19/12/08. IntensifyFunds Review and Other News

WARNING! THIS PROGRAM STOPPED PAYING! PLEASE DON’T INVEST!

Hi everybody! Today, just like recent days, I want to talk about another HYIP. It’s just that I’m a bit more selective about autosurfs at the moment. Anyway, the program is called IntensifyFunds, and although my first impression was that it’s not the finished article, I think that with a few small adjustments it can be a nice little earner for it’s members. More about that in a minute. First let’s look at the plans.

Or to be more accurate let’s look at the plan. Singular. There’s just the one. It pays anything from 3.4% to 6.4% daily for 20 calendar days depending on how much you care to invest. Realistically most readers here need only concern themselves with the first available option. It pays 3.4% daily for 20 days on amounts starting at $10 and up to amounts of $5000. Options for the more ambitious include the following: 4.4% daily on amounts from $5001 to $10,000, 5.4% daily on amounts from $10001 to $15,000, and finally 6.4% daily on amounts from $15001 to $100,000.

No matter what option you choose, the duration is 20 days with your principal returned on expiry. Compounding not allowed.

So what else do I need to say? Well I think for this review the best thing might be to just list the pros and cons of IntensifyFunds and let you consider them for yourself.

Pros:

1. IntensifyFunds is hosted on a dedicated server. This is undeniably always a distinct advantage.

2. The program is DDoS-protected by Dragonara who can boast among others InoFund as one of its clients. They are one of the best and most stable programs around now. IntensifyFunds might be joining them soon.

3. The domain is registered for three years. Is that important? Well typically that only happens for one year.

4. The script being used is licensed GoldCoders script. As usual they offer good protection from hackers and strong technical support from themselves GC team.

5. They offer quite a nice return on the plan(s). It might be a program worth taking a risk on.

6. They are almost three weeks online and paying. A proven program if you like. The first principal returns are yet to be processed but I’ll be keeping a watchful eye on this and will keep you informed on how it works out.

7. Something that is hugely advantageous to any program is proof of the company being registered. IntensifyFunds claims registration in UK and invites you to check the program’s certificate listed on their website and check the company number here.

Mind you I won’t get overly excited about them having a UK office just yet. I’ll be paying them a visit soon and I’ll let you know if it is real, or just a hosted “virtual” office. But even if it does turn out to be a virtual office, this is perfectly legal in the UK, and furthermore the Government there have announced a huge clampdown on businesses using such services for fraudulent purposes.

And so what of the cons? Well so far I would say they include the following:

1. For now IntensifyFunds accepts only LibertyReserve. Let’s hope in the future they will give the members what they want and accept other payment processors.

2. Poor design. Well, maybe that’s a bit harsh. But it’s at best a very amateur design. It’s very cluttered and badly laid out. And despite getting registered in the UK, the FAQ is quite clearly not written by an English speaker.

3. No SSL-certificate installed. No https and no SSL-protection in the accounts. This means confidential info can be compromised. This needs to be addressed without delay.

My Conclusion: IntensifyFunds is a great HYIP. The reasons include DdoS-protection, it’s on a dedicated server, using licensed script, medium-term high-profit plans offered, properly registered enterprise in the UK. Yes there are several cons too. But nothing that can’t be fixed with not too much effort. I think they can improve with time and the program will develop for sure.

Other news for today.

