11/03/09. AsianInvestGroup Review and Other News

Hi everybody! Well it seems the fun never stops for money-news-online as yet again I find myself back here again posting for a second time today. I guess there could be a lot worse things to complain about though. At least I am finding plenty of worthwhile programs to invest with now. The alternative would be to not have enough to write about and from a blogger’s point of view that wouldn’t be very good at all now would it?

So this evening I want to have a look at an interesting program called AsianInvestGroup. Although they claim they’ve been trading since 2007, I wouldn’t put too much confidence in that statement. I mean nobody I know has heard of them and they didn’t really start advertising until a couple of weeks ago. But I wouldn’t let that distract me from the program itself either because it ain’t bad at all. Let’s have a look.

AsianInvestGroup is a long term low ROI program that offers two distinct plans to investors. They both offer variable rates of interest and they both pay weekly. First of all we have “The Optimized Portfolio”. This plan runs for a term of 20 weeks and requires a minimum investment of $10. Your initial principal will be returned on expiry. The weekly income earned from an investment here might be anything from 6% to 9%. The big spenders out there who spend $1000 or more can look forward to a premium rate of an extra 3% on top of that so if you have that kind of cash to spare consider is the reward worth the risk. The option of compounding is also available if you require it.

Next is “The Aggressive Portfolio”. Another variable rate of interest plan that also runs for 20 weeks, except this one pays between 2% and 12%. Now that’s a pretty big variation to say the least, but the admin does suggest you should expect 9% or better during a typical week. Just remember you are not guaranteed the higher rates. The same bonus applies to the big spenders here too with an extra 3% on top for investors with $1000 or more. The minimum spend is $20. Compounding is also allowed here and in both plans you can withdraw your principal anytime after the initial 20 week term expires.

The list of payment options is quite good here, compared to other HYIPs at least, and includes LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney, Pecunix, V-Money and C-Gold. Bank Wires are available on request from larger investors which adds a little credibility to AsianInvestGroup.

Before investing though I just need to quickly point out that you will first be required to fill out a registration form and open an account. After completing this you can now log into the member’s area and select which plan you would prefer to join. Following that you will be redirected to the secured payment page where you will be able to complete the transaction. You will also notice here that there is a secure SSL certificate here for extra peace of mind.

It’s an added security feature and it’s one of many nice extras I like about AsianInvestGroup that give it a touch of professionalism. Another welcome feature is that it’s hosted on a dedicated server. I’m not sure about the actual host but the server itself is from Staminus and that’s just about the best in the business. The script being used is I believe a unique customized one. It’s quite a nice user friendly design as well. No frills and some straight talking easy to understand answers in their FAQ is always welcome in my book with style taking a back seat to substance as far as the rest of the site is concerned. They also list contact addresses in The Seychelles and also an office in Australia with telephone numbers listed for both. Nothing I can verify myself of course but any readers around those areas with an hour to spare are welcome to check it out. They also offer a certificate of incorporation as a real trading company so you are free to examine that as well and contact the relevant authorities to verify it if you are so inclined. One thing I can confirm though is that the domain name is registered to them until the year 2015.

Overall I quite like this one. Sustainable plans and a well thought out program which if everything works out as it should do, has the potential to stay online and pay some very respectable profits to the members for several months to come.

Other news for today.

