Hi everybody! For the first post today (news will be along later as usual) I have an interesting interview with the admin of a program that seems never far from the headlines for one reason or another since it’s launch earlier in the week. Pickash is the name of the program and already in its short few days online it seems to have history behind it as colorful as any HYIP on the net right now.

Just as colorful is the admin’s name, Robin Williams, (ask nicely and you might get an autograph, lol!) and he explains some of the issues that Pickash has had to overcome as well as the more regular aspects of the program such as security and the investment plan which offers 125% interest on expiry after 5 days, principal included. For further info on that of course you’re always welcome to read my detailed review of Pickash published here, or if you have any comments about it you are free to express them on the MNO Forum thread here.

“1. Hi admin, please start by introducing yourself to the readers of MNO and telling us a bit first about your own role in Pickash and then about your background in the HYIP industry. What kind of previous experience do you have in managing funds?

Hi Paul and all MNO readers. My name is Robin Williams and I’m the sole administrator of Pickash.com. I take Pickash extremely seriously by processing all the pending withdrawals once I’m online and answering to all support tickets as fast as I can.

2. Can you also tell us a bit more about Pickash itself? How long have you been in business? Are you running this alone or are there others involved with you? Why did you start the program to begin with?

I am the only one who manages Pickash and take upon myself all the duties to provide everyone with the best service I can. The name Pickash was always stuck in my mind and it’s a short for “Pick Cash” so that’s how I thought about this name for the project.

3. Please explain the investment plan to us in detail. What are the minimum and maximum amounts accepted? What rates of interest do you offer and how long does it run for?

The minimum investment about is $5 and the maximum investment amount is $12,000. Pickash offers its member the opportunity to collect profits constantly by receiving 125% return on their investment after every 5 days.

4. Can you give us any statistics regarding the program? Particularly in relation to the number of members, the amounts paid in and out, and to which payment processors.

Pickash currently has over 1080 members with over $100k deposited in just 5 days. I consider this as a very promising start for the project.

5. I have to say I find the stats a little hard to believe, especially considering the current state of the industry. A quick look through the monitors you use and the information they have would seem to suggest that the numbers are highly exaggerated. How do you respond?

Figures are completely real and I never fake stats. I spent thousands of dollars for the advertising campaign of Pickash and you can see the results by watching the growth rate everyday. Pickash gets stronger and bigger from day to day and I am very glad and happy about it.

6. If a reader wants to join Pickash then what payment processors are you using? I see you are awaiting verification from SolidTrustPay. Should you have gotten that before opening? When (do you think) we can expect to see them added?

Pickash currently accepts LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney and StrictPay. I might add SolidTrustPay as well in the future however I am not sure of that, and you know why. Jealous people might complain to SolidTrustPay and I don’t want this to happen so I think the best thing for Pickash is to always stick with LR, PM and SP. It’s 100% safe from jealous people this way.

7. Speaking of payment processors, what exactly just happened with AlertPay? The blocking of an AlertPay account can often spell the end for a program, so do you either a) think you can carry on without them, or b) expect your account to be re-activated again? Will the addition of STP offset the damage done here?

Of course Pickash continues as usual without AlertPay. Jealousy will never win and that person “Caution” who complained to AlertPay and attempted to take Pickash down by doing is simply a sick and mentally-ill person who doesn’t have a life and dedicate all of it for ruining this industry and attempting to hurt promising HYIP websites. I am glad it got blocked before the first payouts on expiry were processed, so it doesn’t affect Pickash‘s growth at all.

8. How highly would you rate the security of your own website? Tell us about your hosting provider and how highly would you rate them as a service provider?

Pickash is hosted on a dedicated server with the fastest speed & highest level of DDOS protection by BlackLotus. Protection is one of the most important things in my opinion and I don’t regret that I spent a lot of money for the security of Pickash.

9. What about your script? Who is the provider? What do you think the benefits of this script are to both the admin and the investors? Are you using SSL encryption?

Pickash uses a licensed Neversay script and in my opinion this is the best & most secured script, the most comfortable and much more preferable than GoldCoders. Pickash has SSL encryption from BlackLotus, yes. As I said before the protection of Pickash is my priority.

10. What kind of customer support do you offer? What is the best and most efficient way to contact you if I have any questions?

Members can simply use the contact form on the website and I will reply to their support ticket as fast as I can.

11. What have been the most common questions, problems, or other support related issues that you have had to deal with so far? Is there anything you would like to address here so that members can avoid having to contact you?

Nothing much, except of monitors spamming me non-stop everyday to add their website to Pickash rate us page, lol.

12. What if any other outside business and investment activities are you involved with? Is it fair to assume that you are a traditional lottery style online HYIP game?

Before opening Pickash I was a forex trader and it was my full time job. I am still trading forex and making good profits with it and I am using the profits I make to sustain Pickash for the longest time possible and make it an extremely successful and popular program among investors.

13. Tell us more about the general advertising and promotional strategies being used by Pickash. In a very competitive market what are you doing to bring Pickash to a wider investment audience?

I have been advertising Pickash on major forums, monitors and blogs and you can see the results.

14. Some people might question the wisdom behind opening a program such as yours at this particular time, given that so many otherwise apparently good short term programs have struggled over the last few months. Are things really going to be all that different for Pickash? Why do you think so?

Definitely. I have enough reserved funds to keep the project online for months to come and once again, jealousy won’t hurt Pickash because I will simply keep doing my job everyday by paying the payouts once I am online. If my target is to make Pickash the most successful and profitable HYIP website in 2010, I know I can do it and nothing can stop it from becoming a leader. Pickash has the highest level of DDOS protection, is safe with LR, PM, SP, and I don’t care about that “Caution” guy who posts fake and nonsense things about Pickash on the forums or on the monitors. because facts speak louder than nonsense, and I will keep paying and paying and doing my job everyday!

15. Are there any plans to develop Pickash further in the near future? Will there be any interesting changes or promotional activities? How are you planning to keep the program competitive in such challenging times?

Pickash will stay as it is, with the same design, plan and payment processors. Once again I am not sure about adding STP because I simply don’t want to take a risk and you know what I mean. I don’t want anything to hurt the program and hopefully the tremendous members’ support everyday that becomes bigger and stronger everyday by reinvesting, posting payment proofs on the forums, voting for Pickash on the monitors and promoting it in the best way possible, will show everyone how much unique and successful Pickash becomes. Thank you Paul for this interview!”

Thanks a lot to Robin for that, and good luck to all the investors choosing to join. Fortunately no harm has come to the members themselves through this latest incident with AlertPay as the funds were still in tact when the account was blocked so hopefully a refund will be made to them in the coming weeks. Hopefully also Robin will show some resolve and not quit now as quite a lot of work has gone into this. Whatever you think about the stats however, the seeming lack of paid posts on the major forums now that the first cycle has been completed would indicate that a lot of the early investors did in fact favor AlertPay. If SolidTrustPay is not to be offered as an alternative then Robin has quite a lot of work in front of him convincing those former AP investors to switch to either LibertyReserve or PerfectMoney and re-invest those refunds back into Pickash once they are made.

It’s true that the blocking of an AlertPay account has often been the death knell of many programs in the past, but fingers crossed this might be an exception due to the fact that it happened so early and before anyone was due a payout.

That’s it for the moment guys but be sure to check back here a little later when I’ll have all the main news stories from the programs covered by my monitoring page as well as the latest installment of MNOFridays where I’ll be discussing some of the less well known and less publicized aspects of the online HYIP industry. So stay tuned for that!

