Well I had intended to take the day off today but seeing so many emails flooding my mailbox I just had to publish my analysis of the situation surrounding UniCreditInvestment. As you may know, the program’s admin Ingrid sent out the following email and if you don’t know yet the program is closed and the refunds will be issued. This was the update:

“It seems that somebody wants me out of business. After the problems with my last host, it seems that no webhosting site wants to host my program anymore because all of them have got this kind of complain:

—BEGIN EVIDENCE—
To whom it may concern,

I would like to bring to your attention that the owner of the following
website(s) hosted on your server or within your IP block:

http://www.unicreditinvestment.com (IP:72.21.37.84)

is running a fraud called “Ponzi Scheme”. (See http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm#ponzi or
http://www.sec.gov/answers/ponzi.htm) for the definition of Ponzi Scheme).
Please notify the correct hosts of this fraudulent website immediately.

The owner of this website is soliciting the public for monetary investment by promising unusually high rates of return without a license, which constitutes a crime, under the laws of all countries, in particular, U.S. Securities Act of 1933.

I will also be sending this notice to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

The following links show news on investigations and prosecutions of scammers running internet hyip ponzi schemes:
http://www.worldlawdirect.com/article/1926/Solidinvestment.com_investment_scam.html
http://www.cad.gov.sg/com/press_release.htm#man1
—END EVIDENCE—

I don’t know who is sending these complains because I’ve paid all my members very fast and also i was almost always available on skype too for support, but it’s obvious for me that somebody wants me out of this business. Even if i’d find a host who wouldn’t care about these kind of complains, i don’t want to put in danger my family because i don’t this that who ever did this (send the complains) would stop. So at first i’ve decided to close the site and start the refunds next week. After i’ve chat on skype with few of my members i’ve decided to change a little this decision. So, who ever wants to get the refund, please email me with the amount of deposit, on which payment processor it was and username. Starting with tuesday, next week, i’ll start to make the refunds. For who ever would want to continue to invest with me, i’ve decided to make my program private, setup a password protected forum on CIF and continue like this. I’ll setup all the
details for this private forum by monday and i’ll let you know. There will be no website, only that private forum. I’ll see how i can setup this. It will be only one plan of 130% for 30 days (no principle returned). I was always honest with you and i think i’ve prove it already. I hate to see that scammers from this industry can’t stand an honest hard working admin and start chasing me to get me out of business like this. But i won’t let you down. I’ll refund who ever will ask for it and i’ll continue private for the rest. Thank so much for all your support and trust in me. I’ll prove once again that i deserve it I”m sorry that you haven’t heard from me for a day or two but i was so upset about having to make this decision, that i needed a little time offline to think and calm down. The new email that can be used for support is: ingrid.uci@gmail.com. Also i’ll continue to be available on skype (ID: ingrid1120). Also because there is no website online, i can’t send newsletters, but i’ll always email Austin and Paul (money-news) to post the updates on forums for me.”

Well, to tell you the truth first I didn’t believe a word in this because I dealt with scammers so many times before that it just seemed like another bad excuse. But instead after doing some closer analysis of UniCreditInvestment I will let you know another side of the story. This other side will come from Ingrid to whom I will give the benefit of the doubt for now and will let you decide if her words are true or not. I respect your intelligence as my readers and I believe you can draw the necessary conclusions for yourselves. As for me I will not take part in her private program and will not recommend her site or private program anymore. I will exclude it from my monitoring page today and urge you to report back to me if you’re refunded in full before making an investment in her newly created private program.

We’ll start with the questions and concerns I had after reading her email and the reply Ingrid kindly gave me.

1) First, why not launch another website after refunding? Why all this fuss about a private program? I didn’t believe for a second that all the webhostings around refused to shelter her site. There are so many of them around and not all of them have strict anti-HYIP policies. I remind you that there were issues with BlackLotus and BlockDos hostings already and Ingrid couldn’t go with them again.

