January 2009

Hi guys! Today I want to talk to you about a program called ForexInv. It’s one of the latest in the long line of new programs I have been looking at recently. It’s an HYIP, not exactly a brand new one, but only online since after Christmas 2008. Long enough to test it out, a trial run if you prefer, and see that it’s all going according to plan. And what is the plan? Let’s see.

There are three plans for you to consider in ForexInv. As with so many online HYIPs, only one of these plans is realistically in the price range of the majority of online HYIP investors. And that is the case with ForexInv. The first plan, or “Primary Plan” runs for 42 days. In that time it will pay you 2.5% interest daily on amounts starting from a very modest $10 and going all the way up to $1000.

Next one is called the Intermediate plan. A bit more ambitious when it comes to asking for deposits, this one requires sums from the $1000 minimum, all the way up to $10,000 and pays 3% daily.

The third plan for those who can afford it is called the Senior Plan. They have a daily return of 3.9% daily on amounts from $10000 right up to $50000. A bit ambitious for most of us I think. One thing that all three plans have in common is that they run for a period of 42 days and that your initial investment gets returned on expiry. And what about your payment options? Well the almost universal LibertyReserve is present (and taking Euro deposits as well as Dollars), as is PerfectMoney which adds a little variety. Most welcome though is the recent addition of AlertPay which I know that in a growing number of investors eyes, adds something to their credibility.

What does not add to credibility however is the fact that ForesxInv remains on a shared server. An easy problem to fix, I know, but at the time of writing is still a problem nonetheless. They do claim full anti-DDoS protection though. The overall design is not without it’s flaws either. The texts look, shall we say, familiar from other sites. Typos and poor grammar are everywhere, but most annoying is this constant jargon about ForEx trading while all along offering no concrete information or evidence about their activities, or for that matter even explaining that they even know what ForEx means!

But never mind all that. We are only talking about online HYIPs here and you should only treat ForexInv like another game. I know I have said this about a couple of programs recently. I do not wish to damage the credibility of any program by saying such things about it. In fact I should clarify that the fact that I regard ForexInv as no worse a program than many others out their now. I suggest you treat ForexInv with the caution it deserves. And what’s that? Well probably worth a gamble, and not a bad gamble at that. Worth a few bucks. You’ll get a decent return for you investment for a while at least. I can’t promise this will be a serious long term project still online in three months, but who can these days? My advice is to play this one for exactly what it is. An online HYIP with a chance to make a little on the side for all of us. Just no promises though.

Other news for today.

First of all I would like to comment on yesterday’s news about the merging of AggeroInvestment and PremiumAdsClub programs. Some readers emailed me and asked if it’s still safe to invest in AggeroInvestment. Well, I think Roger definitely knows how to handle his program better than me and in my opinion there is no warning signs so far. The admin was quite honest with the members and assured us that AggeroInvestment and PAC will stay as two separate entities and that you don’t have to have a deposit in PAC if you don’t want to. Here is what the members of AggeroInvestment could see on the main page of the site today:
“AI and PAC are different programs. Do not be confused. You do not have to join PAC if you do not want to. Try and look at the BIG PICTURE and THINK POSITIVE always.”
I think it’s the only thing the members of AggeroInvestment need to know by now. I don’t see any negative effect this merge can produce. This is my personal opinion of course and I still can’t see any reason for this merge other cross-promotion of two programs. I really hope that this business alliance will be for better for both programs involved. Anyway, we will wait and see what happens next!

