Many of the worst scam companies have died, but prospective customers shouldn't be lulled into the false assumption that there are none left. It's no less important now to still do your due diligence to identify and avoid the remaining (and new) scam companies and independent writers.

I wouldn't ever presume to consider myself an "expert" in any field, because even professional degrees, such as law and medical degrees, only really confer competence and a general understanding, albiet much higher competence and understanding than someone without those degrees. Real "expertise" is something only acquired by professional specialization in some much narrower specific aspect within one's degree area, such as lawyers who specialize in corporate restructuring or 1st Amendment issues and doctors who specialize in pediatric oncology or knee and hip replacements. None of them would consider himself an "expert" in other areas of his respective profession just by virtue of his degree. Moreover, some of the project areas in which I'm most capable include Nursing and Political Science, despite the fact that I never took a single Nursing course or pursued a degree in Political Science, just for two examples.


When it comes to high-level projects completely outside of my own degree areas, I'm still able to do them well enough that even my PhD clients are thrilled with the results; however, I may have to depend on them to provide the necessary sourcing for those projects. Typically, the combination of my writing skills and the client's much better familiarity with available sources results in much better results than the client would ever have been able to produce on his own using the same source material.

Cite never addressed the question, but I also highly doubt that he could possibly really have had any personal knowledge of professors actually ghostwriting essays for any students.

Exactly.

It depends on both the institution and the professor. While some professors allow and actually provide guidance for using AI, others strictly prohibit and penalize it the same way they prohibit and penalize old-fashioned plagiarism; in fact, they've developed at least two methods of definitively identifying AI writing in their students' assignments.

It would be much safer to simply ask the professor, first; and I'd expect that the response, 100% of the time, would be an absolute refusal even to allow an essay on the same topic as any essay previously submitted for credit by that student, ever in his academic career, let alone an essay actually reusing or repurposing any material from an old essay.

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While I know that all of my clients, legitimate competitors, and every essay company for which I've ever written considers me much more than just "decent" at what I do, I appreciate the comment, nevertheless.

A student who is good at organizing information, outlining an essay, and developing original analyses and arguments could definitely use AI just to improve the writing, even in his own voice. However, the vast majority of customers in this industry hire writers precisely because they're not good at those things.

I agree that tryng to start becoming an academic writer now is inadvisable. The only academic writers who are still able to make a living doing this are those of us who have the benefit of a good reputation that goes back a decade or two and who already had a large and very stable base of clients long before AI became available, despite the fact that AI-written essays are trash.

Thank you. As I said earlier, I applaud these efforts. Here, you never have to worry about sharing the name of the provider involved; so, IMO, that should always be included in the very first posts of this kind, to help others avoid untrustworthy and problematic providers.

You should post the name of the company and the website url right here, where it won't get you banned.

That would be bad news for anybody ordering essays from companies hoping to rely on AI and great news for writers who are actually capable of producing high-quality academic essays and competing against those companies. In my experience writing for essay companies from 2003 through 2013, typical (legit) companies have dozens (or hundreds) of medicore (and much worse) writers and maybe a small handful of really good writers.

So do legitimate writers who have no choice but to compete against these kinds of companies for customers.

A forum search for the company name returns 27 different threads with "ukessays" in the title:
https://essayscam.org/forum/index.php?phrase=ukessays&action=search&searchGo=1

Until they see their grades.

The same goes for writers hired to write dissertations. Collaborating with other writers only adds unnecessary complication, unless it's unavoidable and necessary for an isolated element of a project (such as statistical analysis or advanced graphics).

I agree with this, except for the part implying that samples are helpful. As I've explained before, samples are only helpful once you're already confident that the writer is legitimate and honest. In that case, samples do allow you to see the writer's style, but that's about it. However, until you know that you're dealing with someone legitimate and honest, samples provided by that writer are useless, because you have no way of knowing who really wrote them, in the first place.

While all of the other pieces of information posted are important, nothing makes it more obvious that these sites can't possibly provide even halfway-decent work than advertised prices like this.

Great work...Keep it coming...

