10/12/08. DailyDiamondSurf Review and Other News

WARNING: THE PROGRAM STOPPED PAYING! PLEASE DON’T INVEST!

Hi everybody! Today I’d like to take a look at a new enough autosurf called DailyDiamondSurf. I’ve been keeping an eye on this one for a few days now, before deciding if it was worth a review or not. More about that later. And so the review.

Well the first thing to almost leap out at you from the screen if a really nifty design. I don’t usually put too much stock in these things. I value content over style. But on the other hand you may only have one chance to attract the investor’s attention, so a nice design will certainly never hurt a program. It’s a bit like looking in a jewellery store window, so maybe it was done with the ladies in mind, lol!

It’s hosted by BlockDos who are providing them with the required anti-DDos protection. Now while they’re not actually on a dedicated server, they are sharing with some good company. DailyProfitPond are on the same one for example, so while I do prefer a dedicated server, I’m not as concerned as I would otherwise be. The script is the traditional Neversay autosurf script and the payment processors being accepted at the moment are LibertyReserve and AlertPay.

There had been just the one plan available but now, hot off the presses, an update came through as I was writing this that a second plan is being launched. I good move in my opinion. First of all we have the ever popular 12% for 12 days plan with payouts made on expiry that so many autosurfs seem to like nowadays. There is an advantage in that many people are familiar with this plan, but it was also the plan of choice for some other high profile sites that recently collapsed. If you join DailyDiamondSurf you’ll be required to surf 12 sites per day, and the cost of a single ad pack will set you back $5. You can buy anything from one single pack right up to two thousand (that’s $10,000 worth of them if you prefer).

Then just earlier, the powers that be at DailyDiamondSurf decided to stretch out a bit and have introduced a non-surfing plan. A lot of people either don’t want to or are just not able to surf everyday and as this is especially true during the holidays, the timing of this announcement was just impeccable. The plan itself offers you a chance to earn a return of 135% after 15 days. That’s 9% daily. You’ll get your cashout when the upgrade expires.

Despite uncertain times in the industry, uptake of DailyDiamondSurf has been swift. 400 members in four days in fact. That like everything else here has its pluses and minuses. It’s good for the program in the sense that it is providing a steady flow of cash to the coffers but then I suspect many of these to be hit’n’runners, especially now that its nearly Christmas. Not the kind of investor one would want to attract.

Now I know I have been a bit slow to review this one, but as I said at the top, I have been keeping an eye on it. There have been a lot of problems with the program in the opening days, mainly relating to the script. Many people raised their concerns about some security issues as well. They seem to have gotten rid of the gremlins now, and everything is running smoothly. As I said I know they fixed it, but the fact that it ever happened makes me question the admin’s competence. These things need to be checked out by professionals before being launched. Nothing less will do.

Communication seems to be pretty reasonable on DailyDiamondSurf too, with co-admins Marc and Guillemme often available on yahoo messenger to chat live. As well as that they also have a support ticket system in operation and their own forum.

So what’s my final word on DailyDiamondSurf? I suppose I’m optimistic but I have to say cautiously so. And I advise you to be the same. By all means join up if it looks good to you, but don’t start throwing huge amounts of money around. Christmas is around the corner so let’s hope it will survive this unstable season.

Other news for today.