This is another update from GoldNuggetInvest admin Robert (interviewed here) regarding the latest difficulties with the script. As you might remember he promised recently to credit all the accounts with the missing interest. Since there is much work involved it was decided to pay to everybody in daily plan fixed daily interest of 5% which you should have already received to your account by now. I’m know that Robert is a man of word and is working hard even despite some difficulties. I believe that GoldNuggetInvest is expecting the new outburst of deposits once the problems are solved. Anyway, here is the latest update from Robert sent to me today:
“Since it is not manageable to add daily earnings manually to more than 400 involved accounts, many with several daily deposits, we have decided to pay a ‘fixed’ 5% interest for the entire week from Jan. 26 – Jan. 30.
Arthur is doing a great job and is auditing each and every account, but has currently 207 requests still to take care of, so adding everyday an additional 400+ daily earnings is not possible. I have noticed that he had already issued you a bonus for the entire week and just want to let you know that this $5 are for the whole week, in case you haven’t noticed.
BlackLotus is busy with the server upgrade and until tomorrow everything should be moved. Then at least the weekly earnings will be posted automatically how they should work and the daily earnings will be posted daily as from next Monday.
I was working the last couple of days until 2am, you might have noticed some very late withdrawals and I hope that we are done soon and I can take a rest.”

Another site that is also hosted by Blacklotus – 24over7 (reviewed here) is moving to another more powerful server as well to handle the ever growing load on their server. I remind you that the growing in amount of members in 24over7 program is very fast and has already reached 1,000 mark. This figure would not be so impressive if we discounted the age of the program – 24over7 is only 6 days online. Anyway, it’s a very good move from the admin’s side that proves that he actually cares where the site will be tomorrow and take all the preventive measures to ensure the stable work of the site for many weeks ahead. Here is the latest update from the admin of 24over7 program Jim:
“24/7 Members, Several hours ago, 24over7 was migrated to a more powerful server on the same provider, Blacklotus.net. During this time access to the site through our domain name 24over7 may not be able to everyone around the globe. These members who are still unable to load the website should see a message with instructions on how to go about loading the website without waiting for their ISP’s DNS cache to be updated.
You can use this IP address to access the website if you want. http://72.20.27.86/
Temporarily, upgrades might not post automatically on your account so you will need to contact me if you encounter this. Ok that should be all for now. Have a blessed day.”

Let’s talk now about some malicious attacks on programs and payment processors. As you might have noticed a very new payment processor called EvoWallet is under a huge DdoS attack already and the site is not loading. Fortunately their hosting provider BlockDos is working hard on moving their website to a more powerful server and mitigate this attack as soon as possible. I wonder who is responsible for these actions and who already see the serious competitor in this just making its first steps online e-currency. This is the update published today on EvoWallet blog:
“Hello EvoWallet Members, Just need to let you know that we are experiencing a severe DOS attack, and need to upgrade our server. Although we are hosted by BlockDos and therefore were already protected, this attack required us to move to a higher level of protection. We are told by BlockDos that the move will take approximately 48 hours, give or take a little, depending on which part of the world you reside in.”