I applaud the effort to publicize this kind of information to help customers avoid being scammed by untrustworthy providers, partly because it is also helpful to legitimate providers who have to compete with them for business. Always look for providers with 10 or 15-year reputations for great work (and honesty with customers) on interactive platforms such as this one who are also willing to furnish you with their complete ID info and their actual physical addresses that are capable of being confirmed through local directories, independently.

I'd assume that they retain and then use anything you scan for their own purposes.

Perfect.

Totally agree.

A decade ago, people here were suggesting that I needed to establish a presence on social media to remain competitive. That turned out not to be true, and, if anything, students eventually learned that they had to be much more wary of essay companies and writers who did use social media extensively than of those of us who'd simply earned a reputation of competence and honesty on online forums such as this one, over many years.

Every time one of these companies disappears, it's good news for both customers and legitimate service providers, alike.

I've received quite a few direct emails from forum readers who don't seem interested in the best and easiest answer: Never respond to the first demand, immediately block every means of contacting you, drop a warning about the company or writer by name on this forum, and then stop posting about it and (seriously) just forget about it.

If you think that something specific about the transaction or the threats or about other particulars of your situation make it atypical or even unique, I can almost guarantee that's not the case and that all of your questions about it are already answered in one or more of the older threads linked in my previous post in this thread.

I'd suggest that "voice" is the least important concern with AI writing, because current AI writing programs typically provide essays that are totally devoid of substantive content and full of totally made up content by virtue of what AI experts refer to as AI "hallucinations." I'd also suggest that if one simply conducts the relatively small amount of due diligence necessary to identify a reliable NES writer, there will be no revisions necessary to about 95% of projects, and 99% of any projects actually requiring a revision won't need more than a single revision.

Essay companies don't have to withhold taxes for their writers, because they're all self-employed independent contractors. In any case, the IRS identifies taxpayers by their Social Security numbers, which, unlike ID cards, can't be faked.

Agree and thank you.

The only reason that I can think of is that it would allow them to take orders when customers specify that they don't want their subsequent projects completed by the same writer under his other ID after receiving horrible work from him the first time.

The OP was probably just a shill for the company pretending to be student, because a lot of what he posted made absolutely no sense, including coming here to ask about working for a company from which he already supposedly ordered projects, instead of just asking them directly..

Exactly.

True.

It's also suspicious that a company in Virginia would have a phone number whose area code is a NYC suburb. I'm guessing they were hoping to create the impression that they're in NYC, but since it's no longer possible to get a number with a 212 area code (like my land line), they figured that 718 was as close as they could get.

Since I discovered Square Up, I greatly prefer that system to PayPal's, but I never had any issue using PayPal.

Agreed.

What kind of "writer" works for $7/page in 2025 and what do you suppose the quality of those projects might be?

The simple lesson is that as soon as you see any kind of grade "guarantee" and/or any kind of money-back satisfaction "guarantee," you know, immediately, that you're dealing with a scam. Real writers may communicate their general level of relative confidence with a project and will always fix their own objective mistakes, but will never promise any specific grade or promise any kind of refund based on subjective "satisfaction." Real writers do issue refunds in the very rare situation that they make a catastrophic mistake -- such as providing an essay on the wrong topic without enough time left to redo it by the deadline -- but would never promise any refund based on "satisfaction." Ironically, it's the very companies that do make those kinds of great-sounding promises that will never issue any refund for any reason, including for their failure to deliver anything at all by the deadline and/or for delivering a project on the wrong topic, entirely.

This is true.


This is not necessarily the case much more often than it is; that's precisely why PhD candidates often use professional writers. Generally, PhD candidates are subject-matter experts, but I can tell you, firsthand, just from having reviewed dozens of their drafts, that their writing skills rarely match their level of subject-matter expertise.

Agreed.


Agreed. Usually, that's obvious, just from their website copy. Unfortunately, I've learned from this forum (and from some of my customers who only found me after already having been ripped off) that many prospective customers aren't that good at recognizing some of the signs of horrible ESL writing that any professional NES writer (and any professor) would consider extremely obvious.


Agreed. In general, it's always much safer to use providers located in countries with functional criminal justice systems; and nothing is safer than using providers in countries with functional criminal justice systems who will also disclose their complete identification information that can be confirmed independently.