Although Tradelite is definitely gone there is some good news for the Tradelite investors who made their deposits via StrictPay. This payment processor that was interviewed here proved once more how much they care about their customers. Though there were not a lot of funds in Tradelite‘s StrictPay account the decision to refund the members speaks volumes about the integrity of StrictPay‘s administration. I’m sure that after this decision was taken they will have more customers and will keep their image clean and spotless. Anyway, for those lucky ones the update from StrictPay was this:
“This email is being sent to all customers that have had any transactions with account 39294, Tradelite. After monitoring the Tradelite situation for the last couple of weeks, we have came to a decision regarding their account. Based on our compiled research, past communications, recent account activity, and the current lack of communication from the Tradelite ownership, we have decided to freeze their account and refund that amount to the deserving StrictPay customers. We feel this decision is in the best interest of both our customers and our company.
As we make this decision, we feel it is important for every customer to know one important piece of information. From the very beginning Tradelite has kept a very minimal amount of total funds in their StrictPay account. They were making withdrawals on an almost daily basis from the beginning, which is why we did not see much of their recent account activity as anything outside the norm. We state this fact because we can only refund the amount they have in their account.
Our account analysis has determined how much each person will be refunded. You also need to keep in mind that any customers that have received more funds to their StrictPay account than they sent to Tradelite will not be receiving a refund of any amount. The last thing we would like to mention is that we only have access to StrictPay records, and we do not have any records showing how certain customers have sent or received money from Tradelite via alternate methods.
Refunds are being processed as we speak, so please be patient.
Thank you for your understanding and patience during this trying time, and as always, we appreciate you choosing StrictPay as your payment option.”

By the way, I just received another weekly newsletter from the admin of URInvest Paul (read my interview with him here) where amongst other things he mentioned the completed integration of StrictPay payment processor into their investment platform. I remind you that URInvest is considered as one of the major players in the HYIP market offering quite a stable rate of interest of 4%-4.24% for 30 business days. Here’s the newsletter from URInvest for your attention:
“Warm welcome to all new program users, who joined us during the last week!!! We are truly happy you added our program to your alternative investments portfolio and we will do everything in our power to meet your financial goals for a long time to come.
As URInvest comes closer to its full establishment on the market, we wanted to thank all our users for their attention to our (currently) weekly updates, which mostly relate to the technical side of program features, specifically the process of implementation of various operational features on our program supporting website URInvest. We will most likely continue sending out updates weekly, up to some time in early 2009, when we are planning to switch to monthly routine newsletters.
Everyone is welcome to use newly installed on the website Live Support for their general inquiries and feedback. We do need to point out, that not all of our “chat” operators may have access to user’s account data, therefore some account specific requests, may still have to be submitted in writing, via support form.
As mentioned in our previous update, the technical side of StrictPay integration has been completed and upon testing, the automation of StrictPay deposits and payouts should be enabled during this week. We are also reminding users, who are already using StrictPay, to add their account number in the memo field, when requesting payouts.
Please stay tuned for a progress update on introduction of our “Digital Currency Exchange & Interest Bearing Storage Capacity”.

Another low-ROI program ResidualForexIncome (reviewed here) is also doing great and getting more and more popular with each passing day. The recent achievement of the program that celebrates two months online next week is getting into the Alexa Top 100,000 sites. This is the latest newsletter sent by the admin of ResidualForexIncome (read my interview with him here):
“RFI is getting more and more popular. The average Alexa traffic rank is 95,000 now which means we are in 100,000 ranked popular websites on the net now!
It is of some very special pleasure that RFI does not have aggressive advertising campaigns. Under these circumstances our achievement is truly amazing.
We would also like to thank everyone who helped us fight the fake votes and comments from some abuser last week. This was one more good example that RFI community is very strong and stable.
One more exciting news is that RFI is going to celebrate 2 months online next week. We strongly hope that most of our members have already experienced serious approach and reliability from our part. That is mainly why more people slightly move from test spends to relatively large amounts deposited to their RFI accounts. This is highly appreciated. We are doing our best to make your money safe and secure so that it could be much better alternative to bank accounts.
P.S. However a 20 day free membership time limit is still one of the rules when joining us so please make sure you make deposit or contact us on any problems or other issues within this time frame. Thanks and stay tuned!”

