Going back to the OP, I believe the person was actually sent to ES to gather information from the students. The company sent someone in to help them gather information for their "reviews" . Note that the OP was asking the user to contact him privately. That tells me the person wanted the information, but not for public consumption, which is what this forum was designed for. I believe the information, had it been provided, would have been used to create fake reviews for their website. The "negative" reviews being part of the ploy. The negative aspect would probably be used to help the company cover its tracks better when it came to non-delivery of the paper to clients or, inform them of which writers in their roster they could have fired for "lack of quality".

As far as I know, PayPal no longer works with academic writing companies. Yet this company claims to still be receiving student payments through Paypal. They claim that the students can protect their payment data this way. That may be true but, I thought Paypal cut ties with all academic writing companies already? Is there a way around the system that not all the writing companies are aware of? If they can lie about Paypal, what else could they be lying about in their blurbs? Why am I even asking that question? The response hits you in the face the deeper you go into their pages.

In addition to that, the student also gives up certain personal information to the owners of both sites in order to use the "Free" service. Nothing is ever for free on the internet. Your personal data will always be the payment required. So the companies not only own the rights to the essays submitted to them, but they also own the personal data of the students who unwittingly give up the information. Mostly because the professors, lazy slobs who no longer want to do the work the universities hired them to do, force them to submit the essays to these companies. The student scores are no longer based on content, it is based on the plagiarism rating instead.

Since this company is actually located in Kyiv, it will be easy to understand why they cannot pay their writers. The company owner needs the money himself. Perhaps he works on the premise of "pay oneself first", as most of these type of corporations do. That is the reason why the writers salaries are delayed, and why they find it difficult to pay the writers without tacking fines and penalties on them. They are in the business of not just scamming the client, but scamming the writer as well. That is something I consider unforgivable. An honest day's work for an honest day's wage. That is all the writers want and that is what they should receive. It isn't too much to ask.

The writing style will definitely depend on the type of paper the student requires and the English level of the client. Some people may not be aware of this but students and writers automatically change their writing style depending upon the subject being written. It is almost an unconscious thing among writers and students. That is primarily because the professors instruct the students / writers to create the paper in a specific manner. Based on those writing instructions (format, word usage, references, etc.), the student will find his writing automatically changing. A student writing a literary piece for an English class will not sound the same in written form when writing a research paper in biology. To put it bluntly, there are factors to consider when writing a paper and those factors are what affect the writing style of the writer.

What's the deal with hiring fact checkers these days? I thought writers were supposed to know the difference between made up information, questionable information, and outright lies? Isn't that taught in school anymore? I guess not. Hold on! If there are fact checkers, what do they really do? Check the editors? Aren't editors the first line of fact checking before an article is published? Why the redundancy in functions? So, if there is a fact checker, is an editor still needed? Sheesh!

The writing companies pretend to give back to the students by offering "blog" articles pertaining to writing skills improvement, research advice, formatting explanations, etc. They feel that by doing so, they are actually doing a "good service" to the student community. Nothing could be further from the truth. Their blogs are riddled with errors when it comes to proper information, they do not bother to grammar check their postings, and all of the "advice" they give eventually ends up telling the students to hire their professional writing services. So much for giving back to a community that they supposedly love. Well yeah, they love to fleece the students of their hard earned money or limited allowances. I don't think these companies could give back to the anybody, I bet they don't even deal with the taxman properly.

Google is always playing the catch up game anyway. GD is no exception. It is the worst kind of document creator because it expects the end user to be presenting it to a public of fellow GD users, which is not always the case. Ever since Microsoft launched OneDrive, more and more people have been sharing documents on that cloud server instead. It is easier to format the papers, create shareable documents, and is basically, just something people are more used to using. Don't try to make GD jump through hoops, you will waste your time doing that. Use other forms of document creators instead. I am partial to the MS Suite mostly because almost everyone I work with uses that software, thus making even creating a simple header a no brainer of a task.

GoDaddy seems to like being associated with questionable websites. They are the preferred registrar of this company. This allows the company to hide all of the important information that could blow their cover as a possible Ukranian scam. The company now claims to have a UK address and phone number as well. I find it very hard to believe that they expanded their operations to Europe since they seem to be doing their best to remain untraceable.

They only recruit writers with supposedly "adequate" degrees to complete papers. I would not hire a company that hires only "adequate" writers. That is one step above, "no skills" with a writer. A decent company with a real pool of capable writers would never proudly announce that their writers are only adequately skilled. That would be the height of embarrassment for any company owner. An academic writing company owner should hire only the best to fill a vacant seat at the company or not hire anybody at all.