Hi everyone! Just a short update for you this evening as it’s been a quiet enough day for news. I have a recent interview with the admin of a new short term HYI program called OnlineMDT, which was originally reviewed on my blog here.

They’ve been running for almost two weeks now and paying successfully on plans that include 109% after 3 days, 119% after 5 days, and 129% after 7 days. Please note that there had previously been a test plan included but for reasons outlined by the admin below this has now been scrapped If you have any comments of your own about what the admin has to say here (positive or negative) then please visit the OnlineMDT forum thread here.

“1. Hi admin, please start by introducing yourself to the readers of MNO and telling us a bit first about your own role in OnlineMDT and then about your background in the HYIP industry. What kind of previous experience do you have in managing funds?

Hello to all dear members and investors and dear admin of Money News Online. I am Jack Rabins manager of OnlineMDT and I am so happy to answer your question in order to help OnlineMDT be more popular in financial world. As you ask about me and my experience in HYIP industry, I should say that before starting OnlineMDT me and some of my team members have worked in other financial companies and in a long period of time we have gained much experiences which helped us to start our own individual Financial program and let the other members use our experience.

2. Can you also tell us a bit more about OnlineMDT itself? How long have you been in business? Are you running this alone or are there others involved with you? Why did you start the program to begin with?

OnlineMDT Project started on August 9th and after two days we started our online advertising campaign adding monitoring partners. As we started so strongly as a result we attracted high investments and many good ideas right from the first day. And as we saw we were in a good position and we succeeded in starting a good project we decided to work online with our members so we choose Money News Online. And about your second question, we are a group of four people. One of our members acts as online support and of one us works as an Advertisement expert. Myself and the work as Managers and Online Market Detectives. We aim to share our profit with those investors who have money and don’t have time to collect experience to research individual online markets. Risk management is our strategy. Lower profit bring lower risk and at result it brings TRUST.

3. Please explain the investment plans to us in detail. What are the minimum and maximum amounts accepted into each plan? What rates of interest do you offer and how long do they run for?

Investment Plan 1 :: 102%(TEST PLAN)

Interest: 102% After 1 Day
Minimum Amount: 5 USD
Maximum Amount: 300 USD
Period: 1 Business Days

Investment Plan 2 :: 109%

Interest: 109% After 3 Days
Min. Amount: 15.01 USD
Max. Amount: 20000 USD
Period: 3 Business Days

Investment Plan 3 :: 119%

Interest: 119% After 5 Days
Min. Amount: 15.01 USD
Max. Amount: 40000 USD
Period: 5 Business Days

Investment Plan 4 :: 129%

Interest: 129% After 7 Days
Min. Amount: 15.01 USD
Max. Amount: 60,000 USD
Period: 7 Business Days

I think this is so clear and there is no hidden catches. You should know that our first plan is only a test plan and it closes today. Now we have many investors which means proof is no longer an issue.

4. Looking at the ForEx rates on the charts you provide I don’t see anything that could even remotely support the rates of interest you offer. Certainly not for any sustainable or consistent length of time anyway. How do you respond?

To be honest with you it was our designer who chose this chart as a symbol to show our website as a business model. Of course this chart is a real and really works but we have no idea about it. We have some other methods for our investments.

5. Can you give us any statistics regarding the program? Particularly in relation to the number of members, the amounts paid in and out, and from which plans.

In 10 days we have attracted more than 700 members of which more than 520 are active. In the first days more than 80% invested in the first plan (102% After 1 day) but as we paid more and more in the next days investments in the other plans increased and now more than 40% invest in plan for 7 Days and 30% invest in the second and third plans (of 3 and 5 days). The rest invest in first plan just to test our investment plans and experience in these 10 days show us that most investors after receiving their first payment from plan one they try our other plans.

6. If a reader wants to join OnlineMDT then what payment processors are you using? Is there something preventing you from adding other verified options like AlertPay and SolidTrustPay? Do you think your program would be a lot more popular if you did add them?

As we have written in our FAQ page, we support LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney, and StrictPay payment processors. And as you ask about our reason that we don’t support AlertPay or STP, I should say it was going to be a surprise for our investors but as you ask I should announce now that OnlineMDT in the near future will add AP and STP payment processors to our payment methods.

7. How highly would you rate the security of your own website? Tell us about your hosting provider and how highly would you rate them as a service provider?

Our hosting provider is DDOSWIZ who as you know are one of the most reliable teams we know and we believe their security is high. They can protect our website against any attack, and time has proven this to be so.

8. What about your script? Who is the provider? What do you think the benefits of this script are to both the admin and the investors? Are you using SSL encryption?

Unfortunately we don’t support SSL and I can not promise to support this in future either. But about the script, we use GoldCoders Script which many many members will know. We are under license from them and their source code security is high.

9. What kind of customer support do you offer? What is the best and most efficient way to contact you if I have any questions?

By looking at our website you can see many contact details on the first page, it shows that any investor who needs help our has any questions can contact us. Our Live support is at your service anytime, just contact us whenever you need our help. You can use our support form too.

Http://www.OnlineMDT.com/index.php?a=support

10. I see it mentioned that you may soon offer telephone support. If you’ve really been in business for nine years and have 37,000 employees as your website claims, how can you not have a telephone number by now? How long can it possibly take?

There are so many hidden meanings behind 37,000 employees so let us take an example to clear this matter. As I said we are 4 persons who manage OnlineMDT. Me and one other person are Online Market detectives, and to detect the best market to invest our members assets we should contact many many person and search about the best way. The 37,000 are those persons that we are in general contact with during investing from managers or usual employees which can help us with their experiences. We believe that when we can use someone’s experience it means that we are in corporation with each other and so we in a sense employ that person in our project. 37,000 are the ones who help us to make the highest profit from online markets. We are in business many years but our online and individual work has been started only with OnlineMDT. And we promise in the near future to put a phone number on the first page.

11. What have been the most common questions, problems, or other support related issues that you have had to deal with so far? Is there anything you would like to address here so that members can avoid having to contact you?

The most common problem till now from most of our investors is about the Transaction code.
Transaction codes are a security password which you need to withdraw your funds from our website. Many investors contact us that they have lost their transaction code, and always we reply it is enough to send a private message Via Liberty Reserve account which they have invested in our program. As soon as we receive their message we reset their transaction code.

12. What other outside business and investment activities are OnlineMDT involved with? Can we see any independently verifiable proof of these activities and are you licensed by any authority to offer financial services such as you do?

Online Market Detectives Team first of all find any online market and research their activities. The next step is compare these markets with each other and estimate risk of investment versus profit. Each one which is more reliable and reasonable will be selected. Finally for example three markets will be listed at the last step we compare them with each other and rank them. Then we start investing. No one can claim that there is no risk but we claim that we select lower profits to face lower risk of losing our assets in these markets. Low profit but stable is more valuable than high profit at high risk.

13. I can see quite clearly that a lot of the texts on the OnlineMDT website are copy/pasted from a number of other sources. How then do you expect investors to take any of your claims seriously?

If you look carefully you will see that those texts about forex or other online markets are from some other websites. There is no need for us to write some text for ourselves. We write the real meaning of forex which experienced Forex investment Company claim. Experienced investors look more carefully at our activities over the last 10 days, look carefully at forums, ask the monitor admins, read our news articles published every 3 days, read advertisement Updates which go to their email Box. Experienced investors see the realities. Our behaviour is the best advertisement for us. Our honesty is our policy.

