December 31 Updates

Today is new year eve, I wish everybody have a wonderful happy new year. I wish everybody will have a prosper year in 2006.

Scam Sites:
http://www.hi5hits.com/, (ip: 207.44.144.54). Problem with payment and no admin response on problem are reported.

Review of newenglandinvestments
http://www.newenglandinvestments.com/, (ip: 207.210.68.222). This HYIP came out on early December. According to the site stat, it was able to 725 active accounts with $162K invested. Wow! That is very good for a HYIP which it can collect that much in this short period of time. The rate of return is bit too high for me. 24% daily for 5 days. This is a potential hit and run. On the other hand, if you are brave enough, you maybe able to hit and run yourself. To me, I would skip it or place only a small bet on it.

December 30 Updates

Scam Sites:
CHRISTMASHYIP.US, (ip: 205.234.215.209). Payment problem reported.
EHYIP, (ip: 205.234.215.209). Payment problem reported. This is definitely a scam site by looking at the info given at the site, 4.5% hourly return. This is so obvious.
solidinv.net, (ip: 72.232.37.132). This one looks very similar to the old scammer solidinvestment.com. See related news on solidinvestment.com. I would avoid this one.

Review of 2006hyip
2006hyip.com, (ip: 67.159.32.161). This HYIP came to my attention while I was surfing around with the auto-surfers. According to the site info, it started on Dec 28, 2005, it was able to attract a total accounts of 150. Total deposited $ 1,321.00. It offers several plans, the least return investment is "7 days 25% Daily (%175 in 7days)". This does sound very attractive to newbies, but how can people fall into this kind of traps. I believe this can be a Christmas hit and run site. I would skip this one.

December 29 Updates

Scam Sites:
http://totaldoubler.co.nr/, (ip: 82.146.34.249). Payment problem reported.
https://vaol-investments.com/, (ip: 69.50.165.118). This one recently went private and disappeared in private too. The site can not be accessible for over one week now.

Instant Messaging Security Alert:
Internet users are being warned about a new virus (Virkel.F) that poses as a leaked pre-release version of the Microsoft MSN Messenger instant messenger program; this phony version of MSN 8 sends virulent links to all the IM contacts on the infected machine. (Source Ziff Davis Web Buyer's Guide)

News from GrandHits Regarding Paypal Payouts:

Update about Paypal and cashouts still owed for November earnings

I am relieved to report that cashout payments via Paypal are again in motion, unfortunately Paypal did place a limit on 1 of our accounts on 12/23/2005 but today I was able to resolve this and we are once again in business with Paypal

I do apoligize for not disclosing this information to all of you when it occurred, I was worried it may have started a "chargeback frenzy" and really did not want to spread bad news just before the holiday.

But I do realize that I have always been honest with all of you so I hope that you will be able to understand my reasons and forgive me for leaving you all guessing about what was actually going on.

Now where we stand with Paypal, we are still coming up a bit short, I just sent about $8000 out in a mass pay file approx 30 minutes ago, I still have just over $1000 left in the account but this is not going to cover everyone that still remains to be paid. A transfer of funds from outside of the Paypal system into their system has already been initiated and is on its way to a different account (this was already started when we weren't sure about the current account yet) unfortunately this takes about a week to complete usually.
So this leaves you with 2 options

If you are in a hurry to get paid you should be able to accept payment to any of the other 3 payment processors used here at Grandhits. Please update your cashout details accordingly and we will run a query through for each processor, and process them accordingly.

If you can only receive paypal or choose to wait for our account to fund(being funded from sources outside the Paypal system)this is perfectly fine, we will be sending cashouts daily as funds are available until everyone is paid.

December 28 Updates

Scam Sites:
http://www.oplinvest.com/, (ip: 65.39.204.36). Payment problem reported.
http://www.130inv.com/, (ip: 70.86.181.2). Payment problem reported.
5dayspay.com, (ip: 67.15.54.27). Payment problem reported.
fromzerotomillions, (ip: 72.36.165.218). Payment problem reported. The statement on its website stated as "WE´LL BE BACK SOON". Maybe they are withdrawing the funds from e-gold before members sent out complaints to e-gold. That was the tactics for many older scammers.

News from 12Daily Regarding e-gold Issues and Solution:

We want to take this time to address what we have found to be a continuing concern regarding one of our payment processors, E-Gold.

As many of you have witness over the course of recent months, and more specifically recent weeks, E-gold has been experiencing a great deal of technical difficulties. Their site was not functional at least 5 days during the month of December, significantly affecting our business functionality.

As a major client, we have also been very disappointed at their lack of communication with their members during these technical difficulties. In addition there have been an alarming amount of hacked E-Gold accounts which have taken up a great deal of our staff’s time trying to sort and manage for our members.

Even more disturbingly, we are finding that 90% of the cheaters and referral scammers who have stolen thousands of dollars from 12daily Pro over recent months, utilized E-Gold as their payment processor with us. This is obviously because E-Gold is much less stringent about ID verification and because all E-Gold transactions are final, thus making the scammers very difficult to catch. These instances have significantly damaged our E-Gold reserves.

Given all of these issues, we feel that it is in the best interest of 12daily Pro and all of our members to:

1) state of official current preferred payment processor as StormPay
2) finalize an offering for another alternative payment option for our members

The first of these has already taken root, as many members have taken advantage of StormPay’s offering of lower rates for NetIBA members. The latter, an alternative payment option, will be announced and available in January.

In the meantime, because of continuing issues with E-Gold mentioned above, from today forward, we will be changing our terms regarding E-Gold. As you will find, many programs have begun charging a % fee for all E-Gold withdrawals from their program. Instead of such a fee, 12daily Pro will instead be lengthening the amount of time we may need to take to pay pending E-Gold withdrawals.

From today, Dec. 27, all pending E-Gold payments (including those currently pending) will be paid within 10 business days. This new term will apply to any pending withdrawals that expired on December 18 and beyond.

We hope that this will allow us some flexibility to deal with loss of E-Gold revenue from cheaters and scammers, to better, protect members account withdrawals from E-Gold hackers, and to give us room to navigate when E-Gold experiences extended technical issues. We anticipate we will be able to maintain an average payment time of approximately 4-8 days, but the extra days will allow us needed flexibility given the E-Gold issues we face on a daily basis and those that arise unexpectedly, as as happened recently.

To understand this better, you need to also understand that due to the volatile nature of the payment processor and its tendency to be hacked, though we follow every possible security precaution, the fact we do not keep large amounts of reserves in E-Gold for security reasons. We do not want to put your money at risk unecessarily. Thus, E-Gold's stability is paramount to our payment cycle. They have not been stable of late, so we must make necessary adjustments.

Please note that this will in no way affect Stormpay pending withdrawal payment times. We will continue to meet and exceed our 7 business day payment term for Stormpay. In fact we are currently paying on the 4th business day with this processor, a full 3-4 days ahead of This is clear evidence that the issue here lies with the stability or instability of the payment processor.

We have made this decision based on what we feel is best for the long term stability of our program and for the success of our members. Our terms state that we may have to change the terms of service of our program from time to time in order to maintain a strong and solid foundation. We do not do this arbitrarily, but to insure the success of the logenvity of the program for all existing and future members.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Charis
12daily Pro Admin

December 27 Updates

Here are some of the useful sites to look up registered companies in the US:
Business Registrations Look Up in the US:
http://www.keytlaw.com/Links/govrecords.htm

Look Up for Address in the US:
http://www.whitepages.com

Scam Sites:
Debucks.net, (ip: 204.200.215.98). Payment problem reported.
worldhyip.com, (ip: 203.194.240.131). A Trojan called "WONKA" is found when surfing this website is reported. Visit at your won risk.
sasinvest, (ip: 65.254.58.34). Payment problem reported.