This is what Ingrid replied to me: “I had no intention to take my site offline or stop my program…but when i’ve saw that all host providers told me they’ve got those complains, i’ve decided to closed the program first…after that i’ve talked with few of my members and they’ve convinced me to continue so i needed to find a way to not fight a useless war but in the same time to continue…this is how private program idea came up to me…if you have a better idea, i’d appreciate it”.

2) Second, why change the plans from 8 and 10 day plans to 30 day plans since she’s doing so well on Forex? It just doesn’t bode well with me and I can’t help but feel more than a little uneasy. It’s almost definitely a sign of scamming. Changing the plans to 30 days with payouts on expiry will get Ingrid enough time to collect the money while not paying a dime back. This is just speculation of course, but I saw very many programs and they all ended like this, i.e. after going private and collecting enough money – disappear.

This is Ingrid’s reply to this: “To answer your question: because refunds will take some time as i can’t withdraw funds from forex that fast and that easy…they are orders placed and i can ask withdrawal only after they are closed…some of them can’t be closed untill the market will move in the right direction….and during this time i still can make profit for the members who were requested themselves to continue to invest with me… on forex the more funds you have, the more profit you can get and offer to members…as long as i have to make refunds, there will be not so much funds left so i can’t continue to offer the same profit as before”.

3) So another question remains: who was this malicious person who tried to destroy UniCreditInvestment and who eventually made it happen? Doesn’t he or she realize that by submitting complaints to hosting providers and actually getting Ingrid removed from the game that they simply clear the way for other less scrupulous people that will not pay on time but scam you with every opportunity? So whoever it was I would like to say to him that he did a really bad thing by destroying a really good and promising program and let it be a heavy burden on his conscience forever.

I repeat to you that I’m not actually involved in UniCreditInvestment program and that’s why I cannot tell you what exactly from all this story is true and what is not. I just can advise you to ask Ingrid for refunds if you weren’t in profit and report to me if you actually got them. Then I can apologize for pouring out my thoughts on the blog. But I will not do it until the refunds are actually paid and I don’t advise you to join the new private program that will be run by Ingrid if you’re not actually refunded or heard about the refunds processed to the members in full (according to Ingrid the refunds should start the following Tuesday). Remember that it’s always be better safe than sorry in this industry and I hope Ingrid can prove me wrong!

Stay tuned for more exciting news and fresh updates that you can read on my site tomorrow, and see you then!

Hi, guys! I didn’t mean to write this article as I don’t like dirty tactics but somebody should put an end to this and open the eyes of investors to the scammers. They seem to form a large part of this industry of course which can’t be denied, and the majority of them are really easy to describe. They open their sites, then scam the members, leave them and open other sites under different names. So there’s a good number of scammers in circulation out there we can see.

But some of the scammers which this industry is full of really amaze me by how they are pretending to be good guys, defenders of the industry while having stolen thousands of dollars and continue pocketing thousands more while “saving” the industry with some ridiculous and unfounded statements.

As you may have guessed already I’m talking about Kent Black - the real shame of this industry who opened MyCashForum after stealing the money from the victims of his 2007 year scam. Read the whole story here about his lies.

Well, I guess Mr. Black has not forgotten his disgraceful past scam so he decided recently to take over 14DHS - once being one of the largest autosurfs in 2007-2008. Well, to tell you the truth I was always suspicious that 14DHS was Kent Black’s site though it was claimed to be from so-called Jens Fox. In reality, we know now for sure who was behind it. I’ve always refused to promote scammers and that’s why I never told you to join 14DHS as for me it was an obvious scam from the beginning. Now the refunds were promised to the members of the old 14DHS by Kent Black (who else would pay them, lol?) but will they really be processed in the future? I doubt it as I believe Kent will find an appropriate excuse to avoid paying those refunds (it’s his money anyway now, and he doesn’t care it was stolen). With such a “great” model the renewed 14DHS promised to its members (6% for 24 days with payouts being processed within 15 business days upon expiry) Kent has so much time to collect more money before making up another unbeatable excuse.

