THE PROGRAM IS PAYING SELECTIVELY! PLEASE DON’T INVEST!

Hi guys! As promised on Saturday, today I want to talk about the latest in a growing list of surfing programs to come my way recently. This one is called ProspectHits and I joined it last Friday, so some of you may have already noticed the banner on my monitoring page. Surfing programs in general do seem to have their share of detractors at the moment for various reasons, so not much point in trying to deny it. But if you would like to press ahead then ProspectHits is at least worth a look. It has some good points to it as well as some bad ones which I will also come to in a moment. Personally I’d remain largely neutral towards this one at the moment, if such a thing is possible, and will reserve any excitement for when the first round of payments on expiry are completed. Having said that there would appear to be keen level of interest around the program too, as a quick look at the major forums indicates.

I suppose the best way to start any description of ProspectHits is to say that it is an autosurf of the classic variety. Sort of a back to basics approach if you like, with none of the extras added by a number of other surfing programs recently that had hugely varying degrees of success. Membership will cost you a minimum of $8 i.e the price of one single ad pack. You may purchase a total of 250 ad packs, or in monetary terms up to a maximum value of $2000. So what are you required to do upon joining? Very simple. Members will be required to surf a total of 10 sites in automatic mode for 13 consecutive days. And make sure that you remember to do it because it is stated quite clearly that it is the member’s responsibility to surf everyday and missed days will not be credited. So once you keep that in mind you can expect to be rewarded with 10% interest per day on your investment. It adds up to a total return of 130% which is paid on expiry.

Payments are not automatic so you will also need to remember to request your payout manually in your members area. Although I doubt many will need to be reminded to do that! You are then requested to allow up to 72 hours (3 days) to have your request processed. At this early stage though it’s probably fair to expect it to be completed a little faster. The payment options accepted by ProspectHits include StrictPay, AlertPay, SolidTrustPay, and LibertyReserve. Quite a good choice available for you there I think.

So a sustainable plan that is also profitable to members and a good choice of reputable payment processors. What’s not to like about ProspectHits I hear you ask? Well when we move on to the security of the site, then we move on to a gray area. It’s not all bad by any means, it just needs to be improved on. The first of a number of positive features is that it runs on a licensed script from Neversay. So far so good. And there are also hosted by HushHosting who are a fine company with a decent track record behind them.

But unfortunately the problem arises when we see that ProspectHits remains on a shared server. Regular readers will already know my feelings about this but when it comes to the security of your deposit I have no problem with repeating myself over and over again and again. This is simply asking for trouble and needs to be addressed before I would express any long term confidence in the program. I am unaware of any online investment program on a shared server not encountering problems because of this. The admin says that in the early stages of the programs development a shared server is perfectly adequate for his needs, and assures us that he will upgrade once the program gets more attention. I can understand this approach and even consider it quite logical. I mean why go to the added expense when the program is still in its infancy and membership not a sufficiently high level to justify this expense? But the fact is that you only need the attention of one jealous competitor, or even a determined blackmailer, to cause problems. A shared server is something that can be easily fixed so I won’t overstate the problem either.

Other than that the site itself is quite attractive. It’s well laid out and easy to navigate with all the rules and FAQs well explained in brief and simple yet informative terms. Customer support and contact details come in the usual manner of an online e-mail ticketing system.

All said I would hold off on a final judgment of ProspectHits until the first cycle is completed and the first round of payments to members have been successfully made. But for now I’d say maybe it’s not quite the finished article, but does have bags of potential. One to keep an eye on.

Other news for today.

Good news today from the admin of InvestiMates Roger Miller (read my interview with him here). It seems the program is running smoothly and investors are supporting InvestiMates perfectly well. All these factors made Roger decide that the maximum for deposits can be increased, more than doubled in fact, without harming the stable growth of the program. I remind you that InvestiMates (reviewed here) has been running for 23 days and offers two investment plans for online investors: 10% for 12 days with daily payouts and 12% for 12% days with payouts on expiry. Despite the plans being similar to those from a typical autosurf and all the major e-currencies accepted, you don’t have to do anything to earn your daily payments. They will be credited automatically to your account. So here is the latest from InvestiMates:
“Hello Mates! InvestiMates has grown into a great website all because of your support. And InvestiMates is soaring higher and higher as the days pass by.
I sent this email to notify everyone that the maximum deposit for each plan has now been increased to $2,500 from $1,200 as set previously. Many members demanded the increase from the beginning but it is just now that I see it fit.
Soon you will also be able to reinvest from your balance too.
So have a good day and enjoy your stay at InvestiMates.”

AsianInvestGroup (reviewed here) remains a stable performer running for over 4 months already. I believe the secret of its success lies in the variable weekly percentage that accrues to members accounts depending on their trading results. Definitely such programs like AsianInvestGroup are therefore more flexible and sustainable in the long run because during the hard times they can simply lower the weekly return and avoid the hassles in which other HYIPs would drown. Anyway, AsianInvestGroup published another weekly statement with new rates earned by their investors for the previous week. This week we can expect a lesser return but as I have already said it’s nothing to worry about as this feature allows the program to stay afloat for a longer time:
“Our rates for current week are the following:
Optimized Portfolio – 8.6% weekly (-0.4)
Aggressive Portfolio – 10.8% weekly (-0.8)
Optimized Portfolio Premium (for investments of $1000 and above) – 11.6% weekly
Aggressive Portfolio Premium (for investments of $1000 and above) – 13.8% weekly“.

