An SBS Punjabi investigation has revealed how easy and quick it is to buy an academic assignment online that can go undetected by university professors and hi-tech plagiarism software.
A simple internet search for ‘write my assignment’ produced countless results leading to websites of ‘contract cheating’ service providers, offering ‘plagiarism-free’ essays in exchange for a fee under ‘guaranteed confidentiality.’
Some of the advertisements were tailored to entice Indian students at Australian universities grappling with the ‘English language’, ‘daunting coursework’ and ‘foreign environment’.
An online chat with one such service provider revealed that the cost of the service varied in accordance with the nature of the degree and subject, number of words, assignment deadline and standard of English expected of the student.
Some service providers even allowed their clients to bid for the writers and accordingly pick packages which ranged from 'Premium' to 'Platinum' depending on how much they were ready to shell.
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