| asif4444 |
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Jun 12, 09, 06:00AM
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Well here is an email full of threats and insults from Jennifer Hess, resident evil one at Academic Knowledge at Academic Knowledge Ltd (UKessays.com, essayadvice.com etc owned by Barclay Littlecock). Read it and weep Jenny the Nazi - you have NO case at all which just shows what a non-lawyer you are you sucker fool! Threaten away - you have no case. None.
Email from Jennifer Hess of Academic Knowledge Ltd:
"Thank you for your email. Clearly you are quite a stressed individual - I am not sure what your relationship is with our company - are you a former researcher who we have removed from our books? If so I must remind you of your legally binding agreement as to confidentiality.
I am not sure what exactly your objective is in emailing us and theatening us. Perhaps you can enlighten me. In any case, our service is 100% legal and 100% legitimate. We are not breaking any law and everything we say on our website is entirely correct. We have never had anything to hide - we have not only allowed the Press into our offices and responded to all enquiries fully and honestly, as well as participating in many TV and radio interviews, but we have also fully cooperated with all enquiries from relevant authorities at all times.
What do you hope to achieve by mailing a list of our writers to 'the relevant authorities'? Who are the "relevant authorities"? You seem to be under some mistaken belief that our service is illegal and quite simply, it is not. It is neither illegal to use our service, nor is it illegal to write for us. In any case, we check our writers' credentials including their identification, address and certificates. We don't use ESL writers - some may have foreign names (like myself indeed!) but English is their first language.
It is no lie that we are run by former lecturers - our management team is comprised of seven individuals - myself, Barclay, Tony, Karina, Liam, Peter and Edd. Liam and myself are former lecturers and Barclay a former tutor. Peter has multiple post graduate qualifications, and Tony and Karina are graduates with several years' of business experience. A failed law student? I have no idea which of us you're referring to - I'm a qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate and 6 years post-qualification experience. Barclay trained as a barrister - he completed his training but decided not to proceed with that career. Clearly you have some problems in obtaining accurate data about our company.
As for the claims on our website, there are none that break the law - as a contracts expert, I can assure you of this.
The only person who stands to break the law right now is you - it is you, in your email, that makes false claims about our company, based upon incorrect, patchy knowledge of our methods and practices. I suggest you think very carefully about what you believe you 'know' about our company. You are of course legally entitled to make any statement you know to be true -- but let me assure you that I won't hesitate in issuing a claim for defamation in relation to any inaccurate statements you 'publish' regarding our company. Consider also how you obtained the data you claim to have on other writers, and if you are entitled to distribute it.
For your own sake, I suggest you also think very carefully about the information you have about our customers (assuming you are a former researcher), and consider whether you will be liable for breach of contract if you share it. You will be looking at a claim for all damages that naturally flow from your breach of contract, so I'll leave you to consider the extent of that. Also take into consideration that our end customers may have third party rights under the contract you have with us, and can also make claims against you. For our part, assuming you are indeed a former researcher, and I find that you have shared information that you should not have, I won't hesitate in pursuing a claim against you for breach of confidentiality, and I imagine our end customers will want to do the same.
All the best,
Jennifer"
The enquirer wrote:
"You are a custom essay site and here are just some of your lies. I have reported you to Google because you are advertising custom essays against their rules.
Five lies from essayadvice.co.uk:
1) That you are not a custom essay site. LIE. Google have been sent information that you are exactly the same as UKessays.com and other essay mill sites.
2) You do not encourage cheating. LIE. Yes you do.
3) You do not employ EFL writers. LIE. Yes you do and I have names of foreigners who write for you.
4) You are run by former lecturers. LIE. You are run by a failed law student.
5) You claim you can provide 2.1 essays. LIE. Marking is subjective and marks vary according to the marker, so you are misleading the consumer to claim this and breaking the law."
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| JenniferAA |
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Jun 12, 09, 06:58AM
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Actually your email said the following:
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cecilia mckelvey <ceciliamckelvey@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
You are a custom essay site and here are just some of your lies. I am a university lecturer and have reported you to the authorities (consumer protection) and to Google because you are advertising custom essays against their rules.
Five lies from essayadvice.co.uk:
1) That you are not a custom essay site. LIE. Google have been sent information that you are exactly the same as UKessays.com and other essay mill sites.
2) You do not encourage cheating. LIE. Yes you do and I have copies of emails in which your claim is disproven. I have copies of essays written for your customers with the intention that they hand them in as their own, and so I shall get those students expelled from their universities for cheating.
3) You do not employ EFL writers. LIE. Yes you do and I have evidence and names of foreigners who write for you (as well as others who write for you and I shall be sending this list to relevant authorities).
4) You are run by former lecturers. LIE. You are run by a failed law student.
5) You claim you can provide 2.1 essays. LIE. Marking is subjective and marks vary according to the marker, so you are misleading the consumer to claim this and breaking the law.
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I think my answer is justified. Your email wasn't an enquiry, it was a threat and you're also impersonating someone else - you've registered in this forum as 'Asif' but your email says you were Cecilia Mckelvey, a lecturer.
