While there is growing awareness of the existence and activities of Academic Custom Writing websites, which form a small part of the contract cheating industry, how they work remains poorly understood. Very little research has been done on these sites, probably because it has been assumed that it is impossible to see behind their firewalls and password protection. We have found that, with some close scrutiny, it is indeed possible to find some ‘cracks’ in these sites through which we can look to gain insights into the business processes that operate within them. We have reverse engineered the business processes that operate within some of these sites. From this we have also been able to identify three different business models that are supported by these sites. Our analysis supports important findings about how these sites operate that can be used to inform future strategies to detect and deter contract cheating.

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合同作弊的地狱业务：了解学术习俗写作网站的业务流程和模型

尽管人们越来越了解学术风俗写作网站的存在和活动，这些网站仅构成合同作弊行业的一小部分，但人们对其运作方式的了解仍然很少。在这些站点上进行的研究很少，可能是因为已经假定不可能在其防火墙和密码保护的背后看到它们。我们发现，经过仔细的审查，确实有可能在这些站点中发现一些“裂缝”，通过这些“裂缝”，我们可以寻求对其中运行的业务流程的见解。我们对其中一些站点中运行的业务流程进行了反向工程。由此，我们还能够确定这些站点所支持的三种不同的业务模型。