A company can easily check who logs into their system; the reputable ones who work with native speakers only would ban a Kenyan/Indian/Pakistani/Ukrainian IPs AND all accounts that use a proxy IP service (which typically indicate an African fraudster).

It depends on the research level (undergraduate / graduate) and also on word count per page. But if you mean 300 words per page, I'd say:

ESL writer educated and living in a 3rd world country - $1-$10 per page
ESL writer educated and living in a civilized country - $10-$30 per page

Native English speaker educated and living in an English-speaking, civilized country - $25-$50 per page

From google's recent announcement:

"We've found that this redirect often comes from third-party content embedded in the page, and the page author didn't intend the redirect to happen at all. To address this, in Chrome 64 all redirects originating from third-party iframes will show an infobar instead of redirecting, unless the user had been interacting with that frame."

blog.chromium.org/2017/11/expanding-user-protections-on-web.html

Other browsers should follow. So, if I understand it correctly, it should kill the crucial component of the hacked / redirecting scripts and would make the whole hacking system useless. That would be excellent news, provided links to the destination pages would also be completely devalued.

I only see a couple, maybe up to 3-4, legitimate websites on the DND list, so overall the comment on them may be considered relevant (and not utterly false) considering 93%-95% of them don't appear to be US/UK/Australia-based.

Thanks, that makes sense and you are within maybe 10% of students / buyers who actually do their homework before hiring an academic research service (if all of students had the same attitude, this forum would cease to exist ;) Next time, you may also view the source code of the page you're investigating and scroll to the live chat script area - you may find a unique number associated with the chat which may be the same as on other sites you're researching).

PS - listing domain names associated with fraudulent services in a forum message is the only way for other students to connect the dots (they may find some random website and put the domain into the search input; if one is not listed they may think it's safe, but most of the times it's not).

So I posted the evidence above (publicly available via google search). You'd likely lie about your location when a prospective customer would ask you about that. Look it up: lying by omission. A sane student would never consider doing business with an African freelance writer or service, period.

Why does Denis lie about his true location in the profile (he chose USA instead of Kenya):

Registrant's email: mainadenis82@gmail
Name: Denis Maina
Associated with 2 domains: EssayMarks.com and OnDemandEssay.com
Organization Main-abi Ltd
Address 55 Krt
City Nairobi
State Nairobi Area
Country KE Kenya
Phone +254..

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Normally a reasonable student should stop there knowing the service owner lies about his location. If he lies about the crucial part of his business, he lies about anything else, period.

How much is a 90% discount worth when you reveal your personal information to a criminal who would use it in the future to try to extort more money from you? Would you risk buying a set of tires knowing 80% of them would blow off at a 50MPH speed, probably not. Why would a student even bother finding a 'genuine Kenyan writer' knowing the potential risks and pitfalls associated with them?

I believe the reputation of 'Kenyan writers' is beyond repairable at this point. 20+ years of fraudulent activities and dishonesty has done its job.

There are a dozen of reasons; one of them is that they have been caught red handed extorting money from their former or prospective customers. Not all of them, but let's say 80%. For other reasons, just search this forum for they keyword: Kenya.

Nobody has heard about it. Even a 90% discount from a Kenyan service is not a good deal though.

Could you do us a favor and list all sites associated (owned?) by them? How do you know the sites are related?

I've just encountered a writing sample of a foreign 'essay writing expert' (this time featured by researchpaperking.com). If you read it carefully.. it's nothing but pointless, error-ridden, grammatically-incorrect, and confusing ramble, isn't it.



And the following is a proof of an employment fraud attempt by a foreign freelance writer / scammer from an uncivilized country. He posted an ad seeking a "US resident who can do a phone interview for an essay mill." He added: "I'll guide you on what questions will be asked."

So the 'writer' tried to get hired by a legitimate US-based company that only employs US-based persons and interviews them over the phone. To get around the 'US residency' (and English language speaking proficiency) requirement, the scammer hopes to find a partner in crime to lie about his true location and skills.

Maybe the questioner or a moderator is supposed to accept the answer (if it's not accepted it's not going to get paid).

Academic Freelance Writing Pricing - Four Levels

In relation to pricing for example academic freelance research / custom writing, there are four levels:

I. $40+ - $30 per page* - those writers are certain to live in a 1st-world English-speaking country and have been educated in a quality, Western academic institution. I think all of the recommended freelance writers / writing services advertising here meet these criteria.

