02/04/09. Treckswana Review and Other News

Hi everybody! Did you ever stop to think about coincidences? Two separate events without any obvious connection that somehow manage to achieve some kind of alignment. They happen to every one from time to time and some people choose to take them as a signal that it might be beneficial to consider these coincidental circumstances and act upon them. I know you are probably wondering what I am talking about. So here is an example. Just a couple of days ago I was looking at a large ad in the Sunday Observer newspaper from the UK for safari vacations in Botswana. “Interesting holiday if you have the money” I thought to myself and put the paper down to do some surfing. But lo and behold! What do you think the first site I come across is? Treckswana, an HYIP claiming involvement in safari adventure holidays in Botswana. “This is too much of a coincidence” I said “this one must surely be worth a closer look”.

And I was right. Treckswana looks a pretty good program to me. I mean obviously I thought it through and compared risk against reward, but I didn’t have to think about it too long either. So I’d like to review it for you today. And I guess I’ll start at the beginning. The plans.

Treckswana has three plans for investors to select from. A daily, weekly and fortnightly option all running from 10 to 12 weeks in duration. I myself went and joined the first two. I should also just point out that as I mentioned yesterday in my original introduction of Treckswana that it was unclear to me if any of these plans would return your principal. I have since clarified this and can confirm that your principal will not be returned.

So starting with the daily plan, an investment here will earn you 1.8% interest per day for a duration of 10 weeks. The minimum amount to invest is $10 and the maximum is $25,000. So if we look at a sample investment of $100, you will be paid $1.80 every day for 70 days (10 weeks) giving you a total of $126 on expiry.

The next one, which I am also in, is the weekly option. This plan also runs for 10 weeks and makes weekly payments of 15% on your principal. This will give you a total return of 150% of your principal on expiry. You may request cashouts everyday, but your account will still only be credited once per week. For example for a $100 investment you will be paid $15 per week. If it suits you for some reason you can just make daily cashout requests for smaller amounts but you won’t get more than $15 in a week. The cost of investing here will again set you back a very reasonable $10 and goes all the way up to $35,000.

And finally there is the bi-weekly plan and it runs for a little bit longer at 12 weeks. This is really a two-tier system that pays according to the size of the investment. First of all for investments starting from the more serious but not outrageous $350 up to $750 you will receive 28% of your principal paid every fortnight (14 days). That’s a total of 168% on your investment. More serious players who are prepared to spend from $751 up to $50,000 will receive a bi-weekly payment of 30%, also for 12 weeks earning them a total return of 180? Again you can cashout daily but your will still only be credited once every two weeks.

I quite like the plans here. They are affordable and sustainable. And as I have said before I am also a huge fan of plans that overlap in investment amounts, i.e they will accept the same or similar amounts. This really does throw the whole program much more open to a wider variety of investors and keeps interest alive in the whole project. How many programs do we see with one affordable plan and then minimum investment figures of several thousand dollars for the remainder? I mean who is seriously in those options? Here at least I think the membership will be much more vibrant and varied. Even their most expensive plan will get a few more takers than usual, although I doubt for fifty grand, lol! They also offer those who invest $10,000 or more the option of a free annual three day safari in Botswana at their expense. Now I won’t be the one who encourages anybody to throw that sort of cash around at an HYIP so you didn’t get the idea from me if you are the type who does. But I can’t help but be curious about if anybody will take them up on that offer.

The other thing that impressed me with the plans though was the payment options. For an HYIP this is simply a tremendous list. LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney, AlertPay, SolidTrustPay and StrictPay are all included and I think we all know that some of these companies have a less tolerant attitude to fraud will have put the admin under a lot more scrutiny before accepting him than others. As well as being convenient for the investor I also believe this will give a huge boost to the trust and confidence of the members. I also believe this is a sign that there is an excellent admin behind this project. He has been proactive in securing all these payment processors before the program’s launch so obviously he has a serious plan. And also likes to fix problems before they happen.

Otherwise the security of Treckswana is acceptable. It is hosted on a dedicated server from HushHosting, who despite their recent bad press have recovered completely and I think still a decent enough provider. The script is licensed from Neversay and a proven quality product. For customer support you will be automatically redirected away from Treckswana with a new window opening up. Here you will find all the various trouble shooting options as well as a support e-mail ticketing system and a live chat option too.

The design is quite impressive and as a great lover of nature, animals and generally all things outdoor I did like the graphics depicting some scenes from the southern African countryside. It was definitely a nice touch. It doesn’t mean anything as regards the plans of course but at least it’s nice to look at. I can’t say how much is true about the safaris but it does provide a welcome break from the usual nonsense about stocks, bonds, equities and Forex! An extra point for originality gets awarded, lol!

Other news for today.

