| truthaboutfreelancing |
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Sep 24, 11, 09:47PM
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TRUE EXPERIENCE. I am/was a writer for this company and BEAWRE!!! THEY DO NOT LIKE TO PAY THEIR WRITERS AND WILL POST EXORBITANT AND UNWARRANTED FINES TO YOUR PROFILE TO AVOID PAYING YOU. THEY WILL NOT LET YOU SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE THEY CLAIM MAKE THE DECISION TO FINE YOU AND THEY NEVER PROVIDE THE EVIDENCE THEY CLAIM PROMPTED THE FINE, eg. the client's so-called complaints. I made over $900 in a 2-week period writing and filling orders & was fined over $300 without cause/proof. The next time, I got an order for $576 and was then fined $288 TWICE (288 + 288 = 576). At No time did they ever provide proof that the fines were warranted and they even claimed they were fining me for poor quality on an order where the client praised my work and requested me as their PREFERRED WRITER!! This company is a bunch of CROOKED SCAM ARTISTS, and I would NOT suggest anyone who wants and expects to get PAID for their work sign on with this company.
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| BGT |
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Sep 25, 11, 02:46AM
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Hi truthaboutfreelancing,
I'm not surprised you got ripped off. As soon as you load the site, you can tell it's a fraudulent, shady-ass template site with a proxied-domain. Here are a few hints that it's a scam:
1. Academia-research.com. Come on, the domain in itself should be blatantly obvious as to the fact it's a scam.
2. The site itself. It's a template site. The scam artist probably has 50-100 sites like it. Once they get enough heat (ie people e-mailing them from random e-mails and calling from randoms #'s) and getting yelled at it, they jump ship.
3. Speaking of which, the phone number is out of service. This is a dead giveaway. Furthermore, this site in particular didn't even bother with a toll-free number, and instead went with a NYC #, so even fewer people would call. Most fraudulent sites use #'s as a guise of legitimacy, and almost never answer their phones (and when they do, scam site operators have heavy accents, typically eastern European/Pakistani/Indian).
4. The domain is anonymized. While an anonymized domain is not necessarily an indicator of a fraudulent site-- there are plenty of legitimate sites in the business that for, let us say, professional reasons anonymize their domains-- more times than not scam sites are associated with anonymized domains.
5. Straight from the template site, "we pay from $5 up to $17 per page which none of other companies in the industry can afford". Heh. Let me repeat-- heh. Perhaps in Pakistan or the Philippines.
6. Not a single backlink. (google "site:www.academia-research.com"). Again, indicative of a throw-away site.
7. Pure 100% fraud sign, from "What we do": "Generally, our clientele request Masters or Doctoral-level writing." This is an outright lie. It's even too hilarious to address. If you believe this, well then, my friend, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you, :)
Again, if you're going to write for someone, make sure it's a legitimate site and not a template site. Second, make sure it's based in say Canada, the US, UK or a Commonwealth country, where the native language is English. Speak to the owner. You can tell if they're a native English speaker and straight forward, or a scam artist, and like I said before, 99% of the time you won't be able to reach them.
Again, I sort of feel sorry for you, but you were way, way too gullible. Next time, hedge your risks better.
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| jonsey76 |
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Sep 27, 11, 07:22PM
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Good Advice. Always phone before you order and pay attention to the ring tone and above all how the person speaks. Most scam sites wont answer and operate live chats
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| pheelyks |
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Sep 28, 11, 10:43AM
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jonsey76: pay attention to the ring tone
What good do you think that does? The ring tone is produced by the phone doing the calling, not the one receiving.
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| WritersBeware |
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Edited by: WritersBeware Sep 28, 11, 12:44PM
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pheelyks: What good do you think that does? The ring tone is produced by the phone doing the calling, not the one receiving.
I think he is referring to the particular sounds that one may hear when calling an "American" number that secretly forwards to the international number of the fraudster.
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| pheelyks |
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Sep 28, 11, 03:13PM
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WritersBeware: I think he is referring to the particular sounds that one may hear when calling an "American" number that secretly forwards to the international number of the fraudster.
So, not the ringtone at all then. As long as that's clear....
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| jonsey76 |
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Sep 28, 11, 05:09PM
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yep. Countries have distinctive sounds ie US and UK are completely different to Ukraine/Pakistan one would think
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| Shaikh |
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Dec 30, 11, 08:17PM
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Wow what an essay ! you are fined for $ 1000 for poor writing quality and facts without supporting references !
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