05/06/09. YesICanSurf Review and Other News

BEWARE! THIS PROGRAM HAS STOPPED PAYING! DON’T INVEST!

Hi everyone! I think I might have a couple of busy days coming up soon with a number of new programs appearing. I’ll try to work my way through them between now and the weekend. More about that later but today I think I’d like to start with a new autosurf program called YesICanSurf.

Despite the recent high profile demise of USDozen there still seems to be a mini-revival going on with a couple of new admins deciding to risk everything and brave the elements in the current surfing environment. There seems now however to be a few more surfing sites with a twist involved. Something that while not exactly unique, will set them apart from the traditional surfing models. We’ve seen it recently for example with TheDollarDiggers (reviewed here) and we’re seeing it now with YesICanSurf. Personally I’m just about ready to officially label myself “neutral” when it comes to autosurfs right now. I’m not sure that gimmicks are the thing to revive this ailing side of the online investment industry, but on the other hand, where’s the harm? YesICanSurf‘s particular attempt at grabbing out attention is to offer a plan that’s more akin to a long term HYIP than autosurf.

So how does that work? Well its an interesting idea, not a new one, but an interesting one where you receive daily low rate of interest payments for surfing a certain number of sites per day. Except its a long term arrangement requiring you to surf every day for 120 days to be paid. Will it last that long? That’s entirely up to the surfing public to decide and will in no small part be influenced by the admin as well of course.

Now let’s get more specific. The price of one ad pack, i.e the minimum investment, is just $2. You can buy up to a thousand ad packs, or $2000 in monetary terms. The surfing itself consists of viewing 15 sites per day on a 15 second timer. Do that and you receive a daily interest payment of 1.7% on your investment. Withdrawals can be made daily, in theory that is, but there is a minimum withdrawal amount of one single dollar. Minimum withdrawal is actually quite a bit higher for non-members ($30) but I’m approaching this review from the point of view of a member. As I already said this will involve 120 consecutive days of surfing. At the end of which you should see a clear profit of 204% on your initial investment, i.e just over double your money. That figure includes your principal. The list of accepted payment processors is excellent with all the main players being accepted including SolidTrustPay, AlertPay, StrictPay, PerfectMoney and LibertyReserve.

I know I’ve said this in a previous review of another long-term surfing program but the fact remains, the returns are quite sustainable and profitable if you were to see them on offer from a regular long term HYIP. You will even break even after 59 days which is comparable to a number of successful HYI programs. But do you really want to surf for 120 consecutive days in order to earn what can be gotten just as easily from other sources? I’m not listing this as a disadvantage as such, in fact surfing 15 sites for 15 seconds each still amounts to less than four minutes per day and thats not a bad way to make a profit of 204%. But I have to mention it as it is something that may inconvenience you from time to time if you perhaps have an eye on a summer vacation for instance, or if you are not currently working from a computer in your own home. Just keep it in mind before joining.

Otherwise despite my misgivings with the surfing industry in general at the moment there’s not much that you can’t help but like about YesICanSurf. It’s on a dedicated server which to start with is a huge help and it comes from HushHosting who also provide a comprehensive degree of protection from DdoS attacks. And their record in this field is highly respected with good solid and dependable performances in the past. And its running off the UltimateSurfScript as licensed by Neversay. Nice graphics and a user friendly design can make it more attractive to potential customers as well of course. But one of the most important factors in the success of any surfing site is the responsiveness of the admin and in this case she’s so far proved herself to be very positive and communicative. Her name is Sarah and she is available to take your questions via an online e-mail ticketing system.

Overall I can only comment on the merits of YesICanSurf as an individual program and can say it does have enormous potential. As of today, Friday, its been online for a week and almost 250 members have signed up so that proves that it does. But when it comes to the long term stability any surfing site at the moment, well I wouldn’t like to be the one to call it. Maybe the daily payouts will make a positive contribution to to the longevity of the site, I know it won’t hurt. But the ultimate success or failure of YesICanSurf remains more of a collective decision to be taken by the wider surfing community. It’s a good site but it might be a bad time. Your choice.

