Hi everybody! No review today I’m afraid, just the regular daily news update from Money-News-Online.

Somebody asked me yesterday why they couldn’t access GeniusFunds website. Well, the site is working fine for me and I must confirm that it’s paying as well. I have received my last payment today very fast after requesting. I don’t think there is anything to worry about yet as I spoke to the admin of GeniusFunds briefly a couple of days ago and he told me that they were under a massive DDoS-attack and that the site might be hard to access sometimes. Fortunately, it didn’t affect GeniusFunds‘ performance and as I have said already the program is paying. If you can’t access the site try to use any proxy server and I’m sure you will be able to access your account and request a withdrawal. So I still consider GeniusFunds as a safe pick and you can refer to my review of the program published here to find out more about the investment plans on offer.

Speaking of GeniusFunds, I received another long update from the program’s administration which I could only describe as pretty interesting. The topics covered in this include: adding the multilingual versions of the website, the possibility to invest in GeniusFunds via your credit card using your AlertPay account, reminder about how the reinvestment option works and the explanation regarding DDoS-attacks on the program’s server. Here is the whole update from GeniusFunds:
“At Genius we are committed to providing you with a top notch investment platform and the great service you deserve. That is why we are investing heavily in improving our products and services. I am very pleased to inform you of some of the improvements we implemented over the past week.
French Language Web Site
Due to our continuing success in French-speaking countries, we have opted to have our web site translated into the French language. Now all native French-speakers have a fully localized web site for their convenience.
Spanish Language Web Site
After numerous requests by our investors, we have decided to introduce a Spanish version of our web site. Work on localization is currently under way and is planned to be completed on the 15th of May, 2009. We also plan to introduce Spanish-speaking customer support representatives.
AlertPay
For convenience of those investors who would like to make their deposit using a credit card, AlertPay, a processor that we have been accepting for more than two months, has finally allowed our investors to make deposits into their accounts at Genius using Visa, MasterCard or American Express credit cards.
Reinvestment Power
Did you know that Genius offers automatic reinvestment (compounding) of your dividends? Just set reinvestment rate for your Genius account and each payout will be automatically used to purchase additional shares. By utilizing this powerful feature your total income will significantly increase over time in comparison to daily or weekly withdrawals. Our online calculator can be used to calculate the potential gain. Please note that you may change your reinvestment rate back at any time, including setting it back to 0%.
Denial of Service Attack Protection
While we have already been employing sophisticated methods of fighting these type of attacks, one large-scale attack had managed to restrict access to our web site for several hours during the weekend. To counter any future attacks of this scale we have upgraded fire wall equipment in our server room. We have also instructed our ISP to install new equipment which could mitigate attacks of this scale in the future.”

Just yesterday I reported about the possibility of implementing phone support on USDozen (reviewed here) and just a few hours later I got an update informing all the members of the program that the phone number is already in action. Moreover, it seems that accepting SolidTrustPay payment processor on USDozen site is just a matter of time now. I remind you that USDozen is a new promising autosurf that was launched a week ago and offers 11% for 11 days for surfing 11 sites daily with the payouts on expiry. Here is the first update from the admin of USDozen Roger:
“This is the first email newsletter that I am sending and I want to announce some very important things.
USDozen now has a phone number where you can call me and ask me important questions that you cannot find any answer on the website or on the forums. I will be available on phone for limited time per day only. Even though you see me online on the forums does not necessarily mean that I am available on the phone at those times.
But even if I am not on the phone then, you can still leave me a message on the voice mailbox. Just remember to leave your user id # on your message so I can identify you.
On some occasions, I might call you back for important inquiries you have.
Ok here is our phone number: +1-646-807-1505
SolidTrustPay will be accepted soon on our website too. That is also one of the good news today.
I think that is all for now. The website is doing great. Many signups daily coming in.”
You should also know that by now the hours when the phone support from Roger will be available daily is not set up yet but he promised to give us exact hours when he can be called in the near future. Here is the more detailed explanation about how the phone support will work posted by Roger on one of the major forums:
“Ok please understand that I am not on an office environment here so I cannot follow strict working hour schedule for the phone support. But I have great news though, I will have a specific time when you can reach me via phone. Right now its voicemail box because I am still organizing my work space here.”