Another Payment From CG Financial
I got another payment CG Financial sent to my payment processor today after the request was made yesterday. The delay of payment deposit (it is still less than 24 hours) is probably due to the holiday yesterday.

E-gold Problem
e-gold had a brief moment of down time today. At around 11:30AM EST, I logged into my account, but I did not received my PIN until 2 hours later. It got me a scared a bit because of this delay. I thought my account was hacked. Fortunately, I finally got my PIN and was able to login now without further problems.

December 26 Updates

AsianPay is Dropping Some Email Servers, See News:

Regretfully we had to come to the decision to not allow some domain for some particular mail servers that are not accepting emails from us.

Here below is the list:

yahoo.com.cn ( all the emails are bouncing back )
sify.com ( they consider our emails spam)
tom.com ( unreliable server - always time out and delay)
sohu.com ( they consider our emails spam )

We apologize for this inconvenience but of course we do not have time to follow up on hundreds of bounces and to contact all these servers explaining them what is AsianPay and especially the we have our return path to bounces@asianpay.com because of our needs to check our email system and not because we are a Safelist.

December 25 Updates

It is Christmas Day! I wish all my readers a very Merry Christmas! Ho! Ho! Ho! Not much going on today, except to open all gifts with my kids. We are going to see a movie today with the family, "Chronicles of Narnia" or "King Kong". I still have not make up my mind on which to see yet. But one thing is for certain, to do continue the auto-surfing programs. Fortunately I did not join too many, a total of three only. In the future, I may only join 2 at the max.

E-Mail Scam Warning:
Beware of the following email from a scammer posted as AccountRobot_donotreply@ e-gold.com, but I was able to extract the email header from (nobody@Linux.Sepken.Com). The phishing site is from (http://67.159.26.68/~acct/), as the embedded link, see its message:

** e-gold Account Information Notice ** Time of update: xx/12/2005 xx:49:15 AM GMT This automatic email notice lets you know that modifications have been made to the Account Information settings for your e-gold account. The current settings for your account can be viewed and modified at the e-gold website: https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html. Enter your account information and approve or deny the modifications made. If your account information remains unconfirmed for 72 hours, your account will be suspended.

User Agreement, Section 9: we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.

After the suspension of your account, please be advised that you will be prohibited from using E-gold in any way. This includes the registration of any new account. Please do not reply to this automatically generated email message.

December 24 Updates

12Daily Has Paid Again
I got another payment from 12Daily today for $172.80. It is my 11th payment so far. It is still going like the energizer bunny. Surfing has been very smooth too unlike many auto-surfers. It is the best auto-surfer around now. I hope this will last a few more months. I will keep playing until it dies.

FastMarket Has Extended Special Offer Deadline, see news:

Due to recent www.e-gold.com and www.omnipay.com technical problems, which caused difficulties in deposit processing and trading accounts funding, lots of FAST Market users were unable to join our Special December Offer and thus requested to postpone the offer deadline.

After considering business impact and user acceptance, FAST Market Management have decided to extend the Special December Offer bounds up to December 29, 2005.

*** Special December Offer

Starting on December 12, 2005 till December 29, 2005 you would have an exclusive opportunity to deposit your funds with a more beneficial interest rate.*

Investment accounts created and funded within this period of time will yield interest given below till March, 2006. Starting on March 10, 2006 the interest rate for those accounts will be returned to normal.

non-compounded accounts:
$200 - $999.99 1.4% daily
$1,000 - $4999.99 2.0% daily
$5,000 - $49999.99 2.8% daily

compounded accounts:
$200 - $999.99 1.6% daily
$1,000 - $4999.99 2.3% daily
$5,000 - $49999.99 3.0% daily

To take this opportunity, please create new Investment Account during designated time using your members area and fund it.

You'll have to fund your Current Account first to transfer money to Investment Account. To do this, click Payment -> Deposit to fund your Current Account.

Next, click Investment -> Create Account tab in your members area to create and fund Investment Account.

Read more information about december offer and background information which made it possible at http://fastmarket.com/main_html_dec_offer.php

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or feedback. We will do everything we can to help you make the most of your FAST Market experience.

December 23 Updates

Vaol-Investments Still Down
The popular investment program, Vaol-Investments, is still unaccesible today. From the look of the site, it has been defaced for the past few days by the hackers. This is quite interesting, why? Only time will tell. Now the defaced is off, but the site is still unaccesible to the investors. It went to the private mode in the recent days.

Scam Sites:
watsonsforex.net, (ip: 203.142.2.166). Payment problem reported.
http://www.soulhyip.com/, (ip: 66.197.252.213). Payment problem reported.
Profits4investingtoo, (ip: 69.57.140.154). This can be the same scammer as profits4investing, see related report.
http://daddysurf.com/, (ip: 207.210.68.214). Same exact copy of Famous Scammer GCISurf.

Review of NSFG
In the past few days, I have digged up this private grogram after scan thru a few forums and sites. NSFG stands for Northsea Forex Group. After reading various comments on many sites by many its members, I have decided to give it a try with my money.
This program is somewhat different from the rest, the program admin provides lots of DD and publish trading results monthly with commentary according to some of the members. You can request info from the program via the auto-corresponder, by sending email to info@ns-fg.com. It will give you more info related to the program. The fund cut off day is 25th of each month, so if you miss the cycle, the fund will sit until the next cycle. This one definitely worth a look.

December 22 Updates

Scam Sites:
online-capital-club.net, (ip: 203.142.2.173). Payment problem reported.
serious-profit.com, (ip: 72.18.133.107). Payment problem reported.

News from 12Daily:

:: AN EARLY CHRISTMAS GIFT!
12daily Pro is pleased to announce a major addition to our program terms that will further strengthen our position as the leader in the GPT industry. Starting December 22 at approximately 12pm server time, all members will receive 6 credits for every $6 upgrade unit they purchase. For instance, a member with an upgrade level of $6000 would receive 6,000 credits (6 for each of the 1000 units purchased) .This means the higher your upgrade level and the more you participate in our program, the more advertising power and the ability to put their advertisements in front of hundreds of thousands of prospective clickers everyday! We are proud to be the only major surf site of our kind to integrate this feature into our program.

:: MORE SURFING!
Along with the above change, we are also increasing the number of sites each member is allowed to surf from 30 pages per day to 50 pages per day. This will also go into affect Dec 22.

:: SURFING HOLIDAYS
We would like to officially announce that Saturday, Dec. 24 and Sunday, Dec. 25 will be surfing holidays for 12daily Pro members. That means that you do not have to surf that day; your daily earnings will be added to your account by staff sometime between 12am -9am of the next server day. So earnings for Dec. 24 will be added on Dec. 25 by 9am and earnings for Dec. 25 will be added on Dec. 26 by 9am. As neither Dec. 24 nor Dec. 25 are business days, the holiday will not affect our 7 business day payment terms.

The following is the site Holiday Schedule:
Dec. 24 Surfing Required - No
Forum - Closed
Ticket System - Closed with the exception of the Hacked Accounts dept. Staff will not be answering any tickets on these two days, but members with existing tickets in the system can manage and reply to their current tickets.

Dec. 25
Surfing Required - No
Forum - Closed
Ticket System - Closed with the exception of the Hacked Accounts dept. Staff will not be answering any tickets on these two days, but members with existing tickets in the system can manage and reply to their current tickets.

