BEWARE! RockwellFunds has stopped paying! Do not invest!

Hi everybody! As so often happens in this business when one door closes another one opens so today as one of the biggest names in the industry finally comes to an end (more on that in a moment in the news section) a very promising brand new program has just started up. It’s called RockwellFunds, it’s a short term program, and having only opened for business yesterday you’re chances of making a profit from them are arguably as good as they’ll ever be now.

There’s a number of unorthodox features to RockwellFunds but one of them in not the investment plans. They’re a fairly conventional set of industry standard opportunities that have been tried and tested many times in the past and have inevitably proved popular with investors who lean more towards this style of program. There’s three of them to choose from and while they all carry varying degrees of risk they’re also all affordable so there’s no need to “break the bank” as the saying goes just because you’d like a gamble. All of RockwellFunds‘ investment plans make just one single interest payment on expiry of the term, so there is going to be a certain leap of faith required from you as well, especially in relation to their longest term one.

But starting at the opposite end, the first plan runs for a term of 7 calendar days. It’s called The Ultra Fund and you can join it for a minimum deposit of $10, or if you’re feeling lucky deposit anything you like up to a maximum level of $30,000. In return for that RockwellFunds are offering one single payment at the end of the term of 114%. That will include your principal so it’s a net profit of 14% for yourself. Or to put it another way if you spend $100 you get back $114 a week later.

For the second option RockwellFunds have The Optima Fund. It’s significantly more profitable, significantly more of a risk, but with a $10 minimum required to join it really needn’t be too big a deal to throw an extra couple of bucks into this plan on top of what you might have had in the last one as well. The plan runs for a 14 calendar day duration this time and will again make just the one single payment on expiry. This payment includes your principal as well as your profit. The total amount comes to 140%, out of which 40% is your profit. Or in other words a $100 investment gets you $140 in return. Maximum spend is $30,000.

The final plan is called The Riviera Plan and runs for 30 calendar days. Given that that carries the highest risk, coupled with the fact that the previous two plans are already offering a decent sized profit anyway, I’m guessing there won’t be a lot of takers for this one. RockwellFunds again make just the one payment at the end of the term that will also include your principal. The rate is 200%, or double your money. So for a $100 spend you are offered $200 back. The minimum investment remains at $10 with the maximum at $30,000.

The ratio of risk to reward for this last one doesn’t really give it that much of an edge over the 14 day play, but the thing is it only costs $10 to join. So if you don’t really like the risk but find the interest payment just too tempting to pass up then you could always split your deposit between the three plans, earmarking the smallest share for this one.

Regarding the payment channels available to you RockwellFunds have a pretty good selection, especially considering that at the moment options can be a bit limited due to the uncertainty surrounding some. The almost omnipotent LibertyReserve is there as always, as is PerfectMoney. I’m most pleased however to see that the RockwellFunds admin joins a growing number opting to use SolidTrustPay as an alternative to AlertPay. With the recent improvements made there they can provide a far better service to both admins and investors alike so it’s only a matter of time before this is commonplace. STP can also accommodate credit and debit card transactions with RockwellFunds by the way so if that’s of any interest to you go check your STP account for details.

In order to make a deposit in RockwellFunds no registration is required. You just make sure you specify the correct email address when investing to which you will get confirmation after you make a deposit. And that’s it. There’s no members area or private back office or anything like that. It’s just a direct transaction between you and them so do be sure to type your address carefully. Upon completion of your chosen investment plan RockwellFunds will make the payment directly to your e-currency account without the need of you requesting it, so just mark off the correct day in your calendar. You’ll get a mail informing you of this, though interestingly you also have the option to list your mobile phone number. By doing so you can also receive a text SMS message to your phone also informing you of the payment being sent.

RockwellFunds has an interesting original script, the website is SSL-secured and it’s running on a dedicated DDoS protected server from Dragonara. I know a lot of people have kinda mixed feelings when it comes to programs that don’t have the traditional private members area but to me it only means there’s nothing there to get hacked and no passwords to steal. It just takes a pen and paper to keep offline records of everything you do anyway (as I do myself). Anyway if you have any questions for the admin then you can send them either to the e-mail address provided or else just fill in the form on the contacts page and submit. RockwellFunds also list an office address in Panama, however it’s the same “Century Tower” that long term industry players will recognize instantly as being the very same listed by countless other online HYIPs over the years.

Texts (what little there is of them) appear original but the story they tell is anything but. For the record RockwellFunds say their business is ForEx trading which has long been a favored claim in the HYIP industry, and of course one that’s never been proven. This time is no exception so as usual proceed with caution if joining. Set yourself a sensible spending limit, stick to it rigorously, and try to reduce the collective risk you take by spreading your bets between different opportunities. They might all close in the end but are unlikely to close on the same day.

