06/12/2010. FutureTrails Updated Review and Daily News from the Industry

BEWARE! THIS PROGRAM IS PAYING SELECTIVELY! PLEASE DO NOT INVEST!

Hi everybody! Long term readers of MNO will know that from time to time I sometimes return to older reviewed programs and take a second look at them, updating the original review in the process. The reason I do so is because several programs evolve and change over the months and the information you can find on the older reviews becomes somewhat dated. So tonight I’d like to go back and look at FutureTrails, a program that has re-invented itself more times than I can count. For what it’s worth by the way, you can still check out the original review of them published here.

A couple of readers had actually made the suggestion to me over the last couple of days, and initially I was dismissive due to not really having the time as newer additions to my monitoring list generally take precedence. But having thought it over again this morning I decided that a second review of FutureTrails was a pretty good idea for a variety of reasons. For one thing, and I’m sure this hasn’t escaped the attention of many of you, is that they are now the number one listed program on GoldPoll – a prestigious place indeed for any HYIP admin to find his program named. Not only that but since first being listed on MNO back in July FutureTrails have gradually worked their way into my own top 10 programs on the MNO monitoring page. And not without good reason either, they’ve been a flawless performer since first being added here. Mind you, it doesn’t stop one (yes, just one) semi-criminal monitor from shamefully listing FutureTrails as not paying for the last four months in another failed attempt to destroy them at the expense of the regular investors who have money there. I’m talking about hyip.com of course, but then I could write a book on that crooks shady practices and extortion rackets by now. Well, maybe not a book. A psychiatric paper might be more suitable. For more information on the true story of what happened there, see the last FutureTrails review here (it’s in the news section that follows it).

Anyway, why exactly is it worth my while doing a second review of FutureTrails? The main reason is of course the plans. They’ve changed beyond all recognition since the program was initially founded back in the autumn of 2009. And not just once either. FutureTrails started out life as a successful mid to long term HYIP before morphing into a fully fledged low ROI program with a much longer investment term, scrapping the previous plans in the process. A number of weeks ago they underwent another complete overhaul and have now become a bona fide short term program. So in a little bit more than a year they have come full circle and offered just about anything there is to offer in the HYIP industry.

So let’s take a look at the latest plans to be presented to you. There’s three in total, all of which run for 6 business days (8 calendar days). The first of them is called The Regular Plan and can be joined for just $10. In return you are offered a daily interest payment of 18.5% per business day. At the end of the term that will have added up to 111% in total, which includes your principal. So in other words, invest $100, get six repayments of $18.50, and finish up with $111. Maximum spend is $2,500.

I do have just one minor criticism though. Not of the plan itself but as to how it’s described. I wouldn’t usually mention this but it can be a bit misleading, particularly to anyone not that strong in English. The FutureTrails website says, and I quote, “total profit : 111%”. That’s not exactly true. Your profit is 11%. The remaining 100% is your principal and was always your money to begin with. Anyway, nothing serious but do always remember to be sure about these things, especially if you’re new to the HYIP industry (no doubt the experienced readers will have spotted that anyway).

The second plan is works more or less the same way, only this time a minimum deposit of $2,501 is required to join. It’s called The Medium Plan and it too runs for a term of 6 business days. During that time you are offered a daily payment of 20% interest, bringing in a total of 120% by the end. 20% is pure profit, and your principal forms the rest. The maximum investment allowed here is $15,000.

Finally, and really just for information purposes, entry into FutureTrails third plan will set you back a minimum of $15,001 with no maximum limit set. The term is again set to run for 6 business days and you are again offered daily interest payments. This time they come to 22% per business day adding up to 132% by the end which also includes your principal.

Something else that’s changed for the better in FutureTrails is the list of payment processors. For quite a while this was limited to just LibertyReserve and PerfectMoney. They’re still there of course – you’ll struggle to find an online HYIP that doesn’t have them – but they’ve now been joined by WebMoney and AlertPay. And this last one could prove crucial. Because like it or not many people are going to be skeptical about the launch of these short term plans so close to Christmas. The fact that FutureTrails has been paying perfectly well for over a year now counts for very little in the eyes of experienced players at this time of year, so the addition of AlertPay will provide a certain amount of comfort. Personally, I thought they should have added them months ago when the first problems with StrictPay were becoming apparent, but better late than never. Withdrawals are manual and you are asked to allow up to 24 hours for it to be completed. Bank wires are also mentioned but you’re going to have to get those details from the admin yourself.

The FutureTrails website has also been completely re-designed and is barely recognizable from that which first appeared back in 2009. The basics have changed a bit too and FutureTrails is now running off a customized script. Hosting is still provided by Dragonara whose track record in this industry is practically flawless. They are keeping FutureTrails on a dedicated server. Contact with the admin can be made through a couple of e-mail addresses you can write to directly and for a more personal touch there is also a couple of telephone numbers that you can contact for multilingual support in both English and Spanish. FutureTrails also has an address in New York, though I can’t say what you’ll actually find there if you were to drop by some day. A confused security guard asking “future what?” is a likely guess if my own experience of pursuing these things is anything to go by.