Dec. 31
Surfing Required - Yes
Forum - Open
Ticket System - Open

Jan. 1
Surfing Required - Yes
Forum - Open
Ticket System - Open

:: COMING SOON!
That’s it for now. Look for our end of year update next week in which we will wrap up and give you an update on our awesome 12dp Days of Christmas charity promotion, make our tax announcement, review the highlights of our year and give you a glimpse of what’s the come for 12dp in 2006!

December 21 Updates

Payout From One of the Private Program Today
After three months of the investing into this 40% per month private program, I requested payment from them last week. The payment has finally arrived into my e-gold account today. According to the admin, it takes about 3 business days to do the withdrawal. I guess that explains the delay in withdrawal, but it has paid, that is bottomline. I am in profit now. I am playing with my profit with it from now on. The key for any HYIP investing is to take out your profit ASAP and play with the house's money as long as possible. Employ the new fresh money into other programs.

Check out these two sites:
http://www.finhill.com/, (ip: 202.157.180.232)
http://www.finhill.org, (ip: 68.142.234.60).
Both look 99.9% the same, the only difference is the .com vs .org. Yet both claim each other as scam sites. How can I tell who is telling the truth. In this case, I don't care. I just want to avoid it totally.

What Do Sites These Sites Have In Common:
I found this interesting list posted by the user Simon of GoldenTalk.
209.249.221.13 hpinvestor
209.249.221.14 ifyouwant.biz
209.249.221.16 idann.org
209.249.221.18 i-stra
209.249.221.19 packinvestment
209.249.221.24 dornstetten.net
209.249.221.25 solidinvestment
209.249.221.26 ditex.org
209.249.221.27 fortune500surf
209.249.221.28 eurogoldbank
209.249.221.29 balticdividends
209.249.221.30 tingerinvest
209.249.221.31 ascfin
209.249.221.32 rocksolidfund
209.249.221.34 capitalgold.us
209.249.221.41 wealth2u.biz
209.249.221.42 vascoinvestment.com
209.249.221.43 privateopps
My take on this is that most of them were scam sites. I would avoid investing any of the programs listed above, or if you have money in any of them, get out ASAP.

December 20 Updates

Review of 5dayfunds:
I found this one while surfing around, it is the 5DaysFunds., (ip: 207.210.68.204). One thing that caught my eye was "Going Private on January 2006". What a laughable phrase! Yeah right, I think it will go private with the investors' money and will disappear from the HYIP screen. The rate of return is an incredible 25-30% per day, how do they get that kind of return for investors? They are must be very clever to get 1490 members and $49K invested (from the stat of the site). Or it must be the eye catching phrase "Going Private on January 2006". This does look like a potential scam to me. I would skip this one.

170funds Warning:
170funds.com, (ip: 72.36.172.232). Report of steep withdrawal fees. 95% of earning will be used for withdrawal fee. WOW! What a way to make a living for the program admin. Stay away from this one.

December 19 Updates

A Happy Pay Day for Me
I got several payouts from various HYIPs today.

First, it is the consistent payer from CG Financial, this is my weekly payment via their weekly payout program. This one is highly recommended. One good thing about this program is, you can request payout from a processor to another if the processor is down (like e-gold was down a few days ago, or its paypal has some problems). A major benefit for me. Why? You may ask. If you invest in CG Financial using Paypal, you can request payout via e-gold (in the comment field when you request payout), or vise versa. So you do not worry about your payment processor is down.

Second, I finally got my payouts (October and November) from StudioTraffic to my account after a long period of waiting time. The bottomline is as long I got paid I will be happy.

Lastly, I request another payout from FastMarket this morning, it was paid after a few tries because e-gold was up and down for a period of times. After e-gold was up, it only took a few seconds.
Yaaahooooo! Pay pay for me.

Scam Sites:
CashTwistTraffic, (ip: 38.113.148.103). Payment problem reported. It is launching a new site called, http://www.bluewavetraffic.com/, (ip: 38.113.148.103). Notice it is the same IP and the same owner. I would be careful about its new site. I would skip both.

December 18 Updates

Oceaniahyip Is Having Problem:
If you go to the site, you will see this message (See my previous review 1 week ago related to this site):

Members, An attempt was made to update our script this evening, and now the site will not come back up. We are getting an error that tells us to contact the developers. They do not respond to emails on the weekends usually, so it may be Monday morning before the site back up. I am continuing to attempt to rollback what was done to no avail. Rest assured this is a temporary technical interruption. Regards, Admin@oceaniahyip.com

e-gold Accessing Problem:
The most popular e-gold payment processor has been inaccessible for the past few days. Payment has been stopped from many HYIPs because of the down time. No investment can be made to HYIPs either. This problem has occured last month for a few days. Hopefully it will come back up soon.

12Daily Seeks Alternative for E-gold:

We are disappointed to share with you that the E-gold website seems to be experiencing more technical issues today.

Once again, this means that no upgrades or payments via E-Gold are possible at this time.

We are not pleased with the lack of communication coming from E-Gold nor their declining performance over the past few weeks.

We urge everyone to take advantage of the new lower Stormpay fees available via NetIBA membership as an opportunity to make the move to E-Gold. We find Stormpay's security, customer service, and now lower fee structure much more desireable that the E-Gold alternative. We are currently in the process of developing an option that will ease the transition to Stormpay to those who may be interested. Stay tuned for more info on that next week.

Meanwhile, we will continue to monitor the situation and update you as we know more.

December 17 Updates

Scam Sites:
http://www.fxeuro.net/, (ip: 38.113.1.97). Payment problem reported. Well the "rate of return is too good to be true" is the hint when you look at the site. "180% - 210% for 1 days" as indicated by the site. I saw there are $1274 deposited into this site's account according the stat I got from the site, looks like some people want to gamble on this one. Good luck!
FX-golden.com, (ip: 69.64.40.55). Payment problem reported.

News from AsianPay:
It is dropping the e-gold exchange rate, see news:

We continue our constant effort in building a strong, safe and honest community connecting your businesses.

Our next goal is to get Asianpay Payments to be used constantly from the many merchants and web sites offering goods and services on Internet. Our Company Policy is just one: to give to all our existing and future members a good reason to use AsianPay Payments.

There are many reasons why both Eastern and Western merchants, businesses and single members can profit from AsianPay Policy and we list some of them here below:

1. Receive Payments Fees

Effective from now Friday, December 16th, 2005 our new recive payments fees (the fees charged to the merchant that accept Asianpay payments) are equal to 2.5% + 0.39 USD.

What do you think ?

2. New Withdrawals fees:

Thank to our Bank cooperation we was able to lower our International Wire Transfer fees and to offer 2 choices.
Effective since 3 days ago the new fees are:

16 USD if you choose to pay the intermediaty bank fees ( from US$ 10 to US$ 50 depending on your Country and on your Bank ) or US$ 39 if you choose to let us to pay the fees in full when we provide the transfer. This new fees can save to many of our members a lot of money.

Our withdrawal policy is very simnple: we process all our withdrawal as NEXT BUSINESS DAY withdraw. The average time the withdraw takes to reach your bank from our bank is in the majority of the countries from 12 to 24 hours. NOTE: we can not guarantee this time for European banks, and for some other countries a delay could happen due to your own bank rules.

In conclusion the combination of the fees above and the possibility to reach the Asian Market, new and profitable, could make of AsianPay Payments a very interesting opportunity even for USA Customers used to work with PayPal.

3. Egold exchange services:

If you don\'t know yet, we allow our members to Buy and sell egold. You can buy also with your Credit card (if you are a certified member) or you can sell your egold in real time.
To buy egold just choose from the Money management section the Buy Egold option. To sell egold to us and withdraw cash, just go to the deposit page, deposit the amount of your choice and when you are back to our web site click on withdraw and request your amount.

