering their butts because they know that the person they are talking to knows the truth. Hahaha !

If you want to get lost, then don't ask for directions. That is how everything goes in life. If you want to do the job right, ask follow up questions. Probe. Investigate. Make sure the client has given you all of the required information and answered all of your questions before you start working on the paper to avoid 2 things. The first, is an endless request for revisions. The second, is a chargeback claim. These can easily be avoided if the writer does his background checking before he jumps into writing. Never assume that the complete instructions have been provided. Always assume additional instructions unless otherwise notified.

This is the dreamworld that I try to create for my writers. The harsh reality is that we cannot always get the dreamworld. The stress of the job takes its place in everyday activities and, save for a few of the mentions in this list, most of the time my staff have to interact with the writers are limited to contacting the clients. Maybe a few jokes here and there towards the end of the paper submission, but other than that, there is no personal relationship or friendship among my staff. There just isn't any time for that when the server is exploding with students needing our help.

The truth, is that the students themselves know a lousy paper when they see one. These students are just too lazy to correct the paper themselves and use it as the model paper that they were told they had purchased. However, ESL students, who are not confident in their writing skills, will be more than willing to accept any passing grade, even a B. They will use the paper because the work done is far better than their own type of writing and would definitely, bring them a better grade than if they had written the paper themselves.

It is called outsourcing. He has been in contact with his company and they have allowed him to outsource a specific set of work to his special team of writers. He is definitely getting paid a lot more than you are because of various reasons. The first reason, is that he is allowed to set the rate for your CPP based upon how much he wants to keep for himself. The second reason, is that he can, if he so wishes, fine your work for no reason, claim client dissatisfaction, and garnish your whole salary for that order if he wishes to. I am glad you found out about this and, you have taken steps to protect yourself. I hope you had better luck upon branching out on your own.

Slavery dos not always equal education for the slaves. The slaves are left uneducated. Only the Indians who were partnered with the Brits, who were moneyed to begin with, actually benefited from the British education as implemented in India. They also benefited from mixed race marriages but that is another discussion altogether. The point, is that just because the people of India can understand English, that does not always translate into being able to speak it.Some people can understand English, but cannot string together an English sentence of the simplest kind. That, is the problem with Indians. The moderately educated end up in the academic writing business, not the highly educated ones who come from moneyed families that allowed them to get actual and proper English educations from expat schools in India. Those graduates, will not waste their time writing for academic writing companies. They are bosses in their own right.

Why in the name of all that is good would you believe a company that is obviously Indian when they tell you that they can guarantee an A grade for you? It should have been pretty obvious from the company name that the best you would have gotten was a B, and you were lucky at that. Others did not fare as well as you did. What puzzles me more is that you are coming up with excuses for their failure to deliver what they promised you. They must be very pleased with you, a sucker for punishment !

Really? Who said that? Got any proof? Unlike FLW who has several testimonials at this forum (which in no way should influence the OP to hire him if he doesn't feel comfortable doing so), you have no references to help attest to your statement. Don't try to toot your own horn here, it isn't going to work. Leave it to other successful clients to praise you, don't praise yourself. Talk about believing in your own publicity...

Students do not realize that these clips are paid testimonials. The company knows the value of an effective YT video when it comes to hawking their services. They do not mind paying heftily for their video ads / testimonials because they know that the students will be easily fooled, since this is the age of social media ( If you are online, then you are somebody / something / reliable. ) the company knows that the money spent will produce an ROI in due time.

The company itself has build a good reputation for itself. Their work is known to be of high quality and commensurate to the price they charge per page. The work is more than acceptable and there are very little negative reviews about them to be found. Those negative reviews, always turn out to be from competitor sites who have paid PR teams scouring the web, disparaging the company with every chance they get.

The main complaints for the company come mostly from the sellers, who find themselves conned into selling their papers for peanuts, while the company gets the real money. Say they sell a paper for $25.00. The company then sends the seller a notification of the sale where they get less than $2 for their share of the sale. Fair deal? I don't think so. That is why the company is dying a slow financial death. Nobody wants to associate with them from the pre-written essay world anymore.

