Hi all! I hope you’re all having a nice weekend. I’m just returning from a wonderful dinner cruise around the archipelago of the wonderful city of Gothenburg in Sweden. It really was a spectacular view of the scattered islands of the coast and the great food and wine only helped the atmosphere on this balmy summers evening. If only it could last all night!

But it can’t. So even though I didn’t intend to publish a news update at all today it looks like there was too much going on over the last 24 hours to ignore so I guess it’s best we discuss it, right?

The first important story is about PrimFix (reviewed here) which finally came back online after moving from Dragonara to a new more stable hosting provider. They’re back online now and (the most important thing!) payouts have resumed already. I was paid within minutes after sending my withdrawal request to the admin Derek (interviewed here). I remind you that PrimFix has been paying for three and a half months now on three main investment plans where you can invest via AlertPay, LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney and SolidTrustPay for a $10 minimum – 120% after 15 days, 160% after 30 days, 210% after 45 days. I’m seriously glad to see PrimFix back to normal and it was really a pleasure to deal with an admin like Derek who constantly updates everybody when things like this happen. Hopefully this downtime will not affect PrimFix‘s performance and we will see them performing well just like they did in the past for weeks and months to come.

Also being on Dragonara, FeoCash experienced some downtime and was unavailable for a few hours:
“There was some problem with the Dragonara core routers yesterday, which resulted in the network interruption and our site’s not being accessed for almost 5 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience brought to you.”
The problem has been resolved now and FeoCash is back to the regular payment schedule paying 4.33% for 24 hours, 118% after 4 days, 150% after 10 days and 280% after 30 days to LibertyReserve and PerfectMoney. For the first six weeks online the admin did an impeccable job,proving that a short-term program without too much hype can still achieve tremendous results if the admin is dedicated enough. FeoCash (reviewed here) has recently entered the top 10 most popular programs on the MNO monitor and I hope that it will continue like this for many more weeks to come.

The admin of PowerfulStrategy started a promotional campaign today dedicated to the successful completion of the second month online. As before when the program celebrated its first month online, investors who joined one of the plans (1.8% for 10 business days, 2% for 25 business days, 2.3% for 60 business days, 2.8% for 120 business days with principal returned on expiry) got a 5% bonus to their deposits which can start from as little as $1 and are accepted via AlertPay, LibertyReserve and PerfectMoney with instant payouts to the same payment processors. I think this is another perfect example of a slow but steady performer which is kinda flying under the radar now but has enormous potential. Here is the latest update from PowerfulStrategy (reviewed here):
“23 July is our birthday, our age – 2 months. In honor of that we announce the new bonus campaign! Make deposit 23th of Jule and you will receive bonus of 5% of the deposit amount to your balance during the day. You can withdraw this bonus instantly at any time! Campaign is active from 00:00 to 23:59 by server time.”

I’m less optimistic regarding the chances of EarnGroups It looks to me that after AlertPay blocked their account (allegedly to perform some further verification of their identity, but more likely they just decided to steal the money now its reached a certain level) investors who deposited via AP had no other choice but to wait until this situation is resolved. In today’s surprising update the admin of EarnGroups Christian (interviewed by MNO twice – here and here) asked for members’ support in and to actually help him push AlertPay to perform this additional verification procedure faster. I think that timing is everything in this case and since AlertPay probably deliberately blocked the account of EarnGroups on Friday further actions can be expected not earlier than Monday to Tuesday since it’s the weekend now. You know that AlertPay can be really slow when it comes to such things, and possibly it deliberately made this move to to bring the program down and steal all money like they already did with many other HYIPs in the last few months. The admin of EarnGroups is quite confident that if every member of his program using AlertPay contacts them asking to process this it might actually be actually done. EarnGroups has two plans – 120% after 7 days and 145% after 14 days – though it seems they have a lot of powerful enemies including the infamous admin of Insectrio who tried everything in his power to destroy EarnGroups after failing with his own program. If you use AlertPay in any program it comes with the risk, and you should be aware that together with the possible chargeback you can easily lose your money in AP reverses your own payment or suddenly freezes the account of your favorite program, like it happened in case of EarnGroups. Anyway, in my humble opinion the fate of whole program is now in crooked hands of AlertPay that is definitely eager to line their pockets with some of the investors’ money. And I think the admin of EarnGroups finally realized by now which huge mistake he did by accepting AlertPay in the first place. I think STP is a much better alternative to AP as it never freezes HYIPs’ accounts without any reason though also has quite a strict verification procedure and can return money in some cases. Such harmful activities of AlertPay will be definitely the subject of the next issue of MNOFridays’ which I plan to do in a few days from now, but sadly to say that the whole future of EarnGroups and even the investors who deposited their money in LibertyReserve and PerfectMoney (and who I heard are still paid perfectly well by the program) are in the hands of AlertPay once popular payment processor which I think enjoying destroying some good programs. I do hope that the issue with AP will be solved within the next few days and EarnGroups will be able to continue as usual, but given the previous experience of other programs with AlertPay still would suggest to be prepared for the worst outcome. Here is the latest newsletter from EarnGroups (reviewed here):
“Co-operation Needed
Hi Members,
As you already know, our AlertPay account in undergoing some additional verification procedures. However, to speed up the process, we would like to request you to contact AlertPay now itself, and ask them to complete the process as soon as possible. We kindly request every member who is using AlertPay to do business with us, to please contact AlertPay, and ask them to complete the verification process of our account at the earliest. We can process your withdrawals to AlertPay, only if the verification process is over, and until then, are unable to do it.
If all of you contact AlertPay asking to complete the verification process at the earliest, they will take the issue seriously, and complete the verification quickly. So please do us this favor, so that we may continue serving you even better.
Deposits with and withdrawals to Liberty Reserve and Perfect Money are continuing like usual.
We wish you a pleasant stay with us.
Best Regards, Christian. EarnGroups.”

