I just said, my friend is Russian. Who is implying that we are putting down anyone because of their nationality? Just is a fact that that is who this particular group is. Doesn't have anything to do with anything to do with any kind of prejudice. I think it is fairly safe to assume that they are, indeed, Russian if everything is written in that language, however.

Here is something I found awhile back. Also, from speaking to them on the phone, and having an American Russian friend, I know how they speak.

"Masterpapers.com is owned by Alexey, a ukrainian-national, a former ICU-Kiev Student (icu-kyiv.net/forum/memberlist.php?sid=b5b9b97458dc1a0d9e0af387c91f4b96 or cashed)

You can find out more about him at the Ukrainian grievances forum when he cheated not only customers but also his Ukrainian writers. (gb.com.ua/?id=writers) As far as I understand from reading the forum, he was the co-owner of bestessays.com and after cheating on his writers and his partner (named Yuri, Ukrainian, owner of bestessays.com), he used the trophy to open his masterpapers.com. The message board discusses everything in 13 pages of discussion.

It would be a great idea if someone who speaks Russian could translate the forum into English for American students to find out more about the company that markets itself too actively.

From that Ukrainian-Russian forum one learns that Alexey operates his website with his girlfriend Ksyusha (full name Aksenia in Russian), a person who introduces herself as "Ashley Taylor", I suppose. Still, if one speaks about emails, he can pretend to be Ashley Taylor, can't he?"

I have an idea. Why don't you just send me your work? Instead of working for them I can work directly for you. We can work out the details.

I can't do all kinds of papers, for sure. One of the many things that bothers me about this essay site is that I don't do my best work since they pay so little to their writers. I just take things that will not take much of my time and produce so-so results as quickly as possible to start the next project. So far I have had no complaints.

Akash,

That is just terrible, Akash. Let's see if I get paid from the 20th to the 22nd of December when they now say that they are going to pay the full amounts for both months. I am going to get to the bottom of this, and if everyone cooperates, we can put them out of business.

Thanks for your feedback and please be sure to keep me posted.

Sue

That is one way but I also think we should send this story to the news media. I have sent it in ot Anderson Cooper at CNN. I plan to also send it in to other people and maybe this should go to Oprah too.

On EssayWriters.net:

Here are some things that concern me:

1. They make believe they do not understand what you are saying so that your questions never get answered. This can happen either when speaking with them over the phone or when posting a message to them on their site.

2. Their rules and directions are deliberately not clear so that if there is any question they can rule according to what suits them best.

3. In the initial phase of signing up, the deal was that you had to provide your SS# if you had made $600 or more for the year so that you would have to file income taxes and they would report your income to the IRS. Now, just a few days before I am supposed to get my first check, they issue a posting on the front page of their site that says that all US citizens must provide their SS#s to get paid regardless of amount of money that they are owed.

4. They have extended the date to get paid and say that they are combining the pay for the months of December and January. From an accounting standpoint this sounds foolish enough since the pay periods will run across 2006 and 2007. For a legitimate company this would pose a problem in accurate record keeping; for a company that is illegitimate it could possibly hide some income that it does not wish to report.

5. I have a problem with rules changing in the middle of the game. When a legitimate company changes policy there is notice given. Any monies that are owed under the current policy would be paid according to the existing rules. The new policy would be implemented at a date before which those that did not agree would be able to withdraw their services without penalty.

I will be very surprised if they pay me but I am going to pursue this to see that they are out of business if they prove to be the scammers I think they are.