3.1. The Cash Your Egold Offer is still running: deposit your egold at 1% only fee charges and get an Instant 3% rebate. This means that to get in your AsianPay account 1,000 USD you have to deposit 1,010 USD and we credit to your account 1,030 USD.

News Related to FastMarket on Down Time Yesterday:

Medium DDoS attack is in progress on FAST Market main site. Fortunately we were ready to stop it, so members should not even worry about it.

In the meantime, as reported by our maitainance scripts and also noticed by some visitors, www.e-gold.com is also attacked (supposingly DDoS) and currently unavailable.

We're really do hope it will be back in the nearest time. In case you wanted to deposit funds via e-gold, please be patient and retry after several hours.
Or even better - use wire transfer or EMO check.

FAST Market IT Dept.

FAST Market Staff
http://fastmarket.com/ Friday, December 16, 2005

My Private Investment Programs

I personally joined three private programs. One of the program I am in pays 40% per month with a $100 minimum invest, and another one pays a variable rate per month. Because of the nature of the private programs, they do not want any information disburse to the public. I cannot guarantee anything for them. I am still in the testing phrase with them. If you are still interested, please email me.

Updates:
First Program: I did my first withdraw after 3 months of investing. I got paid to my e-gold account on Jan 13, 2005.
Second Program: NSFG (Northsea Forex Group) started on Dec 23, 2005.

Updated on Feb 6, 2005

December 16 Updates

Scam Sites:
DxPrivate.com, (ip: 72.36.165.218). Problem with payment reported.
http://sunshine-surf.com/, (ip: 66.235.160.8). Problem with payment reported.
9x15.com, (ip: 64.92.175.116). Problem with payment reported.
earncash4surfing.com, (ip: 202.157.181.232). Problem with payment reported.
honestsurf.com, (ip: 69.16.204.196). Problem with payment reported.
fundback.com, (ip: 67.19.247.211). Problem with payment reported.
80daily.com, (ip: 72.29.83.49). Problem with payment reported.
http://www.ponzivestor.com/, (ip: 66.90.92.161). I don't like the name. Even the admin tells you that it is a ponzi if you read the description of the program. I do believe this is a scam site. Do not fall in the trap of this one. Take your money and invest in elsewhere.

News from 12Daily:

Due to some oddities that occurred during our site maintenance, some members may notice they surf 12 pages but do not receive the normal credits or earnings on Dec. 16.

For this reason, both Dec. 15 and Dec. 16 will now be declared surfing holidays. All members will be credited sometime after midnight for the previous day.

In addition, surf earnings and upgrade package purchases may not relfect in your member area until you logout and log back in.

This anomoly will be corrected tomorrow and should not occur again. Last change at 2005-12-16 00:41:50

Useful Sites

HYIP General Links
Making Money From Home via HYIP
Why invest HYIPs
Strategies for HYIPs

Other Links
Internet Faud Complaint Center - It is useful if you want to file internet faud in the US.
Alexa - Internet ranking site, it has some useful info on your investment program site.
GoldenTalk - Useful forum where people are talking about HYIPs.
RIPE Network Coordination Centre - Useful in detecting an IP address where it belongs to.
DShield - Site is used to determine if your has been hacked.
They will be added once I find more useful sites.
Melissadata - IP location lookup.
whois - whois service, search ip based on name.
whois webhosting - whois for webhosting.
HYIPNews - First HYIP Information Resources.
HYIP Online Calculator - free online calculator to compute your HYIP profit.
RoboForms - Protect yourself with random passwords.

How to verify the NetIBA site is real:
simply try this url: http://www.netiba.com/si.php?siteUrl
e.g. http://www.netiba.com/si.php?www.stormpay.com
if the cert is not valid, you will see an image that says 'not approved'
e.g. http://www.netiba.com/si.php?hyipdaily.blogspot.com
NetIBA does not guarantee you the scam is not a scam site, but it just provide you another tool to do your own DD.
You can also join NetIBA if you want your site or email certified by them. The main reason I joined because it reduces my StormPay fee.

Site for Checking Secured Computer Ports:
http://www.hackercheck.com/

Business Registrations Look Up in the US:
http://www.keytlaw.com/Links/govrecords.htm

Look Up for Address in the US:
http://www.whitepages.com

International Domain Registry Lookup:
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12Daily Scheduled Maintenance

If you need to surf today, surf it before or after Maintenance time, here is the news from 12Daily.

Dear 12DailyPro Member,

We are writing to inform you that 12daily Pro will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on Thursday, December 15 starting at approximately 12pm EST.

We will be making some upgrades to our ticketed support system and to some general site and security functions. During this time you will be unable access the main page or login to your accounts. Anyone visiting the site will see a version of our surf sponsor page with our scheduled maintenance message. The ticket system will likely be down longer than the rest of the site. The maintenance should only take a few hours and be completed well before midnight. But should there be any further delays or updates, they will be posted on that maintenance page.

Tomorrow will be a surfing holiday for all members and all accounts will be credited sometime after midnight.

For those of you who are forum members, the forum will remain open as normal at the following URL: http://www.12dpsupport.com/smf/.

On Friday, we will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on the forum system starting at approximately 12pm EST. During this time we will be moving the forum system to new servers to improve our performance. This upgrade should be completed by 5pm EST.

Thank you for patience as we continue to do all we can to improve the site and make it the best it can possibly be.

Charis
12dp Admin

December 15 Updates

Scam Sites:
http://premierhyip.com/, (ip: 69.93.214.106), Problem with payment reported.
http://orion-c.com/, (ip: 213.248.54.129), Problem with payment reported.

Rainsurf Scam - by Charis - 12DP Admin
Here is the news from 12Daily regarding the Rainsurf Scam Site.

Beware of a failed program called RainSurf. About a month ago, someone brought to our attention, a new autosurf called Rainsurf. We visited the site and realized that it had plagerized our site text on almost of our its pages word for word. We wrote the administrator of that program two emails, to which I never received a response, asking them to please remove our site content from their webpages in order to prevent any legal action regarding copyright infringement. We also stated that we would need to ban their site from our rotation until they removed our content from their site. They never responded. They never changed the site. In addition, we were also disturbed when we conducted research on the owner of the site and found that the site WHOIS information stated the owner of the site at a Charlotte, NC address (our headquarters city). We found it odd that a site that was obviously Korean in origin would have such. But we left that information with our attornies and thought nothing more of them. It seems that in the past few days, their program has folded and they have run away with their members money. As they did so, they redirected their domain to our site. We have now come to believe that this was setup as a scam on their part from the beginning. Periodically we find instances of multiple accounts and referral fraud in our system. In these cases where we have concrete proof, all associated accounts are suspended and all earnings withheld. We have found that instances of these kinds of cheating rings sometimes lead back to a member who is actually the admin of another program or a scam site. Basically, they try to use money they fraudulently receive from 12dp via multiple accounts to finance their own programs and the payments they make to their members. When we catch them and suspend their accounts, they loose their funding. Thus theirs program is unable to pay and they fold. We believe this to be the case with this program. They have now made flase accusations blaming us for their demise, but of course mentioning nothing about their cheating. They have also redirected their site to us in an attempt to make it appear as if we were somehow connected to them or owned their site. Their programmers have designed the redirect so that we cannot block it from our end. We are getting in touch with their hosting provider in order to submit a claim against them and try to have the site shut down. In the meantime, if you encounter it, please DO NOT enter your login information into that redirected site, as we have no way of knowing whether or not it contains some type of malicious software or spyware. We will do our best to get these malicious cheaters and scammers taken care of in short order. Thank you. Charis

FastMarket Special Rate News

FastMarket has announced special rates for new accounts with new investment. But I am not sure this is indeed good news or not. I would not be aggressive on this one, extra caution should be employed, see news.

