Alisha-
it's only a matter of time before you become a casualty. And Amy is right: if you aren't taking so many complaints from other writers seriously, you cannot pretend to be victimized later.

And pineapple--your statement that they always treat writers right is WRONG. I never had any good contact with them, because the only contact i had was when things began to go wrong.

BE WARNED. this is not the only forum on the net that shows essaywriters to be crooks. I'm still after paypal to get back to me on their investigation. I wish we could all start a class action lawsuit. But i'm afraid it will go nowhere because these weasels aren't American, and don't live on American soil.

To all who are still swallowing the crap from essaywriters about "payments are delayed but-don't-worry" ....yadda yadda....

YOU ARE BEING NAIVE. They have been doing this for months to just the most current posting writers in this forum. It's a stall tactic, and you are foolish to believe it.

And NO i still have not been paid. ($366 that i was counting on for a relocation...i am that amount in the hole now...). Last contact i had, when i continued to push them...they said they would not pay me on the grounds that my work was substandard, etc....same stuff they say to everyone else when they ask for the money they are owed and never paid. Problem is, services have been rendered, and you cannot refuse to pay a person when the work has been done. You can merely terminate their emplyment with final compensation for those services. See, they don't even understand THAT, because they are not AMERICAN. They are foreign people trying to pass themselves off as an American business. Read back through this forum and the others. Their business addresses are bogus.

Any writer who is still working for them should just take a bunch of assignments and then let them go past deadline--don't do them at all. In that way, we can begin to shut them down. Also, email paypal as i have and complain. (Paypal is currently investigating and it would help if all of use banded together). Let them know about this. If they cannot use paypal, they cannot stay in business long.

"Orangecoke, maybe the works of your friend have plagiarism and written very poorly. That is one of the reasons why essaywriters cannot send the writer's salary. And don't you know that essaywriters is very strict when it comes to plagiarism?"

Oh yes, they accused me of plagiarism. It's a handy excuse to avoid payment. However, i know that this is not something i do, and that's that. No one will ever prove that i plagiarize, because i DON'T. It's an insult to my writer-sensibilities.

Here's something you should note:::: plagiarism, by definition, is passing someone else's work off as your own. I never did that. I provided work that SOMEONE ELSE passed off as THEIR own. So, the "clients" of essaywriters are plagiarists, and essaywriters makes a living off this fraud. Oh, the irony.


Akash--I totally applaud your points here. And esther--please DO provide these samples of your work. I can provide mine too. I have 7 books in print, and a truckload of other work.

I know some of you won't be surprised by the exchange i just had at Essay writers...

Your session reference number is 167184446
You Why have i not been paid? You keep putting your writers off.
HELLO?
No operator available now, Please wait..
Laura entered chat session
Laura hi!
Laura what is your ID number?
You i have to look it up
You 5388
Laura I am sorry to say that,,, but because of the regular plagiarism complaints and bad surveys you were fired.
Laura You will not receive your salary at all.
You isn't that funny...that's what you told all the other writers i spoke with, who haven't been paid. This is just part of your scam--a way not to pay.

Um, Karen.....you don't seem to understand. They have promised payment and then not paid and promised it again, repeatedly. They are stalling. They have no intention of paying. As for the plagiarism checks....they developed that program on their own to make themselves seem more legitimate. Also---don't you find it absurd that they speak of checking for plagiarism, when their entire operation is ABOUT STUDENTS TURNING IN THE WORK OF SOMEONE ELSE? The only difference between this and cheating, is that the writers are giving permission for their work to be used however the buyer wants, in exchange for PAYMENT. Essentially, writers are selling their talent just as they would if they got a contract and got paid for what they wrote in a novel. The important distinction is that the end result is a student who does not do his/her own work, but buys the efforts of a writer, and passes it as his/her own, and gets a grade, and maybe even a degree from it. They will NOT HAVE EARNED this degree. This is cheating. These people might actually become the professionals in our midst, having gained their credentials dishonestly. As for the essaywriters.net weasels......They are making a living at CHEATING. They are liars. They are crooks. They are foreign people trying to make a profit off the naivete of American writers.

What part of SCAM do you not understand?

Here's the thing:: ultimatums don't work with them. Since they are not legitimate, and are merely trying to make money from Americans in a fraudulent manner, and are also NOT on American soil, they know that they only have to stall and cajole and ignore long enough to make as much as they can before the disappear, reinvent themselves, and start the process again.

