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

Hi everybody! Well the big news today as I imagine most of you will no doubt be aware by now is the return of LibertyReserve, back online after a lengthy period of maintenance. And so finally I can get back to reviewing HYIPs, many of which have taken one hell of a pounding these last few days. One of them that appears to have weathered the storm quite well is the newly launched Invest-Power. Quite an unusual looking program this, having plans that for all the world resemble those of an autosurf. There was a somewhat unfortunate sequence of coincidental mishaps that occurred in quick succession in Invest-Power, but oddly enough this seems to have contributed to it being shielded from the worst affects of the LR downtime. The thing is that they themselves were offline for a while due to a DdoS attack, and no sooner had they recovered from this than LR went down. So now, because nobody was able to invest with them before the LR downtime, Invest-Power find themselves in the position of almost starting out all over again as a brand new program, as least as far as LibertyReserve is concerned anyway.

So what are these unusual plans being offered? Well as I just said they look exactly like autosurf plans, right down to the payment on expiry. The only difference being that there’s no surfing involved. There are two individual plans available. First is the “Beginner Plan” which will pay you 144% after 12 days. Amounts to invest here can suit the smaller investor, starting at $10 but going all the way up to $3000 for the more ambitious players. Your principal is factored into the final payout so will not be returned. So the most obvious example to offer is that for an initial investment of $100 you will receive a lump sum of $144 after 12 days.

Next on offer is the “Advanced Plan”. The reward for investing here is 140% on your investment paid on expiry after 10 days. Minimum spend here is $100 and the maximum is again $3000. And again your principal is also not returned. So using the same example as above we see that a $100 investment here will net you $140 after 10 days.

So as you can plainly see the Beginner Plan is the more profitable option but at an extra two days duration is also the riskier of the two. As it’s your money we’re talking about here it’s always ultimately your decision as to whether or not you see a significant advantage of joining one particular plan over the other. In my personal opinion (and if you don’t want to hear it stop reading now, lol!) the Advanced Plan is the better of the two. I like a gamble as much as the next guy in this business but in this case I simply can’t see such a limited financial gain as $4 per $100 invested being worth a more substantial risk. In fact the extra risk is the only substantial difference I see dividing these two plans at all. Not to sound entirely negative though, one aspect I do like is that if you do decide that the extra risk is worth it for you, the amounts required to invest overlap and therefore keep the higher earning plan at a more affordable price to more investors. Far too often we see otherwise reasonable plans in HYIPs completely out of the price range of the smaller investor who in my opinion is the lifeblood of the entire industry. Not so in Invest-Power who have their doors wide open to investors of every stripe, so this at least will help with the sustainability of the program.

Something else I could feel hot or cold on here is the security of Invest-Power. The hosting is decent enough, being first and foremost on a dedicated server. It’s with CIF hosting who pretty much know what they’re doing anyway with sites like this, and they provide them with their anti-DDoS protection. They’re also quite capable of stepping things up a notch if and when the need arises. The problem, or should I say my problem, is with the unlicensed script. I’m going to give the admin there (his name is Mark by the way), the benefit of the doubt on this matter for now as he seems an otherwise genuine guy with the best intentions for his program at heart. All just talk for now of course, he will have to work hard to prove himself, but as you all know I’m just a big fan of the straight talking no nonsense approach. Anyway, the problem with the script arises when, as Mark says, the programmer hired by him points out numerous security flaws in GoldCoders and other similar scripts. So he goes ahead and offers him a decoded version of the HYIPManager script. Now sorry if all that’s a bit boring to you, in fact I’m not much of a techie myself, but if you do have any concerns about that before investing with Invest-Power then please feel free to raise them with the admin yourself via the live chat available on his site. As I already mentioned, it’s your money and you are entitled to ask as many questions as you like. I advise you to do this with every site.

Overall though, despite a few misgivings, I still kinda like this one. I mean I can only offer my own opinion as I see it on the program itself, which I think is sound, and on the abilities of the manager which although have yet to be proven, he at least comes across as genuine and interested in the the future development of Invest-Power. Another plus, from the investor’s point of view anyway is because of the recent difficulties mentioned on top of this page, investors have been cautious around this one. Membership has been slow to say the least which means at least the admin has little choice but to stay online to recoup his expenses. A cynical way to close a review I know, but I am only writing from the investor’s point of view here.

And as usual, let me remind the ever dwindling numbers among you that choose to read this bit, treat it like a game, if you join make it part of a diversified portfolio, remember the admin still has to prove himself (but deserves a chance) and don’t go nuts with the check book. It’s a formula for success.

Other news for today.

