I used to TA and have seen several of these essay farms in the most amusing ways. - Embedded metadata in the PDF of a long, foreign name that was not the stude

I used to TA and have seen several of these essay farms in the most amusing ways. - Embedded metadata in the PDF of a long, foreign name that was not the student's (as Author:) - An email to several TAs + prof for the course with the student's personal information sent by the essay farm because the student was harassing the essay farm over payment/cost/speed, including live chat logs of the student calling them "pakis" (the essay farm was based in the Philippines) - Two students purchased and turned in an identical essay except the words were re-spun (bullshit synonym replacement, automated) to the point that both were unreadable to a native English speaker. It was clear neither of them had even read through it before submitting it at 23:59 A fair chunk of bought essays (under $100-150, probably, not the truly bespoke "pay2win" type) are nearly just the Wikipedia article regurgitated with irrelevant citations or sources that just vaguely match the keywords.