An exciting announcement came from whats undoubtedly the best HYIP online now InoFund (read my review here). They introduced a very profitable Christmas plan which pays you a very enticing 3.3% for 42 days for the amounts of $1,000 and more (as in all the plans your principal will be returned to you on expiry). Moreover, InoFund added StrictPay to the list of their accepted payment processors and promised to add AlertPay soon as well. This is certainly some good news for the investors of InoFund who are so far pleased with their spotless service and instant LR withdrawals. Even some DDoS-attacks (successfully survived) couldn’t spoil their service or break the payout schedule. This is the latest update from InoFund for your attention:
“We are pleased to introduce you a couple of wonderful news! Following numerous requests of our clients, we are happy to announce that starting from the 17th of December our Fund takes deposits through merchant provider StrictPay!
Furthermore, we are going to enable payments through AlertPay at an early date for your convenience.
It’s a pleasure for InoFund Inc to inform you of our new investment plan “Christmas” that will be available on the forthcoming holidays. The opportunity of investing your money at a higher interest rate will be open just until January, 20. According to the “Christmas” plan your daily interest rate will amount to 3.3%, the payoffs are effected on a daily basis, the length of the deposit is 42 days. The amount to be deposited ranges from $1000 (min) to $10000 (max). Don’t lose your chance to benefit from cooperation with our Company during Christmas holidays! Marry Christmas and Happy New Year!”

W-MTFund (reviewed here) is also considering adding a new payment processor. Maybe it will be SolidTrustPay but the program’s administration would like to know your opinion before implementing a it into the script so they are asking the investors opinion about what payment processor they prefer to be added in W-MTFund soon:
“Many investors asked us to add STP among our PP. Frankly speaking we know quite well LR and PM, but we never used STP. Also, we mostly trade through bank wires and so we are relatively new with e-currencies.
Which is the most popular and reliable PP in the HYIP field, besides LR? We are planning to add one or more PPs on January and, in order to do that, we have to modify and integrate the script. So, we would like to know your advice.”

DailyDiamondSurf (reviewed here) also added a new plan today with daily payouts together with two already existent plans: 12% for 12 days (Surf) and 9% for 15 days (No-Surf) with payouts on expiry. Today will be a critical day in DailyDiamondSurf‘s history as the first payouts should be processed to the members on expiry (the program is officially in its 13th day online). The program is growing at a very fast pace and already has about 1000 members and counting. So I think with the introduction of a new plan with daily payouts and especially when the first payouts on expiry from 12% for 12 days plan are processed DailyDiamondSurf will get it’s second wind and a new wave of members. Here’s the most recent update from the admin:
“Today we glad to announce you, we added a new plan on DailyDiamondSurf. With this news plan you can withdraw everyday (no need to wait upgrade expired).
5$-500$ : 7% daily 20 days (140%) you can request cashout everyday!!!
500$-10000$ : 7.5% daily 20 days (150%) You can request cashout everyday!!!
Of course our 2 others plans more profitable which you can withdraw only after request, stay available. We hope this new plan will enjoy everyone. Concerning SolidTrustPay we are waiting for the verification. Have a nice day.”

Youmilex (reviewed here) introduced another useful feature for those investors willing to compound their investment instead of withdrawing their 125% profit after 10 days. For such investors a new feature of manual redepositing was implemented into the script. Following this implementation some rules in Youmilex have been changed and now you must request a payout after 10 days (on expiration) and it will not go to pending status automatically. So you can actually choose if you want to withdraw just a small portion of your investment and reinvest some more. So in my opinion this new feature is really useful and the admin of Youmilex Edward (read my interview with him here) again made a necessary step in improving his program:
“Our recent newsletter introduced a reinvest feature, but you had to send us a support ticket in order to reinvest. This was a temporary measure. Now our script is updated and allows you to reinvest from your account balance. As a result we had to change
the payout rules. Now after your deposit expires it is not automatically paid to your payment processor, all the earnings (100% – initial investment, 25% – profit) go to your account balance. You can then make a new deposit using funds on your account balance or request a payout which will then be processed within 48 hours. To make a deposit from your account balance go to the “Deposit Funds” section and choose the appropriate account balance as a payment option. This way you can make a new deposit fast and easy without having to pay the payment processor fees like before. Please don’t forget to vote for our program on forums and monitors. You can find the links on the main and “Rate Us” page.”

