VIPER - SCANMYESSAY - ACADEMICANSWERS - UKESSAYS

Hi,

I am worried now because i had sent my essay using the Viper scanning software and after I used their site I am not sure how they will use my work.

I checked their terms and it says..

By using the Viper software you further acknowledge and agree that Academic Answers Limited will retain any document processed by the program and may use such documents for the purpose of marketing Viper, or any associated website of the Company, and you agree that any right you may have to remuneration for the use of documents to which you hold the copyright is waived. Academic Answers Limited agree not to use documents processed by the program without your consent, and in any event, not within six months of the document being processed.

The thing is that they own lots of sites, and there are so many essay examples on the ukessays site so i think they will just send the viper users work to their sites and the person who wrote the essay loses ownership of it.

Another thing is that academic answers does not exist, i read in the post before that it changed its name but the viper site still says the work is copyright of a company that does not exist anymore.

Can i trust these people?

Related findings: Viper / Raptor Plagiarism Scanner.

In Jennifers post on the forum that you linked to, post 41 says:

No essay scanned by the Viper software has or would ever appear in an essay bank for resale - again our contract with the user permits us to retain a copy of their essay so that future users can scan against it (this is kept 100% confidential so no other student, scanner or university could view this essay, ever), and the user gets no payment for us retaining that copy of the essay - but then, neither do we charge from the software. Viper has cost us thousands on thousands of pounds to develop so the fact that we retain a copy of the essay for future scans to check against, is a small price to pay for using the software. It actually improves the accuracy of the results so benefits the student in the long run.

However the terms on scanmyessay.com says:

By using the Viper software you further acknowledge and agree that Academic Answers Limited will retain any document processed by the program and may use such documents for the purpose of marketing Viper, or any associated website of the Company, and you agree that any right you may have to remuneration for the use of documents to which you hold the copyright is waived. Academic Answers Limited agree not to use documents processed by the program without your consent, and in any event, not within six months of the document being processed.

I'm confused, are they using the essays on their sites or not?

Read the thread carefully, from start to finish.

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By reading the terms of service for the Viper software (which you copied above), you should have answered your own question--whether or not Viper WILL use your essay as part of an essay bank is somewhat a matter of debate, but the fact is they CAN if they want to, and they don't ahve to pay you, tell you, etc.

From scanmyessay.com/terms.php:

"When you scan a document, you agree that 9 months after completion of your scan, we will automatically upload your essay to our student essays database which will appear on one of our network of websites so that other students may use it to help them write their own essays. You agree that any right you may have to remuneration for such use of documents is waived."

Do I get it right? After 9 months I have no rights to my essay? Also do you know on which sites they post my essay?

[Moved from]: ScanMyEssay / Viper plagiarism checker - blatant lies of a 'reputable' UK writing service?

I've been watching this forum for a while; thanks for good information. Until recently I've been under impression that the foreign research services are usually the ones that lie about their organizations and operations with a straight face. Until I saw this statement on: uk essays.com/essays/.


Note the bolded part (bolding added by me). This page contains links to about 100,000 of 'free essays.' Does ANYONE believe that students just 'submitted 100K essays'? I mean, come on.

As a side note, could the lies and misrepresentations be the reasons why the allegedly non-corrupted people have left this organization recently?

I'm not here to bash this company. But I came here to warn students about the fact that the academic research industry is littered with liars and dishonest criminals who count on students' stupidity and ignorance. And no matter where the service is based - the facts show that even the 'reputable' services have adopted the "lies and misrepresentations can bring us more revenue."

Or maybe I'm wrong and those thousands of essays have in fact been volunteered by naive students?

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Simply not true. There are only a handful of legitimate companies in the US, and they do not engage in fraud.

My main question/suggestion was that they lie about where the essays published on their site come from.

They lie. Its their essay they call "custom" that they later publish as their own.

Just curious: what are the reputable US essay firms? Do they accept UK writers?

Another "possibility" is that whatever students send to them they treat it as their own (eg. email attachments, submitted materials, research documents, maybe even private password-protected documents) and then they publish them without a written consent. That would be even worse than lying about where the papers originated from.

I'd like to see a formal explanation from a representative of the company.

Hi Jackhill, in fact we've had several million essays submitted to us and now have over 300,000 of them available publicly on the website.

As has been discussed previously on this forum we also own the plagiarism detection service Viper, where students agree to allow us to publish their essay as content in exchange for the plagiarism detection service. As you can imagine this is extremely popular service and a fair exchange for the student with alternative services such as Write Check (TurnItIn) costing $7.95 per paper.