14. Tell us more about the general advertising and promotional strategies being used by OnlineMDT. In a very competitive market what are you doing to bring OnlineMDT to a wider investment audience?

If you look at Our Rating Page you will see more than 50 monitors and if you check them you can see that from the start we have added our project in these monitors. From the first day we bought HYIPExplorer sticky listing, we bought 3 banners from Gsmonitor, we put our project on sticky-paid in HYIPbanker, and have added our Banner in many other monitors too. We added MNO too. This process shows that we had a powerful start and in the near future some other changes will appear in our advertisement plans and this is a surprise for readers, and in the future advertisement UPDATEs new changes will send to all of our members and will be announced generally in our forums.

15. Are there any plans to develop OnlineMDT further in the near future? Will there be any interesting changes made soon? How are you planning to keep the program competitive in such difficult times?

Yes, our first plan (102% After 1 day) was a test plan for those investors requiring proof to start an investment in our program. From today that plan will be suspended and any investors choosing our website can invest at higher levels. We put that plan to gather payment proof for our website and now we have many investors who have received this proof and the existence of those investors can be proof enough for the next investors proof.
And lastly we thank you for your great Monitoring website and we should say thanks to all of those members who supported us in the forums, monitors and any place else they could. We will always do our best for them.”

Thanks a lot to Jack for taking the time to return my questions and of course as always you are free to form your own opinions on his answers. That’s it for this evening guys! I have another early train to catch in the morning when I’ll be heading to Bergen for the next week or so, but I’ll still have all the usual daily updates so stay tuned and see you all then!

Of course for reasons we don’t need to go into again here it’s also a section of the industry that’s currently wide open for new high quality programs like Flamanta to really set themselves up and dominate for months to come. Provided they are motivated and organized enough to to do so. Do Flamanta fit that description? They just might, but read for yourself and see what you think.

Before you do however let me give a brief reminder that Flamanta is a long term low ROI investment project that offers terms of 1.72%-1.78% for 150 business days, 1.84% for 160 business days, and 1.92% for 180 business days. For further information on how it all works please refer back to my original review published here. Flamanta can also be discussed on the MNO forum here.

“1. Hi Ronald, please start by introducing yourself to the readers of MNO and telling us a bit first about your own role in Flamanta and then about your background in the field of online investments. What kind of previous experience do you have in managing funds?

Hi to all the readers of MNO and to all investors. We’re happy to answer the questions that are of great interest to investors, as the Flamanta Company strives to make investing in High Frequency Trading (HFT) more popular. According to analysts of such major companies as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Getco and others, today HFT brings the most profit to financial companies if compared with investment business on the stock and Forex markets.

I’m Ronald Branson and I’m a PR and marketing manager of Flamanta. I’m not an admin of the website flamanta.com, I’m engaged in creating and maintaining a positive image of the Flamanta Company on the global market.

In another interview I told how I became a member of Flamanta team. It happened due to my acquaintance with one of the employees in Forbes editorial. During my interview I suggested to make HFT popular, so that people could learn more about these technologies and would search for companies offering investment services in the sphere of HFT. To cut it short, I promised to rush the HFT article into print in Forbes, and Flamanta founder Frank Trump came with a counter-promise to hire me. In a few weeks, the article appeared in the latest issue of Forbes magazine and I joined the Flamanta management team, and I’m really proud of it as I didn’t expect our company to develop so rapidly.

2. Can you also tell us a bit more about Flamanta itself? How long have you been in business? Tell us about the other people involved with the project? Why did you start the program to begin with?

Flamanta is an investment project of Dixoman Trading, established in 2009 by Frank Trump and Lewis Rooney for attracting capital in their investment business, which operates on the basis of High Frequency Trading technologies. This spring we launched the online project and therefore created a platform for raising funds from investors.

The strategy of our company proceeds on the basis that HFT technologies require high turnover. As we had no big initial capital, we created the business strategy, according to which we would give 95% of profit to our investors within the first 2-3 years. We do not refund deposits, but we pay high profits instead. It is done to accumulate the funds of investors by increasing our working capital. In other words, we almost refuse profit in order to gather more funds for 2-3 years and then we will pay off our investors and manage big funds or will continue our online business if it generates considerable returns. As for now, we’re more inclined to follow the second variant.

To learn more about HFT and how Flamanta makes money with it you can read either in Wikipedia or on our site by following the links:
https://www.flamanta.com/model.php
https://www.flamanta.com/business.php

Study the information about HFT and Flamanta Company and then you’ll see that we’re engaged in a very promising business.

3. Please explain the various investment funds to us. Just the most basic info will do here. What are the minimum and maximum amounts accepted into each plan? What rates of interest do you offer and how long do they run for?

As of today the company provides an opportunity to invest e-currency in 4 investment funds that come with different asset structures, investment periods and yields. All assets in all funds are managed on the base of High Frequency Trading technology. Flamanta traders buy millions of insignificant companies’ shares and then sell them. All these operations are carried out several times a second, so our traders react much faster to price changes for the same stocks offered for sale in larger packages if compared with other traders, who do not use HFT technologies. Each Flamanta fund comes with different HFT algorithms and different portfolio structures and, as a result, all 4 funds give different yields.

FTBS Investment Fund
Payment of profit: 1.72% (daily)
Payment schedule of profit: 5 / 2
The amount of investment: from $10
Investment period: 150 days
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FBHS Investment Fund
Payment of profit: 1.78% (daily)
Payment schedule of profit: 5 / 2
The amount of investment: from $600
Investment period: 150 days
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FFTC Investment Fund
Payment of profit: 1.84% (daily)
Payment schedule of profit: 5 / 2
The amount of investment: from $1800
Investment period : 160 days
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FFET Investment Fund
Payment of profit: 1.92% (daily)
Payment schedule of profit: 5 / 2
The amount of investment: from $5600
Investment period: 180 days

4. Can you now give us more detailed information on the background to each individual fund? What are the various portfolios you are re-investing your members money with? Why do they all carry different price tags? Can investors independently verify and track the performance of these portfolios?

Information about the management strategy of each fund does exist and can be found in the fund description. We provide brief data describing the main details in the management strategy of the fund. Read the descriptions of our funds on our website.

5. I said in my original review of Flamanta that many online investors may be put off by the lack of choice when it comes to payment processors, particularly bigger US and Canadian based investors who will only invest larger amounts through processors with a verification process. How do you respond? Is there something preventing you from adding one?

Of course, there’ll be more payment processors over time. We started working with established payment processors trusted by investors, as evidenced by our market research. The payment processors we’re working with allow conducting investment transactions faster and without any bureaucratic problems, therefore we think the investors can be satisfied with the selection of methods to fund their accounts.

6. How highly would you rate the security of your own website? Tell us about your hosting provider and how highly would you rate them as a service provider?

Our hosting provider is Dragonara.net. We are confident in this company and so far satisfied with its services. I heard that Dragonara provided web hosting and DDoS protection to many financial companies, banks and Internet services, and so we are confident that they know their business and will remain a faithful partner for us.

7. What about your script? Is it a custom design made especially for you? Who is the provider? What do you think the benefits of this script are to both the admin and the investors? Are you using SSL encryption?

We use a unique script on our site that was specially ordered in one of the US agencies. As for design, it was ordered in the European agency that participated in the development of design products for the Olympic Games in Athens. We invested several tens of thousands of dollars in our startup and when we actually started we were very pleased to get positive feedbacks about Flamanta design and the service in general.