Don't think for a second there is ANYTHING remotely legitimate about them.

WE know their business address is not real. WE know they have cheated many writers, as we can see on forums like this. We know from some experience how they treat the writers when the writers are in their employ, and how suspicious and unprofessional they are ALWAYS. All the earmarks of a scam organization are present, yet some of us continue to hope for the best. While a positive attitude is indeed important, it is not helpful to be naive, and this only perpetuates the scam. We have to be hardcore about this, gang. We have to stand up and say something. We have to be proactive. Nothing changes until we change it.

Amy- that was the link to the question i asked the lawguru.


It must work there, because most of us got paid initially. That's what they do--they pay you at first to suck you in, and then they stop paying you. Anyway, it DOES work or none of us would have been paid to begin with.

I filed my complaint with IC3. Below is the confirmation mail i received from them.

"Thank you for filing a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

Your complaint has been successfully submitted. Please retain the following information for future contacts with the IC3:

Complaint Id: I0612282236207351
Password: VjiV35WusX

If you wish to view/download your complaint or have any additional information to provide to the IC3, please use the following link and login with the above complaint id and password.

complaint.ic3.gov/update

The IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime. The IC3 aims to give the victims of cyber crime a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism.

Complaint Status
The IC3 receives thousands of complaints each month and does not have the resources to respond to inquiries regarding the status of complaints. It is the IC3's intention to review all complaints and refer them to law enforcement and regulatory agencies having jurisdiction. Ultimately, investigation and prosecution are at the discretion of the receiving agencies.

Evidence
It is important that you maintain any evidence you may have relating to your complaint. Evidence may include canceled checks, credit card receipts, phone bills, mailing envelopes, mail receipts, a printed copy of a website, copies of emails, or similar items. Please keep the items in a safe location, in case you are requested to provide them for investigative purposes.

Additionally, to learn more about Internet schemes and ways to protect yourself, please visit lookstoogoodtobetrue.com

Also, I continue to bill essaywriters/universalresearch through paypal. and i have reported them to paypal. Paypal has said they are investigating. Since Universal Research is a registered member of paypal, if they are suspected/found to be fraudulent, there's a good chance paypal will cancel their account. This means they cannot use paypal, and hopefully this will help cripple them. i encourage all of you to file complaints with both paypal and IC3.

Jae

You are welcome onedrfl. I have a sound effect of a sort of laser gun whenever i have new mail....right now i'm getting receipts for my mails to them, and it sounds like there's a shootout in my house...i love it though. I feel like i'm actually firing at THEM for once.

(i popped them 57 times so far...[insert evil laugh here])

Onward, Scribe Soldiers!


just making sure i get you....you mean we should be nice and put you know who on these? if that's the idea, then that's just delicious.

ok gang. mail me at jaebaeli@sbcglobal.net and i will add you to a group for a mail list...and if you know of anyone who should be BANNED from this list--please let me know that too.

I have been sending mails to them, en masse.

oh, and here ya go--a mass mail address collection for your cutting and pasting pleasure. Be sure to put it in the TO box, the CC box and the BCC box at the same time to MAXIMIZE your spamming pleasure.

hrm@academia-research.com; job@academia-research.com; order@academia-research.com; sean@academia-research.com; info@essaywriters.net; billing@universalresearch.com

Okay everyone--you know there are spies here. So let's start a private mailing list to discuss our tactics so they won't have a heads-up.

I tried to sign up for orders, but there was no take order button on any of them--they may have locked me out of that--or else, maybe all of you took them--but they should have dropped off the available list if that were true. I wish i had thought to do this earlier, onedrfl! If any of you can- please do. That's a GREAT idea.

I believe i answered. (Of course not)

My Christmas and my special plans to include my relocation has become a financial nightmare because they have not paid me and i was depending on that money.

Don't kid yourselves. They have no intention of paying. They pay you at first to suck you in. Then it stops and they make excuses to push payment back over and over. I have been paid twice since i started in September--the last being Dec 8th--and BOTH times, they did not pay what they owed. They only paid about 25%. Now they owe me $366 and no amount of pleading, reasoning, threatening will get your money.