AsianInvestGroup (reviewed here) published another weekly statement with earnings for the previous week. For those with deposits in Optimized portfolio the earnings stayed almost on the same level, but for the Aggressive portfolio investors the earnings level dropped by 5.5% last week. So I think we can see that for the first time since the launch the earnings from Optimized Portfolio are now higher than from those in Aggressive Portfolio. Please take note on it when you decide which portfolio to choose in AsianInvestGroup:
“Our rates for current week are the following:
Optimized Portfolio – 8.6% weekly (+0.2)
Aggressive Portfolio – 6.0% weekly (-5.5)
Optimized Portfolio Premium (for investments of $1000 and above) – 11.6% weekly
Aggressive Portfolio Premium (for investments of $1000 and above) – 9.0% weekly“.

It seems GearsOfProfit (reviewed here) is still paying to the investors. But the over-complicated withdrawal rules and the most recent spam attacks with bad votes on major forums and monitoring sites scare off the potential investors from depositing. I see that the admin is struggling to make the two ends meet and so far I can see that the position of the program is very shaky now. I noticed there were not too many upgrades lately and I hate to say this but maybe the program’s situation is not so good now. We will wait and see what happens anyway. Here is the latest from the admin of GearsOfProfit:
“Dear valued members, GearsOfProfit project is under SPAM attack. Please, visit this page for getting proofs. We are working with monitors owners to mitigate the attack. Bad or fake votes will be deleted by monitors owners very soon. Thank you for attention.”

OakCash (reviewed here) returned the second deposit to me today and I’m now on the third cycle already. The program has been online for more than 2 months now and is still paying fast. I think all the investors that joined this program with me weren’t disappointed and were in good profit with OakCash. I remind you that OakCash is paying 2.9% for 31 calendar days for the deposits ranging from $10 to $999 (for bigger deposits the rates are much better). So your pure profit after 31 days will be 89.9% and you will get your principal back as well. Not bad at all! Anyway, OakCash has been paying me well so far but it doesn’t guarantee it will pay the same in the future so be aware of the risks involved.

Some good news for the investors of Poplans program (reviewed here). First, the rates for all the plans have been raised and now you will be paid 12.87%-16.87% daily for 10 days, 140.82%-200.82% after 10 days, 251%-451% after 30 days. And second, PerfectMoney has been added as an additional payment processor. I hope these measures will increase the popularity of Poplans which has been performing well so far.

That’s it for today’s news and I would like to add only what programs paid me today: PrismoFunds, Treckswana, SilverLodge, Hassan-Al-Fadi, EdwardBrownInvestments, NanoMoneyCorp, PanaMoney, NovalexFinance, LloydFunds, VentureFundsGroup, CascoFunds, ImperialFinances, DamexTrade, Poplans, HighRiseFinance, MajorBarter, GeniusFunds, GoldNuggetInvest, EnscoOffshore, AsianInvestGroup, GearsOfProfit, EwoCapital, ForexExperts, FlowBroker, OakCash and InvestmentForge.

And I almost forgot to tell you about a brand-new promising short-term HYIP I joined today. It’s called SteadyGrowthInvest and it’s offering two profitable plans: 105% after 2 days and 130% after 10 days. That’s so simple and all you have to do is to click “Register” on SteadyGrowthInvest website, enter your details and make a deposit. And make sure to request your withdrawal on expiry because it’s not automatic. The minimum to deposit in each plan is $5 and the maximum is $5,000. There are many e-currencies you can invest in SteadyGrowthInvest and along with the most popular LibertyReserve and PerfectMoney options there are also such popular choices like StrictPay and SolidTrustPay available. By the way, the script SteadyGrowthInvest uses is a licensed one from MonetarySoft and I must say that it’s becoming a popular choice among program admins (I’m planning to interview the developer of this script on my blog pretty soon btw). The site is hosted on a dedicated Staminus server so I don’t expect any major downtime. The main question remains: how long will SteadyGrowthInvest stay online and pay investors? I believe it will last for a few weeks which will be pretty enough to recoup your principal and be in profit. Of course there are no guarantees as usual but the fact the the site just launched today and in my opinion it is of a very decent quality makes me hope that SteadyGrowthInvest will stay with us for some time. I will bring you the detailed review of the program on my blog tomorrow. Stay tuned and see you then!