08/08/08. New Profit-Family Scamming Tactics and More News

I can’t stop wondering how inventive the scammers are nowadays and what new tricks they will pull next time will always be a riddle to me. But sometimes their attempts to scam look so tremendously amateur that I really believe these are the dumbest people on our planet Earth.

Let’s remember the admin of Profit-Family for example who managed to change plans three (!) times during the first week online. Allegedly it was done for the stability of the program. But obviously Profit-Family is dead now and there’s no hope it will come back.

Yesterday the program stopped paying and at first the admin explained it as their instant withdrawal payment system failing to process payments. And by the way, it happened that I was the last one who managed to receive the last instant withdrawal from Profit-Family. Of course, this excuse wasn’t swallowed by me and many other smart investors. Why on earth wait till the problem is fixed to process payments if they can be processed manually by the admin? I didn’t get an answer to this from the admin on the forums. Definitely he thought he was such a smart guy and thought about every possible way to scam fast and successfully.

Well, I thought it was over last night already but it seems that scammer didn’t get too many deposits as today I got several more emails from him. Here’s the first one I received:
“Dear investors! Or server has been attacked by hackers. We took over works on restoration and improvement of protection. The most interesting that at us from a purse have stolen money through API the interface! Therefore now all payments will be in a manual mode after check of the manager! We respect with your trust to you and we shall make all that it was better.”
It was a bit of an encouraging update as I believed the program could continue. It was strange though that the admin couldn’t secure the online instant payments and probably was a real amateur if that hacking attempt managed to be so successful. But then the question arose: why was his first update about fixing the LR API issue which was an obvious lie and did it really take him more than 18 hours to see that the money was actually stolen? Or was it some scammer’s trick to get investors to deposit as if nothing happened? Well, I found the answers to these questions after getting further emails from him.

Here’s the second email I received 10 minutes after receiving the first one:
“Payments will be active in current of several hours after carrying out of preventive maintenance.”
I thought then: “Wow, I didn’t expect that would happen. But it’s always better to be mistaken in such cases“. And then the third email arrived.

Here it is: “Yesterday from our purse have stolen $1657. They send away on purse U7795737 (Sela). Who knows the user with such purse contact us please!” Well, I thought that it was a pretty big amount but since the admin was going to process the payments really soon and was conducting his own investigation I thought there was some hope. I was awfully mistaken when I received the fourth and so far the last email an hour later in which the admin showed his real dirty scammer’s face and his stupid intentions to get more money before disappearing.

This is the last email I received today from the admin of Profit-Family:
“I address to serious investors. There are good opportunities for investors which wish to construct the good capital. We accept serious investments from 500 $ and more. It will occur not through a site as a site can attack. If you interests you can personally communicate with me and we shall discuss percent and the sum of investment. There is very favorable offer! Now there is an opportunity to earn greater profit using investments at a stock exchange. All of us we can organize and discuss with you percent of your and our profit.”

Well, I really hope nobody contacted this scammer or believed his lies. He showed his true colors by this last email and I wonder how he could manage to run the site for 7 days as even that seemed to be a pretty big term for such an asshole like him. Sorry for my language but I really can’t stand those scammers who don’t even have a clue how to run a good program and are so stupid to send out such emails. I would not give this guy the time of day, never mind “$500 and more“. I wouldn’t trust him with even a penny because I don’t believe stupid people should be rewarded. What a joke to create a program and then to run away just after 7 days! I can still see that over $80 was invested today in Profit-Family despite all the warnings. I really feel sorry for those guys who lost here and encourage you not to give this guy any further chance to get your money. Please educate yourself and don’t believe those monitors that still show “Paying” status for Profit-Family! They don’t care about your money but rather their own profit while I try to keep you updated on a daily basis and give a “Problem” status to a program almost immediately after I see a problem occurring. I’m a pretty experienced investor and don’t like to be manipulated. That’s why I hate scammers who try to steal your money with such dirty tricks described in this article. Let it be a lesson for us all not to believe in everything an admin says!

Other news for today.