II. $29 - $20 per page - those are likely located in an English-speaking country (or in a lawful country at least) and have been educated in an adequate academic institution.

III. $19 - $10 per page - those are almost sure to be ESL writers from a non-English speaking country who may be qualified enough for a high-school-level writing order (anything at a college or university level, considering their non-Western style education and lack of everyday English language usage, is very risky).

IV. $9 - $0 per page ("FREE") - those are the bottom of the barrel quality and security-wise. Most orders (if ever delivered) are either plagiarized and ridden with errors or auto-paraphrased from pre-written papers. 100% of them are less than mediocre foreign writers from 3rd-world, non-English speaking countries (at the same time, 95% of them claim to live in one of the Western countries like the US, UK, Canada, or Australia).

Of course, there may be some exceptions to the above levels (depending on writing volume or other business deals), but they are not very common.

I've noticed more and more unqualified, ESL 'writers,' especially the ones from Kenya, Pakistan, India, and Ukraine, have been moving from the 2nd or 3rd level to the 4th level in the hopes of attracting (and scamming) new customers. To new customers, it may seem like a good deal to 'find' a 'writer' who can work at $5-$15 per page, but - as I mentioned above - they get what they pay for. Approximately half of the 4th-level 'writers' are believed to engage in suspicious, sometimes criminal activities, including banking information theft, personal identity theft, extortion, or blackmailing. To them, 'essay writing' is yet another niche to operate in.

Your thoughts? Have any of the freelance writers here who work for themselves considered decreasing / increasing their prices (if they did, was it worth it / if they did not, why not? :)

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*Page = 300 words
*Prices in US dollars

Legitimate academic writing services: add 10-20% to the prices above (it buys additional protections and overall service reliability in comparison to individual freelance writers).

As far as I know, Google's announcement about 'essay mills' was only related to paid advertising (Adwords), not to 'organic results.' Technically and morally that makes sense because otherwise, if they were to stop listing all 'essay-writing-services / reviews' websites altogether, it would be censorship. However, I agree that the organic results are pretty much gamed by shady (mostly Ukrainian) SEO services because, depending on search keywords, about 70-80% of the results are foreign scam writing services that have hacked other sites and redirected links to them (that's why Google thinks they are legitimate). The hope is that sooner than later Google will figure out that the hackers and fraudsters who prey on stealing students identity and banking information are the ones who benefit from it.

PC is the way to go (alternatively, a laptop with a regular-size / PC keyboard). Or even better - a laptop with a large monitor and a regular keyboard (but then, other than portability, there's no need using a laptop ;). Plus when something goes wrong with a PC - it's typically easier to repair.

So a talented Ukrainian academic paper writer with a college degree can also write a dissertation thesis because he's experienced in writing college essays. Both an Ukrainian writer and you are in fact freelance writers. Your argument may be used by ESL writers to suggest they can successfully compete with native English speakers at a cheaper price level.

When it comes to writing on PhD level.. In most real-life instances you could be right. A freelance writer with a college degree who claims he/she can write on a PhD level is like a video game addict who argues that he would be able to operate an F-16 aircraft only because he mastered the video game's advanced stages. I'm not saying it's totally impossible, but the survival chances are pretty remote ;)

... who may naively hope that saving 10 bucks will get them a Harvard-level, US or UK-based writer. Legitimate writers or research services have no problem refunding money if they have failed to deliver (for reasons beyond their control).


This is, typically, the nature of foreign writers from third-world countries. They, in advance, know they are going to 'disappear' when they realize the order cannot be simply copy-pasted or paraphrased from Wikipedia; that's why, they have created and use dozens of different names and emails. Some legitimate writers have been using the same email account for years and to them an email address is as legitimate / unchangeable as a long-term website.

You appear to be writing from a perspective of a foreign writer, but the quality and legitimacy of a writing service or a freelance writer from one of the Western countries are much different.

Scam writers / foreign research services who could not / cannot compete with native English speakers (or excellent ESL writers) have come up with a 'genius' idea of offering the service in advance. Their assumption is / was that every 4-6 student might be satisfied with their work, so it's still some business model to them. The problem is that the majority of those essays have been written in advance / submitted to anti-plagiarism databases, so they are pretty much useless to those who actually need them.