The most exciting news came today from LibertyReserve which finally came back online. All investors are happy and it seems the panic and growing displeasure are has ground anymore. I tested LibertyReserve and now it’s working ok and both SCI and API interfaces are fine which will allow the admins of HYIPs to successfully accept deposits and process withdrawals again.

So some admins hastened to process all the pendings to get their programs back on track as soon as possible. For instance, the admin of the above reviewed Invest-Power stated that all the pendings had been processed and nothing can stop his program now:
“I am glad announce you that LibertyReserve is back now. All LibertyReserve and PerfectMoney pendings have been already paid. We know that most of the hyip industry will collapse in next 2-3 days, due to lack of funds and no other income sources. Now Invest-Power LLC enters in arena and when others will leave you, we will still be here to sustain you. Join us in our adventure. Invest-Power needs only one chance, you won’t be disappointed.”

I have received my pending withdrawals from AcrylicTrade (reviewed here) as well. Here is what the admin of the program had to say:
“The LibertyReserve problem seems to be fixed. Our staff completed all pending withdrawals now. Please check your account to ensure you received it and everything is fine.”

I have received also the first payouts today from Capital-4You and MesirowFinance. Both programs paid me despite the LR crisis and they deserve to be reviewed as soon as possible so I scheduled the reviews of those programs for the next few days.

Unfortunately as I predicted on my blog some programs couldn’t survive and especially I was concerned regarding StablePackages. The program was really promising but obviously it was an investment game that demanded new investments to support the payouts. I guess the long LR outage left the program no choice but collapse. The admin of StablePackages was silent so far and didn’t answer my emails so I suppose the game is over for that one.

I also moved ResidualForexIncome to Waiting status on my monitoring page because I didn’t hear from the admin regarding the unpaid pending payouts to LibertyReserve. I heard from them that they had some serious problems and the LR administration blocked their account for some reason. They promised to pay all the pendings to AlertPay but I was not paid and I heard on forums that many of the members were not paid either. It would be great if the admin of ResidualForexIncome had the time at least to publish some update regarding the current situation. I certainly feel the need to move ResidualForexIncome to Waiting status on my monitoring page because I have no other choice and don’t want to support the program the future of which is unknown.

FloatingFastProfit (reviewed here) should relly have been affected by the LR downtime more than others because it’s paying 104% after 1 day. But the wise decisions taken by the admin of FloatingFastProfit saved it from collapse. I heard that many members were paid today and I have been paid as well (by the way, I only withdrew profits and reinvested the main deposit). It seems the admin of the program really knows how to make a successful and long-running program.

The autosurfs were less affected by LR downtime because as a rule they have other more popular payment options accepted like AlertPay for example. By the way, the admin of AmaizingAds (reviewed here) Robert just announced that AlertPay has become another payment option starting now:
“As I have promised as soon as AP has verified my account I added it on the site. So now AP is also available. Please enjoy it the opportunity!”

Since LibertyReserve is back online today many program paid me and among them: SilverLodge, 13x11Pro (the first payment received), GoldNuggetInvest, 13Daily.Pro, 10DailyIncome, MesirowFinance (the first payment received), Pioneer-Fund, UCGCapital, Invest-Power (the first payment received), MajorBarter, Capital-4You (the first payment received), ComradeFinance, AcrylicTrade, CrazyCashSurf, TradeContract, FloatingFastProfit, AmaizingAds (the first payment received), Nova-Surf, NanoMoneyCorp, 4BrothersInvestments and ProjectSurf (the first payment received). I will be looking closely if tomorrow I receive my pendings from such programs like CapitalCorpex, IntensifyFunds, BVIuion and NordicMutualFunds. Since LibertyReserve was down for such a long time I will give these program the benefit of the doubt and will leave them as Paying till tomorrow. But if in 24 hours I’m not paid those programs will definitely be moved.

To close today’s post I would like to present a new autosurf program that I joined today. It’s called PacificSurfing and it just launched 2 days ago. Unfortunately LibertyReserve was down at that time so the site only accepted AlertPay and StrictPay. The admin of PacificSurfing promises to add LibertyReserve upgrades in a couple of days though. To get your 10% daily for 15 days (150% total) with the payouts on expiry you must surf 10 sites per day. Remember that to get your rebates you should be an upgraded member of PacificSurfing at all times (I.e. having at least one $5 running adpack). I hope this measure will help to prolong the lifetime of PacificSurfing and is a definite sign of a thought-out program. What else? The program is running on a dedicated server using very popular and familiar to my readers Neversay script. The admin of the program is calling himself Thomas Henderson and is supposedly the registrant of the domain living in the US. More details on PacificSurfing will be published on my blog in a few days so stay tuned for that. I’ll see you on my blog tomorrow as usual!