If you knowingly write for a FRAUDULENT company, you are also a FRAUD

If you disagree, explain.

The simple fact is that anyone who knowingly works for a company of which he or she has clear knowledge is perpetrating crimes and/or blatant misrepresentations against the public, that worker can potentially be held personally liable as a co-conspirator in any legal actions taken against the company.

FYI, a writer's personal, economic circumstance is not valid justification, so please don't bother using that excuse.

If you are a decent, native English-speaking writer or an ESL writer whose command of the English language is comparable to mine (for example), you will have no problem finding work with a LEGITIMATE company. On the other hand, if you are an ESL writer whose product contains many of the errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, and word use that are common in the writings of ESL speakers, you have no business writing for American clients. If you are fully aware that your fraudulent employer tells his customers that you are "American," "a native English-speaker," or similarly misrepresents your qualifications, you have the obligation to demand that your employer state the TRUTH on his/her site. If he or she refuses, you have the obligation to quit, or I believe that you are also guilty of the crimes (figuratively and/or literally).

It is a crime to knowingly enable students to engage in academic fraud by submitting your writing--as their own work--for academic credit. You may NOT place "blank lines" at the top of a document so that the student may fill-in his or her name, professor's name, and/or academic institution. To my current knowledge, doing so is against the law in every state. For example:

New York
assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A03003&sh=t
law.onecle.com/new-york/education/EDN0213-B_213-B.html

California
law.justia.com/california/codes/edc/66400-66406.html
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/edc/66400-66406.html

Florida
law.onecle.com/florida/crimes/877.17.html

Massachusetts
mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/271-50.htm
law.onecle.com/massachusetts/271/50.html

Texas
law.onecle.com/texas/penal/32.50.00.html

Nevada
law.onecle.com/nevada/crimes/207.320.html
leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-207.html#NRS207Sec320

New Jersey
law.justia.com/newjersey/codes/7353/735b.html

aw.onecle.com/new-jersey/18a-education/18A-2-3.html

North Carolina
law.justia.com/northcarolina/codes/chapter_14/gs_14-118.2.html
ncga.state.nc.us/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bysection/chapt er_14/gs_14-118.2.html

Pennsylvania
members.aol.com/StatutesP9/18PA7324.html

Virginia
law.justia.com/virginia/codes/toc1802000/18.2-505.html

Washington
law.justia.com/washington/codes/title28b/28b.10.580.html

Connecticut
legaltips.org/connecticut/Chap949b.aspx#Sec53-392b.aspx

Maine
janus.state.me.us/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec705.html

Any writer who adds "blank lines" to a paper (and any company that condones and/or requests that its writers engage in such a practice) is committing a crime. Similarly, any company that advertises or guarantees a certain GRADE (in the event that a student turns in a paper commissioned from its Web site) is committing a crime.

The ironic thing here is if the (ESL) writer or the company is not a US citizen or a US based company, none of those laws would apply to them. Not only that, these are not even federal laws, but state ones.

That entire comment is utterly irrelevant. One must simply prove to the FTC and/or Google that a WEB SITE that advertises almost entirely to and does business with AMERICAN consumers in all 50 states is breaking the applicable laws of each state. The fraudulent companies in question, including EW_writer's buddies in Ukraine, will have far fewer victims if their sites are banned by Google at the behest of the FTC (or by court order).


Hey, Borat, I'm sure that everyone loves your brilliant contributions.

How is the comment not relevant? You stated that it is against the law in just about every state to enable students to commit academic fraud by guaranteeing a certain grade or having blank lines for the student to enter his and the teacher's names. I'm just saying since the states do not have jurisdiction in other countries, the company nor the writer will be guilty of any crime unless there is a similar law in their country. In other words, the company will not be shutting down or the writer be going to jail. This is entirely different from getting their sites banned from the Google SERPs. Now, if a company depends on something as fickle as their search rankings on a search engine to acquire customers, their business model is flawed to begin with.

PS.. online gambling is also illegal in the US yet poker sites are still all over the Google search results.

I never claimed that the state laws are enforceable against non-U.S. citizens.


Hah? An online company's business model is "flawed" if it depends on search engine traffic to acquire customers?


I think you are overlooking a major difference between the two industries. I've only done a very limited amount of research, but all of the online gambling sites that I found tonight are either operated by Native-Americans or they OPENLY CLAIM to be based outside of the United States, as is the case with the following site that I was able to quickly locate by searching for "gambling" in Google:

rushmorecasino .com
"All Rights Reserved ' 2007 - 2008 by Rushmore - Isagro Holdings. Nicosia, Cyprus"

Obviously, the fraudulent essay peddlers from Ukraine and Pakistan will NEVER openly admit or otherwise state on their sites that they are from or located in ANY country other than the United States (with the occasional exception of the UK or Canada).

Oh, is laughing prohibited now? :p Tsk tsk.. somebody REALLY needs therapy. XD

If those fraudulent essay sites' sole source of traffic is from their search rankings, then yes it is. There is simply no guarantee that a site will be top ranked for a certain keyword forever. They could have the best SEO available but they will always be one algorithm update away from losing all their traffic if they have all their eggs in that one basket. Maybe some people would think differently, but I prefer to be diversified and have traffic also coming from places I can control.

