surreal snapshot of a plagiarism scam service

Apr 18, 2006 17:49

Should you ever need anything truly horrid to show your students about why they shouldn't plagiarize, check out this site. It's a "dissertation writing" outfit. Now scroll down in their FAQ to where it provides "endorsements." Search google for "Adrian J. Seath". Notice the dozen other scam sites? Same people, obviously ( Read more... )

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skirmishgirl April 18 2006, 22:10:28 UTC
Interesting. Today I busted yet another student for copying and pasting various wikipedia articles into a paper, without attribution, of course. Most of the portions which were stolen came from the first couple of sentences of the various articles, so yes, I do thing they're that dumb.

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chatnoire April 18 2006, 22:11:41 UTC
I'm really amused by the link about Rochville:

Answer by GaryT
Submitted on 4/21/2004
I have been in the composite industry for over 20 years and have had to tolerate idiots who have a degree but no practical experience. I was sick of supporting these people with my knowledge and experience. I have been recognized as a expert in my field, but with out a spare $9,000 I have been unable to proceed with my career, until I discovered Roch ville. They have opened a door to me that has been closed to me for to long. If some one applies for a degree for something that they now nothing about it seems to me that that the worst that industry will suffer is another grad with no experience and little knowledge. Good luck to any body with the experience and balls to do this. By the way I have just received my degree, and now I have been promoted with an increase of salary of $15,000 pa. I Could have only have done this because Roch ville helped. By the way the newspaper article, if the real person had applied not the crew than maybe they ( ... )

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drenilop April 18 2006, 23:53:28 UTC
There are a number of other errors in that sentence too - "has been closed to me for TO long" .. "a degree for something that they NOW nothing about" ... "not the crew thAn maybe they would..."

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chatnoire April 19 2006, 03:31:50 UTC
Oh, I definitely saw the others, but the barley one - especially when combined with literate...

;)

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pansette April 19 2006, 03:52:59 UTC
barley literacy is very important.
as is hops literacy.

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rubberkeyhole April 18 2006, 22:34:28 UTC
maybe you never considered that this Adrian J. Seath guy is just REALLY busy and a good entrepreneur?

:o)

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epistolarysmack April 19 2006, 02:47:22 UTC
it's scarily too easy to get obsessed with this sort of weirdness. I will NOT whois all their domain names. I won't! I won't!

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rocza April 18 2006, 23:03:32 UTC
*amused*
That FAQ thread is highly entertaining.

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max_ambiguity April 18 2006, 23:17:58 UTC
I love how they claim they can custom write your dissertation in four days or less. I must be doing something wrong.

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