Just remember that anything that Mr. Kent Black is promoting on his sites, for example 14DHS that he “took over” recently (from himself?), are probable scams. But it’s also a great indicator for the investors which programs you should avoid at all costs. And the opposite is true as well. The programs Kent is bashing should be worth your attention.

Such a thing happened recently with 8DailyForever that probably became another stone in Kent’s shoe. I really don’t know why he targeted 8DailyForever with his absolutely unfounded and ridiculous claims but I guess this site is some kind of threat to his baby 14DHS. In addition, he decided to show himself off as a savior again. Just look at the statement he recently put on his forum (taken from MyCashForum);

“GreenLinkAds/8DailyForever
If you all remember Bayu (Not sure of the spelling) He ran Green link ads. This was a site heavily promoted by ASA. Well, he is back and is under an assumed name and is running 8DailyForever. I found this out after the newscast or I would not have used them as the site of the week. My apologies for this.
Bayu, once again, built his site up, then made some excuses for having to leave, and left his members hanging. 8DailyForever will probably end up doing the same thing. Do not join this site. Bayu used us once, don’t let him do it again. Once again, if I am wrong, prove it.”

Have you actually seen a shread of real evidence in any of his claims? Well, I didn’t and I would be grateful to you if you could point it out to me. Just because Kent said so everybody should believe him? One scammer bashing another scammer? You’re gotta be kidding me.

As you may know from another article that was published on my blog in February Kent Black tries to censor everything on MyCashForum owned by himself. Heck, he even banned me just because I simply asked him inconvenient questions that he probably couldn’t lie his way out of. So he banned me instead - it was an easier option than answering reasonable questions.

Really, his forum is full of cheerleaders that not only inhabit MyCashForum trying to censor all reasonable critics of their master but also occasionally appear on another forums including MMG trying to save their master’s reputation or what was left of it. I guess they are so successful at it that their lies provide waves of new greedy customers just straight into Kent’s dirty scamming hands. I don’t think the renewed 14DHS will become a success and many will join it just to hit-n-run. But will Kent allow them to do it? I doubt it because honestly he’s a very talented scammer and I really can take my hat off seeing his smart lies and revelations to save our money (to put them in his scams instead?)

Kent’s just another ponzi operator and not the God which he seems see himself as. Giving us unfounded statements and warning signs on MyCashForum only makes me laugh and shows us the real danger he poses for this industry. Please don’t fall victim to his lies!

I would really not protect 8DailyForever as I don’t see anything special about it nor I think this autosurf can change the industry. But I firmly believe that nobody should be accused of being a scammers without substantial proof. Something which Mr. Kent Black seems to have difficulties providing to his readers.

To be more unbiased I contacted 8DailyForever’s admin and told him about these warnings coming from Kent and this was his reaction:

“Admin went to the thread and responded a couple of times. It appears that it has now been removed, and yet we are still listed on the “Caution” thread, based on Kent’s say-so.
As Kent made these unfounded allegations, shouldn’t the burden of proof be his? Let him publish the proof so we have real information to defend against and not just words and rumours. Rumours like this one can do enormous damage to any program, and it’s extremely frustrating when they are false. None of the 8DF team has ever been to Bayu’s site, and we have no idea who he is even.”

Well, we have one word against another and no proof at all having been presented. So whom would you believe: an experienced scammer who is Mr. Kent Black or just to a regular admin of a program that is accused of something based entirely on Kent’s words? I think the answer is obvious. I would believe anybody but scammer.

I’m not saying it can’t be true as I really don’t know anything about the possible connection between Bayu from GreenLinkAds and 8DailyForever. But to hear it from such an infamous scammer as Kent claiming something wrong without providing any solid proof? I think it’s ridiculous.