Our script is very convenient when it comes to project management and it’s convenient for investors as well. We regularly get their positive feedbacks. As for SSL encryption, by all means we use this technology. We couldn’t afford to let ourselves save money on the safety of our clients.

8. What kind of customer support do you offer? What is the best and most efficient way to contact you if I have any questions? Tell us in particular about your telephone support. If I call you will I find an actual Flamanta representative on the line?

Well, you’d better turn to the online chat on our site. We operate online, so the best way to contact us is to contact us online. As for phone support, our consultant answered people’s questions within the first week. However, we came to conclusion that too many people turned with the same questions and now phone support functions as the answering machine. Anyway, we carefully listen to all questions and try to contact those investors, whose question requires a live reply. We also have e-mail support for our clients.

Dear investors, we always try to be there for you and answer all your questions. Contact us and we will surely turn our attention to your question.

9. What have been the most common questions, problems, or other support related issues that you have had to deal with so far? Is there anything you would like to address here so that members can avoid having to contact you?

Yes, such questions do exist. People commonly ask why our investment project is called Flamanta and the company, on behalf of which we run the business, is called Dixoman Trading. Oddly enough, it’s a very common occurrence when a legal name of the company differs from the project name on the market. Dixoman Trading has all the rights to the brand Flamanta, and runs its business in accordance with the laws of Cyprus.

There are also many questions about the history of our company and how we make money. At this point I’d like to recommend reading “HFT business model” and “Our business” sections on our site.

10. Tell us more about the general advertising and promotional strategies being used by Flamanta. In a very competitive market what are you doing to bring Flamanta to a wider investment audience?

Our company shares the opinion that it’s no way to lead people by the hand. People understand clearly where it’s profitable to invest to and where it’s not. Those, who gave themselves the trouble to read about High Frequency Trading technologies, don’t need banners and other adverting tools, as they will soon probably become our clients by realizing the fact that now it is the right time for HFT and probably in several years this business won’t generate so much money as we get now. So, the faster investors realize how promising HFT technologies can be, the more they can earn.

So, I may draw a conclusion that we do not advertise our company, we advertise HFT technologies, about which you may read in Wikipedia, SmartMoney, Forbes and other business magazines that highlight trading technologies. Today we’re the only company on the Internet that offers trust management services by investing investor capital in HFT business. Getco is a leading offline company engaged in HFT, as for online sphere, the major and the only investment company engaged in HFT is Flamanta.

11. Do you have any opinions on the current crisis in the online investments industry? What do you think lead up to it and would you have any suggestions as to how the situation could be improved? What are you doing that’s any different in order to earn the trust of the online investments community?

Our company is so young yet and it’s too early to speak about the crisis. Those several months, during which we’ve been operating, speak about the growth in the number of clients rather than the crisis. I looked through your blog and noticed that there became fewer ads, maybe it’s due to the crisis though we notice nothing of that kind. My experience leads me to conclude that slowdown in business always occurs in summer. If you noticed some crisis, take the factor of seasonality into account.

12. Can you explain to readers about your registration in Cyprus? What does the process involve and does it give you any sort of license to carry out your activities?

There’s nothing to explain here, everything seems quite clear. Our company is registered in Cyprus, you can prove this information on our site http://www.drcor.mcit.gov.cy/portal/page/portal/Eforos/dttSearch_en
Having several private offices in New York and Chicago, we run our business in the USA, so we need no Cypriot licenses. The Cyprus company is a legal entity owning the brand of Flamanta and representing the interests of our investment company.

Perhaps someone may think that an investment company always implies a big office placed on several floors in a business center, a lot of people, etc. Keep assured, it’s a mistake. When it comes to the company engaged in HFT business, the picture of our activities is quite different. In Chicago and New York we rent a few small premises located near the NYSE and CHX. These premises contain racks with servers controlled by our traders and managers in other offices. Our business is hidden from prying eyes, that’s why we contact our clients via the Internet.

13. Are there any plans to develop Flamanta further in the near future? Will there be any interesting changes made soon? How are you planning to keep the program competitive with so many good long term HYIPs coming online recently?

In the context of leading business on the Internet, we plan to significantly increase our client base, perhaps we will introduce new funds and open new regional offices in Europe and Asia. In the context of business organization, now we’re negotiating the purchase of a small investment company in Hong Kong. This company has an office just near the HKSE, where we could place our servers for conducting HFT business. Asia is a strategically interesting region and we would like to have a part of our business there.

Speaking about our relationships with clients, we hope that partner relations with thousands of established clients will be strengthened and new clients will opt for Flamanta when considering investment programs, as Flamanta gives the opportunity to get profit not just for us, but for our investors as well.”

Thanks a lot to Ronald for that and I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot more from him and the Flamanta team for some time to come. The industry could certainly do with a program like this so in everybody’s best interests let’s hope it gets the success it so obviously deserves. And while I have to advise caution at all times when handling money over the net because all I can honestly assess here is potential, Flamanta does look like it could gradually grow into something much bigger and much stronger and be as good as anything new we’ve seen in recent months.

That’s about it for now everyone. Hopefully you’ll survive the rest of this Friday the 13th and enjoy the coming weekend! But don’t forget to check out MNO again tomorrow for all the latest news updates from around the industry, so see you all then!

Hi everyone! For the first post of the new week I’m pleased to have an interview with the admin of BullInvest, which is a new long term HYI program added to my monitoring page just under two weeks ago and reviewed here. His name is Jason and his customer services partner is Deborah and together they have been doing quite a professional job of running BullInvest. It’s still a relatively young program so early days yet, but based on my own experience there’s no problems worth repeating and the payments have been, in a word, flawless.

BullInvest still have a long way to go before they establish themselves as major industry players of course but a good start as they say is half the battle. So let’s hope Jason and his team carry on as they have started and become a popular choice among investors over the coming months.

“1. Hi Jason, please introduce yourself to the readers of MNO and tell us about your own role within BullInvest. What are your own duties within the program? How would you describe a typical working day for you as an admin of an online investment project?

Hello Paul, members and prospective members. My name is Jason and I’m the Vice President and I.T. director of The Bull Investment Firm LTD. You might call me the liaison between corporate and our online investors. What I mean by that is that the bulk of the activity (Trading etc…) is handled by corporate. My duties mainly consist of payments, coordinating the customer service team (along with Deborah) and handling any administrative duties associated with the website and our online presence directly.

2. Can you also give us some background on the program? How long have you been running? What were you hoping to achieve by starting it in the first place? Apart from you is there anybody else working on BullInvest?

The online presence of The Bull Investment firm was officially launched on July 13th of this year. I must admin Paul that launching a website to attract investors certainly wasn’t something that was an easy sell to our board of directors. As I’ve stated in previous emails, the idea to bring our business online was mine and over a number of years I’ve been lobbying for this move to be made and it finally was.

I believe that we are entering into a new era of online investing and while some may remark that they peak of online investing has passed I’d like to submit that change is all for the good.

The public is no longer naive to the ploys of those that wish to deceive others. Our strength will shine through as we continue day after day and month after month to produce a steady and reasonable return for our clients with a very minimal risk.

3. What about the investment plans? Can you explain them in detail to us? What are the minimum and maximum amounts for investment, what rates of interest are on offer and how long do they run for?

The Bull Investment Firm offers 5 plans each with varying degrees of profit based upon deposit amounts. They are as follows:

For deposits of $10.00 – $999.00 you will earn a varying percentage between 1.3%-1.7% daily on trading days only running for 130 trading days. For all of the plans that we offer we will return your principal deposit upon its completion.

