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The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract" (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
I came across a message posted at a Writers' Forum from one who appears to be a lackey and crony of the alleged fraudulent essay writing websites. He claimed that beyond consumer (student) satisfaction with the written (essay) order; all else is trivial. Moreover, any writer who would complain about excessive fines imposed by these alleged fraudulent websites is immediately regarded as a plagiarist or one with poor writing skills. In the face of admissions that he profited from his "master's business" and that hundreds of US dollars makes one a "king" in a country ridden with political strife and struggles; he does share a common tangent plane with his 'master' in a profiling made. Beyond the megalomanic hysteria and a myopically delusive assumption that consumer satisfaction is the only/sole proviso in the law (of the many provisos in the consumer law and of the numerous laws in a society) as worth complying; an advocacy of selective and self-benefiting compliance is erroneously propagated in a (his) jungle where the law of the savages is upheld.
Of course we would have a different and perhaps an extreme opposite argument from him in the spectrum if he is a national of one of the countries allegedly cheated of taxes for a number of years or one of the writers not paid. Truly, good writing skills does not assure anyone of intelligence and wisdom and of honor and integrity.
The following images show the interrelation and linkages of the entities/companies--Universal Research LLC, Universal Research Inc., Universal Research Inc. Limited, and Uniwork, Inc. based on the information stated on the websites, company papers and reassignment of domains. They are ALL one and the same.
FIGURE 1: One and the same monkey.When one orders from one of the commercial websites:
a) transaction shows up under UNIVERSAL RESEARCH INC.;
b) you become a party to an agreement with UNIVERSAL RESEARCH INC. LTD which in turn
c) you authorize UNIVERSAL RESEARCH INC. LTD to charge your credit card
d) should you desire to cancel the order or receive a refund, email
support at universalresearch.net which is actually UNIVERSAL RESEARCH LLC. (Image taken later part of 2008) This also proves that Universal Research LLC was conducting its business a year after its registration was already cancelled by the Virginia State of Corporation Commission.
e) should there still be problems, call the US phone number specified on the website and a staff from UNIWORK, INC./writers.ph will answer the call.
FIGURE 2A: Universal Research LLC (Va) was registered on 6 Feb 2006. Registration cancelled on 31 Dec 2007 but was still operational until late 2008. Universal Research Inc. (Va) was registered 27 Oct. 2008 in Va. It was only in the early part of 2009 that websites showed the name of this company on their respective contacts pages (only in the contacts pages and not in any official/public document).
FIGURE 2B: Universal Research Inc. Ltd (UK) was registered on 17 Dec. 2007. Uniwork, Inc. (Philippines) was registered on 23 August 2007.
FIGURE 3: Reassignment of NetWhoIs registration of the websites from the defunct Universal Research LLC/Yuriy Mizyuk to Uniwork, Inc. (a foreign corporation incorporated in the Philippines with a 99.99% Ukrainian/Yuriy Mizyuk capitalization) in November 2008 then later reassigned to Universal Research Incorporated (Va) in April 2009. (The images were taken immediately after each instance of reassignment, in the series of reassignments).
The domain history of a number websites have been recently blocked for 'privacy;' and mostly for the entire 2008 (or the latter months) to 2009. (Similar to the internet archives, with the robot.txt). The domain tools website informs us that it costs $10 per domain name per day if you desire to block your website's domain history. Assuming these are 20 websites already (because I lost count already), that is about $200--just for privacy alone :-(
So you writers out there, work hard--very hard to commit mistakes so that they can impose the excessive fines! Spare them of all the trouble of allegedly having to invent and fabricate complaints of customers. :))
All of these entities were registered without any overseas office/branch as shown in Figures 2A and 2B--no parent company and no subsidiaries. But how come when one orders from a website with its contact page reflecting Universal Research Inc.; the transaction appears as such but you become a party to an agreement with Universal Research Inc. Ltd (authorized to charge your credit card) which in turn issues you the billing. And if you have a problem with the order, call the US phone numbers appearing on the website and it is going to be Uniwork, Inc (Philippines) support staff who will answer the phone call.
Legally, a corporation is deemed as a separate and distinct 'person' by legal fiction. Nothing wrong with different "affiliate" corporations assisting each other in the same business operations but why not specify this on public and official documents to clearly define rights, responsibilities, and liabilities including, for tax purposes. When a customer or writer complains, who or which entity shall he sue?
A corporation/LLC is granted a distinct personality from its stockholders/members. Thus, the former's liabilities are not the latter's. They become responsible only in instances such as in tort or fraud, warranting the disregard of the legal fiction. Courts choose to pierce the veil of corporate/legal fiction to make the responsible officers liable to third parties, including the Government.
Piercing the alleged web of lies and deception would lead you to Mizyuk and his cohorts.