Other news for today.

In my honest opinion all surfing programs are going through a very dangerous time now with the constant reducing of their lifespans. Surely it is making the investors more cautious about upgrading in autosurfs and pulling out their funds fast. This process is leaving the investors even less chance to be in profit from autosurfs. The most recent example of such a failed autosurf was BlazeInvest which despite of bright design and supposedly good start folded quite suddenly. The payments stopped yesterday and I had to wait for a while before realizing that there was a problem with the program. Currently it’s on Waiting status on my monitoring page but I suggest you to stop investing in this program until the further notice.

It seems to me two other programs have gone too. I’m talking about Poplans and TraderSolid. Everything was clear about Poplans, it was not a very good quality program to begin with and it simply failed to return after yet another server crash. Regarding TraderSolid I was quite disappointed myself and urge you not to invest in this program even if you see some Paying statuses on a few dishonest monitoring sites. Please make a note of those sites that still list TraderSolid as Paying and try to avoid them at all costs. I hope this will be a good lesson for them and only after they lose all the traffic to their sites maybe they will re-consider their main role – to provide the investors with up-to-date information and not to collaborate with HYIP admins and try to extend the abuse of peoples trust by enticing unsuspecting people into those scams.

I myself always try to provide you with up-to-date information and always react on the members’ emails to me reporting about selective payouts. Last reports I received about UnitFX program which made me remove the program from Paying status on my monitoring page as well as all the banners so as not to mislead new investors. Selective payouts is the first sign of future scamming and if you’re still getting paid from UnitFX program please stop depositing anyway. Obviously such activities cannot and will not be tolerated by my blog. All the admins should be aware of that!

And let’s finish the negative news for today with the update from the admin of Merchandies. The program has not been reviewed on my blog yet but is having some difficulties already. First of all I know some people had problems with their deposits not being credited to their accounts. Now that the problem was finally fixed the site itself has difficulties and I can’t access it for some time now. Fortunately, I did receive a reply from the admin of Merchandies program and hopefully the program will be back online soon:
“We have some problem with our server. The problem will be solve today. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”

Let’s start with some positive news finally. The admin of SilverLodge (interviewed here) finally made an appearance on their official DTM forum to announce the winners of their blog contest and introduce a new ways of media they are using now to promote their site:
“Dear Members, I want to invite you to join me in Plaxo http://silverlodge.myplaxo.com and Twitter http://twitter.com/silverlodge
We will update you from this point on over this two media, with a group/forum in Plaxo and Twitter feeds for news updates, so you learn more about SilverLodge, and our Team.
Please join us on both media, since we will have much more to come, like live chat and communication over twitter and much more. This is all in Beta testing, but I want you all to be a part of it, these way people who not receive news can now get twitter feeds and people who do not want to receive news, just not join us on twitter. I believe we go a new and innovative way, and I am happy to have you on board.”

By the way, the admins of SilverLodge gave me a wonderful idea of using Twitter for my blog updates. As you know Twitter site is a SMS-sized microblogging site allowing frequent updates. As Wikipedia says: “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets“. I must confess I created my Twitter account a couple of weeks ago but didn’t use it since then. I’m quite new at social networking so it will take me some time to get used to using Twitter on a regular basis. But even now you can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mnoblog

By the way, I feel I may owe an apology to the admins of SilverLogde Louise and Dominique for being so skeptical regarding the problems with Bank Wires in PerfectMoney payment processor. I received one email from a reader where I found out that PerfectMoney DID have some problems with bank wires which caused some significant delays. I guess hence then the withdrawals in SilverLodge to some members using PerfectMoney were delayed. I received also a confirmation of my theory from the admin of PerfectMoney Mr. Andrew Draper. I contacted him to ask for an explanation. He confirmed that they had problems with their Cyprus bank which have been resolved by now:
“Due to the changing policy of Cyprus we faced some problems with our bank accounts. Our account in FBME was locked without any reason. Also we had problems with other accounts. We are solving that problems in a urgent way and now everything works really smoothly. All users should receive their transfers which they have sent to FBME bank back.”
I still see though that many exchangers have disabled their PerfectMoney outexchange options. I guess that was also connected with Bank Wire issues in PerfectMoney and hopefully it will be resolved soon enough so the exchanges will be able to supply the growing demand.