The management of Fast Market Ltd is pleased to announce the latest company news. In this monthly report we will review the results of our trading activity for last month and concentrate on the future year plans.

Our predictions based on fundamental analysis published in the
beginning of November (http://fastmarket.com/main_html_news.php?n=213) came
completely true - influx of investments and trading activity performed
as well as never before. We are also happy to admit that gold prices
rise on funds buying heavily.

Among the last 11 months of intensive trading (overall 154%), November was the most successful indeed (190%). And we have a strong feeling that December results will outperform that value even more.

We would like to share our delight with you. For in spite of all the difficulties we have had to face, it is mostly your trust and patience supported us.

*** Special December Offer
The end of the year gives us a real reason to be optimistic. At present, we would like to especialliy point out the following information.

Starting on December 12, 2005 till December 23, 2005 you would have an exclusive opportunity to deposit your funds with a more beneficial interest rate.*

Investment accounts created and funded within this period of time will yield interest given below till March, 2006. Starting on March 10, 2006 the interest rate for those accounts will be returned to normal.

non-compounded accounts:
$200 - $999.99 1.4% daily
$1,000 - $4999.99 2.0% daily
$5,000 - $49999.99 2.8% daily

compounded accounts:
$200 - $999.99 1.6% daily
$1,000 - $4999.99 2.3% daily
$5,000 - $49999.99 3.0% daily

*** Future Plans

Total Fast Market capital investment growth confirmed to 137% ! Currently, the management of the company is considering to stop attraction of additional assets from new clients starting on December 24, 2005.

We believe that it is essential to facilitate additional control of all investment accounts to avoid delays of payments and raise the company's rating and client's trust, which has weakened during last month.

Increase of the number of clients will remain limited until certain restructurization to take place. Company vision consists of the following key points:

1. Recruiting of new personnel, both in support and traders teams.
2. Opening of additional accounts in the Baltic States, Germany and the Caribbean Islands.
3. Cancellation of the $50 bonus.
4. Improvement of the interest rate for "fixed" deposits.
5. Improvement of the security system, which will allow access and management of your account via SMS or WAP.
6. Account deposits via e-bullion.
7. Spanish and German phone support.
8. New service of opening coded bank accounts in offshore banks
9. Deposits via IRA-funds.
10. Carrying out of an annual seminar in our office on Bahamas.

December 13 Updates

FeederFund Became Private Now:
The popular investment program, Feederfund, has became an private invesment program now. If you ever go to its website, it will get the following message:

FeederFund is a Private Club. Membership is closed.

Existing Members may Logon Here

Scam Sites:
7DailyPro, (ip: 66.235.184.159). A 12daily wanted to be auto-surfers, is reported to have payment problem. The only difference is 12 daily is still paying, but 7DailyPro is not.
http://www.egtinvest.com/, (ip: 202.157.181.48). Problem with payment reported. It is operated from Hong Kong.

December 12 Updates

Scam Sites:
onedaydouble.com, (ip: 205.234.99.251). Problem with payout reported. This is an obvious scam site, how is it possible that the admin can pay you double in a day? Not even any casino owner can get that much on a daily basis. It is a double for the admin, not you, the investor. Stay away from these kind of scam sites.
www.long-fund.com, (ip: 70.86.181.2). Problem with payout reported. This is very similar to the above. 100% daily.
http://get4profit.com/, (ip: 66.199.248.66). Problem with payout reported. This is very similar to the above. 100% daily. These are the hit and run scammers to take advantage of the Christmas holiday season.

CG Financial Has Paid Again
I got paid by its weekly program today. Withdraw took less than 1 hour for me today. It usually takes less than 12 hours. The third installment of the 200% 4-month return program is still active now, but I don't know when it will be closed. I got paid by their first two installment in the past along with the weekly program. It is a realistic return program than the above 100% return in a day scam program.

December 11 Updates

FastMarket Paid Out
I finally got paid by FastMarket for month just matured today after the withdraw problem with e-gold in the past few days. The amount was for $238. The withdraw was instant to my e-gold account. With many programs failed lately, this one along with CG Financial seem to be quite consistent ever since I joined in June.

12Daily Has Paid Again
I another payment from 12Daily today again. It is my tenth payment from them. Perhaps this became the King of all auto-surfers now. Many of the auto-surfers have failed, but this one is still paying and continuing. Like the Energizer Buggy, "it is going and going." I will continue with this one using my profits until it fails.

Profit News From FeederFund

ChartCandle reported a loss of 3.0% for November. This was covered by the Reserve Fund which now stands at $35,399.
We have not been able to make any payments for the last 24 hours due to the ongoing DDoS attack on e-Gold. These payments will be made as soon as possible, but you can expect some delay. You will generally receive an email notification when payment has been completed.
ITS profit for November was 6.88% and dividends were paid to accounts on the 6th.
FXIG profit for November was 14.41%. Dividends were paid to accounts on the 6th. Trading has been cut down to 4 days a week for a number of reasons, not least the trader is 65 and generally works 14 hour days, but additionally the market can be generally thin after midday on Friday and as a result risk can be higher. Additionally, the thin market is not conducive to offloading large lot sizes if required.
4X profit for November was 4.13% and dividends were paid to accounts on the 7th.
ILC profit for the December Draw was 4.27% and dividends will be paid shortly.
The Reserve Fund now stands at $36,298.

Review of Oceaniahyip

I came across this HYIP, oceaniahyip, (ip: 203.22.204.45). From look of the HYIP site, it looks like another goldcoder. Obviously, it is another ponzi in the making. According to site, it was able to have get 109 active acounts with $29K invested. The rate of return is a bit high on the longer term program. I expect it may not last more than 1 month. They are desperately want referrals to join their program, the more you refer the higher percentage you will get. The risk is certainly there. I personally would not invest in it. According to whois.sc, here is the info:

Domain name: oceaniahyip.com

Registrant Contact:
DomainPrivacyGuard.com
DomainPrivacyGuard.com 60894 ()
+1.2135969301
Fax:
11288 Ventura Blvd. #648
Studio City, CA 91604
US

Administrative Contact:
DomainPrivacyGuard.com
DomainPrivacyGuard.com 60894 ()
+1.2135969301
Fax:
11288 Ventura Blvd. #648
Studio City, CA 91604
US

Technical Contact:
Globat.com - 10,000 MB Hosting $7.95
Globat LLC ()
+1.13238749000
Fax:
11288 Ventura Blvd. #443b
Studio City, CA 91604
US

Status: Active

Name Servers:
ns1.dnsjunction.com
ns2.dnsjunction.com

Creation date: 11 Sep 2005 14:01:23
Expiration date: 11 Sep 2006 14:01:23

December 9 Updates

Scam Sites:
OneDayDouble, (ip: 205.234.99.251). Payment problem reported.
Surfdailysurf.Com, (ip: 72.22.69.26). Payment problem reported.

StudioTraffic Has Delayed Payment
I have yet to receive my October payment from them. Caution should be taken if you want to put more money in it. Even though the status is paid under the StudioPay account, but I have yet receive from my money.

December 8 Updates

CG Financial Has Paid Again:
I got paid today for the Capital Venture Fund II for $800 (invest $400 and profit $400) as well as the weekly paid on last Monday (Dec. 5). Although the rate is a bit low as compared to others, but it has been a very reliable payer for me.