I agree about the "custom essay writing service" market overstaturation. Some 'writers' have been desperate to the point of offering their 'services' for free (they pretend to be 'geeks' who love writing essays or solving homework problems). Obviously, all those free or low-cost services are 100% scam, but some students fall for it.

What's going to happen next is still unclear. The Ukrainians have already been moving their business back to their origin, ie. fake 'Russian' bride websites with fake profiles of women. As discovered by Donald, here is an example: on Twitter they have hundreds of thousands of fake women profiles (fake pictures, names, etc.). Their bots retweet random posts AND post random tweets related to their targeted niche. For example, they would post a tweet like:

I hate this fcu*king research paper. Who's gonna help me? I'll pay.

Then, the foreign (but not only) suckers aka 'writers' would Follow or Like this fake profile to get attention.

It IS easy to spot such fraudulent profiles - all you have to do is to check the total number of (fake) tweets and the proportion of real tweets and Retweets. When there are many random Retweets and the profiles has THOUSANDS of tweets total, the profile is fake.

Or their bot (with an attached fake beautiful woman picture) would post a tweet like:

I'm feeling lonely, I don't know what to do. Send help.

and then naive men, who don't realize the profile is 100% fabricated, would Follow or Like the profile in the hopes of getting lucky.

So for the fraudsters the end game is creating as many fake (but legitimate-looking) profiles as possible, usually linked with their other social-media profiles like Instagram or Snapchat. They do it because they expect it's going to legitimatize their scam dating businesses somehow, provide free clicks (free advertising), and give an advantage in search engines.

Regarding advertising on campuses, it's not a viable option, at least in the UK. I predict in the future the quality and honesty will prevail. The scammers who now try to sell their suspicious academic research or homework-help services for $5-$20 per page will have to move back to sending '1-Million inheritance African real estate' or 'Beautiful brides looking for Western men' scam emails. The only question is how long the process is going to take; it's up to students to decide if the risk of losing money and personal identity vs low price is worth to them.

Explaining research requirements over the phone would take a lot of time and patience, so most of the times it wouldn't be quick.

Regarding online advertising.. seemingly a legitimate company like Facebook has just announced that their 'advertising reach' metrics are designed to estimate how many people in a given area are eligible to see an ad that a business might run. That's why the estimated numbers have been inflated by millions because, technically, millions of people from California could travel to Ohio to see the ad. Obviously, the more potential 'reach,' the higher per-click cost. wow : )

Sorry for your bad experience. That was the first (and crucial) mistake; 95% of positive reviews (posted on the service provider's website) are fake and 90% of positive reviews of essay writing services posted on a dedicated 'customer review' website are fake. They're not based in the UK or US - did you find out where they are really located?

Congratulations! - some of these 'predictions' have actually materialized ;)

Still, the disreputable ESL 'entrepreneurs' have now a big dilemma - what to do with the hundreds of websites they have created. The initial cost of website development was low to them (using free Wordpress templates and same scripts doesn't add to the cost), but the permanent cost of maintenance, web hosting, and domain registration fees can add up quickly. Plus, they now start realizing students are not as naive as they would want them to be and slapping a nice picture or a cool web design cannot and will not build an instant brand and trustworthiness.

I noticed they have started dropping their 'essay writing service' domains because they concluded that a dozen of real visitors a month isn't worth it. Some of them continue playing with website hackings and black SEO techniques, but they are also due for punishment; just because they disabled search engines from visiting their sites while having the hacked websites redirected to their own sites doesn't protect them from the dreadful historical graph which is likely to penalize them by other means, including web browser warnings like: 'This website hosts malicious content.'

Contrary to what others might think, students also live in a competitive world. Better grades = better start towards their career goals. While some of them may conclude that an African or Ukrainian 'writer' who calls himself a "Kathy Richardson" or "Susan Anderson" and charges $7-$20 per page is their best choice, others may decide that risking a machine-paraphrased or plagiarized paper that had already been submitted to Turnitin or risking their identity being hijacked is not the way to go.

I predict that as time goes by, students who need example academic research services will become smarter shoppers. Because there are only two choices:

A) Low-cost, low-quality ESL / plagiarized / paraphrased garbage re-grouped / script-paraphrased by an Internet marketer from Nairobi, Mumbai, Karachi, Shanghai, or Kiev,

B) High-quality, original research performed by native English speakers educated in one of the US, UK, or Australian academic institutions.