Considering that the company never does pay its writers, and they are constantly hiring writers, I wonder how they even manage to fulfill orders. Even more amazing, is that it has a 19% referral rate. How does that happen? Perhaps they service only the ESL crowd. This is the crowd of students who would not know what a bad English paper looked like even if it was a snake that swallowed them whole and spat them out. I guess those 19% students wee just so happy to pass a paper, regardless of the grade that they appreciated the lousy work a lot. This is one case where the clueless students actually help to keep a scam going. Unless the students wise up, the unpaid writers don't stand a chance. No amount of complaining will get them paid. Hold it, I take it back. The writers don't matter, the con will keep going because there are always third world writers out there looking for any job they can get. The company has seats to fill, it's the perfect partnership. People who use this service deserves the paper and grade they get.

Have you guys heard about the latest from this company? They will now accept reservations from students who wish to have someone else attend their online class for them. That person will take the class, work on the homework, take the tests, and give the student the grade! Unbelievable! I wonder if there are any students who actually took this company up on their offer. Maybe the ultra rich students whose parents are involved in the college scam / scandal also used these services? Yeah. The ultra rich, spoiled, and trust fund kids were probably the primary target / clients of this service. It is just unbelievable the lengths a parent and/or child will go through these days to avoid actually having to learn something. They don't want to learn anything, they don't want to develop a skill, yet they expect to earn the big bucks just the same. Sheesh! The time will come when the world may be led by the unlearned and the rich will just be getting by on sheer luck and the fact that they haven't run out of money just yet.

They certainly are trying to steer people in a different direction. Their tech support has a US based address, but it only a P.O. Box. A properly established US company, specially one that deals with digital technology, will never use a P.O. Box address. That just removes all sense of legality from the company. Only companies with something to hide use a P.O. box for their contact address. In this case, the fact that the other name of the company has the word China in it already tells you that there is something to worry about. Their office information just doesn't have a ring to truth to it. So, I would not trust either of the companies, for any reason. More so because they work on papers on the cheap side. Cheap means zero quality in my book.

After the lockdown, I found my company having to go deeper into the professional writing field and less into the academic writing field. My writers work from home mostly, and so do I. During the course of the work from home time, I found that companies were still urgently hiring independent writers or outsourcing their writing needs. The income was mostly normal for my writers who could work with businesses and were writing professionals in the true sense of the word. My writers who focused only on academic writing, they've been finding it difficult to come across academic writing jobs lately. I am advising them to diversify their writing skills as soon as they can.

I believe that the academic writing field will find itself seriously impacted by the academic lock-down and home schooling situation. Since the kids are just as scared as their parents to venture out, they spend most of their time at home, using social media to keep in touch with their friends, they have free time now to actually work on the paper themselves.

That, is the problem with the academic writing focus. Once the students have too much time on their hands, once they don't have parties to attend and part time work to go to, they begin to turn towards actually working on their own papers. Much to the detriment of the academic writers. If the writer cannot write for any other avenue, then he is pretty much out of a job, in the meantime.

There really isn't any point to trying to figure out the differences between the 2 English versions (completely forgetting about the Australian and Canadian, and Singaporean versions of the language). The professors these days have been allowing UK based students to use American English presentations in their papers. I guess they finally figured out that aside from spelling, the word usage remains the same so there was no sense in enforcing a UK spelling rule. As long as the point gets across, nobody really cares which type of English language they use. That also makes it easier for the students who are mostly exposed to the American English version through film and multimedia anyway.

Well, that did not last long. As far as I can tell, the website domain is up for sale and there is no record existing for the previous owner either. I am guessing that the owners ran out of money due to refunds and they did not know how to run a con on the students. They were, for some reason, unable to sell the company and its domain name. That, is why the company no longer exists, and that is a good thing. Imagine how many students were saved from their horrible writing services. Imagine how lucky we are that the company did not last long and it actually folded. That is one less scam of a company that students won't fall for.

The paid hacks of AccurateEssays really earn their keep. They have been all over the internet, regularly updating the reviews for the site and its services. Glowing reviews as the order of the day. There is not a single negative review to be found, as far as I can tell. The way their clients are completely satisfied and urging other people to try the services, these just all add up to indicate paid advertising in the guise of reviews. Luckily, they were not able to pull the same trick at this forum. The enlightened users here call the owners of that site for what they truly are, scammers who are just out to make a quick buck. Don't believe their reviews. If it sounds too good to be true, as in this case, then you can bet it is too good to be true. All the glowing reviews? It's just in the mind of the paid hack.