If you've had contact with any of them, you know they are NOT AMERICANS. You cannot pursue them because they are not on American soil and so they do not have to follow the law here. Even if they did, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone with any power who gave a damn. Their business address is fake--go to any satellite map and zoom in, and you'll see it's a house. Ask anyone who had a business nearby and they've never heard of them--same goes for all their sister companies. Do just a little research and you will see that the same people own a plethora of company names on the net. They do this until they can't fool anyone anymore, and then the site goes down and they get another one and start over. They invent fake "plagerism checkers" to imply legitimacy. They use fake testimonials. They pretend ignorance when you talk to them, they make promises and cajole you and pretend innocence, yet never return calls or address any issues you might have. IT IS A SCAM, people. Don't be naive and think it will all work out, or it's just extenuating circumstances. The circumstances are, they are stalling until they can make that last dime, and then they are packing up and disappearing again. You can file a complaint at badbusinessbureau and you can contact the media in hopes that they might pursue this over country boundaries. But forget about getting your money. "That ship done sailed."

Jae


Maybe you don't understand, Karen...the problem with essaywriters is EVERYTHING. Not only are they cheating their writers, but they are operating an enterprise that is ABOUT cheating. Writers are providing papers for students--MOST OF THEM FOREIGN--who will then turn these papers in with their own name on them, and they will eventually get some type of degree from the work of others, and then they will remain in this country, take your jobs, laugh at you, while you wring your hands and pretend it's okay. Yes, most of the writers that work for them and have worked for them are qualified writers. And the quality of these CHEATING papers is good. That, and a bag of chips, will leave you with a bag of chips. And if you depend on them for any important income, a bag of chips is all you'll have to eat.

Hello all.
I have been sending a request for payment through paypal to essaywriters everyday for the last week. I have of course had numerous contacts with them via email and as explained in my previous posts. I have not been paid and they stopped communicating with me some time ago.

I filed a complaint with Bad Business Bureau (since i couldn't at BETTER Business Bureau because they don't accept employer complaints). I asked an attorney on Law Guru and i reported it to the Attorney General of VA (where essaywriters says they have an office). I have also posted to other writers sites. I am behind any actions that include angry villagers burning them at the stake.....but It's important to realize that since they are most likely NOT on American soil, we have no recourse legally. All we can do is get the word out and perhaps enlist the media, who can sometimes pursue things over country boundaries. And we can hope to make this information COMMON KNOWLEDGE in the writing community, so that they will not be able to find any American writers who will work for them and be fooled by their promises.

Feel free to let me know what i can do to help.
Jae

I signed up with essaywriters.net in order to make a little extra money. With only a small bit of concern for the Karma i might be creating by doing someone else's work for them, i told myself that the karmic debt was on those who sought this assistance, and that i would essentially be getting "their education." Learning is always something i'm interested in. So i dove in with the best of intentions.

I am now convinced that i have been a victim of fraud, and am kicking myself, and wondering if i brought this on myself for being part of a system that encourages students to obtain their education and degrees without having to earn them. I worked hard for mine, and it is insulting and ethically questionable if i think about it too much.

I am currently in a battle with essaywriters.net regarding their reprehensible practices. I began writing for them in September, and now, 3 months later, i am profoundly sorry i ever signed up. Among the numerous complaints i have are:

>They allow customers to send papers back for revision an endless amount of time, and will dock the writer's pay for that--
--and each time this has happened to me, it has been because the customer wanted something that was not in the original description and then expected me to read his mind. Once, when the customer kept adding things to the rewriting that was not asked for in the first place, he eventually became belligerent and began insulting me. The customer's money was refunded, and i lost $78 of pay for work i did correctly and before the deadline.

>they NEVER respond to writer's questions,
>they NEVER have anyone on the other end of the phone line who speaks English very well,
>and these phone-people cannot understand anything i have tried to tell them.
>They promise to do things they don't do, like give you bonuses.
>they don't pay you the accurate amount you earned, and even post some of your pay to a pay period in the future

>they dock your pay for things that are THEIR fault,
>their online staff is obviously foreign and/or uneducated, as none of them can compose an English sentence that makes much sense, and the spelling, grammatical errors and punctuation are all absolutely embarrassing on a site that is supposed to be about professional writers.

Since you can't file against an employer with the Better Business Bureau (I tried), then all you can do is post to the forums and hope to save some other writer the heartache. I emailed the Attorney General of Virginia, which is supposedly one of the offices of essaywriters.net. I have yet to hear back. There is apparently no legal recourse since it would be prohibitively expensive to go after them, and find out who they are, and if they are even American--which, it seems, they are not.

I will probably have to kiss that $366 they owe me, goodbye.

WRITERS BEWARE.