Those who choose the low-cost option are probably better off visiting Wikipedia or some other free library website and copy-pasting / re-writing / re-phrasing the documents related to their research subject (that's what the majority of the cheap ESL writers, at best, do). The final product won't surely give them a nice grade, but they would at least not risk their personal information being hacked.

Clients to own a pool of writers, how?

Companies can easily find out about stealing customers - all they have to do is to add a fake customer information (pretending it's a real customer information) and wait for the writer to 'contact' them. I'm sure there are a good number of freelance writers who might have thought they could get away with poaching clients, but in reality it's a very risky game for them.

Crimes are not racist.

One can argue that customer protections and overall guarantees may be better when ordering from a legitimate company. For example, a company doesn't reveal the consumer's information to the writer who completes the order and it is fully / legally responsible for keeping this information secure and confidential; a freelance writer doesn't have the same protections and there is a reason why most scammers pretend to be US/UK/Australia-based freelance writers. Some students may think working directly with a writer would give them an advantage, but that's not always the truth. Of course, it is true for legitimate writers (especially the ones advertise here), but in reality there are few of them available in the academic research market.

Why not? Maybe they have less expensive writers or something.

False claims. I first commented on this site a couple of years ago: ?phrase=unemployed&searchType=3&where=0&forum=&posterName=Major&action=search&searchGo=1 and my thoughts were pretty much the same back then. So I'm not being abusive - I just restate my previous comments which you attempt to deflect.

As wordsies mentioned - the failed / uneducated marketing strategy of the site ('students are lazy and we'll do their homework') only gives ammunition to all those reporters who describe the whole example academic research industry as the site you work for does, ie. in a negative light. It is cutting the branch you're sitting on, indeed.

Yes, a couple of times I saw a clearly fraudulent site from Ukraine advertising here, but I didn't want to mention anything thinking that's how business works and nothing is free.

Just read the real reviews posted years ago on this forum by real customers. You first lied when you said you first encountered this site just recently (when in fact you must have been here years ago). You came here to spam and when you realized you're not dealing with 'lazy and stupid students' (as you call them on your site), you came up with paranoid claims and excuses.

But you associate with it (being fully aware of the fraudulently deceptive branding / marketing / other false claims).


How, what is limited?

Tell it like it is, ie. don't talk in the name of 'people' (unless you have multiple fake accounts there).


Wow, a PDF.. if it's a PDF (which can be made out of a .txt document for free within seconds), then it must be legit.. not. Anybody can publish an article in a PDF document within minutes (that's what fraudulent writers from Kenya etc. actually do).


Because nobody cares about the reviews any more (plus only someone close to the site would know they keep crappy/lazy writers - are you working for their HR email or something?).

So you found this forum a few years ago (stop playing dumb, please).


Again, reading manufactured / edited reviews of an essay service is a total waste of time. It might have worked a decade ago, but now it's very clear most of the positive reviews (especially when 100% controlled by the publisher) are fake.


Why don't you go to a party (as you suggest students do) while the government pays you money? You cannot have it both ways - one one hand, you tell students that doing homework is for the lazy stupid, but on the other hand you don't take the same advice.

The whole concept of your site is ridiculous.. 'go party while fake professors will do your homework'.. as far as I know, most students who use the example services are either overworked or simply aren't (intellectually) capable of doing the homework for various reasons.. but they are not as lazy or naive as you may want them to be.

Right.. figurative.. just like the fake reviews (how many of them did you edit?). It's like setting up a website: FormerBodybuilders.com and when asking when was the last time you lift weights you answer: "Never, it's all about figurative expression."


Deception. You may not call it 'stupid' but you can surely call it deceptive and fraudulent, wouldn't you.

Do you seriously think students are that stupid that they would believe the 'unemployed professors' marketing ploy? You are no 'professor' and most of the reviews are fake. These days, the more 'reviews' an essay service has, the more fraudulent it seems to be.

I strongly agree with WB - besides the obvious, ie. the non-plagiarized quality research vs. ESL non-quality research, it's all about consumer protection. If you moved to Kenya, Pakistan, India, or Ukraine and someone stole your money, identity, or copyrighted work -- the joke and trouble is on you; while you can report the crime, it's unlikely to be resolved unless you hire a full-time lawyer to get something done.

When ordering a custom essay or dissertation from someone located in a foreign country (even if they have a 'borrowed' Paypal account that seems to have a US/UK/Australian address), you are automatically bound by this foreign country's laws (ie. no real consumer protection laws).