It looks like the recent industry slowdown made some admins reconsider their investment plans in more difficult conditions. The latest update from AlphaForex really made some investors take note as instead of the expected 1.6%-2.6% every business day they will now be paid only 0.1%-0.5% for the next couple of months. This so called Limited Vacation obviously shows cash flow issues AlphaForex (reviewed here) but in my opinion more importantly shows also a determination to deal with the problem. So until September 15th all new deposits in the program and even older ones (I myself was credited with only 0.1% profit today) will earn very small rate of interest. Of course, given such low rates and the indefinite current status of AlphaForex I would recommend to hold off from making new investments there during that slow-down period that will last till the mid-September when according to all the forecasts the HYIP industry should return to normal. Let’s hope that such drastic measures will help them survive these next two months. Here is the latest update from AlphaForex announcing the new temporary investment plans:
“AlphaForex Investment Limited Vacation
 Due to AlphaForex team vacation currently our main plans closed, it will available on 15 September of 2011.
 New plans are available here.
Interest Rate Variable 0.1% – 0.5% Daily based on trading
Interest Return Daily
Minimum Term 80 Days
Compounding Available
Principal Return Yes ( After end of the Term )
Minimum Deposit $20
Note: these plans are only for these recent 2 month. After plans get back to normal.
Best wishes. AlphaForex Investment Limited”.

UnitrustDirect (reviewed here) which remains one of the most developed programs in terms of the originality of script and overall security allowing to process instant payouts to LibertyReserve and PerfectMoney created a new short-term plan called the Trial Portfolio offering 102.5% return after 5 calendar days. The plan has the same $5 minimum as other investment plans with longer term deposits also paid on expiry – 107.1% after 10 days, 123.8% after 25 days, 194% after 65 days, 403.4% after 125 days. Although the 5-day plan offers quite low returns in HYIP terms I believe it can be a good introductory offer to the prospective investors who don’t want to wait for too long in order to see a profit. Here is the full news update about the new plan taken from the UnitrustDirect website along with full description of the new investment plan:
“Ultra short-term product
We know it takes some time to get acquainted with investment platform and learn how UnitrustDirect operate managed investment accounts. With a clear vision of what our clients who make their first investment need, we are glad to introduce a brand new investment product – ultra short-term Trial Portfolio.
TRIAL PORTFOLIO
5 calendar days Return 102.5% Interest: 2.5%
Trial Portfolio has been developed for clients who are new to UnitrustDirect service and looking to give us a try. It takes just five calendar days for this managed portfolio to expire and provide return on your investment.
Minimum: $5; Payment methods: Liberty Reserve, Perfect Money; Service fee: None.”

After two quite profitable days with about 5% returns the admin of JPDaily announced a low 0.45% return which is still better than the negative resultsfrom earlier this week. This is the latest newsletter from JPDaily (reviewed here) regarding this:
“Daily Result: +0.45% for JPDaily
Todays result has been announced!
Check your balances and request your withdrawals!
Daily Report: http://jp-daily.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1311436662
Investor Balances: http://jp-daily.com/investors.htm
Referral Stats: http://jp-daily.com/referrals.htm
News:
Didn’t get very far today. I played a lot of hours and just went around in circles
Try again tomorrow!
Regards, Rich”.

Today I was paid by the following programs featured on my monitor:
GorgonProjectInvest, PrimFix, Opulentia, StraDox, EurexTrade, BrantonsGroup, HyperCompound, LibertyHoard, HotInvesting, MonetaryOasis, PowerfulStrategy, FeoCash, SeriousInvestors, TopsFund, BaseBucks, GlobalFxTrades and VivaTrade (the first payments received).

That’s all for today, guys. I hope to see you on MNO tomorrow with more news from the HYIP industry. Enjoy your Sunday but don’t forget to check out MNO as your first source of news for investment opportunities!