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Hi, guys! Today I have an interview with the admin of the new but rapidly growing in popularity EKOFunds. Just to remind you that EKOFunds is an HYIP with direct payouts offering 110% after 5 days and 150% after 15 days. You can read more about the program in my review published here.

I’d like to add that EKOFunds is paying regularly and the payouts from the first plan have already been processed. I remind you that you will be paid within 24 hours after the expiry of your deposit and there’s absolutely no need to request a cashout – everything is done automatically.

Well, I guess thats enough of an introduction for today so let’s hear some first-hand info from the admin of EKOFunds, Martin.

“1. Please introduce yourself to our readers and tell us about your own role in EKOFunds. What experience do you have in running an online HYIP?

Hello, Paul. I really appreciate the opportunity to introduce our project in your interview. I’d like to start out by telling you a little about myself: my name is Martin James, the founder of EKO Funds LLC. I’m a 39 year old white guy, born, raised, and still living in California. I have a very beautiful wife and a very beautiful son. I am proud to say that I’m educated and have a huge experience working with major international banking and financial institutions.

2. Can you tell us about the background of the program itself? How long have you been operating? Why did you ever decide to start your own HYIP? What do you hope to achieve by this?

EKO Funds LLC has been active on the market for a long time but several months ago, all of a sudden, my close friend and business partner Aaron Lewis and I stumbled upon a great idea. Why don’t we offer multiple services of our company to the Internet community, cyberspace? A few months later we unanimously and unequivocally decided to develop a website. So now, investors from all over the world can benefit and earn money by making investments in our capital assets management company through the site. To get a detailed description of our services, as well us to get an answer to the question of “What is the something that we do?”, please visit the “About us” section of our website.

3. What plans are on offer to potential investors? Explain them to us in more detail. What terms and conditions apply? What are the minimum and maximum amounts I can put into any given plan?

Our investors can benefit from the two investment plans we offer. Many years of practice and accumulated experience enable us to pay high returns to the investors, who are at minimal risk as our company has an excellent track record of steering clear of loses.

The first plan is more suitable for investors who are somewhat skeptical and, therefore, for starters, would like to test our company. One thing though, those investors have to realize that the interest rates would be lower if they proceed with this plan, rather than with the second. The second plan is more suitable for true entrepreneurs. They will be able to collect a maximum profit, but over a longer period of time.

To learn more about the two investment plans please refer to the site.

4. What payment processors are you dealing with at the moment? Will you be expanding this list in the future should the need arise?

Currently, we accept LibertyReserve, StrictPay, SolidTrustPay and PerfectMoney. In my opinion, the stated payment systems are the most convenient and safe to use. It is quite possible that in the nearest future we will add more payment systems by other providers to our list.

5. Have you got a referral program in place? How does this work?

Sure! We are glad to pay a 10% referral bonus, which is calculated from the total amount of the deposit made by the people you invited. All referral bonuses are paid within 24 hours!

6. Congratulations on such a professional site by the way. It’s definitely one of the more eye-catching and memorable around at the moment anyway. What can you tell us about the design?

That is so true, Paul! We did not take a cheap route on site design. The top notch guys made the site look the way it is and we are very happy with the way it looks and feels. We worked so hard to find the best of the best and now we are harvesting the fruits of our labor.

7. Following on from that, tell us also about the security of EKOFunds. What measures have you taken to protect your site and our accounts from DDoS attacks and hackers? What script are you using? Are you on a dedicated server?

Rest assured that the issue of the site security is our top priority. Here is a short list of measures we undertook to secure the users of the site:

We use a dedicated server, which is located in Panama. As you know, Panama belongs to off-shore area.

We do not use any scripts in an attempt to avoid hackings. We decided to store all our information and data in an off-line mode, apart from the main server.

DDoS kind of attacks is the most critical problem for many companies. Therefore, we did not hesitate to decide to use BlockDos as the key service provider to protect us from the DDoS attacks.

Considering the above-listed services and measures we undertook for security, you may easily conclude, and you would be right in doing so, that EKOFunds is totally protected as the safest place and reliable program to invest your money in.