For deposits of $1000-$2999 you will earn between 1.71%-1.89% daily for 150 days.

For deposits of $3000-$5999 you will earn 1.9% daily for 150 days

For deposits of $6,000.00 – $9,999.00 you will earn 2.1% daily for 180 days

For deposits of $10,000-$100,000 you will earn 2.4% daily for 180 days.

4. Tell us about the payment options available from BullInvest. What payment processors are you currently dealing with?

We are currently working with Alertpay, Liberty Reserve, Perfect Money and NEW Strictpay funds. That means funds that can be withdrawn. We are not accepting old Strictpay funds because they are all but worthless at this point.

5. How highly would you rate the security of your own website? Tell us about your hosting provider and how highly would you rate them as a service provider?

Our entire platform from development to launch day was designed with security being our main focus. We use a script that was custom made and then tailored to The Bull Investment Firm. There are no back doors and no one in the past nor the future will ever use this script other than The Bull Investment Firm.

All financial transactions within the site require a transaction code. All passwords and account numbers are encrypted to ensure that hackers cannot access sensitive data from within our database.

We employ a 256 bit Secure Socket Layer encryption for all transactions that are made through our site. In addition we are hosted on what I would consider to be the best host on the market today which is KoDDos. We are fully Ddos protected from all attacks large or small. As you can see we have had 100% uptime since our launch.

6. What about your script? Am I right in saying that it’s been custom made for you? What do you think the benefits of this script are to both the admin and the investors? Are you using SSL encryption?

Yes the script is 100% custom made by our in house programming department. It has been custom fit and tailored specifically for The Bull Investment Firm.

The benefits of this aside from complete customization are the obvious security features of not having a mass reproduced script full of back doors.

On our end we are able to employ custom made cheating software as well as very easily add any features that we find are needed along the way. An example of this is the quickness with which we were able to add the reinvesting from balance feature.

7. What kind of customer support do you offer? What is the best and most efficient way to contact you if I have any questions?

Deborah Billingham is our customer support manager and she would be the one most qualified to answer this so let me pass this question to her:

Hello members, my name is Deborah Billingham and I’m the Customer Service Manager/Director for The Bull Investment Firm LTD. We offer two types of support.

The first is our traditional ticketing support which goes directly to myself or a member of my staff 24 hours a day 7 days a week. In addition we also offer live support by appointment.

Our staff is advised to be logged into our live support suite as much as possible but we maintain no specific hours due to the hectic nature of our business. I’d like to advise everyone to utilize our live chat feature when available because it is the quickest and most efficient way of solving any issues. For all other matters please direct them to our support ticketing department and they will be handled in short order.

8. What have been the most common questions, problems, or other support related issues that you have had to deal with so far? Is there anything you would like to address here so that members can avoid having to contact you?

Until now we have seen very few support requests that couldn’t be handled in a relatively quick manner. Things such as lost pin codes seem to be our most frequent.
We are also frequented by the due diligence seeker who is simply mailing us to ensure that we are a real company and will be there when they need us. Which of course we do not mind at all.

9. What other outside business and investment activities are BullInvest involved with? Are you doing anything more constructive with your member’s money or are you?

I will take this directly from my letter to the members which is published on the our company page of our site. The exact investment strategies (techniques) that we use are proprietary and are not shared outside of our company. However as a general rule we diversify all funds with a 50-30-20 split. This means that 50% of funds are invested in precious metals (Gold, Platinum), 30% is invested in the US Stock Market and 20% is traded on the Forex Market.

We have diversified our clients in this way with the bulk of each investment going into precious metals because over the long term they have always shown to be the most stable and secure. In addition if we do find that a particular nations currency is being devalued we can always fall back on Gold, Silver and Platinum as a safe haven. The US stock market is slightly riskier in our opinion than the metals market due to the high reliance on fundamentals that many stocks are prone to.

Market sentiment is always a factor. Yet, with good analysis comes very good profit for our organization. For these reasons we have decided to allocate 30% of our clients funds here. Our riskiest investment yet our most profitable is the Forex or Foreign Exchange market which is the exchanging of one currency for another in real time based upon the fluctuating rates of the week. This is the most profitable market due to its large liquidity and 24/5 trading schedule. There are many strategies that we employ depending upon the volatility of the day or week. Much more technical analysis is employed here and we have a dedicated team of 3 traders who specialize in the Forex market exclusively.

10. Tell us more about the general advertising and promotional strategies being used by BullInvest. In a very competitive market what are you doing to bring BullInvest to a wider investment audience?

This is where we seem to run into a bit of a snag at times. Originally it was brought to our attention that traditional methods of advertising (banners, Monitors etc..) were the way to go. In the current climate we are finding that only a very small handful of monitors were worth the funds used to pay for them. Let me stress though that members funds WERE NOT used to pay for monitors or banners to advertise The Bull Investment firm LTD. This was a company budget that was set aside prior to our launch to ensure the financial stability of the site and not put any undue stress upon the cashflow.

11. Are there any plans to develop BullInvest further in the near future? Will there be any interesting changes made soon? How are you planning to keep the program competitive with so many new HYIPs opening every day?

We are always making plans for a bigger and brighter future for our clients. We are currently in talks with a production company to produce a promotion video for The BullInvest LTD.

As of yet we have not come to any sort of agreement but we hope to reach one relatively soon. As a company and as a firm with a significant online presence we are happy to take any and all suggestions or concerns into consideration.

12. And finally is there anything else you wish to say not covered in this interview? If there was just one thing you could say to investors to get them to join your program before any other then what would it be?

Paul, there comes a time when words in themselves leave something to be desired. With the amount of hot air that is constantly circulating around the online world of investing its clear to me that anything I say is bound to fall upon deaf ears. So I prefer to let my actions and the actions of our organization do the speaking for us.

So let me just welcome you to The Bull Investment Firm and pledge our utmost support and consideration to ensure that your experience with us is up to the highest standards. Our team of specialists is here to serve you 24 hours a day. Should there be anything we can do to serve you better please do not hesitate to call upon us.”

That’s it for today guys, except to wish Jason and all the BullInvest members the very best of luck and hopefully the program will eventually grow into a popular and dependable money making website. Fingers crossed anyway! I’ll be back tomorrow (from a new location by the way, I’m going on my summer vacation!) with all the latest news and views from the HYIP industry so make sure and check back then and see you all tomorrow!

Hi everyone! Today I must say I’m really pleased to have an interview with one of the most interesting and insightful admins I’ve dealt with recently. His name is Eugene Movenko and he is the owner of FairHYIP, one of the longest running online investment projects on the net today. But despite containing the phrase “HYIP” in its name Eugene’s project is really quite unlike anything else in the online investments arena today. And he does an excellent job of explaining it in this interview. It’s a very unique program and in such an unstable time for the industry I would encourage anyone serious about making money online to at least take a look.

Let me just remind you that FairHYIP is a long term investment program originally reviewed on MNO here. It’s offering plans with no expiry date that pay variable rates of interest between 0.3% to 3% per day with the option to withdraw your principal when you wish to leave. If you have any comments you can leave them on the MNO forum discussion thread found here.

On a more personal note before we start let me just congratulate Eugene on the birth of his baby daughter recently. Many more to come, eh?! And also having spent some time in Ukraine myself and also in what must surely rank amongst one of Europe’s most captivating and beautiful capital cities, Kiev, I can also confirm what he has to say about their banking options in question six.

“1. Hi Eugene, please introduce yourself to the readers of MNO and tell us about your own role within FairHYIP. What are your own duties within the program? What kind of experience do you have in managing online investment websites?