By the way, the program I joined today and that I’m going to review tomorrow is the first program I’m aware of that accepts upgrades in EvoWallet e-currency. I’m talking about BigBangSurf – this new (only 1 day online) but already very popular and controversial program. So what is so special about this program you might ask? Well, let me tell you that BigBangSurf is a program that accepts all the major payment processors including LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney, AlertPay, SolidTrustPay, StrictPay and the newest EvoWallet. You can upgrade your account with installments of $6 each and the upgrade fee will be 1%-2.5% depending on the type of payment processor you choose for upgrading (I guess the fee was introduced to eliminate processors fees). For surfing 12 sites daily you will be paid 11% or 12% daily (depending on the amount upgraded) for 12 days. The payments are made on expiry. BigBangSurf is hosted on a dedicated server by the leading hosting provider BlockDos and has a beautiful and appealing layout that has attracted more than 250 members in just 1 day online. But what is the controversy involved? Well, you might have noticed that the script BigBangSurf uses is the same that was used by DailyProfitPond program – the program with similar 12×12 model and multiple referral levels that lasted for several weeks in the late 2008 and subsequently scammed after the failed attempt to being modified into the autosurf with more stable model and lower-ROA model. This fact only made me suspicious about the possible connection between those two programs and I couldn’t confirm that they were from the same administration. But after I received a spam email from the admin of DailyProfitPond today from the email noreply@dailyprofitpond.com (what a coincedence I must say!) I had left even less reasons to doubt the possible connection between those programs. It just can’t be a big coincidence as the script is quite rare to find in any other program. Here is the email I received today from the admin of BigBangSurf by the way:
“I have just stumbled upon this excellent program that pays a fast 144% return on whatever you deposit in 12 days. This new program also pays ref. commission of over 15% ref. commission 5th levels deep. That is what excited me to get in. You can begin with just $6.00 and continue to grow your income daily. Join this great program under me and I will refund back to you the commission I earned from your first upgrade. If you need help with joining, you may contact me at:
gloriamany@ymail.com Get in now while its hot. The program is only a day old. Here is my link. Do click it for detailed information. Thanks”
I must add though that this fact didn’t stop the enormous growth of BigBangSurf as many of us are hoping to hit-n-run and we know that BigBangSurf can last for a few weeks at least. The admin of BigBangSurf tried to put an end to the speculation by sending the first update but in my opinion that was quite lame and didn’t prove there was no connection between BigBangSurf and DailyProfitPond:
“Good Morning Surfers, First, the bad news ! It has come to our attention that a spam promotional message was sent out a few hours ago. We wish to emphatically state that this was NOT sent by any member of BigBangSurf staff. The member of BBS who did send out the email has been located and deleted from the database. Please remember people, we will not tolerate spamming of this nature and will suspend anyone who does so. Period. And now the GOOD NEWS! BigBangSurf is SOARING like a ROCKET this first day after Take Off ! Many thanks to all who are helping explode BBS, and a BIG welcome to all new members. Our team is always ready to answer your questions or help in any way possible at bigbangsurf@gmail.com. We’ll also be regularly sharing new information and/or news on our blog. Just click the BLOG link on our home page. Watch out for Contests and other “fun stuff” in the next couple of weeks. (Details will be posted in the blog !) Have a great day everyone, Caleb Martin, BigBangSurf CEO“.
Anyway, I joined this program already and hope that BigBangSurf will last at least for several weeks like its predecessor did. Tomorrow I’m going to publish an honest review of the program assessing its chances for longevity and stability and analysing the main features you should take into consideration if you are thinking on joining BigBangSurf. So don’t miss this upcoming review tomorrow!

Another program that fell the victim of the hyip365 admin is 7Inv (reviewed here). The admin asked of the members not to pay attention to the bad fake vote that are currently working hard to bring the program down. And this is again the fault of hyip365.net admin who is probably the worst scammer of the year. I urge you to support real paying programs like 7Inv and don’t pay attention to such lame attempts of destroying one’s program’s reputation. This is what the admin of 7Inv is going to say regarding this:
“Recently, we have been got some harassment with fake bad votes. Please do not trust these fake votes content, all of them are from a SCAM Monitor HYIP365.net. He want to use such means to force us to buy his monitor service.”

This is probably the official version of why LargeSum had to scam (oops, sorry, I mean close). The admin of LargeSum Willam explained it to one of the top HYIP monitoring sites in this quite frank and sincere email:
“To tell the truth we are in trouble now and you possible noticed that. Our traders are at a great loss now. And the management made a big mistake when removed the withdrawal option for the Christmas period. Yes, it was a mistake. And now we are overloaded with numerous withdrawal requests and will hardly make all of them. We will hardly manage to cover all the losses and pay all the withdrawals pending. That is why we shall close our project. You know perfectly well, all projects close sooner or later.”
You can make your own conclusion from this but it only proved one thing: that LargeSum appeared to be another ponzi-site that eventually collapsed even after 3 years of successful online work. As you can see there are no guarantees can be provided that you will be paid if even such programs like LargeSum had to close.

