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Custom Writers For Student Cheats

In the past year, I’ve written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won’t find my name on a single paper.
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The Shadow Scholar: “You’ve never heard of me, but there’s a good chance that you’ve read some of my work. I’m a hired gun, a doctor of everything, an academic mercenary. My customers are your students. I promise you that. Somebody in your classroom uses a service that you can’t detect, that you can’t defend against, that you may not even know exists.


I work at an online company that generates tens of thousands of dollars a month by creating original essays based on specific instructions provided by cheating students. On any day of the academic year, I am working on upward of 20 assignments.”

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