researchwritingcenter.com agency for writers

The company has kept the url active all these years, even though there are no active writers or clients for it. I am not sure why anybody would do that unless they are using it as a front for something. Perhaps it is one of their reserved domain names that they plan to use in the future, should one of their other domain names end up being too hot to handle. Or, they plan to activate that url eventually, with active writers, when whatever it is that is preventing them from going live is resolved.

The domain name is actually still active 4 years after the post of Cite. It is still in the same limbo status. The URL is active but not connected to an anchor page on an existing server. Why the owners continue to reserve the name is beyond logic and reason now. Its been 4 years. They should have made a decision by now. Either let the domain name go or restart the writing company. For some reason, they cannot make a decision that should be simple enough to make. Checking the URL now just ends up at a page that says "Web". That message does not make sense to anybody.

Based on what I've read in this thread, that company sounds like it was simply a much larger venture built on the same "business model" as that used by countless Nigerian (and other) individual "entrepreneurs" who operate as undisclosed middlemen to rip people off on both sides of the business of academic essays. Over the years, at least a dozen of them have contacted me, pretending to be prospective clients.

The way it works is they advertise themselves and solicit business, either as essay companies or as writers. As soon as they get payments from customers, they start shopping around for real writers, posing as students in need of essays. They look for very cheap ESL "writers" willing to work for the few dollars per page that they pay them to write projects for which they charge customers a premium price of 10x or 20x what they pay any of the totally unqualified "writers" they hire. They usually pay their totally unqualified "writers" peanuts just to maintain them on their staff and continue using them to provide horrible and totally unusable essays to all of their future first-time/last-time customers. When they do manage to dupe any real writer to work for much higher pay that actually is reasonable, they simply ghost the writer when it comes time for payment, or they invent false justifications for refusing to pay what the writer rightfully earned.

There are several variations of this scam, but the most common one -- especially those run by individuals rather than by larger companies -- is probably collecting customer payments and then not paying any of the real writers they can dupe into writing for them (once) by posing as clients. The larger company-sized variations of this scheme involve a longer-term strategy, whereby they actually do pay new their writers for their first few projects, or for their first month of work, just to gain their trust and confidence. Then, after those writers provide a few thousand dollars worth of work, they provide excuses for "delayed" payment, to maximize the amount of unpaid work from them; and then, they either ghost them or they invent endless phony justifications for deducting large portions of their earned pay if/when they do actually pay them, at all. In this larger version of this scam, they actually do get some repeat customers (because a real writer who never got paid wrote their projects), and they get a few thousand dollars worth of work from each real writer they rip off after a month or three of hard work.