Scam Sites:
http://65daily.com/, (ip: 70.86.65.154). Problem with payment reported. No admin response. Well, it is another goldcoder.
http://myegold.com/, (ip: 70.84.17.236). e-gold exchange cheating reported. Avoid this one.
3Dayinvest, (ip: 207.210.68.217). Problem with payment reported. Well, it is another goldcoder.
vasthyip, (ip: 64.21.66.176). Problem with payment reported. The hit is in the name.

December 7 Updates

Scam Sites:
Icash.cc, (ip: 68.142.234.52). Problem with payout. Payout only paid to paypal with chargeback by the program admin reported.
http://volvichyip.com/, (ip: 69.50.214.234). Problem with payout reported.
200daily.com, 210daily.com: Problem with payout reported. Sites disappeared.
VascoInvestment.com, (ip: 209.249.221.4), scammer from idann.org (209.249.221.16) reported. The IP on both confirmed the report.

News From AsianPay

AsianPay Payments Egold Offer

We have just launched an offer for all our members that want to sell egold and cash it out by WIRE transfer or use it online to provide payments through AsianPay Payments.

We have lowered the Egold deposit fee to a fixed 1% and we still offer the 3% rebate on all egold deposits.

This means that if you deposit by Egold US$ 1,000 you will have to deposit US$ 1,010 and we will credit your AsianPay account with US$ 1,030.

This deposit will be immediately available to you for a withdraw request or for any other use you want to do with your money through our system.

To take this offer, just login in your account and from the scroll down box at the top \"Money Management\" choose the link \"Deposit Money\".

Then choose to deposit by egold and follow the easy steps.

This offer will not last forever, so if you need to cash egold this is the right time to do it.

AsianPay Payments IntGold deposits Suspended

We have suspended the option to deposit to any AsianPay account by IntGold.

This has been not an easy decision but a necessesary decision

At the present time we feell like to be \"victim\" of IntGold actual way of doing business.

We have used IntGold since 2002 and our account has never changed or never had any problem.

On November 25th we have requested a withdraw to our InGold Card and as per today Dember 4th the withdraw has not been honored yet and money has not been credited to our Card.

Instead the monthly fee has beenr egularly charged to the Card.

We have emailed to admin@intgold.com 3 times, we have also emailed to the support of the Company that provide InGold Cards support, and we have emailed to admin@ingoldcard.com also. Then we have faxed to IntGold fax number. No one of our contact attempts have been answered in any way.

Due to our actual experience, and not just because the voices going around, that perhaps find good confirmation in what is happening to us, we have decided to suspend the acceptance of IntGold deposits on our web site

Virus Site Warning

You will get virus if you visit this website http://direct-holdings.com/ (207.8.198.27) and download the load agreement, emailed by one of reader:

I have the following WARNING...

Under NO CIRCUMSTANCE download the "online Loan Agreement Setup"...

LoanAgreementSetupOnline.zip.exe

AVG picks it up as a VIRUS once downloaded to the computer...

Also KUM sent out an email saying they are not affiliated with these at all and they were concerned that members would think that this could be the new KUM website...

As a pre-caution, when in doubt, do not invest in it.

Scammer E-Gold Email Warning

Please be advised that if you ever received email from fake e-gold, please ignore it. (notice the site points to http://67.159.26.68/~acct/. It is another phishing scheme used by the scammer):

** e-gold Account Information Notice **

Time of update: 04/12/2005 01:49:15 AM GMT

This automatic email notice lets you know that modifications have been made to the Account Information settings for your e-gold account.

The current settings for your account can be viewed and modified at the e-gold website: https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html.

Enter your account information and approve or deny the modifications made. If your account information remains unconfirmed for 72 hours, your account will be suspended.

User Agreement, Section 9: we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.

After the suspension of your account, please be advised that you will be prohibited from using E-gold in any way. This includes the registration of any new account.

Please do not reply to this automatically generated email message.

News From 12Daily

Here is the news from 12Daily Regarding Singapore Missing Earnings:

We are aware that there are some Singaporean members whos account have been restored but who are still missing a day or more of surf earnings.

We are in the process of working through those tickets that have been submitted regarding this matter and should have all accounts corrected by the end of the weekend. Please be patient, as all accounts will be properly compensated. DO NOT answer your own ticket or submit multiple tickets as this will only put you at the back of the line. If you have multiple tickets regarding this already, please close all but one.

If you are still missing earnings and have not yet done so, please submit a ticket to the Singaporean Account Issues dept.

We are working as fast as we can to get the few remaining accounts corrected.

Thanks for your patience.

Charis

December 2 Updates

HitzPay is gone???
Looks like the day for Hitzpay is over??? I can't access the site since yesterday. Most of the HitzPay members can't access the site either. No email communication from the admin at all. Can this be scam like GCISurf?

FireFox Bug
I have updated the poll yesterday. But Firefox has problem showing it for some strange reason, IE seems to be OK for it. I did refresh several, and it still did not do the trick. Maybe I should upgrade my version from the current 1.0.7 to 1.5.

AsianPay Does E-Currency Exchange Now
AsianPay started the E-Currency exchange service now. You can convert from paypal, wire transfer, credit card, Western Union to e-Gold. Their Affiliate Program is 6 level deep. There is no risk to join at all. No investment is required when joining. It is the early Paypal for Asia in the making. It is a legitimate company like Paypal but in Thailand. Best of all, it is risk free.

Exekosurf Payment Received
I have received payment from exekosurf this morning after surfing last month. Hopefully this will continue paying us in the months to come.

December 1 Update

Beware of the Scamming CG Financial CloneThe site http://cgfin.info (72.36.245.77) is trying to look like the real CG Financial, this site DOES NOT belong to the real one, it is an obvious fraudulent site using the real CG Financial name. Notice the .info NOT .com. The site always can be verified by the secured SSL comodo certificate.

Where Is HitzPay Today??
HitzPay is inaccessible today. I wonder if it is due to DDOS attack or the site is gone for good. I hope it is the first case. It suppose to pay its members today, me included. Let's hope it will be back soon.

Update from HitzPay Forum:

here is the latest update.The mysql server is under ddos attack and it isnt avaliable and it wont connect to the main server.The server datacenter is working to stop the ddos but so far it has been intermiten (the sucess that is)and it hassent worked yet.We hope that they have it fixed soon.We will keep you update

Provider of Poll Has Changed
I have removed the old poll from the site because it has slowed the loading time of my site. Please feel free to vote again. I have removed the old scammers from the list.

November 30 Updates

Scam Sites:
http://www.omega-hyip.com/, (ip: 72.9.245.75). Problem with login after money spent and no admin response.

How to verify the NetIBA site is real:
simply try this url: http://www.netiba.com/si.php?siteUrl

e.g. http://www.netiba.com/si.php?www.stormpay.com

if the cert is not valid, you will see an image that says 'not approved'

e.g. http://www.netiba.com/si.php?hyipdaily.blogspot.com

NetIBA does not guarantee you the scam is not a scam site, but it just provide you another tool to do your own DD.

Site for Checking Your Computer Ports on the Net:
http://www.hackercheck.com/

More Offers from OEC

OEC is having more offers for members, see news.

USA Members

The $500 By Xmas Offers are all added! You can go and complete the offers and make $530 profit. You must complete these in the next 2 days before the 1st of Dec. So HURRY!! You will get your $500 on Dec. 15th!

Just login and you will see them listed on the front page!

Offers

We have also added many more surveys and tasks - all free to do but the payouts are real! You can easily earn $200 doing the free surveys in a few hours...usually just submit the first page with your email and zip code and you are done...they are
so easy and fast!