Of course, his legion of adoring cheerleaders (which are only allowed on his forum by the way) supported his point of view. Just look at the couple of paragraphs taken from MyCashForum thread dedicated to possible “8DailyForever” scam:
“I view Kent as trying to be proactive in protecting his members with this thread. He also invited the admins to correct him if his information is incorrect. Better cautious than sorry.”
“100% agree to that. MCF has everyones best interest. Before registering here. I have been coming to MCF for many months, i believe 8 now and this site in my opinion is run by people that care very much about others trying to do the right thing.”
“I totally agree Kent is a great and honest man with only our best intrest at heart. As far as i’m conserned I take anything he says having to with this industry very seriously as I am in this buisness to make money, and so far because of him I have.”
“Thanks for this Kent. You are becomimg a top Industry watchdog. It was lucky that I had no money as I may have given 8Daily forever a go. There is always something that rings false when they say forever. Congrats on being first to uncover the identity of this fraud.”

Well, after reading this I had some thoughts. Is Kent really an industry savior and an honest man trying to protect his readers or is he a famous scammer trying to gain popularity by making unfounded claims in order to get more members to his site? In my opinion, the answer to this is obvious. But I will let you be the judges of that and encourage you to give your opinion in the comments section for this article. I just wanted to share with you my thoughts regarding the matter and I hope you appreciate this.

Other news for today.

It seems that LR is still fixing the issue with their SCI interface so the deposits in many programs can’t be done yet. Instead you can make the payouts manually to many programs and then contact the admin with the request to add your deposit. There are many different programs that issued an update regarding this LR problem. Here are some examples:

SafeAtom: “There is some problem at LibertyReserve with automatic payment system (to accept new deposits). Nothing can be done, we have to wait till they fix their problem. But you can make direct deposit manually to our LR account (U3292297) and let us know payment details.”

ApolloInvestGroup: “We have added a manual Liberty Reserve investment option. You can now deposit directly to our LR account by selecting “LibertyReserve Manual Processing” option. For more information please visit “Make a new Investment” link on the navigation bar and follow the easy steps to complete the deposit. This payment option will be available until the LibertyReserve fix the SCI malfunction that is causing problems with deposit.”

e-Confidence: “LibertyReserve SCI is still unstable. You can invest into us manually.”

BristolCapitalGroup: “Currently LibertyReserve restored operation of all basic services except SCI and API. If you have problems while making a deposit and receive message “invalid target account”, please don’t panic. LibertyReserve will fix it soon. Meanwhile you can invest into our company manually. For this login into your LR account, and transfer the desired amount on our account U8967111, indicating in the commentary your username and investment plan. After transfer send the batch on our email service@bristolcapitalgroup.com. The amount of your deposit will be added manually promptly.”

UniCreditInvestment: “Because SCI and API from LR are not working, we’ve made the payments from inside our LR account so you won’t get an confirmation email for them. Please check your LR account to verify that you’ve got them. Also, because of the same reason, some members might not be able to deposit here so they should use the same method - transfer funds from inside your LR account and email us the payment details and username and we’ll add them manually for you if that’s the case.”

Though LibertyReserve is still unstable, it seems not to be having a major adverse affect on most of the HYIPs. At least, I received my own payouts from such programs as UniCreditInvestment, SafeAtom, VideoAdSurf, AcmosTrade, 12Daily.Pro, AgriFund, LargeSum, ProfitsAddict, MaxShare, EliteMoney, e-Confidence, BristolCapitalGroup and ApolloInvestGroup. There’s only one program that is currently on hold and it’s LibertyInsider that for some reason didn’t pay to some members yet. I was paid last night and will wait till tomorrow before making any decision on LibertyInsider but be careful with it until the admin explains why the payouts are delayed. I’ll see you tomorrow on my blog!

Well, today I’d like to discuss a couple of tactics the scammers and spammers are using to part unsuspecting people from their cash. Even the admins of the online investment programs are occasional victims. In my opinion, one letter doesn’t really make a difference and those two words (scammers and spammers) are closer than you think.