The admin of ProjectSurf Frankie (interviewed here) is still doing his best to make his manual surf the best program on the Net. Well, I think he managed to do it already as ProjectSurf (reviewed here) is definitely way ahead of its competitors. Today he introduced some incentives and published some exposure article about one well-known forum which appears to be not so honest in what it is promoting. Anyway, read the whole update from Frankie below and grab your incentives today because tomorrow it will be too late:
“Hello Everyone, Time To Create Action!!
Quick Update:
It seems other Admins of Surfs is doing Bonus Upgrade Matching so I would like to do one as well for all my members for today only as an incentive to spark the forums out there with my generosity!
Any member that purchases Ad Packs today Thursday until 12:00Am EST will receive the following incentive bonuses. Please follow the Matrix Accordingly.
Purchase 4 adpacks 24.00 receive 1 free 6.00 USD
Purchase 7 adpacks 42.00 receive 2 free 12.00 USD
Purchase 11 adpacks 66.00 receive 3 free 18.00 USD
Purchase 16 adpacks 96.00 receive 4 free 24.00 USD
Purchase 21 adpacks 126.00 receive 5 free 30.00 USD
After Your Ad Packs are purchased please send me an e-mail at bonus@projectsurf.com with your member I.D and how many ad packs you have purchased and I will credit your account today with the additional ad packs!
Any Free/New member that has not upgraded once yet that upgrades with at least 1 or more ad packs today can have their Website/Business URL in the “Sponsored by Admin” section of the surf rotator or their Banner Image/ displayed in any one of these sections for two weeks. Homepage(light box) 128px x 128px, Homepage 728px x 90px, Surf Rotator banner on top in the Surf Section, Our Forum, or anywhere in Our Blog.
Just Upgrade with 1 adpack or more and send me your member I.D along with your banner details and where you would like it placed to Bonus@projectsurf.com and I will add it to the specified place. (free/new members only)
I have published my first article on my Blog in the scam section about my opinions about a certain Forum and I would like everyone to read it and give me their opinions in our own Forum under ASA MONITOR. This had to be said and I have to respect my members that support ProjectSurf.
As I said before I am creating the Best Manual Surf out there and I have to create that with a business model that needs to be followed accordingly in order for everyone to advertise their product or service while earnings incentives for a long time to come. – I want this Project to last a long time so I will do the necessary infrastructures to make that happen!
I will clearly knock out any competition and create a safe ground for earning incentives awhile advertising your business utilizing my program! Much More To Come!”

It seems InvestEvolution is going to collapse soon if it hasn’t already done so. The admin keeps silent on forums and the payouts are piling up. It seems nobody got paid for the last 48 hours which is clearly specified in FAQ for payouts. I don’t want to ruin this program prematurely but if the admin wants it to last he has to start the payouts or at least address the concerns the members have raised on some forums already. I have no choice but to put the program to Waiting status on my monitoring page until everything is clear or until the payouts resume. So please hold off from depositing into InvestEvolution until further notice!

The same goes with Cent2Dollar which seems to have stopped paying straight after presenting the special offer of giving away some secret forex strategy that will help you to earn 200% or more monthly. I have two pending payouts already and I saw some complaints on forums as well. I would recommend you to hold off from depositing in Cent2Dollar until the situation is clear.

EdwardBrownInvestments (reviewed here) got some special Easter promo plan that will allow you to test his program and 8% profit on your investments just in 10 days time. Here is the update from Edward regarding this new promo plan:
“As part of the Easter Festivities on April 12, 2009, we have decided to create a special plan as a “Thank you” to all of our investors.
This new plan will pay you 0.8% daily for 10 days, with the principal returned at the end.
This plan IS available for new investors, and will only be available for a limited time, so get in asap!!
Hopefully this will open the doors up to some more investors. Have a wonderful day.
Sincerely, Edward Brown. CEO of EdwardBrownInvestments.”

One of the best payment processors in my honest opnion – StrictPay – just announced that it is dropping any relationships with LibertyReserve due to its kinda awkward policy regarding the exchanges to other e-currencies. Taking into consideration some shady facts about LibertyReserve which being a totally anonymous e-currency without even a phone number or a real address and remains 100% virtual it is simply ridiculous. Anyway, StrictPay had to comply with LibertyReserve‘s demands to secure the funds of its clients and stopped allowing withdrawals to LibertyReserve. In my opinion, this will only weaken LibertyReserve‘s place on payment processor market but who I am to give advice to such a multi million dollar but still mostly unknown corporation. Anyway, here is the update which could be useful for StrictPay customers:
“From this point on we will no longer be able to offer LibertyReserve deposits or withdraws. As you know, LibertyReserve contacted us recently to let us know about their policy of no longer allowing our customers to deposit funds into their StrictPay account from their LibertyReserve account, because they will no longer do business with other payment processors. With no more funds being deposited into our LibertyReserve account, our available funds there are not at the level we need to continue offering the withdraw option. We also do not feel comfortable continuing to put funds into our LibertyReserve account if we cannot offer them as an option for both deposit and withdraw for our customers. Please contact LibertyReserve if you have any further questions on their policies, or if you wish to let them know you would like them to work with StrictPay in the future.
We apologize for the incovenience, and as always we appreciate you choosing StrictPay as your payment option.”

