Identification of companies
Included in a separate project we identified approximately 1000 distinct websites offering essay-writing or related services to students in Higher Education. We analysed the websites to recognize people who indicated that they are owned by companies listed at Companies House when you look at the UK, and therefore they are able to run as ‘legitimate’ businesses and they are at the mercy of regulation by UK law, having been ‘incorporated’ under the Companies Act 2006 (UK Government 2016b). We analysed 26 sites operated by a total of 21 companies that are apparently distinct each had separate listings at Companies House. We also analysed a number of additional sites from Australia therefore the USA, making a complete of 31 sites. We now have not included the identity of this specific companies in this publication for listed here reasons: 1. We usually do not wish to further advertise the services of the companies, either through this publication or through any publicity associated with it. 2. We haven’t any guarantee that the ongoing company number given on these websites is obviously compared to the business which runs the website. The names are the same but in others this is not the case in some cases. 3. The content of the article is academic opinion and not the foundation for legal proceedings. We have shared, confidentially, the identities regarding the companies using the reviewers for this manuscript and in addition aided by the UK Quality Assurance Agency who also identified a number of UK-based companies inside their recent report on essay mills (QAA 2016).
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