I don’t really want to go back into what the alleged business activities are of the program. The subject’s been covered before and my own opinion hasn’t changed. But the information is there for you on the FutureTrails website if you are interested. Believe what you will from it, but all I can contribute is to say that as an online HYIP they must surely have done something right to get this far. The question now is how much further can they take it? There’s a very unfortunate but perfectly valid reason for the cynicism that surrounds the industry at this time of year with regard to short term games in particular. There is a certain argument that can be made in favor of FutureTrails given that they have established themselves as a dependable program with an enviable 14 month record. And considering that much of that was through the worst crisis in memory to grip the HYIP industry, that record is all the more impressive. But as we all know past glories don’t pay the bills so there’s no real reason to jump in head first either, despite the admin having a considerably higher level of trust with his members. But the new plans have already completed a couple of cycles now and if nothing else the FutureTrails admin has proven more than once that he is prepared to turn the program on it’s head in order to keep it successful and keep it online. If it turns out to be a scam then I very much doubt it’s an intentional one, but it will, like every other online HYIP, require the support of its members to carry on. And that is a very difficult thing to gauge at this time.

DAILY NEWS FROM THE INDUSTRY.

It looks to me like CazaInvestment is still balancing on the edge with one monitor and TG forum having moved it to Problem status (due to a strange complaint from a member who was already in $600 profit from the program!). On the other hand I feel quite impressed that the admin of CazaInvestment Pally (interviewed here) is doing everything possible to keep the program afloat. In today’s update he still emphasized that members should give him at least 48 hours to process the pendings as I contacted him today and asked why I saw another complaint on a public forum. The admin assured me that this member was going to be paid according to the terms of CazaInvestment and that his 48 hours had not been passed yet. Generally speaking, I can tell you that the communication with the admin of CazaInvestment has been really great so far and he always replies to my questions and concerns within hours. I’m aware that he is facing the difficulties now, especially after his LR account was hacked a few days ago and he had to replenish another account in order to pay his members. Another program would have been closed due to that (like EarnPlaza for instance) but CazaInvestment is still paying. While I’m not sure for how long it will last you can help yourself to get your payment from CazaInvestment faster by requesting your payout to AlertPay as according to what the admin told me the payouts to AP are still being processed faster than to LR. So you can use the internal exchanger built into the script if you want to speed up the process of getting your money back from CazaInvestment (reviewed here). This is the last newsletter that was emailed to the members today (as I can see the admin mentioned about the coming bonuses but the details of that remained unknown):
“Hello. Compliment of the season! Christmas is just 17 days from today and we hope everyone is having a wonderful season. CazaInvestment in its way would be celebrating this period beginning from today, some gifts and bonuses would be awarded to our members and we hope you all have a nice time enjoying your time with us.
Our Buisness in CazaInvestment is going through another rough time, we want to hold strong for you but we need you to give us your support, We sent out an email requesting that you allow us 48 hours to process your pending withdrawal request, please allow us this time as we have to manually process some of this payments, CazaInvestment is not going down, relax and lets handle our business to profit you, we will continue to strive to keep our project in good shape.
Pending withdrawal request are been processed, our support are online answering questions, send us an email before going to make wrong post on forum, you can make whatever post you wish to but please contact us first before going on to make post on forums.
Thanks for your membership and we hope you enjoy your time with us.
Regards, Pally”.

Unlike CazaInvestment, the administration of RussianOilFund was very clear regarding their contest which is held now on their Facebook and Twitter pages and the full set of rules for which have been posted on their site today. Here are the rules where 5 winners will get $100 each:
“Win $100 – “I’m a RussianOilFund Investor” Contest
With the release of Corporate Update 5 (you can read it on our website if you have not yet!), we have announced our month long Twitter and Facebook contest where we will be giving away $500! Enter into the Holiday season with us.
There have been over 1500 entries! Remember, this is a Twitter AND Facebook contest! The more you Tweet and the more you share the better your chances are of winning! Tweet and Share daily. Use the Sweepstakes tab on our Facebook page to invite your friends list to the contest.
Enter via Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/sweepstakeshq/contests/76067
Share it to your news feeds and use the invite feature to increase your chances of winning!
Enter via Twitter: http://wildfireapp.com/twitter/233/contests/76067
Re-Tweeting by entering on the link daily increases your chances of winning!
The more you tweet and share, the better your chances are of winning $100 from RussianOilFund!”
I remind you that RussianOilFund is paying 2%-2.9% on every business day for the duration of 90 calendar days with the principal returned on expiry through LibertyReserve and PerfectMoney payment processors. A more detailed review of RussianOilFund can be read on MNO here.