GoldNuggetInvest (reviewed here) is currently the #1 program on my monitoring page and I doubt that it will be overtake by any other program soon. I believe Robert is the best HYIP admin and he’s doing a great job. Of course, it requires more than just one to handle GoldNuggetInvest and manage thousands of accounts and at the same time make a lot of money for the program on surebets. But as Robert explained in my interview with him published here any member has the right to know what the admin of any program is doing with his hard earned money. And unlike many others that just can repeat common phrases regarding Forex and gold trade he actually knows how to make money on arbitrage betting. That is why I think GoldNuggetInvest is different from others and that is why I endorse this program that has been successfully running for more than two years already. As you might know Robert sends out official updates quite seldom but his updates are always packed with useful information and every word is valuable. That is why the members always wait for his updates with excitement. I’m glad to report that I just received another such update where Robert told if the financial downturn affected GoldNuggetInvest, what other plan is available for large investors now, how to handle the last support and payment issues if you have some and finally about some exciting plans for the future which he’s about to share with us next week. By the way, I got a reply from Robert regarding the new interview which will be published on my blog soon. Don’t miss it! Meanwhile, here is the latest update from GoldNuggetInvest:
“I hope you are all doing well and that the financial downturn does not hit you too hard. Here at GNI we are busy all day to allow you to earn a decent second income. Some members asked me over the last couple of weeks, if the financial crisis is not affecting our operation? – I can say NO with good conscience! All the bookmakers, the indirect key to our success are doing well and so far no problems had occurred.
We are very busy preparing our project for the next step and will announce the major improvements very soon, most probably at the end of next week.
For today I’d like to inform you about a few minor changes to GNI.
After discussions with some major investors and various calculations, we have decided to add a premium plan to our Weekly Fixed program. This plan is paying 7.5% weekly and is available to members joining our pool with a minimum of $21,000. The maximum for this plan is $50,000 and as some of you are aware, $50,000 is also the aggregate cap of investments per member. No discussions please, we do not want to become dependent on very few investors.
Jim, a trusted member of GNI came up with the idea of a Facebook group last week and asked us before, if we have any objections to do so. As a matter of course we appreciated this idea! You can find the GNI Facebook group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=72301120379. Please join, it is for sure a good place to exchange your experiences with GNI or to seek help for common questions, experienced members might be able to explain. Another great place to interchange with other members is our official GNI forum at MCF. If you are not a member yet, please visit http://mycashforum.com/ and become one. It is definitely worth to sign-up at MCF and many of our most experienced members are there to help, if you have a question or two.
Talking about support – our new helpdesk is up and running since Monday. Todd our customer relationship team member is busy getting familiar with the system and is happy to assist you. Due to our growing member base, please allow us 24 – 48 hours to reply to your support requests. We, including myself, are spending a lot of time for support issues and about 80% of the requests are explained somewhere on our site or at the MCF forum. Please avoid to contact us for reasons like: you are not able to login temporarily or your weekly earnings are not posted when you think they should have been posted. We have to spend the majority of our time to trade surebets for you – in order to earn the funds we have promised to pay! On the contrary, taking care of many needless support tickets delays the reply to important issues. So please think twice before contacting our support team. It is always advised to wait a day and check things back then.
Please note that tomorrow about from 2pm – 4pm a update of our script will be installed and that our site will not be available during this time. And to avoid more support tickets, please note that the earnings of our Daily Variable program will be posted, after the update is done.
We had still glitches with the Daily Variable payments over the last couple of days. Everybody was paid, this was not the problem this time, but many got paid plenty of times. We are auditing our accounts very closely to avoid fraudulent transactions and are aware of that. Members overpaid may reinvest or withdraw such overpaid funds, we will however adjust concerned accounts in the next couple of days and please be aware that if you have used such overpaid funds, your account balance might be negative one day – please don’t contact us then to ask why.
Another minor change, I need to bring to your attention: We do not pay referral commission for deposits made from the account balance since Friday last week. We have members busy everyday with the cancellation and reinvesting of their rollover plans and we have paid ref commission over and over again for, in principal, the same deposit. From now on only deposits made from the payment processors are eligible for ref commissions.
Another point of discussion in the forums recently was in regard to referrals. A lot of our active members complained that a certain referral of them, eventually does not sign up under them. Common practice in all affiliate programs is, that the first referrer is stored in ones cookies for a certain period of time. If one visited our site previously from another ref link the referrer will be the first person who linked a prospective member to our site. It should be like that, since it is more than fair! Ok, a lot of new members visited us because our project is heavily promoted in autosurfs and other traffic exchanges. Often people visited our site even without knowing it after. So we needed to find a compromise to suit all parties involved. We have already decreased the cookie time frame from 90 to 30 days. The new script version will allow new members also to choose their referrer, if they like to do so. If you promote our project please advise prospective referrals to choose you as their referrer – and we should have plenty lesser support tickets concerning this issue.
The updated script is also supporting StrictPay API and SCI functionality.
Finally I have to inform you about a faked GNI site, a member brought to my attention today. The site http://goldnugetinvest.com is not related in any way to GNI. Since the sign-up page is not working yet, we doubt that anybody felt victim to those scammers. We have informed their registrar today and hope that their domain will be cancelled soon. Anyway, please make always sure you deal with the original: http://goldnuggetinvest.com is our one and only domain!
Until our next newsletter please take care of yourself and all the best.”

