What Happened?
ProjectDeal, a writing service company catering to students with academic papers and assignments, has recently come under scrutiny for allegedly attempting to conceal a dubious past and suppress negative reviews. While the company promotes itself as a reliable provider of essay-writing services, a closer look at reviews and customer feedback tells a different story. Numerous clients have voiced concerns about receiving low-quality work, late deliveries, and poor customer service, all of which contradict the glowing testimonials showcased on the company’s website.
According to reports, ProjectDeal has been actively trying to censor these damaging reviews by removing negative feedback from online platforms or flooding review sites with suspiciously positive testimonials. Critics have accused the company of manipulating its online reputation to maintain an illusion of quality, rather than addressing the core issues that dissatisfied customers have raised. On websites like Best British Essays, detailed reviews expose these tactics and highlight growing discontent among students who feel misled by ProjectDeal’s promises.
As more complaints surface, the company’s alleged efforts to hide its shady practices and censor unfavorable news continue to raise questions about its legitimacy and business ethics. This excerpt sets the stage for a detailed exploration of the complaints against ProjectDeal and its alleged efforts to manipulate its online image.
Analyzing the Fake Copyright Notice(s)
Our team collects and analyses fraudulent copyright takedown requests, legal complaints, and other efforts to remove critical information from the internet. Through our investigative reporting, we examine the prevalence and operation of an organized censorship industry, predominantly funded by criminal entities, oligarchs, and disreputable businesses or individuals. Our findings allow internet users to gain insight into these censorship schemes’ sources, methods, and underlying objectives.
List of Fake Copyright Notices for ProjectsDeal
| Number of Fake DMCA Notice(s) | 1 |
| Lumen Database Notice(s) | https://lumendatabase.org/notices/40150984 |
| Sender(s) | Liam james Corp |
| Date(s) | Mar 16, 2024 |
| Fake Link(s) Used by Scammers | https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2014/09/ensley_man_charged_with_capita.html |
| Original Link(s) Targeted | https://bestbritishessays.com/projectsdeal-co-uk-review/ |
Evidence and Screenshots
How do we investigate fake DMCA notices?
To accomplish this, we utilize the OSINT Tool provided by FakeDMCA.com and the Lumen API for Researchers, courtesy of the Lumen Database.
FakeDMCA.com is the work of an independent team of research students and cybersecurity professionals, developed under Project UnCensor. Their OSINT Tool, designed to uncover and analyze takedown notices, represents a significant step forward in combating these abusive practices. It has become a valuable resource, increasingly relied upon by journalists and law enforcement agencies across the United States.
Lumen, on the other hand, is an independent research initiative dedicated to studying takedown notices and other legal demands related to online content removal. The project, which operates under the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, plays a crucial role in tracking and understanding the broader implications of such requests.
What was ProjectsDeal trying to hide?
ProjectDeal is an academic writing service that offers assistance to students by providing custom-written essays, dissertations, coursework, and other academic papers. The company operates primarily through its website, ProjectsDeal.co.uk, and claims to provide high-quality, timely, and reliable writing services to students across various educational levels. However, despite its claims of excellence, ProjectDeal has been surrounded by several controversies, with a number of clients accusing the company of unethical practices and poor service.
- Subpar Quality of Work: One of the most significant issues faced by customers of ProjectDeal is the poor quality of the work delivered. Reviews from users indicate that many assignments provided by the company are riddled with grammatical errors, lack proper structure, and often fail to meet academic standards. These complaints highlight that the work delivered is often not reflective of the high-quality service the company advertises.
- Failure to Meet Deadlines: A recurring complaint involves ProjectDeal’s inability to meet the deadlines set by its clients. Many students rely on these services for time-sensitive assignments, and when the company fails to deliver on time, it puts students in difficult positions academically. Late submissions are a major issue, and this has been raised repeatedly by dissatisfied customers.
- Poor Customer Service: Several negative reviews point to a lack of effective communication and customer support from ProjectDeal. Many customers have expressed frustration over their inability to get in touch with the company for revisions, refunds, or clarification on issues with their orders. These experiences have led to further dissatisfaction, as customers feel neglected and unsupported after purchasing services.
- Misleading Advertising and Testimonials: There are allegations that ProjectDeal misleads potential clients through manipulated reviews and testimonials. While the company’s website features overwhelmingly positive feedback, independent review platforms such as Best British Essays reveal a different picture, filled with complaints about substandard service. There are concerns that the company either fabricates or selectively promotes positive reviews while suppressing or ignoring the negative ones.
- Allegations of Plagiarism: Some customers have accused ProjectDeal of delivering plagiarized content. For students, submitting plagiarized work can have severe consequences, including academic penalties and damage to their reputations. This allegation is particularly troubling, as students depend on writing services like ProjectDeal to provide original and plagiarism-free work.