I returned Commoditex (reviewed here) to Paying status on my monitoring page because all the pendings were cleared after the site underwent a successful transition to BlackLotus servers. The reason for that was the continuous hacking attemtps and blackmail letters Commoditex team were receiving. This is quite a lengthy update regarding the current situation with pending payments, changing the servers and some exciting plans for the future:
“We have changed our Servers, we are now migrating to BlackLotus System protection.
Once we have completed the total transfers website will be running again without any problem.
As you may notice we have made several changes on our website.
First of all our SSL certificate has been validated and you can verify it by typing https in your browser address field.
This measure is for increasing security and also credibility.
Last week we receive a DDOS attack, and also a hacker team tries to break our system by making several attempts to access our system.
We receive blackmails about this situation and we decide to restore system and stop payment processing for security issues.
Also we have renewed our platform, for that reason we have canceled all pending withdrawals. And funds returned to your Commoditex Account Balance, from where you can place a withdrawal request.
The daily payments plans are intended for trading purposes, and not necessary for payments, also we have been processing all payments on time before we have these unfortunately problems.
Withdrawals for the next days will be processed in order and we kindly ask for your patience to receive your payment, for that reasons some withdrawals will have a delay for verification process. If you have a Withdrawal request not processed yet, we apologize for the payment delay, we will process all pending payments.
These days have been very hard for us, all our teams have been working almost 20 hours a day to solve this situation.
We are glad to announce that Commoditex Inc is more solid, and our growing lines are better than ever.
Also We announce the StrictPay and SolidTrustPay payment processors will be added in the next 12-24 hours.
I’m proud to announce that we have a new and better Commoditex system to offer you, as always, the better online financial service.”

GoldNuggetInvest (reviewed here) was also experiencing some problems connected with DDoS-attacks recently but this was successfully resolved and now the site is back online and paying as usual. Here’s the latest from the admin of GoldNuggetInvest:
“Please note that GNI was experiencing a heavy DDoS attack last night. The traffic was such, that the measures implemented were not able to deal with the load. As a result GNI was not accessible for our members.
Our hosting provider BlackLotus, who monitored the situation closely was able to mitigate problem within a few hours and our site is up again.
Please note that such useless and vicious attacks might make our site inaccessible for you – but will not harm our performance at all. Please always keep in mind that the site is only the link between you, our members and us, but not not needed to perform our betting activities.”

Some programs have experienced other kinds of problems such as the stealing of personal info with the help of some phishing webites. One popular program, PanaMoney (reviewed here), issued a statement recently regarding this issue:
“Some phishing websites appeared in Internet which by substituting our domain address and redirecting you to our company’s website steal your personal data.
Our company has only one address: PanaMoney. Please, make sure you see it exactly in your Internet browser address line when entering our website.”

The same applies to SafeAtom (reviewed here). Many investors complained that a site calling itself “www.safeatom.us” is stealing their personal data and then withdrawing money from their SafeAtom accounts. So be aware of that and only use a proper SafeAtom link to access their website:
“WARNING!!! www.safeatom.us is not our site. They are scammers. Our sites are safeatom.com, safeatom.net, safeatom.org, safeatom.info. If you sign in on the site safeatom.us your password will be stolen.”

Some good news came from LargeSum (reviewed here) recently. The news is more appropriate for larger investors willing to deposit thousands of dollars via Bank Wire. But if you are willing to read more about about this unique program that is online for more than 3 years already you’re welcome to read my interview with the admin of LargeSum published here. And here is the latest from him:
“Upon numerous request of our members, the management of the project LargeSum is glad to introduce new bankwire opportunity at your attention. The new investment plan WIRE-ON-FIRE is for bankwire only. The minimum deposit amount has been decreased to $9500. The profit can be withdrawn anytime, which makes it acceptable and optimal one for the majority of the clients. To learn the details, please contact the support service: support@largesum.com or the contact form on our new updated version of the site. Looking forward to you positive response. Thanks for being with us. Best regards, LargeSum Team.”