The first program to allegedly fall victim to scammers (spammers) is ProfitsAddict. Many members have been receiving strange emails for the last couple of days. That was really strange considering the fact that the program itself could be accused of paying selectively. So I would not be surprised if it was a premeditated plan to to get money from unsuspecting investors. Anyway, today I got an explanation from the admin of ProfitsAddict regarding these emails:
“Please be careful with FAKE SPECIAL OFFER!!
Someone tries to spoil our reputation by sending fake special offer claiming from us. Pay attention that e-mail addresses came out of our official e-mail address.
Please note: We will NEVER send any special offer privately through your mail, Any news and updates about our program can be found on news section.
PLEASE NOTE WE DO NOT SEND ANY KIND OF SPECIAL OFFER!! IF YOU RECEIVE ANY SUCH EMAIL PLEASE IGNORE AND DELETE IT!”

It’s strange that ProfitsAddict admin dared to speak of the good reputation which they lost a long time ago when they chose to pay selectively. Of course, you can profit from this program but only if you invest small amount (less than $100). I and many other investors are still being paid but considering the fact they admitted the occurred selective payouts ProfitsAddict cannot be considered as a good choice to invest large amounts of money.

There was also a strange coincidence that occurred during those 36 hours that the spam emails were received. There were no sign from the real admin warning investors about fake emails. But when they stopped, suddenly this warning appeared! I know how they play these games but to use spammers’ tactics to prolong the life of your program is very low and even disgusting. Just to give you an example of one such email I will show you one that I received myself. (Really strange btw how the spammers could obtain the database from ProftisAddict site):
“Due to a lot of interest in our special plan, deadline for investments has been extended until the end of day. It means that you have another 1 hours to invest! ACT NOW! In case that you have missed previous update: As you may know, we are processing withdrawals with no delay and everything else is running smoothly as well! But, now we have even better offer for all of you! We got an excellent offer from our FOREX trader: All who wish can achieve 150% profit in just 2 days! This opportunity will not last long, so you must react quickly. Deposits are accepted until today 23:59 GMT. It’s around 1 hours to make deposit if you are interested! One unit in this special program is worth 100 dollars. The minimal deposit is 1 unit ($100) and the maximal deposit is 100 ($10000) units per member.”

I’m sure most investors are smart enough and would not buy into such scams. But what should the admins of the programs do if they receive such spammer’s threats like the admin of MaxShare received today? Here’s this email sent from this address oferengi11@googlemail.com (you can report this email for spam as well):

“First, I must tell you that I know that your program is scam. But, I don’t care as long as you are ready to cooperate with me. Well, This is my offer: I have list of 97,651 emails of HYIP users, which I extracted from different hyips in last few months. Price: $200 ONLY! You can use this emails to promote your own program. Just imagine how great this offer is and how many investors you can get! You have two options. First option is to decide to cooperate with me and buy email lists from me. Second option, which I don’t like, and I believe you will not like it either: I have emails of about 150 thousands emails of SpamCop members. SpamCop is spam fighting tool. Well, all these people hate spam and they report every spam mail to SpamCop. SpamCop automatically reports every link from spam mail to hosting provider which hosts its site. What it means? Well, if I “promote” (spam) that people with your site address in message body, they will report you, and your hosting provider will receive thousands of spam complaints. They will be forced to shut down your site! I don’t like second option. First is much better for both of us. But if you refuse me offer, I will be forced to move to the second option. So, I hope that you will choose what is better… If you don’t reply within 24 hours, I will understand it as refuse and I will start working on ’second option’. Regards, Oskar”

Well, to tell you the truth, I hate such spammers that extort money from honest admins. Of course, the MaxShare admin will not pay this extortionist and he may as well do whatever he likes. I simply want to let you know how many people probably being scammed in the past are becoming scammers and criminals themselves. I hate spam and if I get anything from this extortionist that promotes it I would report him for doing so. He’s a most stupid man selling criminally obtained databases of email addresses to promote spam and threats to site’s admins to close their sites due to spam complaints. What a jerk he is! Anyway, if you pay him or not you will be accused of spamming which is his specialization. I suggest to give Oskar to this Oscar - he’s a really talented jerk, spammer and scammer!

