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Cheat Sites

This page lists web sites which may be used by students to cheat in assignments. The majority of these have been identified (by Bob Clarke of Birmingham City University) as having recently been involved in cheating activity. We have divided them into three classifications — contract cheating sites (where users essentially pay for someone else to code or write essays), bulletin boards (forums) where users can publicly ask (simple) questions and receive answers from other users, and other sites.

Note that this list is not definitive — these sites tend to come and go, and when you read this you will probably find that some of the links are already broken. This list is a snapshot compiled on 11 March 2008, and on that date all the sites were “live”.

We do not include sites which appear simply to be technology news sites, news feeds, search engines, sites containong only tutorial material. Sites which aggregate or front-end other sites are noted as such.

Contract Cheating Sites

Sites where users can pay for a piece of work to be written for them, and returned to them as a private transaction. The results of such transactions would normally not be available to search engines.

These have been divided into three types — those which are essentially computing (source code) sites, those which offer document writing services, and sites which offer a mixture of services.

Computing only

Essays only (Essay Mills)

(External) coursework4you.co.uk
(External) essayrelief.co.uk
(External) fratfiles.com
(External) oppapers.com (front end to fratfiles.com)
(External) professays.com
(External) researchassistance.com
(External) superiorpapers.com
(External) writemyessay.com

Mixed content

(External) academicdb.com
(External) brainmass.com
(External) coursework.info
(External) elance.com
(External) ernoma.com
(External) gazhoo.com
(External) guru.com
(External) homework-help.us
(External) iitiancollege.info
(External) justanswer.com
(External) kasamba.com
(External) studentoffortune.com

Bulletin Boards / Discussion Forums

These sites take the form of forums / bulletin boards (or similar) where users can pose (technical) questions which may receive an answer. The questions and answers may be picked up by search engines. This section focuses on computing related sites only .

(External) a1vbcode.com (VB only)
(External) answerboard.cramster.com
(External) artima.com
(External) answers.yahoo.com
(External) arabteam2000-forum.com (in Arabic)
(External) bbs.mopyx.com (in Chinese)
(External) bleepingcomputer.com
(External) cboard.cprogramming.com (focuses on C and C++ topics)
(External) codecall.net
(External) codecomments.com
(External) codingforums.com
(External) computerforums.org
(External) computing.net/forums
(External) criticalsecurity.net
(External) daniweb.com
(External) dbforums.com (database topics)
(External) devshed.com
(External) deviantforums.com
(External) news.devx.com
(External) dreamincode.net
(External) driverheaven.net (forum for device drivers and related topics)
(External) dzone.com
(External) education.sqlfarms.com (focuses on SQL databases)
(External) feedfury.com
(External) fenlei4.52csdn.net (in Chinese, and focuses on C++)
(External) foro.chuidiang.com (in the Spanish language, and focuses on C/C++/Linux)
(External) free2code.net
(External) freepint.willco.com
(External) gidforums.com
(External) hardforum.com (source code)
(External) hardwarezone.com
(External) hotscripts.com
(External) javalobby.org (front end for dzone.com)
(External) jiskha.com (school homework help services, links to kasamba.com)
(External) justbasic.conforums.com (restricted to the Just BASIC language)
(External) mganan.com (source code, in Arabic)
(External) neowin.net
(External) p2p.wrox.com
(External) pastebin.com (collaborative debugging of code snippets)
(External) perlmonks.org (source code, perl only)
(External) planet-source-code.com
(External) programmersheaven.com
(External) programmingtalk.com
(External) sourcecodesworld.com (more a directory of code and solutions than a bulletin board)
(External) thescripts.com
(External) unix.com

Other Sites

(External) answers.google.com (this has closed, but its archives remain)
(External) blogsearch.google.com (this is simply a Google search restricted to Blogs)
(External) experts.about.com (this site allows users to ask questions to volunteer experts, who are not anonymous)
(External) javaranch.com (source code, Java only)
(External) paste.lisp.org (users upload code, and syntax markup is added)

Out of order?

These sites have in the past been identified as interesting, but at present appear not to be active. These are included merely for the purposes of completeness, should any of them in future be reactivated.

(External) 2ndproject.com (suspended by ISP)
(External) codercc.com
(External) contractedwork.com
(External) cpplc.net (suspended by ISP)
(External) edalance.com
(External) feeds.linuxsouthamerica.com
(External) forums.belution.com/en
(External) freelancecontests.com
(External) freelancerheaven.com (site for sale)
(External) freelancersnet.net (suspended by ISP)
(External) lewislacook.org
(External) netskool.com
(External) quickcheatcodes.com (suspended by ISP)
(External) wemovedpro.com

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