My point about online gambling is that just because something is illegal in the US, it doesn't mean Google won't list it in the search results. When you add fraudulent essay companies that misrepresent where they are located, then yes, this is different. If this was the case, they are probably better off not even bothering to mention they use ESL writers on the website.

If you knowingly patronize a FRAUDULENT company, you are also a FRAUD. funny, how you defend how poor American consumers are being ripped off by essaywriting companies. If they didn't have the need for us, we wouldn't be here right? if some of you poor Americans weren't so godawful lazy, we wouldn't even be here right?


so sue me. sue every ESL writer in the world. *smirk*

Does anyone else recognize the clearly irrational nature of this statement?

Whenever I shop online, I always try to find the most obviously fraudulent sites.

Hi WritersBeware:

Would you msg me, please? I have a question for you.

How we can save ourselves from fraud essay writing companies?

Well let's come out with some ideas:

1. Post the all papers on Internet, ezine etc..
2. We can sell the papers as PLR articles by breaking them into smaller articles. DP forum is a good place to sell.

What else...

How about the only action that is really effective?

Do not write for any of the known frauds:

EssayWriters.net
Writers.ph
Academia-Research.com
etc.

this is madness! all essay companies seem fraud here, no choice for me now?

as my native language is not English, i really need help with my project, and i did a bit research, but all companies I found, someone here reported as crap or fraud. i never found anything good here, maybe thats what this site about, but people like me need help on who can actually help me!

i don't know that's part of this site about, and i am sorry if it is against the policy, but could someone suggest a company with fairly good reputation?

if this against the rule, please delete it, but nobody is perfect, of course no company is perfect, but as an old saying, can't kill a good person with just one mistake, instead of report fraud about others, meanwhile can report some good things too.

by the way, i do really appreciate if "pheelyks" and "WritersBeware" can give me some recommendation, as far as i can tell, you two are long time member here, must seen a lot and have good knowledge of which one is good or bad. i highly value your opinions, thanks

johnny

Based on the experience of certain people who are known to me, it appears that they do not knowingly write for fraudulent companies. Just like the students, they too are gypped into believing that they are working for a legitimate US or UK based company. Due to their desire to earn what they believe to be an honest income, they do not really bother to investigate the background of the company they are potentially going to be working for. They just want to earn an income. Does that make them a fraud? Maybe an accessory, but not a fraudster.

Now, what I think some of these people are engaged in is deceit as they seek to fool people into believing that they are something which they are not. That is what I often warn them about. Being truthful in this business is the only protection a writer has against unfair chargeback claims and other accusations. So when they begin to hide who they truly are, then they are practicing deceit while their company engages in fraud. Yes, I try to separate the two because I believe that the latter has engaged in a far worse crime than the former.

Right on!

Even still, there has to be knowledge of the offense and/or intent to engage or cover up and that's just not the case in the majority of cases. :)

I'd agree that an ESL writer whose work is not comparable to that of a good NES writer is knowingly participating in a fraudulent operation. However, as I suggested in a related thread, a writer who merely provides good work that satisfies customers is doing nothing wrong by working for an organization whose principal fraud is that they don't provide work of that quality more often. Chances are that particular writer's customers are the only ones not having any fraud perpetrated against them, regardless of the false advertising that may have convinced them to use the company in the first place. By the strictest definition, some of the most reputable US companies are equally "fraudulent" (even if many of their customers are satisfied), because they advertise that all of their writers hold advanced degrees and that they don't hire any ESL writers(neither of which is true) and because they know full well and with 100% certainty that the vast majority (if not all) of their customers are taking the model papers that they sell and submitting them for academic credit. Their TOS "prohibiting" their customers from doing so are nothing more than an attempt to create "plausible deniability" that won't help them even slightly if a DA or AG of any one of those states with applicable criminal statutes ever decides that it's worth the trouble and expense to start going after academic essay companies for providing a product that they knew or should have known was purchased for the purpose of submitting it for academic credit (which is the standard of criminal culpability typically defined by those statutes). I'm neither defending nor criticizing the practice, just suggesting that those whose hands are quite dirty, themselves, shouldn't be pointing their dirty fingers at others whose hands might be somewhat dirtier or just covered in a different type of dirt.

Fraud = deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.

I disagree, the companies and writers are not the one perpetrating a fraud. Based on the definition. It is the student who should be taken up on charges for being a fraud. The student is practicing deceit by not telling his professor that he is not the one who wrote the essay. He breached the confidence of the professor, his classmates, and the whole academic body by not completing his assigned work as expected. He definitely hopes or hoped to gain a better grade for his paper by having someone else write it. If that isn't looking to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage, then I do not know what is. Nope. The focus of this thread is all wrong. It is student who is practicing fraud, in every sense of the word.

There were instances in the past, when academic writing was still solely human based, that there were fraudulent companies in existence. I will admit that much. I will not admit that the writers that work for these companies were also frauds. Not all of the writers that work for these companies are in on the trickery. Most of them are tricked by the company as well when it comes to their payouts and other experiences. I do not appreciate that the OP collectively called those writers frauds as well. You never know what they actually know, and do not know about the company they are working for.