DAILY NEWS FROM THE INDUSTRY.

To some it came as a shock, to some an unpleasant surprise, and others would say they saw it coming. I’m talking about today’s collapse of one of the largest programs Opulentia. There was only one message that was issued by the admin of the program Daniel before the site literally vanished into thin air:
“OPULENTIA: Closing
Unfortunately, I must inform you that we are forced to close Opulentia.
Refunds are already being processed and you will get your refund as soon as possible.
Thank you.
Best regards, Daniel Beletzky
CEO at Opulentia”.
Well, this update is really unclear as we can only guess what made the admin act so abruptly. As I know the last payments were successfully processed only last night so nothing on that side of things would indicate an obvious problem. Opulentia‘s website was inaccessible as I learned earlier so I wonder if it was technical issues with the site that forced the closure so quickly. The mechanism of processing refunds was not specified in the email either and we can only guess if these are genuinely going to be processed or not. Of course, you can still file a transaction dispute on a couple of payment processors which were accepted by Opulentia but as you might know that doesn’t guarantee you’ll get anything back. The addition of the 125% after 7 days plan might also have been the trigger that increased the instability of the program but I can’t say that it was a bad minded attempt at a scam either as the admin paid to all the investors who joined it like clockwork right up till this very day and actually only those who deposited into this plan 7 days before or earlier were at a loss. Those who were in the main long-term plans since the beginning of Opulentia should have been in good profit as well because the program paid everybody for over six months which makes me think that the admin wasn’t here for some easy money. Anyway, I haven’t got a reply to my request though with the site now gone it makes me think that it’s all over and the refunds are very unlikely to be processed. Well, we all know that HYIPs collapse all the time and Opulentia was no exception. At least we all had a good ride with them and the smarter or just luckier investors should have done really well out of it.

It looks like SpringPoints is doing well and attracting a lot of investors already during its first week online even though the admin of the program Robert has chosen an Exclusive listing on MNO instead of other monitoring sites. I feel he made the right decision and many program’s I think will follow soon enough. I already got a couple of inquiries for Exclusive listing from more admins who didn’t realize that it is a specific type of listing only aimed at Exclusive programs which will not be listed on any other monitor. Unfortunately, if your program is already on other monitoring sites I can’t accept it for Exclusive listing but there are plenty of other options for you. The next best listing you can go with MNO is the Premium one. If I see that the admin changes his mind later on and goes to list his program on other monitors this is totally ok with me but the program will be downgraded to Premium listing with no refund given. This is exactly what happened to RockwellFunds today.
From my review of SpringPoints published here you can see the program accepts all five popular payment processors including SolidTrustPay, LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney, AlertPay and GlobalDigitalPay starting from $20. The investment plans offer daily profits (2% for 60 days and 6.5% for 15 days) and weekly profits (8.5% for 12 weeks and 14% for 4 weeks). On expiry you should then get your principal back, credited to your account automatically and available for withdrawal. The latest newsletter from SpringPoints didn’t actually contain any new information and only gave you the link to my review along with the general appraisal of the program:
“Today with SpringPoints Incorporation
Hello. Congratulation for been a part of one of the most rated program online today, SpringPoints is doing great and we cannot sing enough praises on the success at this stage as we haven’t achieved our goal aimed at offering 99.5% membership profits satisfaction, we would hold on until we have satisfied more and more members.
Paul of Money-News-Online is offering the best of monitoring hence we have chosen not to go with any other monitor, we are a reliable team and we go for the best not just whatever comes our way, for now we have had a review from him and this can be read on: http://money-news-online.com/blog/2011/08/04/04082011-springpoints-review-and-daily-news-from-the-industry/
SpringPoints Incorporation remains a top notch investment choice for everyone and we hope to offer you the quality of services you require. For now all withdrawals request has been processed.
Thanks. Robert.
SpringPoints Admin.”

Another day for JPDaily (reviewed here) resulted in over 3% profit which has been credited to members’ accounts. What more can I say? The admin of the program Rich is really doing great so far in his poker games which allegedly provide the income for the program and its investors. For several consecutive days now the profit was quite good and even sometimes as high as 10%. Today’s profit of 3.12% also seems like a decent enough result for me and you are all invited to request your daily withdrawal to your LibertyReserve or AlertPay accounts. Rich also mentioned in his regular update that he managed to refund everybody whose total balance less than $11 now. I remind you that since the decision was made a few days ago to increase the minimum deposit in JPDaily via LibertyReserve to $20 instead of the former $1 the smaller members are not allowed to participate in the program anymore. More details about that are in tonight’s newsletter:
“Daily Result: +3.12% for JPDaily
Todays result has been announced!
Check your balances and request your withdrawals!
Daily Report: http://jp-daily.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1312901717
Investor Balances: http://jp-daily.com/investors.htm
Referral Stats: http://jp-daily.com/referrals.htm
News:
Fairly easy day today; Poker didn’t take long, which is good. And nice to see a bunch of people investing properly, with some good withdrawals overnight, and more and more people getting risk free now. So that’s perfect.
You’re doing your part, and my end is all good. This is looking great, I think we’re finally gonna pull this off! (20th time lucky! lol)
I’ve now cashed out everybody under $11 now. I’ll either leave it there or do some more tomorrow. There’s not too many more accounts to do either way. So doesn’t really matter for the time being.
And that’s about all for today.
More tomorrow!
Regards, Rich”.