Speaking about scammers I couldn’t mention John Keller - the admin of Surf-Redefined. In my opinion, he’s not the one of them as he disabled upgrades and was on the forums to answer any questions from the investors of his program. It’s not the usual way scammers behave - they just disappear and leave sites to collect more money. John was honest with the members and admitted Surf-Redefined had difficulties and that he couldn’t continue as if nothing happened: “Due to lack of new upgrades, Surf-Redefined is closed! Please watch out for our new program with different plans. You may still surf and advertise your websites here.” In my opinion, 51 days of stable daily payouts is worth our appreciation and I will consider joining John’s new program which he’s going to open soon and will notify my readers about it. Here’s what John wrote on MMG forum: “New program website is being made now. At least not all who lost in SR are upset about what happened and they are open-minded indeed, which is very important when joining these kinds of websites. But this time around, I will look into investing funds to make some profit even if not totally to fill in how much profit needs to be paid to member upgrades, but at least not everything will be taken from new upgrades to pay expired“. So I guess there will be no refunds from this Surf-Redefined program but the new site will be created as not a complete ponzi which I find encouraging.

Yesterday some of you might have seen this message on the AcmosTrade homepage: “Dear members, We will transfer our website to a new server in the next 24-48 hours. Please notice that if you can see this message it means that you are still on the old version (old server) and you still have to wait for up to 24-48 hours.” Well, the transition was made due to the fact that BlackLotus couldn’t provide a great company like AcmosTrade with good enough protection and hosting. Being on their server the site sometimes was loading extremely slowly and sometimes was even unavailable. I think it’s the best choice AcmosTrade could make and I wonder why they didn’t make it earlier. I remind you that some big sites including Tradelite and AlterGold were extremely unsatisfied with the services provided by BLCC and had to move to other hosting companies. So I guess it was the logical decision by the administration of AcmosTrade (you can read my interview with AcmosTrade admin published here). You can see now that both sites of AcmosTrade load extremely fast now and I finally have no problems at all in accessing my account.

After publishing the interview with the admin of SourceLinkAds yesterday I received some positive feedback from many readers that were hoping like me that it can become the next big autosurf. If you didn’t read the interview you can do it here. I would also like to add that Robert notified me last night that SourceLinkAds site is now working with the new 3rd version of Firefox browser. So the users that upgraded their Firefox browser shouldn’t expect any difficulties from now on. I remind you that SourceLinkAds is only paying on business days so the next payouts can be expected on Monday. But the best part is Robert provides support on holidays as well. So you can ask him using the contact form or on forums. Soon a referral contest will take place so be ready to join SourceLinkAds and promote it then.

Yesterday and today I received many payouts from almost all the programs I’m a member of: AgriFund, ProfitsAddict, LibertyInsider, SourceLinkAds, 8DailyForever (and made another upgrade), 12DailyPro, AcmosTrade, MaxShare, LargeSum, SafeAtom and Tradelite. So the status of all programs presented on my monitoring page is “Paying”.

I have joined another program today called BristolCapitalGroup. I believe it can become the next big low ROI program soon. BristolCapitalGroup only accepts LibertyReserve and the plans vary from 1.5% for 90 days, 1.8% for 120 days or 2.2% for 150 days depending on the amount you deposited. The minimal deposit is $20 only and they pay only on business days. BristolCapitalGroup started just a couple of weeks ago and I feel its potential is enormous. More details on BristolCapitalGroup can be read in my review which will be published on Monday as I decided to take this Sunday as a day off work and to spend it with my family. I wish you all a nice weekend and see you on Monday, guys!