Exactly.

Agreed. To do so effectively, just click the user name of any writer who is active in any thread, and then click on View All Posts/Threads to review that person's entire posting history.

I don't think I ever noticed this review of my services when it was originally posted, but, obviously, I appreciate it. Unfortunately, many students don't even find this forum until they start frantically Googling to find out whether the companies they already paid are scams after their deadlines have come and gone without receiving their essays or the essays they receive are either completely nonsensical or nothing but material pasted directly from Wikipedia.

It should also go without even needing to be said that nobody should ever trust any writer or essay company contacting you first on any social media platform.

Obviously, no company really issues refunds just because a customer indicates that he's dissatisfied with the paper. If any company actually makes that kind of claim on its website, it's never anything but a ploy to suck in gullible customers. I guarantee that they require you to submit your credit card info and authorize full payment when you place the order, and that their terms & conditions contain all sorts of ambiguous language about revisions "until you're satisfied" and so forth, and nothing about refunding your money if you're "not satisfied." At best, if you tell any of these companies that you're not satisfied with your essay, you'll be stuck in an endless loop of useless revisions to an essay that's so bad it's completely incapable of being "revised" before they eventualy just ghost you. At worst, you'll be threatened with exposure to your school. Either way, the one and only "guarantee" that you can rely on 100% is that your credit card will definitely be charged in full for the essay and you won't get a refund no matter how bad and unusable the essay is or how dissatisfied you tell them you are with it.

I've provided at least a dozen of them over the years, in very different areas, and with good results. Typically, I'm able to do this because PhD candidates usually provide much of the source material, including the institutional dissertation guidelines. People often mistakenly assume that one actually needs the same substantive knowledge in the field as a PhD candidate to write dissertations, which just isn't true. When the client provides good source material, a dissertation becomes nothing more than a high-level writing project with a very particular structure rather than any kind of "test" of the author's own knowledge in the field. I'm currently working on one in the nursing field for which the client wasn't able to provide much material; but it's a topic that I'm able to research. That isn't always the case, and there have been others that I had no choice but to decline, precisely because I'd only have been able to write them relying on sources provided by those clients.


This is true, simply because few (if any) commercial essay sites maintain any writers on their staff who can write at this level. By the time we're able to do so, almost all of us have already stopped writing for essay companies because we've managed to establish our own independence and private clientele. When I was writing for essay companies (until 2013), there were only two or three of us (out of the hundreds of writers on staff) who could ever be trusted with this kind of work, and this included one subsidiary company whose name actually included the word "dissertations."

I was really shocked, at the time, that the pandemic didn't affect my business more than it did. After the first 2 or 3 months, the demand for my services was as strong as ever.

Which digital privacy law(s) were you concerned about as pertained to employers simply collecting and securely maintaining the ID information of their employees and contractors?

Good riddance.

That's another reason it's so important to make sure you're using a writer who allows clients to own the copyright to any work they purchase.

While I don't refuse to write them, I couldn't even imagine having to do them regularly, and I don't think it's possible to earn a living just writing resumes.

The main premise of the OP was that foreign ESL sites would overwhelm the industry by sheer virtue of their online presence, not by virtue of the quality of their product. Today, ESL sites are being wiped out by AI, precisely because the work they provide is even worse than AI writing. The only writers who are still doing any kind of business in this industry are those of us who are already known for the actual quality of our work, because that can't be matched by AI programs.

The safe way to identify a low-risk writer is, first, absolutely avoid anybody who contacts you on social media and stick to writers who have a very long verifiable history on forums such as this one. Then, make sure that you're dealing with a real person whose name and location can be independently verified on your end.

Eventually, educators will realize that assigning out-of-class essays serves little purpose, in the first place, for students in the vast majority of all major courses of post-high-school academic study.

I'd still advise you not to make any kind of use of their product, at all, even as a properly-referenced source. Don't put yourself in the position of (possibly) having to defend how much of it you did or didn't use, or how, to your university. Cut your losses to the absolute minimum, represented by the money that you already wasted on it. Once you use it for anything, you're exposing yourself to a non-zero risk of consequences; rather keep that risk right where it is, now, at zero.

I don't believe that it's realistic to expect any writer to be able to mimic a particular student's exact writing style that closely. More importantly, that would substantially defeat much of the purpose of hiring a professional writer, in the first place, because, by definition, we're mainly in demand, precisely, because we provide better writing than our clients. On the other hand, it's perfectly realistic to ask an experienced writer to adjust the overall level, complexity, writing style, and vocabulary to better match the client's level, in a more general sense.