My answer is fair and true - and I'm hardly a 'Nazi' for saying that if you cause harm to our customers by breaching their confidentiality, our company will take action against you. We care a great deal about the welfare of our customers and we will as a company take every measure and every action we possibly can to protect them.
Moderator, are you going to allow this kind of insulting, disgusting language in the forum?
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| OxbridgeResearchers |
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Jun 12, 09, 07:15AM
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asif4444: What do you hope to achieve by mailing a list of our writers to 'the relevant authorities'?
If you had indeed threatened to do so, you are just plain silly. The only relevant `authority' here is HM Revenues and Custom - you can only report the writers (the British ones) if you can prove that they are evading taxes. Possibly, if you have absolute proof that a particular writer stole copyrighted material (plagiarised) and passed it onto the customer as his/her own work, you can report that. In all cases, why are you making such a failed threat against WRITERS?asif4444: For your own sake, I suggest you also think very carefully about the information you have about our customers (assuming you are a former researcher), and consider whether you will be liable for breach of contract if you share it.
Is one to assume that you threatened to expose customers? That is terribly unethical and, unfortunately, it is illegal given the terms of Littlewood's employment contracts.
I certainly don't like to agree with Jennifer and I (personally) can pick out several objectionable points in her email ... as far as you are concerned, however, it appears that she has a case ...
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| OxbridgeResearchers |
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Jun 12, 09, 04:16PM
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OxbridgeResearchers: Well here is an email full of threats and insults from Jennifer Hess, resident evil one at Academic Knowledge at Academic Knowledge Ltd (UKessays.com, essayadvice.com etc owned by Barclay Littlecock). Read it and weep Jenny the Nazi - you have NO case at all which just shows what a non-lawyer you are you sucker fool! Threaten away - you have no case. None.
JenniferAA: your email says you were Cecilia Mckelvey, a lecturer
Cecilia Mckelvey is a lecturer at Greenwich University. She teaches English as a second language, among other things. One would assume, therefore, that her grasp of the language would be near-perfect (at least). Asif's 3 posts clearly establish him/her as a very average (or below average) ESL speaker/writer - the foreign nuances are very clearly present. I do not, therefore, believe that he and Cecilia Mckelvey are one and the same.
That brings me to another question - if he really was on your books Jennifer, does not that dispute the claim that Academic Knowledge carefully handpicks its writers? I thought you only hired native speakers????
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| JenniferAA |
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Jun 12, 09, 05:26PM
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We do (only hire native English speakers). In the past we used to just ask for certificates, ID and a couple of past essays, so the odd ESL person would slip through the system presumably by submitting work that wasn't their own. It was soon obvious after they did their first piece of work but by that time too late for the customer. We're far more strict about applications now, and about monitoring everything writers do - we still ask for all the docs and a sample of writing but we'll also phone them, and monitor things like their writing in messages to us/their profile closely.
I don't know for sure that Asif or whoever they are, actually wrote for us - obviously as you said, it's unlikely they are the real Celia McKelvey and the email address isn't on our database - it's just that they said "I have copies of essays written for your customers with the intention that they hand them in as their own..." which implies they have written essays for our customers.
I really hope that's not the case! :(
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| EW_writer |
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Jun 12, 09, 07:41PM
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OxbridgeResearchers: Cecilia Mckelvey is a lecturer at Greenwich University. She teaches English as a second language, among other things. One would assume, therefore, that her grasp of the language would be near-perfect (at least).
Well.. many teachers of ESL (based on my experience as I have helped so many of them already) have English as a second language.
OxbridgeResearchers: if he really was on your books Jennifer, does not that dispute the claim that Academic Knowledge carefully handpicks its writers?
Maybe asif worked for essaybay. :p
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| OxbridgeResearchers |
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Jun 13, 09, 03:04AM
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EW_writer: Well.. many teachers of ESL (based on my experience as I have helped so many of them already) have English as a second language.
Most definitely ... however, Asif's English betrays him/her as a below average speaker. He cannot be a lecturer ... a student, maybe
EW_writer: Maybe asif worked for essaybay. :p
Could be except that he gives the impression that he was with AK itself, not essaybay.
But - in all cases, his email is pathetic ... threatening writers and customers???!!! Who is supposed to side with him???? And, his threats don't even hold water
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| OxbridgeResearchers |
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Jul 6, 09, 09:13AM
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Look at our brilliant Asif4444's posts :)
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| th63 |
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Mar 14, 10, 07:10PM
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I only wrote one essay for them, got ripped off, and quit immediately.
My advice to writers is have nothing to do with Academic Knowledge at all.
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| rustyironchains |
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Edited by: rustyironchains Mar 14, 10, 07:18PM
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Asif is a nutjob.
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| WRT |
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Edited by: WRT Mar 14, 10, 07:24PM
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Asif was not an Indian guy, as he claimed :) he was the queen of the peroxide bottle :)
How about `fessing up?
Petey?
Jimbo?
Melissa?
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