- Refund and Revision Issues: Numerous complaints have surfaced regarding ProjectDeal’s refund and revision policies. Many users have reported that when they request refunds for poor service, their requests are ignored or outright denied, even in cases where the work clearly did not meet their expectations. Likewise, customers who sought revisions to their papers were often left unsatisfied, as the revisions were either not completed or failed to address the issues raised.
- Opaque Pricing and Hidden Charges: Another issue commonly reported is ProjectDeal’s unclear pricing structure. While the company advertises certain fees, clients have claimed that additional, unexpected charges arise during the process, which are not fully disclosed upfront. This has led to complaints of deceptive pricing practices.
- Reputation Management and Review Suppression: There is growing concern that ProjectDeal actively engages in reputation management strategies to suppress negative feedback online. Clients have reported that negative reviews are often removed from certain platforms or overwhelmed by a surge of overly positive reviews. This has led to allegations that ProjectDeal attempts to manipulate its public image to attract new customers while avoiding accountability for its past failures.
ProjectDeal has faced multiple accusations related to poor service quality, missed deadlines, plagiarism, and poor customer support, all of which contradict the positive image it attempts to present. The company’s efforts to suppress negative reviews and complaints online only serve to deepen suspicions about its business practices. As more users share their adverse experiences on independent review platforms like Best British Essays, the gap between the company’s promises and its actual performance continues to widen, raising serious concerns about the legitimacy and reliability of ProjectDeal’s services.
Only ProjectsDeal benefits from this crime.
Since the fake copyright takedown notices were designed to remove negative content for ProjectsDeal from Google, we assume ProjectsDeal or someone associated with ProjectsDeal is behind this scam. It is often a fly-by-night Online Reputation agency working on behalf of ProjectsDeal. In this case, ProjectsDeal, at best, will be an “accomplice” or an “accessory” to the crime. The specific laws may vary depending on the jurisdiction. Still, the legal principle generally holds that if you actively participate in planning, encouraging, or facilitating a crime, you can be charged with it, even if you did not personally commit it.
How do we counteract this malpractice?
Once we ascertain the involvement of ProjectsDeal (or actors working on behalf of ProjectsDeal), we will inform ProjectsDeal of our findings via Electronic Mail.
Our preliminary assessment suggests that ProjectsDeal may have engaged a third-party reputation management agency or expert, which, either independently or under direct authorization from ProjectsDeal, initiated efforts to remove adverse online content, including potentially fraudulent DMCA takedown requests. We will extend an opportunity to ProjectsDeal to provide details regarding their communications with the agency or expert, as well as the identification of the individual(s) responsible for executing these false DMCA notices.
Failure to respond in a timely manner will necessitate a reassessment of our initial assumptions. In such an event, we will be compelled to take appropriate legal action to rectify the unlawful conduct and take the following steps –
- Inform Google about the fraud committed against them.
- Inform the victims of the fake DMCA about their websites.
- Inform relevant law enforcement agencies
- File counter-notices on Google to reinstate the ‘removed’ content
- Publish copies of the ‘removed’ content on our network of 50+ websites
By investigating the fake DMCA takedown attempts, we hope to shed light on the reputation management industry, revealing how ProjectsDeal and companies like it may use spurious copyright claims and fake legal notices to remove and obscure articles linking them to allegations of fraud, tax avoidance, corruption, and drug trafficking…
Since ProjectsDeal made such efforts to hide something online, it seems fit to ensure that this article and our original review of ProjectsDeal, including but not limited to user contributions, remain a permanent record for anyone interested in ProjectsDeal.
A case perfect for the Streisand effect…
Potential Consequences for ProjectsDeal
Under Florida Statute 831.01, the crime of Forgery is committed when a person falsifies, alters, counterfeits, or forges a document that carries “legal efficacy” with the intent to injure or defraud another person or entity.
Forging a document is considered a white-collar crime. It involves altering, changing, or modifying a document to deceive another person. It can also include passing along copies of documents that are known to be false. In many states in the US, falsifying a document is a crime punishable as a felony.
Additionally, under most laws, “fraud on the court” is where “a party has sentiently set in motion some unconscionable scheme calculated to interfere with the judicial system’s ability impartially to adjudicate a matter by improperly influencing the trier of fact or unfairly hampering the presentation of the opposing party’s claim or defense.” Cox v. Burke, 706 So. 2d 43, 46 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998) (quoting Aoude v. Mobil Oil Corp., 892 F.2d 1115, 1118 (1st Cir. 1989)).
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Is ProjectsDeal Committing a Cyber Crime?
Yes, it seems so. ProjectsDeal used multiple approaches to remove unwanted material from review sites and Google’s search results. Thanks to protections allowing freedom of speech in the United States, there are very few legal ways to do this. ProjectsDeal could not eliminate negative reviews or search results that linked to them without a valid claim of defamation, copyright infringement, or some other clear breach of the law.
Faced with these limitations, some companies like ProjectsDeal have gone to extreme lengths to fraudulently claim copyright ownership over a negative review in the hopes of taking it down.