If you paid attention to the original post, you will see that the "client" did not even file a dispute. He never mentioned it. Not even once. That is what actually tipped me off to this person being a paid poster for the company. A regular client would immediately file a dispute or get on the phone and try to raise hell with the company. This person was too calm and non-caring of the money he lost. Imagine, he placed a second order immediately as if money were not a problem. Forget that the essay came cheap. The point is, he did not seem to care at all that he lost money on a lousy paper. That, is what tells you this is an advertisement that, for some reason, the owners of this forum allowed to stay in this section.

Well, the registrar name on this site says a lot about it. Additionally, why would some on the US get a tech contact in Kyiv? The IP may actually be located in the US but I think everything else about this company clearly indicates that it is located somewhere in Russia. The information is secretive. They do not openly share any data that would help the student actually gain a handle on the type of company they are, what they are actually setting out to do, and most importantly, where they are actually located. Luckily, I found the information on their tech guy which, I believe says more than any actual research can say about this company.

Although the domain name is currently for sale, it is still connected with a company that runs around in the academic writing business. I believe it is truly a questionable company though since it changed ownership 16 times in its 13 years of existence. That means it changed ownership every year. That makes it an unstable business which more than likely had problems in paying their writers. Due to the constant change in ownership and payment policies that is. When the record of a company is as spotty as this one, it would always be best for students and writers to steer clear of it. I can't even get a clear ownership record for this company anywhere and I've been trying over several days to come up with something. All I could come up with so far is that it changes servers 14 times over the past 15 years. It is an extremely hard to track company which tells me they are up to no good.

While some students actually cite a source within a source, I find that it is always better for students to use just one direct source. That is because when the paper runs through a plagiarism checker, the system fails to identify that the presentation is a source within a source, flagging it as potential plagiarism. The professors don't even bother to double check the software report, which ends up with the client coming back to me demanding I change the plagiarized source. To avoid the potential pitfall, I have stopped using the source within a source method and have instructed my writers to do the same. Either it comes from one original source or they do not use it at all. The plagiarism complaints regarding that reference type stopped after I implemented that system. Sometimes, you just have to avoid doing things, even if it makes completing the paper a bit more difficult to do.

It is more difficult to find a legitimate academic research company than it is to find a legitimate freelance writer. Academic writing companies change hands too often. The policies constantly adjust, the writers are running through a rotating door. Hence the difficulty in verifying the actual status of a writing company. The name of the company may remain the same for decades, but that will never mean that the same people are running the company. Normally, it is the unchanging ownership of a company, and the long term relationship the company has with a writer that also helps to create a legitimate image for the company. The trust factor, which is a strong indicator of the legitimacy of a company is often affected by the goings on behind the scenes. If a company constantly changes hands, then it will be difficult to say it is a legitimate company even though it has been around since the 1990's. Forget legitimacy, it doesn't matter. Only the ability to deliver the client requirements matter and that, is usually what helps the company gain a sense of legitimacy in the eyes of the client.

I have always believed in casting a wide net when it comes to advertising. I invest heavily in my social media presence because that is where the crowd is. Students will not know about you if you are not found on social media, have a sizeable number of followers in your list, and if you do not have a modern venue by which they can reach you. They seem to prefer the DM trend these days and respond greatly to my animated ads on the social media accounts. When your advertising is something eye catching and relatable to the crowd you are seeking, the AI eventually catches up when it comes to matching your ads to a specific crowd. So even if my profile appears on an unrelated page, I still have a slim chance of getting that person to click on my ad. It's better than not having a chance to get a click directing the reader to my site.

Doing a simple search using DuckDuckGo (I hate being tracked by Google and Bing), you should be able to come up with the free essay review sites. Use those exact keywords so you will come up with relevant results. Read the reviews for individual essays on those sites and then go with the one that you feel best suits your review needs.

You could also approach one of the independent writers at this forum and ask how much they would charge to privately review your work and make recommendations for improvements to the final copy. I am sure they would be more than willing to accommodate your request.

These writing companies tend to live on far longer than one would think. They just continue to exist in different incarnations. Constantly changing the company name and URL, changing the incorporators in their "registration" forms, and maintaining offices around the globe, depending upon who is running the company at the time. Are they a genuine writing company in that case? Nope. Just because they keep changing information sheets doesn't mean they are no longer con artists or, that the writers they hire are actually good at their job. It just means the writers help the company keep the game going by servicing clients they probably aren't trained to write for. Business registrations and other legal documents aren't enough to signify the legality of a company in this wild west known as the academic writing world.

