Beware : Free Plagiarism Checker Website

Free Plagiarism Checker Website

Beware : http://www.plagiarismchecker.net/

                         

                            

This incident happened to me recently. A few months back, I drafted a paper on image enhancement and sent it to one of my student, I asked her to improve the image quality and references before submit it to the conference, which was going to be held in next month.  All was going well, but  due to some reason, we couldn't send it and the paper went into  the pending work basket.

Last month, I opened up again and did the little improvement and submitted the paper to another conference, which will be held within  couple of months.

Reply from Conference Organizer,

Dear Author,

We regret to inform you that our esteemed reviewer has recommended for strong rejection of your paper, as the complete paper is copied from the following website…..

http://www.essay.uk.com/free-essays/information-technology/image-enhancement.php

Then, I was thought how is this  possible, rejection is OK, but how can be  copied???

I checked the link and found that the complete article is available (except figures and table).OMG, I asked my student, and she informed me that she just checked the paper at freely available website http://www.plagiarismchecker.net/.

Immediately, I did little enquiry about essay.uk.com website, I came to know that, the website provide services to the students for writing essay, articles, dissertations, PhD Theses etc. Oh God, I am thinking,  in near future some web or apps will be available, which will be providing readymade students, who will attend classes, write  examination on behalf of you (real student, do you remember Bollywood 3 Idiots movie, where Ranchordas (Amir Khan) studied in college on behalf of other?).

I wrote a mail to the website provider, how they found this article and asked them to immediately remove it from their database, after few days, I received a return mail.

Although they removed the contents from their website, they do so… normally we have a tendency to just click on I agree/accept button of any website or apps without going through terms and conditions in detail, as it is  too lengthy, not possible to read out every time.

Then I checked the term and conditions of plagarismchecker.net.  I surprised to see the following lines……

My personal experience says online free plagiarism checker doesn’t work properly, so I want to aware all the students and researchers to avoid such online plagiarism checkers, otherwise your hard finding research results will be accessible to others, before you publish it in some reputed Journals (Good journals normally takes 4 to 12 months to published it).   

Now a day’s online trend is booming….

Generally, we all just click “I Agree/Accept” button but we don’t know, what exactly written in those too long page and we have no clue what we agreed or accepted. As we have no option left apart from accept/agree before using such software/websites/apps etc, but we have to be cautious before using any such sites or apps, which can be threat to your privacy or will steal your online banking information.

In general, our own writings are plagiarism free (except matched some scientific phrases), so I request you all to avoid such free online plagiarism checker and think twice before you click on I AGREE button, if you use internet banking for your daily activities, don’t install any third party financial management apps.

But I agree that we must take little precautions before using any web services or apps. 

Take care and Be Happy ….!