Hello, readers of MNO. I’m Eugene Movenko from Kiev, Ukraine. I’m married and have a baby daughter who’s 1½ mo. old.
I am the owner and CEO of Fair Management Corporation, which holds the FairHYIP portfolio. My own duties in FairHYIP are chiefly two things: post the profit and process the withdrawals (they’re done manually to avoid security related money losses).

2. Before we get to the program a couple of good questions have been raised by MNO readers. First of all:

a) You seem to pride yourself on the fact that you don’t use HYIP related monitors, so why are you turning to MNO at all? Doesn’t that break your own rule? It may be primarily a blog but it’s still essentially a monitor beneath it all, even if not a conventional one.

It really isn’t so much a matter of “pride”; we simply don’t accept them.
Why did we choose MNO? We’re not really interested in monitoring services from MNO, but, we are really interested in being covered by your blog, ’cause it’s a great way to show our presence on the market and spread our news to people worldwide.

b) The timing. Why after eight months online are you only doing this now? Why not at the start? Does this indicate any financial problems on your side? Desperation for new members?

Our company was previously dedicated primarily to European and Russian markets. Now that we’ve gained the #1 HYI program position in these markets and have earned some trust and support from our investors, we feel strong enough to enter and conquer the international market. There are no problems on our side; our business is running smoothly.

c) If you allow MNO, then why no other monitors? Or forum advertising?

Already answered above, but I will mention that we DO promotions on other international forums. You can check HTFC and CFF forums, hyip.es (our partners) blog and forum.

3. Can you also give us some background on the program? How long have you been running? What were you hoping to achieve by starting it in the first place? Apart from you is there anybody else working on FairHYIP?

As you can see on our start page, the FairHYIP portfolio was launched more than 290 days ago. Our company goal is to bring the first real HYI company to the market, providing profits with investment portfolios that are backed up with a transparent, real business. Eventually, everyone can use the system which makes profits for FairHYIP, by registering now for free at http://bet.fairmanagement.org/register .
Generally, our goal is to be FAIR with our investors. Have you ever seen something on the market like we offer? Most likely the answer is – “no”!

4. So why make it so difficult to join? Any online program that’s run as long as yours would be considered an enormous success. Why not throw it open to the general public?

Our intent is to control the cashflow and know our investors, so these rules are applied. We don’t automatically cooperate with those who can’t even be bothered to introduce themselves to support via e-mail, who just request an invitation. Those who really want it will get it! Fair enough?

5. What about the investment plans? Can you explain them in detail to us? What are the minimum and maximum amounts for investment, what rates of interest are on offer and how long do they run for?

Under our FairHYIP investment portfolio, we provide only one investment plan. It provides variable interest from 0.3% to 3% daily, including weekends, with a 100 USD minimum and 2000 USD maximum amounts, for an investment period of 180 days.

You can withdraw your principal after 30 days, with a 25% fee, if you urgently need your funds.

Under our Premium Management portfolio, we provide fixed, guaranteed and stable 15% monthly interest, with 2000 USD minimum and 30,000 USD maximum amounts, for a period of 180 days. All Premium Management investors are considered V.I.P. by us and all deposits are backed up with the company’s legal loan agreements. There are more than 20 legal loan agreements already signed.

6. Tell us about the payment options available from FairHYIP. What payment processors are you currently dealing with?

Fair Management Corporation currently deals with a good range of popular payment processors and systems, including Liberty Reserve, Perfect Money, WebMoney, AlertPay, LiqPay, VISA and Wire Transfers.

7. Many of your payment or especially banking options won’t be familiar to US or EU based readers. Perhaps you can explain those companies to them a little better? Tell us about your account with PrivatBank for example. Who are they and can western readers trust them?

PrivatBank – is the #1 bank in the Ukraine, leaving their competitors a looong way behind. That’s why we chose them for our bank account.
They’re also the owners of LiqPay system, which is already known and trusted by many customers worldwide! That’s why readers of MNO can trust our bank!

8. How highly would you rate the security of your own website? Tell us about your hosting provider and how highly would you rate them as a service provider?

Our company websites are highly secured with Enterprise-level private DDoS protection services, able to filter attacks up to 28 Gbit/sec, with 256-bit SSL data encryption and not using ECS APIs at all. We’re running our cluster on the Netrouting backbone, connected with direct peering to AMS-IX, DE-CIX, Global Crossing, GlobalAxs Communications, all on 10 Gbits. We’re very satisfied that Netrouting’s level of service, latency and connectivity are great. There has been only one minor DNS issue, which is currently being investigated by us and should be resolved soon.

9. What about your script? Who is the provider and what do you think the benefits of this script are to both the admin and the investors?

We’re using a customized, rewritten, licensed copy of the rare today, OroHYIP script. That by itself simply makes for a HUGE difference between us and others; it allows us to pay variable profit rates. However because it was not working with the setup of FairHYIP’s billing system, we completely rewrote this function ourselves.

10. What kind of customer support do you offer? What is the best and most efficient way to contact you if I have any questions?

We’re currently offering multilanguage (Russian, English, Spanish) support for our customers and newcomers. This includes Live Chat support services, e-mail and phone support. Also, the company has a registered office address, which anyone can visit and therefore be sure about our presence there.

The most efficient way to contact us – is of course, Live Chat. Our operators will do their best to help you as soon as possible. Or, they’ll redirect you to the correct person responsible for your issue.

11. I Know that you are Ukrainian and your website is bi-lingual. Is it fair to assume that you will also be providing customer support in Russian as well as English?

All our corporate websites and systems are triple-lingual now. Italian and French translations and support are in the process of being deployed.
We’re currently offering Multilingual support (Russian, English, Spanish) for our customers and newcomers.

12. What other outside business and investment activities are FairHYIP involved with? What are you doing with your member’s money and how are you generating such huge profits? Can we see any proof of these activities?

You seem keen to distance yourself from the regular online ponzi style HYIPs that most people reading this will be familiar with, and that’s understandable. But the fact is that
a)you don’t sell a physical product,
b)your dealings with customers are 100% online with no face to face contact,
c)you don’t give a street address,
d)deal with payment processors that provide total anonymity,
e)and don’t provide us with any kind of license for your business.

Please answer each point individually and tell us why then we should treat you any differently than any other online game.

There is no outside activity for FairHYIP except arbitrage betting. Profits are generated solely from the arbitrage betting process, using our own unique arbitrage betting system. The proof of these can be seen for yourself by registering and trying our Fair Betting arbitrage betting system at http://bet.fairmanagement.org/register.
Soon a video will be published, showing anyone how to make bets and earn profits with our betting system!

About your “facts” – some of them are not true, because:
a)We don’t sell, but rent our Fair Betting systems as a corporate turnkey HYI business package, available at https://fairmanagement.org
a)Not true. Many of our customers are known face to face – those who’ve visited our office already (and it’s not just one, two, or even ten – a lot of our investors have been to our office during these 290 days!). More than 20 legal loan agreements are already signed!
b)Not true at all. Our office address is publicly available at https://fairmanagement.org page. You’re welcome to visit our office!
c)Total anonymity with VISA and Wire Transfers? Not true there as well.
d)Our company registration documents are publicly available in very high resolution on the corporate website, at https://fairmanagement.org/about_en.html . Our corporation business doesn’t require a license in the Ukraine or Dominica.

13. Are there any plans to develop FairHYIP further in the near future? Will there be any interesting changes made soon? How are you planning to keep the program competitive?