Professors aren't some kind of super-sleuths with a magical ability to recognize and identify the writing of specific students with the certainty that handwriting experts (purport to be able to) identify handwriting. What professors do notice is sudden unusual and completely implausible improvements in those elements that I just listed above from previous assignments submitted by any student. As long as those elements aren't suddenly conspicuously better, no professor is ever going to risk making accusations that might be totally unfounded.

Just ignore any subsequent messages from them and block them. Since there's nothing they can do to you, please post the name of the company to help others avoid becoming victims.

In that case, you have nothing to worry about, because there's absolutely nothing they could possibly do to you. Don't use their work and just block every means by which they continue to contact you. Next time, only use a writer whose real, verifiable identity and location are known to you, because blackmail is impossible without anonymity.

Generally, I agree with this, but students still need to be very careful, because I don't agree that there's automatically any basis for having confidence that an independent writer won't be using AI, just because he or she is an independent writer. The simplest reason is that most writers who write for companies also take as much independent business as possible; so, it's largely the same pool of writers.


I also agree that, typically, writers have always been more conscientious about their private work than about their work for essay companies, because our personal reputations are much more important to us than the reputations of any company for which we might work. However, in the age of AI, you can still be fairly certain that any relatively new writer will be taking the AI shortcut, irrespective of whether it's for a private client or a company client. Therefore, the risk of inadvertently hiring someone who will just be using AI remains quite high in both cases.

That means it's even more important now than it already was -- for other important reasons unrelated to AI -- to make sure that the independent writer you're considering using has a very long and verifiable presence and history in the industry, and a reputation for providing excellent work that far pre-dates the availability of AI programs. A naturally good writer who has been doing this work quite well for decades is far less likely to change his or her writing process or to believe that AI might "improve" his work product than someone who just started doing this relatively recently.

Net neutrality laws are still in full effect in the U.S., just no longer at the federal level. Since 2024, net neutrality is entirely subject to state regulation.

My prices never change based on how long clients have been using me, simply because it's precisely my long-term clients who know much better than anybody else exactly how my work compares to all of the available alternatives.

Most essay-company writers can't write and AI can't reason analytically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGcfJ9J_Faw

Professors have come up with at least one other extremely clever foolproof AI detection method that I'm not going to share publicly, but one of the simplest methods is for them to submit their own essay questions to a few of the most popular AI programs and then compare the results to student submissions. Likewise, they can just compare various submissions from different students to identify inexplicable similarities that obviously can't be explained any other way.

The lowest rate I ever worked for was $10 or $12/pg for the very rare essay-company project that was worth my time, nevertheless; the highest rate probably came out to a few hundred dollars for the equivalent of each page of writing, but for private (non-academic) business clients who paid by the project, not by the written page.

To be perfectly honest, I might also factor in whether particular clients are likely to be easy or difficult to work with, based on their initial communications. For example, if it's obvious to me that someone hasn't even bothered to read my FAQs before asking me some of the specific questions that I very deliberately included in my FAQs so that I wouldn't have to type out answers to them for every new inquiry, that's often a fairly reliable indicator of how things are going to go with those clients, more generally, if I take their projects.

"Samples" could have been written by (or stolen from) anybody; "communication" is totally unrelated to dependability, (because scammers are notoriously "communicative" before they have your money in their hands); "credentials" (such as degrees) are almost equally unrelated to writing ability; and there's no such thing as any "guarantee" that's enforceable or that will help you besides knowing the real (verifiable) identity and (verifiable) location of your writer within a First-World country.that prosecutes blackmail and extortion.

The one thing that scam companies have always been good at is marketing themselves to their next victims.


Unless a writing service is willing to disclose its actual (verifiable) physical location and unless they have a long history and reputation for good work on forums or other public platforms, I don't know how else one might be able to determine their reliability.


Agreed.

If AI has affected scam companies more than legit providers, I think the simplest explanation is that scam companies have always relied either exclusively or nearly exclusively on first-time customers, for obvious reasons. Unlike good legitimate providers who have always earned the long-term loyalty of repeat customers strictly on the basis of the quality and reliability of our work, scam companies, by definition, can't ever earn any repeat customers; instead, they have always relied on advertising very aggressively and deceptively to (what used to be an endless supply of) disappointed first-time/last-time victims of their scams.

AI programs have reduced the volume of new customers across the board, for scammers and legitimate providers equally; however, the best of the best legitimate writers have been able to rely on long-term customer loyalty. We're also able to demonstrate to new customers who've been very disappointed with the results of trying to use AI for academic projects why there's absolutely no comparison between the garbage generated by AI and the good work of qualified legitimate human writers.

In my opinion, proofreading, is actually something that AI should be able to do quite well, because, when the term is used and understood correctly for what it actually is, proofreading consists mainly of checking spelling, tense, and punctuation. However, most people, (especially clients in this industry) misuse the term, because what they really mean is line editing and even substantive content editing and reorganization, which isn't "proofreading," at all. I don't think AI is even necessary just for proofreading, because just about any standard grammar scanner should be able to do that without a problem.