So I guess everything should go very smoothly in SilverLodge by now, except maybe some PerfectMoney delayed payments which have a logical reason now to be delayed. By the way, following my promise I’m going to make another review of SilverLodge later next week but before that I hope to verify their address in London. I don’t live too far from Kensington High Street (their office) so it won’t take much time to verify their address. However I feel that it would be not fair to only verify the address of SilverLodge program as other programs monitored by my blog stating to have a physical address in London and listing them on their websites. I’m primarily talking about such programs as NorthBizz registered on Windsor Avenue and Verifield supposedly having their office at Sheraton Street. So I would like to conduct my small investigation and verify what of these statements is true. What do you think about my idea? Please email me at abramsonp@gmail.com or write at my ShoutMix (which is currently enabled again on my blog) if you have your thoughts or suggestions about it.

Let’s now return to the topic of payment processors for a while. PerfectMoney recently sent another newsletter where they discussed the convenience of using Bank Wires within your PerfectMoney account. By the way, the admin of PerfectMoney Andrew asked me re-publish a detailed article originally published on the ECJ site (I’m sure many of you already know it) regarding the possibility to accept Bank Wire transfers on your site with the help of PerfectMoney payment processor and of course I agreed. You can find the article here. And this is the most recent newsletter from PerfectMoney in case you haven’t received it yet:
“Newsletter: Find out how convenient it is to work with Bank Wires online!
For thousands of internet users around the globe PerfectMoney is not only an electronic payment system that facilitates electronic payments for goods and services. PerfectMoney is also a convenient financial service that allows users to send bank wires without having to deal with annoying bank paperwork and problems of financial control in various countries.
Clients choose PerfectMoney because we allow you:
– To accept bank wires from people around the world even if you don’t have your own bank account. You only need to give your partner or receiver the PerfectMoney bank account details and 24-48 hours later the money will be in your PerfectMoney account.
– To pay for goods and services as well as to send money to your receiver via bank wire directly from your PerfectMoney account. To do that you only need to complete the fund withdrawal procedure from your account via bank wire and 24-48 hours later your recipient will receive the transfer.
– To anonymously conduct any legal financial activities without revealing your personal data to your receivers.
– To request a SWIFT to confirm the transfer in order to notify the recipient about the completed bank wire.
– To have an opportunity to systemize your bank wire recipients in our Payee List to avoid the hassle of filling out documents and forms to complete bank wires.
In addition to the convenient functions of PerfectMoney, you will also be nicely surprised by our bank wire fees. We are confident that after just a few bank wire transfers via the PerfectMoney system, you will not only be pleased but will want to move all your financial operations to the PerfectMoney system!
Just imagine that all your partners, clients and agents will start using PerfectMoney services, and then all your financial transactions will be completed instantly. At the same time PerfectMoney will take care of all the matters related to bank wires.
It is high time to shift from the conservative and slow bank system to the new generation of financial services – PerfectMoney.
– What’s next?
In the next newsletter we will gladly announce you with the new PerfectMoney features and deposit options. PerfectMoney congratulates you with the start of exciting Summer Season!”

It seems that SolidTrustPay payment processor is also experiencing some delays with withdrawals. But unlike PerfectMoney it’s about Debit card withdrawals. I could see on some forums that the members of SolidTrustPay had to wait up to 1 week (instead of usual 1-2 business days) to receive the withdrawals to their STP debit cards. So I contacted Live support in SolidTrustPay and received a polite response:
“This is a temporary issue. It will be resolved hopefully today and we will be back to normal next week. We are awaiting a receipt of a wire at our bank.”
So please be prepared that there can be delays in withdrawing to your Debit cards.