Of course there are! Italian and French translations to be added soon and there are more great promos to come in the future. They’ll surely keep the program competitive with these “Ponzis” all around the market.

14. How are you promoting the program right now? Cash Flow is vital to any business so what are you doing to attract new members?

Our first and most reliable way of advertisement is person-to-person, that is, one person telling another about the opportunities we’re providing. Also, we’re doing some “point” advertisements on the markets’ most reliable blogs and forums, like yours.

15. By the way, I notice there is a pretty big fluctuation in your payments. Over the last say six to eight weeks what has been the average?

Payments are processed weekly or monthly, all on time, according to a program’s terms. There is no average.

16. There is a growing level of skepticism in the HYIP industry at the moment and not without good cause. New programs are coming and going by the day, so in light of the current crisis what are you going to do that’s different? Every business, online or off, relies 100% on it’s customers but it’s a buyers market out there right now. So what are you going to give me that I can’t get from a hundred other better known programs?

We run a proven real business, are FAIR with our investors and customers, hate “Ponzis”, and are actively determined to gain people’s trust and support. That will set us apart from these hundreds of better known “Ponzis”.

17. And finally is there anything else you wish to say not covered in this interview? If there was just one thing you could say to investors to get them to join your program before any other then what would it be?

Just try us; join the first REAL HYI program on the market, backed up by a REAL company, with a real address and employees, signing legal loan agreements, which has made 188,000 USD worth of Fair Bets arbitrage, available to try for anyone on the internet! We won’t fail your expectations!
Thank you for your support and trust; our 2nd international press-release will be published shortly – stay tuned!

Thanks for reading this and many thanks to Paul for having allowed us to expand your awareness and understanding of FairHYIP through this interview!”

And thanks a lot also to Eugene for taking part. I hope you all found this to be as fascinating as I did and if only the industry had just five or six more admins like him then the words “HYIP crisis” wouldn’t be thrown around quite as often as they are. As already explained in the interview FairHYIP is open only to serious investors so if you wish to proceed you will need to ask for an invitation. It’s not difficult to obtain one however, all you need to is e-mail me at abramsonp@gmail.com. Or check my original review for further details.

That’s about it for today’s first update but if you’re waiting for the news then not to worry. I’ll be back later tonight as usual with all the days main news stories so make sure and check back a little later for that. See you all then!

Hi guys! The first of two updates today sees finally sees the return of my interview questions from the admin of GoldCollarInvest. After a two week wait we finally get to meet Bruce, the man behind the program originally reviewed here.

Since GoldCollarInvest was reviewed it should be pointed out that in addition to the original plans offering from 8%-12% weekly forever with the option of claiming your principal back after 30 days, a temporary shorter term plan has also been introduced. That, coupled with a noticeable slowdown in activity over this last week may not be a very encouraging sign to some investors, but let’s hear what the admin has to say.

“1. Hi Bruce, please introduce yourself to the readers of MNO and tell us about your own role within GoldCollarInvest. What are your own duties within the program? What kind of experience do you have in managing the funds of others?

Hello Paul and all MNO readers. I am Bruce from GoldCollarInvest, the administrator of GCI based out of Cayman Islands. My prime duties lie in running the entire operations at our office comprising of both online and offline management. My portfolio contains a fine blend of expertise in Gold Futures and Sports Arbitrage that basically need excellent money management skills to succeed. As I have been in the field of funds management even before the GCI website came along, this clearly is not an unknown domain for me.

2. Can you also give us some background on the program? How long have you been running? What were you hoping to achieve by starting it in the first place? Apart from you is there anybody else working on GoldCollarInvest?

GoldCollarInvest was started in 2009 in Cayman Islands as a registered company dealing with Bullion trading and our strategic and corporate expansions brought our attention to many profitable mediums. Our search for a risk-free alternative medium ended in Sports Arbitrage and this has since been our forte. Taking our business online was not an idea that crept up overnight. It has been in my mind for a while and when the profits from Sports Arbitrage began to show predictability and stability, I went to work on the GCI website with my team.

It is the thought of losing money that drives most people including me, away from investment programs. All it takes is for one to find out how NOT to lose precious money. It was again not discovered overnight. I had to wait and watch. The efforts paid off. Why should we need to face any losses when there are ways one can make money for every investment? The GoldCollar is not a dream anymore. It is a living, breathing fact. Success does not have to ride on risks. This is what we believe at GCI. This is what we want everyone to know too.

Yes, we have a wonderful group of extensively skilled people at GCI who take care of the various departments. We are hiring more people and will be expanding further in the coming months, as that would become necessary to meet the increasing duties here.

3. What about the investment plans? Can you explain them in detail to us? What are the minimum and maximum amounts for investment, what rates of interest are on offer and how long do they run for? Which one has been the most popular?

We have 3 plans at GCI. They all come with Daily and Weekly profits. There is also a Limited Edition Plan that has been added less than 24 hours ago but we will get back to that later.

The Starter Pool pays an 8% profit per week and this is split into the 1% daily profit and the 3% weekly profit. You make 1% each weekday and 3% during the weekend until you withdraw your principal amount. You may invest between $10 and $1000 in this plan and it also comes with a 4% referral bonus.

The next plan is the Mid Pool and you will gain a total of 10% for each investment. In this plan, an investment of between $1001 and $5000 will bring you a 1.2% daily profit and a 4% weekly profit at the end of the week. The referral bonus is 4% for this plan.

The enticing Grand Pool offers a total of 12% per week in profits where you make 1.4% daily and an additional 5% as weekly profits. The investment amount should lie within the $5001 and $10000 mark. Each referral will bring in a bonus of 6% for you.

As announced in the last GCI newsletter, we have added a new exciting Limited Edition plan for our members to celebrate my wedding anniversary and the excessive profit generation in the past few weeks. I believe that success and joy should be shared. Along with my family and team, we are glad to announce this Limited Edition plan for all those who want to cheer us on for the special occasion.

This Limited Edition plan pays 1.5% for 7 calendar days and your principal is valid for withdrawal on the 8th day. Your investment should be within $10 and $500 only. For every referral, you also make a 4% bonus.

For now, all the plans except the Limited Edition one will remain in our agenda. The Limited Edition plan will only last for a short period.

4. In times of global recession do you agree that some of the minimum investment requirements in some of your plans are unrealistic for most online investors? Like the Grand Pool for instance, why ask for $5,000 and get no investors when you could ask for $1,000 and get 5 investors? Or $100 and get 500 investors?

The investment plans are not set to suit the industry standards or the current global economic status. They are highly dependent on the income generators. So the concept of paying high profits for a lower investment is not practical when it comes to investing in Sports Arbitrage.

Here is an ideal comparison. Would you expect the kind of income a multinational restaurant franchise makes in a day if you invest what could only support a burger stand? There is a difference in what can be expected from each investment. We have given options for all our members to select the plan that best suits their expectation in terms of returns.

5. Tell us about the payment options available from GoldCollarInvest. What payment processors are you currently dealing with? What have been the most popular choices among investors? Do you think you may be isolating a large section of the investing community by having such a narrow choice? Do you plan to add more?

We have been accepting Liberty Reserve (USD & EUR), Perfect Money (USD & EUR) and Bank Wire Transfers. I don’t believe there will be any changes made to that list for a while as it took us a while to shortlist them. Looking at the importance of running a hassle-free long running program, we really can do without facing any conflicts with payment processors that seem to be running into issues every now and then. Perhaps, if we do come across trustworthy payment processors along the way, we will probably include them.