Good news for those who invested in TrustyPig! It seems that the program is completely back on track (thanks to BlockDos that provided the site with some real good protection) and the admin even announced that from now on you should surf 50 sites daily again. I guess it’s fair because the downtime is over and we should get back to normal and surf the required amount of sites daily to earn our daily rebate. I’d like to remind you that despite all the issues TrustyPig has gained in popularity over the last number of days and it maintains the highest daily return of 13% daily for 6 days in a row already. I guess that TrustyPig will get the maximum profit-share for a long time already and I know that many investors who didn’t join any autosurfs for a long time have decided to join this one after getting acquainted with the unique profit-sharing autosurf model TrustyPig offers and with the admin that is running the site. In my opinion, Costy is the perfect admin and he proved already that he can solve any issue that may occur in the future. You can read the interview with him here if you want to see why I like TrustyPig program so much. Ok, finally it seems all the problems are over and we can finally enjoy the surfing and daily rebates. Here’s the last update from the admin regarding this:

“Today I come to you with good news. I’m proud to announce that we’ve settled a deal with BlockDos and their professional team is now protecting our server.
All the traffic will be filtered through BlockDos secured servers and the bad requests that normally would have reached our server and eventually get it down will be stopped by the BlockDos secure networks.
We had some downtime but all the pending cashouts for yesterday were processed and if somebody couldn’t surf the required number of pages while TrustyPig was down he must not get worried as the Ad-Pack Upgrades are automatically extended if you miss a surfing day till the total amount of 130% is reached.”

As you know that all the sites that are under BlockDos protection are safe and secure. But sometimes constant and enormous DDoS-attacks could bring down even the best sites for several hours as happened with UniCreditInvestment site last night. Ingrid was quite quick in issuing this update to the members and avoid the panic:
“Our site is under a strong ddos attack. Our host, blockdos is working on it and as you may see I was able to login to admin area again. Please don’t panic because soon everything will be ok. Even if we’ll suffer other downtimes, all will be solved soon. Thanks for your understanding.”
Now UniCreditInvestment site is working fine but even if some problem occurs don’t worry as I believe that Ingrid is very dedicated and professional and can solve any issues that could happen in an expeditious manner. She did it in the past several times and her site only got stronger after those issues. I believe that such continuous and fast payments without any delays even despite the issues deserves our appreciation. That’s why I made up my mind to promote UniCreditInvestment to the second spot on my monitoring page. In my strong opinion we shouldn’t miss such programs like UniCreditInvestment and I encourage you to read my interview with Ingrid that will show you her dedication and genuineness. The interview was published on my blog here.

It appears that CapitalizedInv was accessible today for some investors that were even able to withdraw their earnings and even actually receive their payments to LR and other processors. I didn’t manage to access it even once and that’s why I proposed to Paul that he upgrade his DDoS protection and contact Majeed from BlockDos. It’s obvious to me that CapitalizedInv site couldn’t cope with the prolonged DDoS-attacks on its servers and for me it was offline for two days already. Paul answered that he would give it one last try to fix the issues before contacting BlockDos, ask for protection and move to their servers. Since I got the answer from him 16 hours ago and the site is still inaccessible for me I guess nothing changed. I really hope Paul as an experienced admin will make the right decision and thus prolong his program like other admins whom I mentioned earlier who also faced DDoS-attacks in the past.

If you remember yesterday’s article about e-Bullion I was a little bit concerned about how the demise of e-Bullion will affect the programs that accepted it in the past. Well, I’d like to report on one of the programs that accepted e-Bullion – EliteMoney. It seems EliteMoney will not have any issues with e-Bullion and the investors that made deposits via it. You should just contact EliteMoney support as was done by one of my readers and your money will be paid to the processor of your choice. Here’s the email I received from Marie today and she didn’t mind that I share it with the readers of my blog:
“I invested in EliteMoney through e-bullion. I contacted them on the night of 8-7 about switching to LR. They e-mailed me quickly stating to just send them my LR account number and they would deposit into that account. Much simpler than I thought it would be. I did that and now am waiting for my first payout into LR.”
I’m glad to see that my judgment of the current situation in EliteMoney was right and that it will not affect the investors who made their deposits via e-Bullion. Anyway, I felt that EliteMoney would not be in trouble. That’s why it’s listed in my Top 7 Recommended programs anyway. You can read the review of EliteMoney and choose wisely from the 15 investment plans offered here.

It seems that I was right about AcmosTrade as well when I saw some warning signs in changing the cashout rules. Anyway, both sites of the program are inaccessible and inactive today. There’s still hope left that it will return and I will keep you updated if I find out something about the current situation in there.

Another program was offline today and very unexpectedly. I’m talking about 8DailyForever and I don’t know the details regarding this downtime yet. But I think I will contact the admin and ask about this downtime and the cause of it. I will keep you updated as well!

Today I received my payouts from UniCreditInvestment, BristolCapitalGroup, AgriFund, e-Confidence, SafeAtom, ApolloInvestGroup, MaxShare and LargeSum. Thanks for reading my blog and for all your feedback and questions you send to my email daily! I really appreciate your kind words and comments and will do my best to continue the same way. See you tomorrow, guys!