8. Your “about us” page states “By joining EKOFunds, you’re joining a reliable and 100% secure program ever!”
If I said I find that to be a highly irresponsible statement for a supposed investment management company to make, how would you respond? How can you possibly make such a claim? How can you be 100% secure?

Well, you are absolutely correct! There is nothing 100% safe and 100% secure but I don’t find my words misleading. My role has been to announce the steps we took and the results we’ve achieved. Our investors’ funds are secure and our company is ready to face the future. All necessary steps were implemented.

9. How can potential investors independently verify your existence as a legitimate legal business entity? If you wish people to trust you with their money, what kind of documentation, receipts etc, can you provide for them regarding your trading activities?

This is a good question. All potential investors have a right to know who we are. We are registered as an off-shore organization. The registration place is the Republic of Panama. We are glad to provide all necessary credentials to verify that we are legitimate to all our investors. Unfortunately, from the security perspective, we are reluctant to provide the information about our company to every visitor of the website.

If you are an investor and you would like to evaluate our portfolio, please do not hesitate to request it and you will receive it.

10. What have you been doing to promote EKOFunds to date? Are you happy with the growth achieved thus far? How important has the support offered by members been? Could anything be improved on do you think?

Beginning from get-go we widely advertise, maintain extensive promotional campaigns. We are present amongst the majority of the well known and recognized forums (you can see our banners there). We regularly check the rating of the sites we are present on. This way we attract more people and more people become investors.

We are quite satisfied with the way the current stage of our development is going. Our site demonstrates some impressive statistics. In fact, please visit Alexa rating web portal to see that our site went up significantly over the last few days. Also, we would like to thank all of our present and future participants for the support we have received from them. We appreciate it greatly. Nevertheless, although we advertise a lot, our main advertisement is timely payouts to our investors. This why they bring people and come back to us for more productive relationships.

11. With December being a notoriously unstable month for both HYIPs and autosurfs alike, how do you plan to survive first of all the next month, and then into 2009? What are your plans?

I do not believe that Christmas and New Year holidays can substantially alter any big program. We are here for good and we are here to stay! Christmas is a blessed holiday. Let me use this awesome opportunity to wish you all, from the staff of our company, Happy Holidays. I would like to greet all our investors, participants to our projects, readers of your blog and to wish them all Merry Christmas! Let me reassure you once more, we will be here before Christmas and New Year and we are going to be here for years to come. This is our plan!

12. If some readers are still skeptical, what would be the one thing you would tell them? What is it do you think makes EKOFunds better than the rest?

It is hard to give a unequivocal answer to this question. To be honest, I am not in the position to judge which programs are realistic and beneficiary, and which ones are doomed. One thing for sure though (make a note of it) and that is the unquestionable intentions of our company to become a leader on this market. We are determined and we have the right tools to achieve it.

Also I can assure you all that EKOFunds has a totally unique, never-seen-before design. We use many payment systems; our customer service is, perhaps, the friendliest in the world, and to make matters even more impressive, guess what? Our customer service works 24 hours, 7 days a week to better serve our investors from all over the world on a need-to–have-answers-right-now basis.

13. Finally, what is your honest opinion of my blog? Is it beneficial to either investors or admins? Would you suggest any improvements?

Paul, I think your blog is the most informative place in the entire cyberspace where investors can find a wide range of information about different investment projects and potential. In all honesty, I wish you to be successful and prosperous. I wish your blog to get the highest rating possible and attract many more users to join in!”

In my honest opinion, EKOFunds has a very good chances to survive Christmas time having such an experienced admin, top-notch BlockDos protection, great design and speedy payouts. EKOFunds is becoming really popular now and I believe it will be even hotter when the first payouts from the second plan are processed in a week. Needless to say, that every HYIP is considered a risky venture so only spend what you can afford to lose here. I’ll see you on my blog tomorrow with more news and views from the industry! Stay tuned as you will surely not want to miss it!

P.S. I almost forgot to mention that I joined another autosurf program today called DailyDiamondSurf. The program just launched a couple of days ago and is paying 12% for 12 days with payouts on expiry. Currently only LibertyReserve and AlertPay are accepted and the minimum deposit in DailyDiamondSurf is $5. The design is great and they have DDoS-protection by BlockDos. I’m going to publish the review of DailyDiamondSurf on my blog by tomorrow.