Our members have been using all these payment processor options equally so I suppose they are all popular in their own ways.

The choices may seem narrow but I feel that we have offered the best that are currently available in terms of safety and efficiency.

6. What about this very unorthodox payment schedule? How does it work and why have you decided to run it like this? Has it been popular or do some people think it’s unnecessarily complicated? Also, are payments still automatic?

GCI plans have a reason to be the way they are. For example, the Starter Pool pays 8% each week. Now, if we were to just keep paying only a daily profit, it would leave our members nothing exciting to look forward in the weekend. So, a weekly profit adds a bit of a thrill to each investor. If one was to take a closer look at the plans, they really are not complicated.

The payments are not automatic but all withdrawal requests are usually processed within minutes. Therefore, our members will not find any difference in the promptness of payment transactions.

7. How highly would you rate the security of your own website? Tell us about your hosting provider and how highly would you rate them as a service provider?

We are using a customized DDOS protection ETH Proxy. It is a very powerful website protection service and we are very happy with it so far and our hosting provider is very efficient and easily accessible throughout the day.

8. What about your script? I know you recently switched from a custom design to a generic GoldCoders model. Not everybody agrees that this was such a good move on your part and has pretty much removed any individuality that GoldCollarInvest had. So why did you feel the need to do it?

Previously we had a direct payment structure model but many members were not comfortable using it and raised many issues about it. So, we had to find a good solution for it and this was why the script was changed. This script comes with their own advantages when we have to send out mass emails, withdrawals, referral, referral commission notice etc and the previous model did not come with these features.

Although one can pass it off as a regular GoldCoders script, our programmer who has taken great effort in making it look as unique as possible has modified it to a large extent. You can easily detect this in our investment options page, which looks exquisite in nature.

9. What kind of customer support do you offer? What is the best and most efficient way to contact you if I have any questions? I know that you have a Live Chat feature. What hours (GMT) does it work? Or is there any fixed schedule? Also can you answer the same question about your phone number?

We have a wide array of customer support options at GCI to make sure that we are accessible in every way possible. Our Helpdesk and Live Chat services operate 24/7 where our staff is always on standby to respond to your tickets and chat messages. As an alternative, we also have an email support service that is equally effective. You can address any issue to its respective department and we have displayed all the details in the Contact page in the GCI website.

The phone support feature is not operating full time and we do attend as many calls as we can, considering the multiple tasks our support team handles on any particular day. However, we are looking at hiring a dedicated person to run the phone support service full time which will be implemented soon.

10. Can you tell us about your postal address in the Cayman Islands? Is it an actual office staffed by GoldCollarInvest employees or is more of a virtual serviced office for registration and mailing purposes?

The contact address displayed in the site is of that of the actual GCI Partners LLP office we run in Cayman Islands. All our operations are controlled in this venue by my team and me.

11. What have been the most common questions, problems, or other support related issues that you have had to deal with so far? Is there anything you would like to address here so that members can avoid having to contact you?

Well, our initial hiccups mainly existed in the change of models from the Investment Tracker one to the standard model we operate from now. We had quite a few requests from our members who felt that the earlier model was confusing and they needed an easier approach to accessing their GCI accounts. So, we had to finally go through an entire process of changing the model to what it is today.

We are looking for a way to improve this aspect of the website and we are not too far from succeeding. We always welcome members who need to contact us and if we have missed out on any information so far, please do approach us and we will be glad to help.

12. What other outside business and investment activities are GoldCollarInvest involved with? What evidence can we see of these projects can we see?

We are into Sports Arbitrage betting activities, a legal, popular and risk-free investment medium. We are always glad to show proof of our activities to anyone who insists on seeing them.

13. Do you have any opinions on the current crisis in the HYIP industry? What do you think lead up to it and would you have any suggestions as to how the situation could be improved?

I would not really call it a crisis. I would rather look at the entire phase positively and take it as an opportunity to improvise the quality of the industry. Income generation and rotation through legitimate sources such as Sports Arbitrage that offers a margin gain in every bet is definitely more promising when it comes to investing. Profits that are generated through safe mediums yield steady profits that are beneficial for investors and the respective programs.

This could as well be looked at as a learning curve for programs and investors alike that gain experience and a better perspective of the industry. There are genuine money making opportunities that can sustain any legitimate program for a long time to come and I feel truly blessed to have encountered one such medium.

I personally empathize and understand the thirst in every sensible man who wants to walk out of the rat race and move on up in the social circle. I want the best for my family as much as any man would and I believe that GCI is my way of giving back to the society what it has given me. There is no need to stay rooted in one spot with nowhere to go simply because you believe that anything great comes with a risk. That is a myth that I overcame a while ago and I know for sure that anyone who still has a little spark glowing inside will believe that there is still a lot to hope for in life.

The bottom line is, this industry is going nowhere. Anyone who believes that there is a crisis has to look beyond the curve. I believe in the future that lies beyond that curve. I hope you know what I mean.

14. Do you really think describing an online HYIP as a “zero risk investment opportunity” is a responsible statement? If it was really risk free shouldn’t there be some kind of insurance policy in place?

I can boldly claim that GCI is not a conventional online investment program as its income source and strategies differ by miles. Sports Arbitrage is a very safe medium for investors as there is a ‘no loss’ balance in every bet.

Respectable, well-informed individuals who make a comfortable living as professional sports arbitrageurs do exist worldwide. Investors like us make a profit margin that does not rely on the outcome of each bet. So, the possibility of incurring a loss is impossible. Any sports arbitrage professional will tell you that this truly is a risk-free option.

At GCI, we offer a concept that allows the common man to be financially successful at any point in life by investing sensibly in safe, legitimate opportunities that bring in a steady passive income as profits.

Thank you for that suggestion. Until now, I had no such plans but I shall surely get my team to find out if we could indeed add an insurance policy. As soon as we are on track, we will let you all know.

15. Are there any plans to develop GoldCollarInvest further in the near future? Will there be any interesting changes made soon? How are you planning to keep the program competitive? Any promotional ideas in mind?

GCI is going to be around for a long time and with each phase; we will improve and develop ways to transform this program into a success. We have introduced the Limited Edition plan for now and you can expect to see many more changes in future. We do not want to be in any competition although a competitive spirit does kick in the adrenalin. We want to be a successful, long running program that stays ahead in quality and professional ethics. As long as we maintain these traits, GCI will turn each corner victoriously.

Promotional ideas do come as a package for each phase but I suppose at the end of the day action speaks louder than words. Our members have been very supportive and we believe that this is the best promotion any business seeks.

16. And finally is there anything else you wish to say not covered in this interview? If there was just one thing you could say to investors to get them to join your program before any other then what would it be?

I believe that we have covered enough of GCI and also through your blog and this interview hopefully clarified any traces of doubts that could have been lingering in some minds too.

As for investors, I just want to say that we offer a simple, legitimate and genuine investment program that offers a completely risk-free opportunity for those who really want to wear that Gold Collar.

Above all, I must thank you for this great opportunity to communicate with all your readers from around the world who have been looking for a sensible and long lasting program that assures security and steady profits.

I must also add that MNO adds great value to each program and investor throughout the world and I wish MNO on behalf of everyone at GCI a very successful future.”

Thanks a lot to Bruce for that and good luck to all the investors participating there. That’s about it for the moment but don’t go too far as I’ll be back a little later with all the day’s main news stories as well as a closer look at a program called UniteTrade which has recently been added to my monitoring page. See you then!