Try the new writers whenever you can. These writers are mostly fresh college graduates, regardless of their actual location, who are looking for a way to make an income while waiting to be regularly hired. Their knowledge regarding specific subjects are still fresh and up to date. That means your paper will still come across as highly impressive to your professor. They also have more time on their hands since they have fewer clients. They will be able to focus and do a good job on your paper because of it. Don't think that just because they are new, they cannot get the job done. They actually can and will get the job done, and probably surprise you in the process.

Students should always do their own investigation before hiring any writer or service. Never rely on the recommendation or review of others before hiring a company or writer. This is a cutthroat profession where there are no rules. Writers and companies go for each other's jugular and will say anything to make sure they get the client over the other company or writer. Never take anybody's word for it when it comes to recommending a service or writer. Just do some legwork, or in this case, elbow work when it comes to hiring. Personally talk to the company rep or writer you want to hire. If they sound too good to be true, then maybe they are questionable, try to make a list of 3 possible hirees, then choose based on your interview experience.

Eventually, it will be difficult for professors to prove that a student has plagiarized a paper. Since they insist on using systems that keep a database of age old papers, without ever retiring those long written documents, they will eventually give up on using that software of theirs. The reason? Eventually, all the papers that students submit will come up as plagiarized for one reason or another. All because the same information has been used over the years, certain writing formats will prove to be similar to one another, and the students can only present information in so many ways before it begins to look like a copy of another person's paper. Sure there are consequences for plagiarism. However, I am more worried about how students will prove they did not plagiarize their papers in the future, when everything seems to be so similar already because of the overflowing database of decades old student papers on these detector servers.

If you plan on hiring a writer who regularly posts at this forum, then I would ask you to look at the length of time that the writer has been a member here. The longer the profile has existed, the more participation the writer has had in various forum sections, the more reliable the writer would tend to be. Remember the longevity of a writer's career depends upon how well he works with his clients. His trustworthy quotient is also measured by the length of time he has managed to stay at this forum without any negative reviews. Ignore any flaming wars the writer may have been involved in in the past. Being argumentative is not proof that a writer is a scammer, it just means he knows how to push back when required. Do not take that to mean that the writer will be mean to the student either. That is the last thing the writer would do since he seriously needs your business. These are the considerations that I believe a student should have to ensure that he will not be hiring a scam writer to work on his paper.

Since students tend to read the threads more than they pay attention to the banners and flashing advertisements on this site, it would be better if legitimate writers pay for their advertising. That is, they should pay to be FEATURED writers. That way students can have direct access to them after having read their posts and, the student is convinced that the writer meets his writing requirements. While the other methods of advertising here also work for some writers, it would be better if the writer pays for all the advertising methods available here, if he can afford to do so. That way the student can't miss the writer's advertising promotions. The writer's name would probably stick better to the student's mind with repeated exposure to the name or profile. Use whichever promotional tool you can afford to pay for that is available here.

If I were a student, I would make sure to exhaust all efforts to receive a college degree. While it is not a requirement these days, it still doesn't hurt to have completed your education, at least at the most basic level. If I were a student who were not capable of paying off my fees that I need both a scholarship and a job to complete my education, I would make sure to hire a writer or writing company that I can truly trust to help me achieve my end goal. Nobody said that a college student doesn't need help to get through his final phase of studies. In reality, a college student needs all the help he can get, whether he is on a scholarship or not.

College isn't the same as when our parents went to school. These days, college requires students to be actual magicians when it comes to time management. So having a helping hand, in the form of an excellent academic writer when needed, isn't something that unreasonable perfectionists should frown upon. They just don't get it. Students will graduate one way or another, because they have the drive to do so. They will get that degree certification, even if they have to hire help to do it. That, is something that should be admired instead of discouraged.

Just out of curiosity, does anybody know if there were enough spam reports to Google that shut down the company? I always get lost when reading these threads that tend to go off topic. Why can't people stay on point with discussions here? Do most participants here really have that short an attention span? Or does the majority of the writers here really just exist to bicker with one another? I mean really, this thread started with Spam Report discussions then it spun out of control. Why can't a decent conclusion to a thread discussion ever happen at ES?

Since you did not actually request for an actual paper to be written for you and, you have not paid for the sample paper, I do not believe that you have anything to worry about. Sure they have information on you, but, if you do not use the paper, then what do they have on you in the form of blackmail? They are just trying to rattle you. They cannot do anything to cause you academic harm.

At this point though, I would not advise that you continue to seek a writing service within a company format. Reach out to an independent writer from this forum instead. There are several trustworthy ones to choose from. You already got burned by a writing company, be weary of dealing with them going forward. There are no grounds for actual blackmail. Block their email address and go on with your life. Do not pay them.