Mountain-Mining was another program that claimed to have a serious outside income and failed to produce any substantial results in the long run. And as usually happens there are hackers to blame for its failure. By the way, I doubt very much that the funds that the funds were actually stolen and I suspect that Mountain-Mining is going to scam you again if you send money to this program via Western Union or Bank Wire. So do it at your own risk but personally I would not recommend to deal with them anymore. You can apply for a refund by the way and if it’s true and you’re actually paid by the admin of Mountain-Mining please email me as I would like to hear if anyone is actually refunded. This is the good-bye update from Mountain-Mining published on their website today:
“Dear Members, Due to LR and PM account Problems we decided in a General Meeting just to accept Bank Wire Transfers from today. Hackers stole more than US$21000 (in total) from our LR accounts and our PM investments were redirected to a hacker account without us knowing and PM is not willing to give us any refund. The new minimum investment Limit is US$1000. All Investors with Investments under US$1000 will be refunded (100%) wire E-Currency. All Members with Investments over US$1000 will get the payments wire BankWire or Western Union. You can choose. Please send an email to refundmmi@gmail.com to claim your repayment or to give us your Bank or WU Details. Sorry for the delays with E-Currecy payments. For all Bank Wire Investors there are no delays at all and everything is like always.”

By the way, blamed by MMI LibertyReserve payment processor made another step to its full legalization. According to its blog they now have their real office and probably will make the proof of it available to the general public soon:
“Dear Friends, Today, January 28th, 2009, Liberty Reserve S.A. would like to officially announce its office inauguration. Among parties invited are CEO’s of various banks and companies, government official representatives, a well respected GoldExchange.eu exchanger, press and media. More information about this event will become available later.”
No comments can be done on this as I haven’t heard of that and can’t confirm if it’s true or not.

This is an official warning about Increaser surfing site! Please do not upgrade as the site is having difficulties and the members have many withdrawals pending already. Unfortunately until now I was not able to receive any explanation from the admin of Increaser regarding why the payouts are delayed. So I have to move Increaser to Waiting status on my monitoring page and if the payments don’t resume within the next 24 hours Increaser will be moved to Not Paying. It seems that another potentially good autosurfing program bites the dust which is very frustrating. I hope the newly launched programs like BigBangSurf will have a longer lifespan.

Beside BigBangSurf I joined also an HYIP called ImmenseInvest just yesterday. It’s another interesting program which I’m going to review on my blog pretty soon. Being online for more that 6 (!) months already the program managed to stay afloat and paying despite the fact that the rates offered are quite high. Moreover, ImmenseInvest is a short-term HYIP with a very short investment duration of 5 or 7 days which made the program really stand out of the crowd. ImmenseInvest pays you from 21.49% to 27.78% daily ROI for 5 days (the actual rate depends on the amount deposited and the minimum starts from $25). Another investment plan available for VIP investors only (willing to deposit 500 or more) is 115% after 7 days. LibertyReserve and PerfectMoney are the only payment processors accepted. ImmenseInvest is hosted on a dedicated server and is running on a licensed GoldCoders script which should pretty familiar to the majority of the investors. I’m going to review ImmenseInvest in more detail as soon as I receive the first payout from them.

In the end of today’s news section I would like to list the programs that paid me today and among them are: Surfs-Ahoy, BestFXWorld, InvestMonopoly, FXOIC, ComradeFinance, W-MTFund, TradeContract, UCGCapital, 24over7, Giant-Investment, ImokTrade, AggeroInvestment, NovalexFinance, ForexInv, IntensifyFunds, GoldNuggetInvest, Olympex-Group, MajorBarter, ANOI, DukasFund, PanaMoney, WorldFinanceCorporationGroup, NanoMoneyCorp, BrainManagement, URInvest, CadillacVentures, NordicMutualFunds, ResidualForexIncome and BVIuion (the first payment received instantly). See you on my blog tomorrow with more news and another review!

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