Over the years, I've known two writers who wrote for them; obviously, neither one had ever been a professor or held a PhD.

Many students are already realizing that AI cites totally fabricated non-existent sources, uses completely irrelevant and academically inappropriate material, and draws inaccurate conclusions from real sources. The more that high-profile stories become known -- such as about this recent "MAHA" report distributed by HHS under RFK Jr. -- the better it is for good human writers who can write circles around any AI program and who use only real, academically-appropriate sources in their work.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/29/rfk-jr-maha-report-citation-errors/83925319007/

Much more often than not, anytime a new poster joins the forum and then uses his very first post to "ask" about a specific company -- especially one that's never even been mentioned here before -- it's just a company shill setting up positive responses from other company shills or for himself to respond under a different (equally new) poster. Sometimes, their profiles even show that they both signed up on the exact same day or within a few days of one another.

I don't usually comment on other people's grammar and word usage here unless they presume to criticize that of others, first, or they promote their writing services in posts full of flagrant mistakes, but this post about the "fewer"/"less" and "number"/"amount" (etc.) distinction reminded me of this hysterical old thread:

https://essayscam.org/forum/es/academic-help-verification-656/#msg8985

Right now, it's only the very best writers with very long (confirmable) records of high-quality writing who can still make a living doing this. It's probably no longer a viable industry for new writers hoping to break into this kind of work for the first time.

If AI can really improve any essay provided by a human writer, that writer isn't qualified to be taking people's hard-earned money for his writing, in the first place.

My website has a TOS page, but irrespective of anything specifically under the "TOS" heading, everything represented anywhere on any business website automatically constitutes an element of the applicable TOS, whether or not it's referred to that way. If there's anything unique about a particular project neither covered by the TOS nor addressed elsewhere on the website, that would normally be detailed in the invoice for that project, which (also) automatically becomes part of the TOS. For example, sometimes, there's an agreement to provide an outline, first, and then wait for approval of that outline (or topic choice) before proceeding to the project, itself; other times, the payment might be for a page range rather than for a specific number of pages, with an understanding that a credit (or partial refund) will be owed if the project comes out any shorter than the maximum number of paid pages within that range. Technically, anything in emails also constitutes part of the TOS for a project, but that's only helpful if the payment processor or credit card considers the content of emails in adjudicating disputes, which isn't necessarily the case. Conversely, all payment processors and credit cards will always consider anything and everything represented anywhere on the website and/or in the invoice as part of the TOS for any transaction.

Great info.

I'm amazed that any student would even consider them. Besides the really bad ESL writing and the proliferation of elementary mistakes in virtually every sentence of text throughout their website, many of the sentences are just word salad without any conceivable meaning, and vocabulary that makes absolutely no sense in context, the last example of which below might be my favorite about "using the right words" and "correct grammar":

"We also create important aspects to thoroughly understand the topics to get the best academic result."

"Assignment Helper Australia comes up with creating value-based research that lets you enjoy all significant developments in the study..."

"So, to get the best out of the education system without objecting them is the way to get Assignment Help Australia."

"We understand that students who come up with fulfilling their expectations even on a tight budget get comprehensive pricing that is affordable. It adds with a transparent pricing structure which connects with no hidden charges. It adds to making professionals get access to the best study materials."

"Writing an essay is not about speaking or dictation. It is one of the most comprehensive forms of writing that also needs thorough research and descriptive analysis. It is about using the right words to form creative and detail-based study with correct grammar and restructuring the written development to fulfill the academic requirements."

The only students who would ever trust that company are those who can't tell, from the very first sentence on the website, that their projects will be full of elementary ESL mistakes. Even ESL students expect proper punctuation and the correct use of singular/plural forms, let alone good word choices and decent writing. Usually, essay companies ask their best writers to provide their website copy; so this mistake-filled writing is likely the very best that you can hope to get for your money, which makes perfect sense if you're paying $10/pg, because that means their writers work for roughly $5/pg and live in developing nations where that actually qualifies as an income:

"In current times, students are frequently made to defer to the services of essay writers and this doesn't always mean that all of them are just in search of freebie. Perfect paper or essay require profound knowledge, skills, experience and of course free time. For that reason, it is not so easy to create a worthy paper. Your success fully depends on lots of factors. Yet still, students can't neglect written assignments because their grade can influence their future career. On that score, an essay helper or a professional and experienced custom writing company allow students to stay up. It doesn't mean that you need to redirect all assignments that require creative thinking to such services. Nevertheless, they guarantee your success in study and as the need requires they will always be near you."

Agreed.