StrictPay payment processor sent out an email directed to all their merchants asking to send the email to them with URL to update their merchant listings. So if you’re a StrictPay merchant please do so:
“Hello StrictPay Customers, This is just a quick email to all Merchants that are currently using StrictPay. If you can please send us an email with your url to merchants@strictpay.com so we can update our records, please include your StrictPay account number also. This will ensure that you receive important updates that are directed to our Merchants. We do not send these email to all customers as we do not want to send extra emails to non Merchants.”

Now let’s get back to HYIPs and look at the most recent updates from them.

Fexity (reviewed here) announced the expiry of their famous FAB bonus where you could get up to 35% more to your deposit. But here I could see also a clever marketing trick from the administration. It seems FAB was just renamed and so it will still be available for the members of Fexity program until the program reaches 1,000 members when it supposedly will go private:
“FAB – Fexity Additional Bonus has expired.
We are closing the FAB scheme today. We will be going private after after we reach the 1000 active members mark. For now, we have reached a little over 500 active members and have paid the FAB for all of them so far. It would not be fair if we deny the FAB for the others. So, we have decided to offer the same FAB percentage to members who invest before we hit the 1000 members mark. The only difference is, instead of calling it the Fexity Additional Bonus, it will be the Final Additional Bonus. As the name implies, the bonus will be paid when the invested plan expires.
Do contact us if you need further clarifications.”

So really, if you still wish to join Fexity program which is paying 2% for 15 business days or 15% for 3 weeks with the principal returned on expiry you should hurry up. If you want to know more about the people behind Fexity please refer to my detailed interview with the admin Juliette published here. By the way, if you experienced some difficulties in your Fexity account and your account was not credited properly please let the admin know about it. The support is really fast so you should have your issue resolved in no time:
“Please note that the Withdrawals History for the 2nd, 3rd & 4th of June has not been updated yet due to a small error which will be fixed this weekend. Kindly confirm by checking your E-Currency accounts for payment details!”

Some of my readers were quite scared with the recent disappearance of LonixFinance program. Well, I have to comfort you and say that there is nothing to worry about. The program just changed the domain extension for some reason and now you can reach LonixFinance under the different URL (I have updated all the links already). If you want to read more about LonixFinance paying 26.6%-30% for 4 days please refer to my review published here:
“Hi Dear Member, Apologize from all member for delay, we change domain lonixfinance.biz to lonixfinance.com again we apologize from all member for delay.”

The admin of ForexExperts (reviewed here) cheered everybody on their first month online. It’s not an anniversary to celebrate in my opinion. We will see if ForexExperts can survive 6 months and then I will surely send a bunch of flowers to Wendy:
“Dear members, I just notice that we have been online for 1 month. I think it is a good start for our company. Thank you for your great support. My forex trade team will try our best to earn much more profits from forex market.”

NorthBizz (reviewed here) updated the members that they had a huge DdoS attack that has been successfully mitigated by now. I myself haven’t noticed any significant downtime and for me NorthBizz site was perfectly accessible at all times. The payments are still on schedule so it’s all that really matters:
“Last night our website was under a huge ddos attack. The website was down for some hours but we and our hosting provider successfully blocked it.”