YesICanSurf (reviewed here) was celebrating their 500th member yesterday. To mark this event the admin of YesICanSurf Sarah (interviewed here) decided to give small bonuses to best referrers and offer $6 (3 free AdPacks) to all the investors upgrading with at least $10. I have received my bonus already but I’m not sure if the offer is still valid as you read this because it was available for 24 hours only. Anyway, you can check YesICanSurf site anytime and see if you can apply for the bonus. And here is the update from the admin:
“Today we welcomed our 500th Member! WOW!
To celebrate this important milestone, we will:
1) award 3 free adpacks to 10 of our top 20 referrers !! These numbers will be drawn at random later today. It is our hardworking marketers who have helped us reach this goal, and we really appreciate you!!
2) For 24 hours ONLY, we offer 3 FREE adpacks to members (free or Obama) who upgrade with 10 + adpacks in this time frame.! ENJOY!!!
We are very, very proud of our little surf. We have the most supportive members imaginable…..so YES WE CAN reach our 1000 member
goal before the end of July !
YES, we CAN! Happy Sunday, Sarah and Phil“.

ExcellentProfit (reviewed here) finally introduced Live support for their members and now you can benefit from chatting with the admin during their business hours:
“Hello Clients, We have now integrated the online support system. You can now contact us on our online support system on all the business days except weekends. Nathan, Support Department.”

Unfortunately me and some of my readers were right when we considered all the special plans and bonuses offered in the last few days by the admin of Ivy-Castle as a warning sign. The worst happened and the program stopped paying two days ago. I believe there is no chance it will come back as the Rate Us page has been removed and the admin doesn’t answer emails. Well, another one bites the dust!

I can confirm that GlobalTraderGroup (reviewed here) is paying despite many attempts by blackmailers to bring the program down by using bad votes on forums and monitors. I just received my last payment today and I can say that I still trust in the admin’s capabilities to overcome and be a winner in this war. Here is what I found on the site of GlobalTraderGroup:
“We are facing a new attack, but nothing will interfere with our performance. Be aware that the negative votes on monitors and forums are all false. We have no problem with payments. For questions, contact us.”

The admin of FlipReturn program which has been running for over two months now issued the following update. To celebrate US Independence Day (though I’m not sure they are located in the US) FlipReturn offers the bonus of 10% which will be added to all your investments starting from $500:
“Dear Flip-Member, FlipReturn is online since April 2009 and I hope you all are satisfied about my performance of making you money.
Soon is the 4th of July and for some the holiday time starts. I wish you all a great time and hope you allow me to make you some extra money during this time. To offer you something different I would like to offer you a special investment bonus, what ends on the 4th of July midnight UTC.
Since investments in hyips and autosurfs are earning more as more you invest, I like to offer you something special, I am willing to give you a 10% Investment topping on the money you invest from today until 04th of July if your investment is at least US$500 or more.
I also like to share with you, that I build you all some safety fund, so even we would fail in making a few days money, we can easily take something away from this fund. I build a account with US$ 25.000,00 just to make your money backed and this site safer.
I wish you all a great 4th of July!”

By the way, I haven’t actually introduced you to FlipReturn yet have I? I only joined yesterday. The program can be considered as an extremely low-ROI HYIP offering the following rates of interest: 0.6% for investments ranging from $5 to $19, 0.8% for investments ranging from $19 to $4,999 and 1% for investments starting from $5K and over. All the returns will be credited to your account every calendar day for 300 days. The principal is included in daily payouts and will not be given back at the end. FlipReturn accepts all the major payment processors including: LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney, AlertPay, SolidTrustPay and StrictPay so you will have enough choice in case you’re interested to invest there. FlipReturn is running on licensed Neversay script and is hosted on a dedicated server by HushHosting. I guess it has a decent level of DDoS-protection and can mitigate any possible attacks. Being online from the end of April the program didn’t get much attention from investors yet having 200 investors at the moment when I joined it. I believe such low-ROI programs as FlipReturn will not become very popular if they last for less than 6 months. Only time and commitment to deliver the best service can distinguish FlipReturn from the others and we will see if this happens over the coming months.

Another program I joined yesterday (and received the first payment already by the way) is AvartesCapital. The program just launched on Saturday and I think it will grab the attention of investors willing to play short-term HYIPs. The plans on offer in AvartesCapital are the following: 2% for 5 days, 2.5% for 10 days and 3.25% for 15 days. On all the plans the account is credited with profits on a daily basis and the principal is returned at the end. So on the first plan you have the chance to earn 10% pure profit after 5 days, on the second plan – 25% after 10 days and on the third plan – 48.75% after 15 days. The plans are quite reasonable in my opinion and together with other features such as an attractive design, licensed GoldCoders script and DdoS-protection by Koddos, I think AvartesCapital can become a very popular choice among potential investors. The choice of payment processors are also good: LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney and SolidTrustPay are accepted as payment options with StrictPay pending verification and to be added soon. The minimum to invest in each plan is only $5 so it will be affordable for the majority of the investors. Of course, you should simply ignore AboutUs page with stolen texts about a successful group of investors and just treat AvartesCapital as an investment game to avoid disappointment. The only thing I dislike about the program is that it’s hosted on a shared server which seems not to be reliable to me and which I’m going to discuss in my detailed review of AvartesCapital that is to be published on my blog tomorrow.

To finish my news section I would like to mention the programs that paid me for the last 48 hours. They are: NovalexFinance, PanaMoney, SigmaTral, GoldNuggetInvest, InvestiMates, YesICanSurf, GeniusFunds, OilInsider, CorpusTrust, GlobalTraderGroup, Verifield, Merchandies, ExcellentProfit, ElegantMoney, XagaEnterprise, SteadyGrowthInvest, VentureFundsGroup, Treckswana, AsianInvestGroup, LloydFunds, EnscoOffshore, SilverLodge, Surfing4Roi, CoolReturn, Veolex and AvartesCapital (the first payment received). Join me on my blog tomorrow for the review of AvartesCapital and more news from the Industry!