As you might know my favorite surfing site now is ProjectSurf (reviewed here). The admin of the program Frankie (interviewed here) is doing everything possible to ensure ProjectSurf is running stably and everything is under control. This is the update announcing a new contest which I received from Frankie last night:
“Hello Everyone, I just want to give everyone a quick update, LR is doing maintenance to their script and LR upgrades should be working in a little while.. sorry about that there was a error on there and will be cleared up shortly- all payouts are completed as well. – Also our own forum domain is www.ProjectSurf.Info – that will take you right to the forum in the event of anything please go there but I also appreciate everyone keeping my threads in all the forums going as well – this brings me to a contest.
I want this Project to be the best in the industry and I want everyone to see this Project a Great Success and Stop with all these scam sites going on out there.. Its time for a change instead of all these coming and going sites… Lets begin here!
I want to do a creative contest – please read carefully..
I am going to sift through MMG, TG, ASA and CIF forums tomorrow in the auto-surf sections. I will look at each surf thread in there and here comes the contest.. 3 winners 75.00 each – to the members who post the most in all the surf threads with a Signature that says something great about Project Surf!! – I will send another e-mail to everyone for the members names to come forward to receive their prizes!! – (you have to leave the signature for a week) so be creative and post in all the surf threads you are members of but have something great to say about ProjectSurf in your signature – (if this goes well I will do it every week!)
I will choose the winners tomorrow night/early morning Thursday – Good Luck Everyone- So Much More To Come!”

Apparently today the ProjectSurf site had some database errors which I was unaware of because I didn’t notice anything strange in my account. Anyway if you were affected there is nothing to worry about as the admin has already taken care of everything. And here is his latest update:
“Hello Everyone, Sorry about the database errors, that was entirely HushHosting’s Fault Again.. something with their database injections. The site is 100% protected and the data is backed up every hour so please do not every worry about data base problems.
We are alive and Kicking! growing strong to be the BEST!
All Pendings have been paid and I will be looking through the forums today to determine the winners of the contest!!
If you have been paid please go to the monitors, forums and everywhere else and Post! –
I cannot wait to see the most creative winners of the contest!
I will announce them tomorrow morning so you have plenty of time today and tonight to get out there!”

I was quite surprised when I received all my pending withdrawals today from 4BrothersInvestments (reviewed here). I didn’t expect that and possibly their current problems with payouts were connected with recent LR upgrades. Anyway, it seems everything is alright today with myself and other investors finally getting paid.

I have to put E-CashWave to Waiting status because the last payouts were processed two days ago and I haven’t paid on expiry. Well, what can I say? Another one bites the dust. And to tell you the truth, many autosurfs launched recently disappointed me when they can barely last for one cycle. I would keep a closer eye on 13x11Pro as well. Despite being paid to AlertPay today other cashouts are still pending (I upgraded from different processors). There are some messages on forums that some of the payouts from 13x11Pro are pending for 3 days and more so I have to move it on Waiting status as well. Finally, AmaizingAds. I requested the first payout from them today and am still waiting. Of course, I will wait more time before drawing any conclusions and will update on my blog once I’m paid. By the way, CashDispenser and Nova-Surf are confirmed scams now together with StablePackages so you should not expect payouts from them anymore.