If you want to read more about our license to use essays you can see it over on the Viper site, Scan My Essay here: scanmyessay.com/viper-use-essay.php

All of the documents sent to us and the work we produce is protected by our confidentiality guarantees to our customers, as well as UK data protection law. As a registered data controller (Registered Data Controller No: Z1821391) we take every measure possible to protect our clients personal information.

Ok, here is the relevant part:


So 9 months after a student submits his original 200-dissertation to your system, you consider this custom dissertation as your own. How nice of you.

In other words, naive students produce free content for you and then you publish it as your own and try to game search engines this way. I found a related discussion here: Ok, here is the relevant part:


So 9 months after a student submits his original 200-dissertation to your system, you consider this custom dissertation as your own. How nice of you.

In other words, naive students produce free content for you and then you publish it as your own and try to game search engines this way. I found a related discussion here: essayscam.org/forum/gt/warning-use-viper-raptor-plagiarism-scanner-1062/2/

Btw - you're also trying to trick students by making this part bold and underlined:

"Nobody has access to this database"

It doesn't matter nobody has access to this database - the database is PUBLIC anyway so everyone has access to it by default.

Today (March 2017), the terms read: "When you scan a document, you agree that 3 months after completion of your scan, we will automatically upload your essay to our student essays database." These terms were changed somewhere between Dec 2016 and March 2017 (ie. within the last few months). See the screenshots:





What's most troubling is that they have NOT changed the legally-crucial 'terms last revised' date, while changing the terms at the same time. Since 2012, the terms state:

Terms last revised: 9th January 2012

- despite the fact, as proven above, the terms have been updated multiple times since Jan 2012.

Now, let's go through the ordering process on UKEssays.com in relation to their plagiarism scanner. On their 'Guarantees' page they state: "Every piece of work we deliver comes with a dedicated plagiarism report using Viper [ScanMyEssay], our bespoke plagiarism scanner." That means, each 'custom essay' ordered from them is bound by the Viper/ScanMyEssay's terms. Consequently, each 'custom written essay' written by UKEssays becomes public (available through Google/Bing search) within 3 months of delivery. Is this what students who pay 1.5-5 times more than they would have paid elsewhere expect? Probably not. I can imagine smart professors assigning a writing project at start of a term/course and then using a simple Google search to find the 'custom written essay' there. It would be even worse / riskier with big orders like dissertations that sometimes take up to a year to be checked and approved.

How do they explain the reasons for publicizing their 'custom-written papers' within 3 months of purchase? Here it goes: ".. we will automatically upload your essay to our student essays database which will appear on one of our network of websites so that other students may use it to help them write their own essays." So, at first, it may seem their reasons are philanthropic.. until you realize it is baloney. By writing AND uploading the written content (originally sold to a student 3 months ago as '100% original') on their website, they kill two birds with one stone. First - they get paid a lot of money for the original content (which they rent to a student for 3 months). Second - they don't have to pay professional website content writers to keep their website updated (Google and Bing rank websites that regularity publish content higher than those that don't). In result, if a student pays $50 per page, their REAL revenue per page is closer to $60-70 (assuming they would have to pay at least $10-$20 per page of original website content).

It is fascinating to watch a 'non-foreign' company trying all the tricks in the world to mislead/outsmart/con/you-name-it their own customers. In the last decade or so the negative focus was on 'foreign services' that scam and steal from students and writers. However, at this point, I'm not sure which ones are actually the 'leaders' in this area.

This poster is one of the only intelligent and polite voices of reason in this forum, but it is important to remember that each case has two sides (or more). Nevertheless, if Major recommends caution about a specific service (just as W2B did in the past), you should listen.

There are no free services coming from these "plagiarism checker" sites. Regardless of what they say about storing or not storing your data, nobody can really verify if they stored the data or not, if they used the data or not. Always remember, you pay a price for "free checker" sites. These always come at the price of storing your paper on their server. When they will use it, nobody knows. All that we know is, they will use your paper, eventually.

Really-- for what? And when? There is no market for pre-written papers.

Actually, the rise of AI has increased the use of pre-written essays as the people that program the AI with information look to their old academic papers to "educate" the AI program. There are companies, writing companies, that have taken to paying their writers for their previously written essays to help "educate" their AI models. The market for pre-written papers does not involve students at the moment. It involves writing companies that are trying to develop a paid AI writer model for their company.

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.

Why would anybody use any of these free scanners or AI essay writing services lol... obviously your work is going to end up on the internet or resold to someone else. Nothing's free! Obviously these sites need something from you using their "free" service. You are the product.