The question mark is to make the title more acceptable to read. You should never state a claim in the forum I guess. Always ask a question, even if you already know the truth. Perhaps they are trying to protect themselves from lawsuits. Or maybe, they felt that you are making a questionable claim. Or, they simply don't like facts being stated in the title. Maybe, since this is a forum, they prefer titles that would engage readers in a discussion rather than shutting down their ideas with an unquestionable title. Whatever their reason, the owners of the forum reserve the right to modify our posts at they deem fit, for the purposes of their business.

I would caution any student about using the services of any company trying to make it appear that their company is somehow related to ES. ES never endorses any academic writing company. Nor do they benefit from any partnerships with writing companies or independent writers. This is the sort of scam that companies run, knowing that ES is an authority when it comes to writing company reputations. They are misrepresenting themselves and dragging ES along in the process. ES will never enter such an agreement. This type of deal is all part of a scam to drag the name of ES into the mud.

The writers at this forum are a true source of wisdom, having worked in the industry for at least 10 decades per writer. You don't need to look for a writing company, just choose from the freelance writers at this forum. I say this only because you have been burned by writing companies before. Nobody who has directly hired a writer from ES has negative experiences to speak of. They are, as you said: "a genuine source of help".

It is normally easy to get a charge back dispute resolved in favor of the complainant at Paypal. Their protection policy rarely protects the seller. You have a good chance of getting a refund provided you can prove your case, within their automated template system that is...


It is possible that the writing company automatically charged your Paypal account for the second part, based on the previous agreement, which Paypal them approved automatically as well. In this case, you need to file 2 disputes with Paypal. This does not negate the first dispute filed.

En ENL writer who is used to the high page writing capacity of college and masters level papers will find it easy to churn out more than 20 pages per day. An ENL writer who is not used to writing at a high volume because he also outsourced his work during his college years, and is now trying to write for a living will find it difficult to produce even 5 pages per day. A 3rd world writer, will be starting himself off at 1 amateur paper per day. Yes, it is a skill that can be developed over time, if you are not at the ENL-College level writing skill yet. You just get faster over time, without noticing it, because you get used to the types of papers formats required and you learn how to access research information without needing to go through every Google sourced page. Yes, you will learn to spot easy jobs and go for it. There is no recipe to follow. Constant writing will develop your skills without your noticing it.

UVOCorp is a company that should not be contracting writers of any sort ! They have the worst writer payment reputation among the 3rd rate essay writing companies. They also have a track record of having the longest ever hiring period. They take months before responding to writer hiring inquiries, if at all. It seems they wait for a particular retrenchment rate to kick in within the writer roster before finally getting around to hiring some poor schmuck off their pending hire list.

Yeah, like the students ever listen to that warning. They automatically assume that they paid for the paper, so it has to be an "original" model paper and therefore, can be submitted for a grade. They pay hundreds of dollars for their paper so yeah, that is the right expectation. However, they should not just take it for granted. They need to check, double check, and change as much of the paper as possible, rephrasing would probably cover it, just to make sure the paper will not be passed off as a plagiarized piece of work.

They can say whatever they want to make it seem like they are keeping the educational system clean. Just like Varsity Blues. The reality is, the business is an open secret and they have been trying for decades to shut us down to no avail. For as long as the system overworks the students, there will be companies and writers like us to assist them and help them get a breather.

Uh, the two are related. In this business, the company that runs the scam, has to tell a mountain of lies to make their scam seem believable. That is why there is no difference between the scammer and the liar in this case. They lie so they can scam the clients and they scam based on their lies. See the relationship? So there is no difference between the two at all. Rather, they exist in a symbiotic form so that the crime can keep repeating its vicious cycle.

That's what the DND list is for. If the company is on the DND list, they already send in a request to no longer have their company names mentioned at ES. That means, their scam rating is so high, they are the talk of the town already. The students know their reputation, even without visiting ES. So there is no need to create a list of companies and the problems students have had with them. The DND is more than enough of a problem red flag / warning system.