I was SO surprised to find this forum! We went through a similar situation with these jerks and finally just gave up and ate up the loss. We are in the US so we aren't really able to file any sort of lawsuit without going through a huge and costly process.

We weren't writers, we were affiliates of them. That is, we put links to their web sites on our web sites in exchange for a commission on each essay that was sold. At first we received our checks on a timely basis, and then all of a sudden we just stopped receiving payments, even though our account balance was continuing to climb from legit referrals.

We tried calling them, emailing them, sending snail mail, we even contacted CIRA the company who oversees .CA domain names and they gave us the cold shoulder. The Canadian BBB wanted nothing to do with us either. I don't know who these people paid off up there, but it appears no one cares about helping the victims of their fraud.