It appears that Bitcoin was just a passing fad when it came to its promise of eventually replacing cash as a payment type. Like previously mentioned, the unknown factors led to the decline of its usage among people. I think that the fact that the machines did not become widespread, and the problem with converting digital to hard cash cause the format to become unpopular. The stores, both mainstream and online, did not accept bitcoin as legal tender, governments, banking oversight and regulation committees questioned how the system worked, what safeguards surrounded it, and why it should be seen as a legal currency all put pressure on Bitcoin. Being unable to fully explain how it works really helped to enlighten people about its pitfalls. Not to mention, the death and sudden disappearance of several Bitcoin executives, taking the digital currency with them, put the final nail into the bitcoin coffin.

Sometimes, the companies do not even have to steal the information from the student. Oftentimes, the student, in his eagerness to not have to do anything anymore with the paper aside from submit it for a grade, offer the information without being asked. They request for a cover page, a running header, and other formatting requirements that require them to submit their full name, student number, professor name, and university. This is done unconsciously as they believe that the writing service should be trusted with the information to "complete" the paper. This is the biggest mistake the student can make. The payment system isn't the only way the companies can get their hands on the private data of the student. Students should know better than to ask for a cover page and running header in the first place.

The definition of a legitimate writing service exists in a gray area. That means, not all of the writers and businesses involved are duly registered with the proper business authorities and the IRS. Most function under the radar and are considered an underground economy for the most part. So if you mean legitimate in the legal sense of the term, then you may be hard pressed to find some. That is not to say they do not exist, it is just that they are not as many as the ones that bought a US business address, but exist in a third world country or somewhere in the Ukraine.

The legitimacy of the writing service and the writer in this case mostly comes from handshake agreements between the writer and client. If the order process flows smoothly and you do not have any problem with the writer and / or company, then that is all the legitimacy that you need from the company / writer. Government documents do not prove anything. It is the kind of work that the company writers or individual writers deliver that proves the legitimacy of their business.

Whenever possible, a student should consider hiring a writer from his own country. That is, if the student is an ENL. If the student is an ESL, then, perhaps he would do better to hire a writer outside of the US. That is because the third world writer would probably be able to write in the ESL style of the student. That may lessen any suspicion the professor may have that he paid for his paper. It is all a matter of English language proficiency. If you can write an English paper with your eyes closed, then go with a US based writer. If you need to look at a dictionary every time you write 5 words, then get an ESL writer.

Some professors believe that if the student uses any part of their old paper, that means they either did not learn anything in the new class or, they are just too lazy to come up with new theories and concepts of their new research paper. I find that laughable. If they have a source material limit of 5 years, and the student used current information in a paper written the previous semester, then his research from that time should be a valid source for the new paper.

I really disagree with the term self-plagiarism as that means one is copying oneself. How can that be when oneself is considered an original in all aspects, including when he writes his own paper and references himself as the source of that information in his next paper? Professors can really go on a maddening power trip at times.

There are some professors who just want the students to turn in a paper so he can mark him as having accomplished the course requirement. These are the students who are not too particular about the papers presented and just want to pass the students at the end of the term. If a student gets a professor like that, then he won't get caught. However, if a professor is strict, he will be looking for certain telltale signs of a bought paper. Super intense professors will even have their own personal database of papers to compare the submission to, aside from the software he uses for plagiarism checks. It's really a delicate situation. That is why I tell the students to change up the "model" paper once submitted to them. They need to somehow, put their personality into the paper. Some grammar errors, paraphrased sections, and other unique student writing traits or indicators often helps get the paper past the professor.

When dealing with the unknown, in this case, writers, it is best to assume that the writer is a scam, until otherwise proven. That way, if the deal turns sour, you could give yourself a swift kick in the pants. If the deal turns out fine, then the writer wasn't a scammer. You really cannot tell immediately in this case. You need to have time, exposure, and experience with the writer to determine whether he's a scam or not. Just make sure to vet the writer you plan to hire carefully. Try to develop your own interview questions that will help you gain a better sense of confidence in hiring the person. I always tell the students who hire bad actors in this field; "Well, you need to make a mistake at least once to learn your lesson." Granted it is an expensive lesson, but all lessons come at a price right?

It is never a good idea to give your card information over the phone. That is a violation of your data privacy. You never know what these people might be recording. There are scam companies that record your conversation and, upon getting your private information, lead the conversation into a manner that will allow them to edit your recorded conversation so that they can use your card number online or through other methods. They mostly try to get you to say "Yes" as often as possible. That way, they can trick automated card systems to do things for them, in your name. So, always indicate that you will be paying electronically. It is best to keep your data as safe as possible.