For those who used to make Bank Wire withdrawals from your StrictPay account the rules have changed and now your should have your bank account verified in order to request the payout. Verification process in StrictPay is fast so I don’t think it will be a major difficulty for you to verify your accounts:
“This email is being sent out to all StrictPay customers who have done a bank wire request with us in the past. We have implemented a new policy to allow our funding department to complete bank wire requests more productively. From this point on, any person who requests a bank wire withdraw, will be required to have a copy of a bank statement on file, along with their other verification documents. This will help our funding department to be able to complete the requests in a more timely manner.
If you are intending to do another bank wire withdraw request soon, please submit the portion of your bank statement with your name and bank account number on it now, so our verification department can have your account ready ahead of time. Please either upload the document into our system at the Main/Upload Verification Documents page, email it to verification@strictpay.com, or fax it to 702-549-8476, and our verification department will have it added to your account within 24 hours.”

From now on all the investors that deposited in Capital-4You (reviewed here) are able to invest via one e-currency and get paid via another. All you have to do is submit a support ticket after making a deposit:
“E-Currency Exchange NEWS: Exclusive for all Capital-4You Investors when you invest via LibertyReserve you can get your payments via PerfectMoney!! Or Invest via PerfectMoney and get your payments via LibertyReserve. If you want to use this Option please invest as normal via our investment site and send us an email with your payment batch and your LR or PM account where you want to receive your Payment.”
By the way, if you are unable to access Capital-4You site for some reason you may try their mirror site that is working with .biz extention. Here is the URL: http://capital-4you.biz

There is another update that I found on CrazyCashSurf blog. I like all the proactive admins who always keep their members informed on the current state of events within their programs so I’m publishing the update from CrazyCashSurf (reviewed here) below:
“Today the March Madness Contest ends!
If you qualify for any of the 3 referral contests, please send your user ID and appropriate contest number to crazycashsurf01@yahoo.com, SUBJECT: CCS March Madness Contest before March 12th so we can check your account and award qualifying contestants. Prizewinners will be announced March 12th.
Please do read our Daily News (left column of the home page) for short but important updates re status of payouts etc.
As you read on the Daily News, CCS was down from time to time yesterday, due to server technical issues. If the site should be unexpectedly down again , we will update this blog which can always be reached at http://crazycashblog.blogspot.com. Please take note of this link so we can maintain contact.
Many thanks to members who sent encouraging comments re: the last blog (Fear Factor). These were greatly appreciated.”

Finally, this is the update from EvoWallet payment processor where they announced their new referral contest:
“Greetings to All Members of our EvoFamily!
We just have to “blow our own trumpet” and announce with great pride that in the next few hours we will hit 4000 Evo members!! As EvoWallet pre-launched on January 21st, that is a huge achievement in only 6 or 7 short weeks ! Congratulations to everyone who has helped nourish our growth.
To celebrate this milestone, tomorrow we will announce the details of a “Celebrate 4000” Contest. Be sure to visit EvoBlog on the 11th to learn all about it!!”

To finish tonight’s post I would like to add that I was paid from the following programs during the last 24 hours: ProjectSurf, SilverLodge, GoldNuggetInvest, NovalexFinance, Tradirex, OakCash, TradeContract, AsianInvestGroup, MajorBarter, GeneticsIndustry, 4BrothersInvestments, AcrylicTrade, PanaMoney, 13x11Pro, EnscoOffshore, ScotFund (the first payment received) and GeniusFunds (the first instant payment received). Check out my blog tomorrow morning for another review and more news and don’t forget that it will updated twice tomorrow. Hope you will like it!