Upgrades

Please upgrade your account, we will be raising the prices slightly next month - so if you upgrade now you will make more $$$ and more matching commissions and save $$!

Just login and click upgrade

Server

We will be moving to our dedicated server this week, we are currently sharing with 3 others and we need our own to handle the traffic. This also explains the recent slow server respones.

November 29 Updates

Scam Sites:
Lucresurf, (ip: 64.191.55.149). Upgrade problems and no admin response.

From one of my readers:
Just want you all to becareful of this site.
http://www.trade-asia.biz, (ip: 63.247.77.36) in their forum, they claimed that they are NETIBA certified. But however I have checked that the NETIBA ID that they are using in their website belongs to www.GCIsurf.com (the famous scammer) which is from Bulgaria.

I have posted regarding my finding in their forum yesterday but got deleted.

November 28 Updates

Payment From CG Financial:
I got a total two payments again from CG Financial. One is the weekly payment and another one from the venture Capital Fund II (200% return in 4-months). Although it is a bit low compared to others, it pays me very consistently over the past few months ever since I joined in June. Another thumbs up from me on this program.
Another bonus news from CG Financial:

This next December is our first anniversary, our first year online since we opened the our website back in December 2004, to celebrate our 12 months of online operations and thank you for your confidence, all deposits received from today until December 2nd will receive a 5% bonus.

12Daily Updates:
They are closing the previous support tickets created a while back, whoever submitted support tickets previously needs to submit again.
They made another update regarding "Singaporean Suspensions / IP ban". Basically 12Daily suspected there is a scam ring in Singaporean; therefore it is suspending the some IPs in Singaporean. More details can be found from their site.

Scam Sites:
profits4investing, (ip: 216.32.93.201). Payment problem reported. Suspended mode last checked.

November 27 Updates

Scam Sites:
https://hyipvisionaries.com/, (ip: 63.247.84.240). Problem with payout report, another goldcoder scipt, see goldcoder.
THEPERFECThyip, (ip: 209.200.155.40), Problem with payout report.

Potential Ponzi Site:
goldcashdaily, (ip: 206.225.92.201). It offers 8% per day. Its rate of return is definitely too high for my take. I would skip this one. Furthermore, it is another goldcoder.
empoweredfund, (ip: 70.86.151.230). It offers 11% daily. It is also too high of rate of return. Another goldcoder. I would skip it.

November 26 Updates

12Daily is Still Paying
I got my 9th payment of $259.20 today. So far this is a very realiable auto-surfer payer thus far. I am still continuing my upgrade until it no longer pays. So far it has proved me wrong about it maybe dying soon, it still pays very consistently to its members (me included), many of 12daily members would agree with me on my poll. I am just keep on upgrading with my profits until it dies while it is still paying.

Scam Sites:
monolith real estate, (ip: 65.254.44.58), problem with payment reported.
hg-investment, (ip: 216.32.93.200), problem with payment reported.
dexiainvestment, (ip:85.92.134.66), problem with payment reported.

FeederFund Introduced New Fund

See the official news from FeederFund:

We would like to introduce a new Associated Program, the "Leopard Fund". This is a business loan opportunity paying interest of up to 5% per month compounding or non-compounding (up to 80% pa) with Principal guaranteed. The Fund is domiciled in the US with Full Disclosure and one of the Principals is an Attorney registered with the California State Bar. For those looking for full disclosure, SEC registered, US based investments, then this promises to be an excellent opportunity for you. Please click LeopardFund in the Menu for further information.
We will be changing servers at the beginning of next month so there may be some issues as we change over to the new server and software. We will be doing everything we can to ensure that there is no downtime during the transition, but please be aware of this in case there are any access problems between the 1st and 5th of December.
We have had no joy in getting the email component on the website working, so you will still not be receiving confirmation messages on withdrawals and suchlike, but this will be resolved once we are on the new server.

The Apology From FastMarket Regarding Last Week's Downtime

First of all, I would like to say "Happy Thanksgiving" everybody. Here is the quote from its admin regarding last week's down time.

I want to post an explanation of last week Tue-Fri most stupid downtime of FAST Market sites. The stupid it was because it should not ever be. We planned the upgrade of our database server, so that new software features could be deployed.

Everything should have run smooth and unnoticed by members. But then, in the midst of the process, several software incompatibilities were found, shame on the team, shame on me for not detecting the possible problems before the installation begin. To push the blood pressure further up, when we tried to rollback changes and use previous version until all problems fixed, we only found that this was already impossible. The attempt to rollback had screwed because of the temporal interdependencies existed between two databases: forum and members.

Otherwise speaking, first we planned to upgrade both databases one by one, but because of the situation with screwed rollback, the upgrade of the forum should be done at the same time as the upgrade of members area. Ohsh.

So, we had to put both servers down totally (because logged-in members could interfere and corrupt forum data and because members area data could have been corrupted already because of the incompatibilies) and continue fixing compatibilities problems under the extreme pressure. Apparently this was not so fast.

After upgrade, we manually rechecked all the transactions occured in the Friday morning, and after commiting everything, had started the sites.

We are deeply distressed by the situation had happened and I will strive for such issues never arised again.

Now the good news.
First, no started deposit/withdrawal transaction nor interest counting was harmed anyhow, all the interests earned during downtime were successfully transferred to member accounts, well with the slight schedule delay, of course.

Second, as we have upgraded both servers, now we can quickly deploy all the new features that are been completed in our softsmiths.

Stand by!

Best regards
Jason Moon,
IT Dept Cheif

November 23 Updates

Scam Sites:
HYIPQuest, (ip: 72.36.234.114). Problem with payment reported, problem accessing site.
special-hyip, (ip: 38.119.121.162). Site disappeared.
v-hyip, (ip: 205.234.219.5), Problem with payment reported.
amazing-money-maker, (ip: 207.210.68.202), Problem with payment reported.

Looks like we have more and more scam sites popped up lately than the past month. First, one of the biggest and highly profiled scammers in recent HYIP history, GCISurf; then 2WeekSurf, and many others. Perhaps this is related to the HYIP X'mas holiday reason effect, as history tells us that there are more scammers out in the holiday seasons than any other months of the year. Extra cautious is warranted when investing in new HYIPs, or even old ones.

I found this article on the web related to the GCISurf scammer, they certainly do know how to steal our money, mine included:

To all the members of GCIsurf.com, These of you that thinks we can be caught or you can complain the autorithy from us,its better to give up because it is not possible to catch us. Only we know who we are - but it isn't possible for someone else to know who really operates the program. From the beggning our plan was to protect ourselves if the program fall. Here is the plan which does not allows us to do a risk: First we have phone cards with numbers + 359 885 363155 / +359 885 363154 which can't be tracked and they are anonymous.It is like buying an ice cream from the shop (no names, no information at all!) The adress listed in our whois information is not real and we are from Plovdiv.

We operated the program from PC clubs and it's anonymous again , we just come in the club , pay for hour , two , ten and we sit down on the PC and work. We used stollen documents to confirm ourselves in the TAS newsletter and Intgold , stormpay ... (we made few unreal letters for TAS as attorney letters , bank statements with unreal signs and seals and stamps made from us .... we paid one kid to rent a postal box again with stollen documents to get our anonymous debit cards and the stormpay - netiba letters. With the anonymous debit cards we took some money for us , the cards are on funny names because the company gcard doesn't ask for confirmation and even if do it we have the stollen documents of Aleksandar .... 50% from the ATM machines here doesn't have cameras - we used such ATMs (my partner is working in bank) and it is impossible someone to see our faces No matter the faces ,the goverment doesn't have system to catch us via the faces It's really funny and it isn't USA, be sure Third world rulzzz!!!!!! In short : we have not given our names anywhere ,noone have seen our faces , we didn't operate from homes (we are going to buy homes later - we don't have such now ) We are living in hotels right now. GCIDealing LTD - isn't real company ofcourse! We paid for the hosting and the other things via e-gold. We can't process refunds or payouts. I wish you good luck with your next programs and before investing please make your own DD and do it good or you can easily loose.

