Inside an essay mill: Two month’s worth of orders

All of this data comes from a message board of the actual essay mill I used to work for. While it may not be representive of the whole essay mill market (since I assume all essay mills have their own niche market).

Please keep in mind I am still collecting and compiling the dataset and this is a summary of only the first 4% of the data. I will be updating this post periodically as I keep adding new orders. To encourage me to do it faster, you can signup to access the dataset here :).

Data Source / How the data is collected

Just to give you a bit more context in how the data is collected, in short when an essay mill recieves an ‘order’ they published it on a Google Group from where the writers would pickup any papers they liked by replying ‘taken’ – there’s a Liam Neeson joke here somewhere.

Anyway, so, the main page looks a bit like this (personal details are redacted):

Once you click on any post, you get to the ‘order details’, where every post contains the details of the order (what they want the writer to do) which look something like this:

So, all I have done, is to just take details of all of the orders and collected them in a spreadsheet to analyze and summarize.