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Sat, December 6, 2025
From Essay Mills to Drones: Ties Between Nerdify and Synergy
🔎 A sprawling academic cheating network branded around Nerdify and related sites has generated nearly $25 million by selling finished essays and homework while posing as tutoring. The operation repeatedly recreated Google Ads accounts and new domains to evade ad bans, routing work to low-cost writers across Kenya, the Philippines, Pakistan, Russia and Ukraine. Investigations link the essay-mill operators to entrepreneurs with corporate ties to Synergy, Russia's largest private university, which is also implicated in drone development for the Russian military.