The admin of ComoditiesCapital James announced another winner of their daily forum activity contest who got a $5 deposit bonus in one of their investment plans and using AlertPay, LibertyReserve or PerfectMoney – 1.8% for 100 days (principal back), 3.2% for 45 days, 5% for 30 days, 6.5% for 25 days. Here is the latest from ComoditiesCapital (reviewed here):
“Today’s winner
Today’s winner in our contest is user: moris77. He already got his 5$ deposit bonus. Congratulation moris77. Stanby for tomorrow winner and good luck.
Regards, James. CommoditiesCapital”.

Very funny referral incentives were offered by the admin of ViscoCorp. I don’t know if only the Rothschild or Hilton families are going to take advantage of it because to get higher ref comms you have to deposit at least $10,000 via LibertyReserve in one of the plans currently offered by the program – 0.8%-1.5% daily forever, 900%-1350% after 90 days, 1260% after 180 days. Apparently the most popular plan paying 22%-23% daily for 5 days was not included in this list deliberately or the admin simply doesn’t believe that anybody in their right mind will dare to invest such huge amounts there. Here is the latest update from ViscoCorp (reviewed here) posted on its website today:
“Super Affiliate Program Launched!
We offer up to 25% bonus to your affiliate program commission !
Every client of ViscoCorp with a deposit exceeding $10000 and invest into the Daily plans, 6 Months plan or 90 days plans can get 10% of referral bonus instead of 5%. Exceeding $15,000 get 15%, exceeding $25,000, get 25% maximum.”

WesternSum is another program that was added to Premium listing on MNO tonight and will be reviewed soon. Despite the first update posted on the website stating that the program was open over three weeks ago I can only see the first mention of them on the forums yesterday so we can safely treat it as a new one. Here is what I found in the news section:
“19/07/2011
WesternSum Grand Opening!
Launching this website and advertisement on more than 300 online resources.
WesternSum offers a wide rage of investment products that you may interested. In addition, we are keen to make investing easy for you, please follow the step by step instructions to access the full power of our investment platform.”
I must say that my first impression from WesternSum was kinda mixed. The program has a great site with a customized script and hosted on a dedicated Staminus server with SSL-encryption by Comodo. But then the investment plans are not explained properly. I had to ask the admin about that twice and still got some very murky and confusing answers. From my current understanding on how the program works you can invest in WesternSum via LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney and AlertPay in blocks/units. The price of these units is different for each plan. So for $50 per unit you can invest only in a plan paying 101.6% after 2 days. For units priced at $100 each you can go with 112% after 7 days plan, for $200 units – take advantage of the 128% after 14 days plan and finally, for $400 unit – join a plan paying 300% after 92 days. Please note that the interest is credited to your account in WesternSum daily but you will only be able to withdraw your principal + profit on expiry. Actually first off you need to make a deposit in the program and already then you’re allowed to redistribute the money between different plans. So keep that in mind, especially considering that that the minimum to invest in WesternSum is quite high and in my opinion it’s very inconvenient that you’re only allowed to invest in blocks and not in amounts you like. You can also upgrade your membership to get higher referral commissions for a one time fee of $50. There are also many other interesting features available in the program which I’ll tell you about them all in my upcoming review. Stay tuned for that, guys!

I was paid today by the following programs listed on my monitoring page:
SpringPoints, BaseBucks, GorgonProjectInvest, InvestNetGroup, SafeDepositary, PowerfulStrategy, ReProFinance, MGFunds, PermanentProfit, PrimFix, HitNRunMasters, ViscoCorp, TopsFund, PerfectLottery, NeoProgress, VivaTrade, BrantonsGroup, SilverPinePartners, EurexTrade, StockBiz, ComoditiesCapital, JPDaily, UnicornInv, MirexGroup, OnlineInvestmentBank, EarnGroups, GlobalFxTrades, LibertyHoard, HotInvesting, SecureEarn and RockwellFunds (the first payments received).

That’s about all the news for today, guys. Please stay tuned for an interview with the admin of MirexGroup (reviewed here) which I’ll be posting on MNO tomorrow! See you then!