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I have just received the following e-mail:

I just wanted to say "thanks" for your donation of "Explain And Evaluate Plato's Views On Division Of Labour." to AllFreeEssays.com. The AllFreeEssays.com community and I greatly appreciate it. You have saved a student in need.

Well, these are nice sentiments; I am reminded of the kind of letter you get after you donate to some Third World charity ("Your donation has helped provide clean drinking water for the children who made your training shoes"). However, my motivation in uploading the essay was less noble; I wanted to get the full text of an essay from AllFreeEssays.com so I could shove it in a students' face if he denied plagiarism, and to join, you have to upload an essay you have written (which given that the main use of this site is plagiarism is just asking for trouble). I also had a secondary motive of putting this essay up as a honeypot to lure other potential plagiarisers.

Of course normally catching plagiarisers is nowhere near that time-consuming, especially the ones who not only plagiarise from Wikipedia but do so in the very first sentence.