Meanwhile another payment processor EvoWallet is holding another referral contest to attract more new members. In my humble opinion, they’d better provide their clients better withdrawal options because I myself couldn’t find any exchanger (from those listed on the EvoWallet website) which will allow you to exchange your EvoWallet money to other e-currencies. I hope this situation will be rectified soon and I hope EvoWallet administration will pay attention also to such things and not only holding ref contests. Anyway, here are the rules of the contest published on EvoWallet‘s blog:
“EvoContest #4
This time, lets try something new! Here is your chance to earn REFERRALS to your downline, rather than cash. Remember, referrals can bring you residual income for many years to come, as you earn not only the signup bonus, but also a %age of all your ref’s fees on all the future transactions they make.
1) Earn 5 free referrals to your downline when you bring in 3 or more
2) Earn 10 free referrals to your downline when you bring in 8 or more.
Contest begins today, and ends April 10th. Please let us know at evoblog@yahoo.com, subject: Referrals, when you fulfill our requirements. (Pls note: In this contest, no member can earn more than 10 referrals.)
Good luck, everyone! EvoWallet Team“.

I have been paid today from the following programs (in no particular order): SilverLodge, UnionFunds, AsianInvestGroup, ProjectSurf, GoldNuggetInvest, 7Inv, PanaMoney, OakCash, RobusTrade, Nexelim, NovalexFinance, InfrastructureInv, ComradeFinance, EdwardBrownInvestments, FlowBroker, FinancialProfitsCorp, MesirowFinance, StableInterest, PrincipalReturn, Verifield and Treckswana (the first payment received). By the way, it seems that VentureFundsGroup is back online and if everything is back to normal I’m going to review the program on my blog tomorrow.

There are two program I joined and added to my listing today. The first one is YenStock and it’s quite a promising HYIP that just started just a couple of days ago. The program has a domain name registered for 2 years and it’s hosted on a dedicated server. Registrant details are given from British Virgin Islands, the address also has been validated by Comodo seal available on the website. There are four languages available on the site to choose from: English, German, Chinese and Japanese. Unfortunately I can’t confirm if there was an autotranslator used or it is a genius translation of the original English texts. On their contact page they have phone numbers listed supposedly from UK, US, Italy and Germany. Well, I must say I will verify them all before publishing the review. I hope they are real anyway but cautiousness will not be excessive if you deal with a program like YenStock claiming to deal with real investments. Anyway, the site itself is quite good and it made me feel that they are a real investment company, although it’s a very early impression and I will look into it further. The plans YenStock is offering to its investors can be characterized as long-term: they pay from 1.2% to 2.4% daily and only on business days with compounding available. The investment term is 180 business days after which you are free to withdraw your original deposit. Four e-currencies are accepted: LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney, V-Money and Pecunix and the minimum to invest is $10. You will be able to read more about YenStock and its plans in the upcoming review on my blog that will be published later.

The second program I joined today is called InvestmentForge and this can be referred to as a “golden oldie” because of its attractive plans the program has been running for at least 250 days (wow!) which is a very long term for such a program. Still InvestmentForge only accepts LibertyReserve as a payment option though the minimum to deposit is quite high and reaching $50. The profits are paid to your account every business days and are fluctuating depending on the “performance” of the program and your plan. The stat charts are available for your consideration on the left sidebar of every page. For plan A ($50 minimum) you will be able to earn up to 2% daily for 40 business days and the profits are allowed to be withdrawn from your account in InvestmentForge every 24 hours. For plan B ($500 minimum) the profits can be as high as 2.4% daily for 80 business days but you’re allowed to withdraw them only once per 7 business days. Finally, for plan C allow you to withdraw only once per 30 business days but the daily profits could reach 2.8% (the minimum allowed to deposit in plan C is $5,000). So the plans are very similar to those StableInterest program (reviewed here) is offering. The script is also the same with domain registered for 6(!) years (till 2012) and the site hosted on a dedicated server. InvestmentForge Gmbh claims to be an offshore registered company in Cyprus although I couldn’t find any proof of that on the website. All in all, I like this program and you will be able to read my detailed review of InvestmentForge really soon. Stay tuned for that and see you on my blog tomorrow!