Two programs in a row join the countless victims of scammers soliciting money from HYIPs in exchange NOT to post bad votes on the monitors. I guess smart investors will still be able to differentiate real complaints from fake ones but I would still urge honest monitoring sites to go through the votes and check all the complaints that could easily be made by scammers. So here is what I got from the admin of SigmaTral Trent (he was interviewed on my blog here):
“Dear members, I’m taking time to send a newsletter today, because we have problems with several bad posters. They have posted in all monitors several times…SigmaTral Team will no accept to pay 1 cts for these stupid guys…If you are a monitor admin please check and delete bad votes or contact us if you doubt after reading this newsletter.
Here one of mails of the bad poster who listed all his bad votes…..
It will be very helpful for us if you post your payment proof in monitors or forums (we send about 50-100 payments daily so we are sure that if only some members post, we will fight easily bad posters and this stupid way to attack trusted site…)
Last news for today, I had some problems when I paid with LibertyReserve today. Some members didn’t receive their payment which appeared sent. If you didn’t receive your payment (which appeared sent), just contact us, it will be fixed quickly.”

Another complaint on bad voters was received today from OrybFunds (reviewed here). It was also their first newsletter to the members of this HYIP/Autosurf hybrid and this was kinda strange one. I know that the program is not popular yet among investors because they limited the participation of investors by deciding to accept only LibertyReserve but yet they are bragging of huge progress. During the surfing I can’t see any sites in the rotation because for some reason it’s impossible to add your site to their surfing. I wonder when they will address those problems, if at all. Anyway, as a Paying program OrybFunds is doing quite well and all the payouts are being processed in time. I wish only the admin was more serious about his program and I hope he will listen to my recommendations. And here is the promised newsletter from OrybFunds:
“It’s been a wonderful few weeks at OrybFunds.
The program is progressing really well and we are all very happy with where we currently stand.
We would like to welcome all our new members and hope your partake in OrybFunds has been a wonderful experience so far. Also not forgetting our current members and thank you for all the support.
We would also like to apologise to our members for the lack of availability on our live support system. Our support staff Sara has not been feeling well lately and is trying her best to be available on live support when she can.
Another issue we would like to address is the threats we’ve received from a group “hyip365” that is posting bad votes for ORYB on monitors. We received 5 threats all together and below are 2 out of the 5 screen shots of the threats we have received;
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8650/threat1.jpg
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9031/threat5.jpg
We would like to ask the cooperation of all the monitors to please review the votes for our program and remove any bad votes that are clearly trying to bring down OrybFunds. We also hope our members take the time to vote for us and show others that we are a sincere, honest and paying program. A list of monitors can be found on our “rate us” page.
That is all for now. Thank you for the support and may we continue to prosper.”

The new program I joined today is called OilInsider and I consider it a very interesting one becoming a potentially popular program in the near future. Don’t be deceived by a simplistic design as the texts are quite original perfectly explaining how OilInsider makes money for the investors. Basically, they explained that they make money by playing the markets using some secret reports on Petroleum and Gas prices. The weekly rates you will be receiving if you decide to join OilInsider will fluctuate but the average profit can reach 10.1% weekly and you will be paid forever (the principal withdrawal is not allowed). The minimum to invest in OilInsider is $10 (interesting that you can also make your deposit in Euros) and they accept PerfectMoney, LibertyReserve and EcuMoney for now. Your account will be updated with profits twice per week. Thursday and Friday, and you can withdraw or reinvest them. OilInsider has the perfect website in terms of safety and security and incudes customized script with SSL-certificate installed and five-digit PIN protection and hosting on a dedicated server by DdoSWiz with a domain registered for 5 (!) years. I’m going to review OilInsider on my blog later, once I receive the first payouts from them but really, this program is simply exceptional.

In the end of this long post I would like to tell you which programs paid me for the last 36 hours. They are: Fexity, SigmaTral, GeniusFunds, TheDollarDiggers, SilverLodge, InvestmentForge, NanoMoneyCorp, ForexExperts, MajorBarter, EnscoOffshore, PanaMoney, ElegantMoney, SteadyGrowthInvest, YesICanSurf, EwoCapital, GoldNuggetInvest, NorthBizz, Ivy-Castle, XagaEnterprise, NovalexFinance, LonixFinance, OrybFunds and CoolReturn (the first payment rceived). See you on my blog tomorrow with another review and more news from the Industry! Enjoy the weekend!