LargeSum (reviewed here) explained to the members the origin of some unsolicited emails that were sent to some members from spammers:
“Dear friends! We have discovered some hackers send out fake SPAM e-mails to other clients on behalf of LargeSum. These e-mails contain the requests of one-time account verification. Quite often clicking links like that may lead to infecting your computer with viruses or trojans. PLEASE NOTE, we never sent any unsolicited e-mails and we never tolerate SPAM or any type of UCE. Please don’t reply any of such sort of e-mails, nor click any of the suspicious links. In case of getting such e-mails, please contact us ASAP. Regards, LargeSum Team.”

SafeAtom site (reviewed here) is experiencing a DDoS-attack which made access via https secured channel temporarily unavailable: “Our site is under huge DDoS attack again and it sometimes inaccessible. We are working to resolve this issue. We apologize for temporary troubles.” Due to this please access the site of SafeAtom via http. This attack didn’t affect payouts at all and the SafeAtom members has no reason to complain. SafeAtom still remains one of the best long-lasting HYIPs paying its clients since February 2008.

CapitalCorpex warned members about some upcoming scheduled downtime that their site will experience in a couple of days. Here’s the latest update from the admin of CapitalCorpex (reviewed here): “Our server software/hardware upgrade start on Sunday, Dec 21th. The downtime may take up to 5 hours.”

It’s really strange why the admin of SurfPal (interviewed here) is making selective payments and completely ignores my emails and many members’ requests. I am strictly against such an approach and consider it highly unprofessional. I believe that SurfPal is on its way to scamming people. So I advise you to stop upgrading in SurfPal and if you’re still paid don’t re-upgrade. We shouldn’t give our support to such admins that are paying selectively. Please don’t support the scammers!

It’s strange too that the site of Surf-Solution disappeared again and once more their bandwidth is exceeded. If it happened again due to another DDoS-attack it’s very unfortunate because we know that there are many other hosting providers that provide some decent anti-DDoS protection. The admin of any online autosurf can save hundreds on the protection but it will only cost him substantially more later when their hosting provider can’t handle constant DDoS-attacks which are very frequent in HYIP and autosurf world. I would advise the admins (especially when it concerns autosurfs) to use BlockDos services. This is the most reliable hosting provider for autosurfs for sure. And if you mention that you came from Money-News-Online you will get a good discount from the admin of BlockDos Majeed. My site is also hosted on BlockDos and it was a victim of extensive DDoS-attacks as well but as you can see BlockDos always mitigated the attacks and the downtime was really negligible.

For the last two days I was paid from the following programs: Youmilex, InoFund, AggeroInvestment, ANOI, Mountain-Mining, DailyDiamondSurf, SafeAtom, SurfPal, EmeraldProLtd, GrandTrade, FXOIC, GoldNuggetInvest, NoRiskInvestment, Commoditex, SilverInvest, PanaMoney, Olympex-Group, MajorBarter, CapitalCorpex, 2008-N, LargeSum, Giant-Investment, EKOFunds, IntensifyFunds, URInvest, MaxShare, MutualForexFund, 12DailyHits, W-MTFund, SummitReserve, NovalexFinance, BestFXWorld (returned to Paying status) and Pioneer-Fund (the first payout received).

As you can see Pioneer-Fund is the newest addition to my list of HYIPs and the program really looks impressive. Being online since the beginning of October (for more than two months already) Pioneer-Fund grew in a very slow but steady manner. The program is a low-ROI HYIP offering two plans that can be funded via LibertyReserve payment processor: 130% after 30 calendar days ($20 minimum to deposit) and variable daily plan (from 1% to 10%) for 180 business days with the principal returned at the end of the investment term ($10 minimum for this plan). Pioneer-Fund stunned me first of all with the great blood-red design and flashy intros. The site is hosted on a dedicated and DDoS-protected server by BlackLotus and using customized script. I spoke briefly with a member of customer services, Katherine, and I must say that I’m impressed with the level of their support they provide to their clients. I’m going to review Pioneer-Fund very soon on my blog so stay tuned for that. See you tomorrow, guys!