There was a regular Monday update sent today from the admin of 144CashAds Lewies (interviewed here) about the cashout button having been open and the processed payouts. Here is the latest from 144CashAds:
“Hi. Hope you all enjoyed weekend. Payout button now open and all payout done.
Welcome all new members in to our family. Pls feel free contact with us if you need any help.
Enjoy earning with 144CashAds.
Lewies. Project admin”.
Actually, 144CashAds has reached #8 on MNO monitoring after over 4 months of stable payouts and already successfully completed first cycle for those in the first plan paying 1% for 144 calendar days. Other plans offered by 144CashAds program are more profitable and are paying 2% for 72 days, 4% for 36 days and 144% after 12-24 days. The four payment processors accepted by 144CashAds (AlertPay, SolidTrustPay, PerfectMoney and LibertyReserve) and the longevity of the program based on the unique set of investment plans created by the admin and its advertising business (you can advertise your site on 144CashAds as well) have made it a very well known program today. If you still find it difficult to understand the full set of rules in 144CashAds you’re more than welcome invited to read my detailed review of the program published here.

The administration of InvestPlatforms (reviewed here) made an effort recently to explain to members step-by-step on how one can refer new members to make their deposits in one of the plans offered by them (1.2%-2% daily variable for 120 calendar days with interest only credited on business days and various monthly plans) and therefore earn some ref commissions. I think this will be a great manual for may newbies willing to get some additional income by referring others to InvestPlatforms program which is by the way doing quite well and after 5 weeks of monitoring on MNO I never heard a single complaint about that program (with the exception of hyip.com scam-monitor whose account was deservedly removed after blackmail attempts – read more on that story on the MNO forum posted here). Here is the latest news from InvestPlatforms:
“Dear Members, We have read your concerns pertaining to confusions about advertising our program.
Here are the steps to follow to place our banners or Your very own link on your signature or webpages. Anyone that clicks that links will automatically be led to InvestPlatforms Website and register under your referral program.
STEPS:
1) Create a member account with us @ www.investplatforms.com/register
2) log in to your account and on the left, click on the “Banner Refferal” tab.
3) You will then be able to see various banners of different sizes and with various codes as below:
https://www.investplatforms.com/home/adid/530
adid – Advertisement Identity
530 – YOUR unique id which no one else bear similar numbering
4) copy and paste this portion of the code: https://www.investplatforms.com/home/adid/530
5) After that is done, you are able to place the code on anyplace you wish to advertise our program to earn referral commission.
Your link should look like this:
https://www.investplatforms.com/home/adid/530
We Wish You Great Success and Tremendous Profits when you become a part of our big family!
Yours Truly, Ken Lim (Marketing Manager)”.
One more update from InvestPlatforms that has been posted on their website can be found here and I will not be republishing it on my blog due to its length and its off-the-point character for the regular members. The news regards InvestPlatforms‘ search to fill some job vacancies including Human Resource Manager, IT System Engineer and Architect / Senior Architect, their requirements and future responsibilities in the company. So if you’re willing to take those jobs you’re welcome to contact the administration of InvestPlatforms at this email admin@investplatforms.com

I have been paid today by the following programs listed on MNO monitoring:
AvatarSurf, TerraProfits, FutureTrails, XSeedFinance, OptimumPride, Konstant, OnlineMoneyInvest, TetraMetals, FelixFunds, 144CashAds, FiboTradePro, YesInvestment, GainBucks, GloTrade, AssetManagement, CazaInvestment, AllianceAdvantage, UnicornInv, Flamanta, RedOrchidInvest and LrPmBrokers (the first instant payments received).

LrPmBrokers is actually a very new and high quality short term program that started only a few hours ago. The site of LrPmBrokers looks very professional and the nicely made flash header and well made overall layout will definitely attract more investors into it. The security is also on the highest level with SSL encryption, a licensed GoldCoders script on use and hosting on a dedicated and well protected server by Dragonara from possible DDoS attacks. We can see that the admin of LrPmBrokers didn’t spare any money or effort in making positive first impression on prospective investors who usually remain quite skeptical about joining short term programs during Black December. The program offers instant payouts to both LibertyReserve and PerfectMoney and a wide variety of investment plans from which I like hourly paying plans most. Here are the list of the available plans (note that the minimum to deposits in most of them is $10 and that the possible profits depend on the amounts invested): 105%-129% after 1 day, 110.5%-174% after 2 days, 116%-199% after 3 days, 4.3%-5.4% hourly for 24 hours, 2.16%-3.4% hourly for 48 hours, 55.25%-100% daily for 2 days, 174%-1900% after 29 days, 200% after 1 day. I’d like to add that in my opinion the hourly paying plans are the best and I will try to give you a more detailed analysis of them and the other general features of LrPmBrokers in my detailed review which you can expect to be published on MNO by tomorrow. So stay tuned, guys!

That’s about all for today, guys. I hope to see you on my blog tomorrow and I’ll try to bring to you all the most up-to-date news from the industry from the most popular independent blog, Money-News-Online. Check it out tomorrow for more news and updates. You know it makes sense!