The admin of the highly successful SurfPal (reviewed here) just sent out another reminder to the memberbase where he touched on the topic of support issues from some impatient members expecting to be paid within minutes of the withdrawal request being made. Be aware that according to SurfPal‘s TOS all the payments are processed within 1-3 days but the admin is trying to pay once every 24 hours. For such members some penalties will be applied which are listed in the email sent by the admin of SurfPal Enrique (read my interview with him here). In my opinion, this is fair thing to do as the program is always paying on time and such impatient members can undermine it’s good image on forums. Anyway, here’s the update from Enrique:
“Just to say that MMG is not our support forum. Posting questions there will not get answer about your account. Posting there can get you answers form members only about general things such as things found in the Help page.
Please do not send support tickets to ask the same questions that are there. They will not get a reply. If people want to continue to get fast payments It takes effort from members as well (this applies to the ones who e-mail just hours after requesting)
ALSO sending a support ticket when your payment is a few hours old will only delay your payment more. THE ONLY payments that have been more then 16 hours (terms say 1-3 days) are that of ones caught cheating, (more then one account) or when AP was under DDOS and site was in accessible, If ANYONE is missing a payment you need to contact me not post in MMG because most likely there is a problem, MMG is a discussion forum, not a support forum.
So to make things fair, and make sure everyone has notice, here is a rule change,
**Anyone posting any type of waiting or pending remark, that is still in terms or anyone who is sending me an e-mail asking where is their payment in less then 24 hours will be Paid after 3 days. **
This rule is here to keep up the speed of payments. Sending unneeded e-mails only slows things down and as we grow it WILL take longer for payments to be made.
Let’s all work together. United we stand Divided we will fall“.

Mountain-Mining program (reviewed here) announced another point of contact besides those already available, ie email and phone support options. This is Skype where you can chat with the admin from now on:
“Dear Investors of the Mountain-Mining Investment Ltd., we are happy to announce that you can contact us wire Skype from now on. Our Skype name is mountain-mining. We offer the Skype Live Chat and also Skype phone chat daily in our business hours. For more Information about our business hours visit our contact page. Of course you can still contact us wire Email or Phone like before.”

The admin of 2008-N (interviewed here) reminded us that 2008-N is one of very few programs that accept the new e-currency called ECUMoney and if you want to try this deposit option you should contact him first:
“We have received some deposits via this new e-currency. I personally think it will be a popular e-currency in the future. If you want to make a deposit via ECUMoney, please contact me first. I’ll give you advice on how to do it.”

Well, it seems that I was wrong regarding the admin of FastProfitSurf Paul as another lie was exposed a couple of days ago. It concerns Paul’s SolidTrustPay account that was allegedly limited and the admin couldn’t move the money from it. It’s obvious now that it was a preventive measure from SolidTrustPay administration in order to protect their clients from fraudulent activities in FastProfitSurf account. Anyway, here’s the official reply from SolidTrustPay support to Paul’s allegations:
“The FastProfitSurf account is in no way blocked, locked, or suspended. It is a verified account.
We are NOT interfering with his payment process at all! The only thing we did was stop him from sending thousands of dollars to someone who was NOT a member of his program, but appeared to be a personal friend. We reversed that transaction and asked him to explain it.
It seems that he prefers to tell his members that we are impeding his business. Hardly – we do not tolerate ANY abuse or attempted abuse of STPay accounts, whether admin or member.
All he needs to do to refund your payment is login to his account, find your transaction and hit the refund button.”
So with a heavy heart I have to move FastProfitSurf to Not Paying programs but hopefully the refunds will continue anyway and the program will surprise us with some more payments like 8DailyForever did before. Anyway, those deposited via STP can be sure that FastProfitSurf‘s funds will not be withdrawn from it and there is a chance that if the refunds are not processed everybody will be refunded from Paul’s account anyway.

To finish today’s post I would like to report that for the last two days I was paid by the following programs: NovalexFinance, URInvest, ResidualForexIncome, W-MTFund, BestFXWorld, EmeraldProLtd, 2008-N, SafeAtom, SurfPal, NoRiskInvestment, Commoditex, HermisCapital, LargeSum, GoldNuggetInvest, FXOIC, AggeroInvestment, ANOI, InoFund, MajorBarter, PrivateOffshoreCapital, MutualForexFund, 12DailyHits, SilverInvest, CapitalCorpex, EKOFunds, PanaMoney, Mountain-Mining, Youmilex and DailyDiamondSurf (the first ref comms received). See you tomorrow, guys!