Regards, Sasho - my name isn't Sasho my name is Great gcisurf manager

On the bright note, tomorrow is Thanksgiving day. I still have to surf like everybody else. I wish everybody has a happy Thanksgiving Day.

November 22 Updates

Scam Sites:
GCISurf, (ip: 216.180.224.170), no payment for 8 days since 15th of the month. Site is offline for good now. Perhaps this is one of the biggest hype scammers out there today. It hyped about trading on Forex, E-currentcy Exchanger, and multiple ventures. It took the money and ran away from us.
2WeekSurf, (ip: 203.142.2.148), e-gold accounts are hacked. No doubt they wanted to avoid payments to its members, myself included. No payment to members for the past 5 days.
fmfund.com, (ip: 70.86.181.98). Reported problem with payment if you invest a large amount of $$$.
TrustedFund.com, (ip: 63.247.84.246), problem with payment reported.
bvinvest.com, (ip: 72.20.37.29). Site disappeared.

Another word of caution: do not invest in any program that is solely a NetIBA cerified program, a good example is GCISurf.

November 21 Updates

CG Financial Payment
Another set of payment from CG Financial today. I got paid by two funds today from them: the weekly program, and the CGF Venture Capital II 200% program. This has been a very consistent payer for me since late June. Unlike many programs that failed within days, weeks, or a few months, this one has been an income generating machine for me. The CGF Venture Capital III 200% still available for investors to invest in right now.

Pinnacle Profits is Closed
Because of lack of investment to the program, Pinnacle Profits is not able to attract investors to its program, in 3 weeks it only attracted 85 members and only 19 of them made a deposit. Total deposits are less then $4000, so it is not worth managing the program stated by the admin of the program. They have refunded all members that have made deposits.


GCISurf is Still Waiting to Pay Its Members.
At the end of the day, GCISurf should be paying its members, including me. I will keep all updated if I get paid at all.
(Update: scammer, site disappeared)

GCISurf Delays Payment Until Tomorrow - Nov 21

GCISurf is delaying payment until tomorrow until Nov 21, see news, (Update: scammer, site disappeared):

We are still waiting the payment from our broker because it's Saturday and they don't work. You will be paid Monday and there is no reason to be worried. We will run the compounding before the payments to be send.

Thank you for all of you who supported us in the forums and didn't let the members to panic. We won't leave you don't be updated again and we sorry for these 2 days when we couldn't let you know what's going on.

If you read things about account hackig or cheating from our side please don't beliave because it isn't from us. We are here as always and we aren't going anywhere. Please trust only the information provided from us and don't let our
competition to let you think we are going down.

Thank you for the attention and your support.

November 19 Updates

Fastmarket Is Back
After two days of login problem, Fastmarket is back to normal. Everything is same as before. I was able to login without any problem now. The forum is back too. It is as active as ever before. Another good sign for FM.

2WeekSurf Still Has E-Gold Problem
2WeekSurf continues to have problems with its e-gold account, see news, more updates on its site, (Update: scammer, still no payment):

Latest Update (19th november):

Finally e-gold replied to our emails and we also got in touch with them via phone. Here is the email reply they sent:

"David and John,

The accounts are not frozen and you should NOT have your customers contact us about your problems. This will only slow down our response time for you and other e-gold users.

As I am sure you have been told before you will need to provide due diligence documentation if you have forgotten the passphrases on these two accounts as you provided garbage information when creating the accounts."

The information we put on the main account(2456300) was correct. However the info we put on the storage accounts was incorrect. We just created them as back up accounts and never thought that E-gold can change the passphrase of those accounts to freeze them or to take advantage of lack of real info in those accounts.

Scam Sites:
EG-Business, (ip: 207.210.68.205), offline, reported changed its member e-gold accounts and no payment.

Many Problems Lately

FastMarket Login Problem
Like many members on FastMarket (a very popular HYIP), I had problem logging into my account since yesterday. If you ever log onto the member area, you will get invalid user/password error. I have sent my problem to support, I have yet to hear any response from them. The forum also has similar problem: database error. We have to wait to see what will happen next. (Update: login is disabled for now).

2WeekSurf Problem Continues
2WeekSurf (popular auto-surfer) is still having problem with its own e-gold account. No surfing, no access, no payout. Another waiting day. (Update: scammer, still no payment)

Estrixsurf is closing down
This auto-surfer is closing down today (11/08/05). It blames on the following reasons: more new sites pop up every day, competition lost to higher pay programs, and the cost of maintaining its website. No payment for FREE MEMBERS, no refunds if you had profits from them, maybe refunds 40% if you have upgraded and not in profit (that is questionable for now). This is just another scam for me then.

GCISurf Payout Waiting
GCISurf is delaying payout from the 15th of the month. The payment day is suppose to be today. I will inform all of you if I got today or tomorrow. Another waiting program. (Update: scammer, site disappeared)

2WeekSurf is Temporally Offline Today

If you go to the 2WeekSurf website today, you will get the following message. I wonder what is happening with them, I guess we have to wait for their official email soon.

We have temporarily suspended the front page of the website. Please keep checking here for updates. Thank you.

Latest Update: E-gold has frozen our Storage accounts. We are trying to reach them with no success so far. Details about this issue will be emailed soon.

2WeekSurf sent out a message 2 days ago regarding upgrading problem, could that be the forth telling of the problem, see message:

Yesterday, lot of our members could not upgrade, as our payment processor e-gold received a complain from a member that we were not making our payment obligation on time. Hence, we were not able to receive money but, we can make payouts. However, we are in the process of verifying ourselves with e-gold. In the mean time, we have created a new e-gold account so the members can upgrade.

We have fixed the script, so today onwards we will make full payouts,which means, upgrades expiring today onwards will be paid in full.

The members who received partial cashouts in the last 4 days will be paid out soon. Our programmer was not able to write a code that can automatically place cashout requests. So we have to do it manually and so it will take time. We have to manually debit the cash balance from each and every account and place a cashout request for that amount which was not paid out earlier. So please give us some time to do so. We will try to complete it before the weekend ends. We are extremely sorry for the
delay! Please do not send any support tickets regarding this issue.

According to our technical staff some of this trouble started; when we were in the process of transferring to the dedicated server. Due to server overload, we devised a one click surf button; which may have caused the problems. The script which we used to compensate the members for 9th and 10th also had a similar problem.

We would also like to request our members not to complain to our payment processor unnecessarily. We have been making same day payouts since 15th october. So there is no reason for complaining.

Thank you for your continued support in making this program a huge success.

Regards,
David and John
2Week Surf

Is IntGold Still Having Problem???

Here is the latest saga betweem HitzPay and IntGold. It seems like another well-known auto-surfer is dropping IntGold. There seems to be many complaint against IntGold recently, is it for real or not? I am kind of curious myself. See the news from HitzPay:

Hello members

Due to intgold not resopnding to our doc's we have sent again and again.The phone not being answered when we have tried to call to rectify the problem that occured with our account.We are requesting all intgold members to please get a E-gold account and change your info in your profile to reflect this.If you already have a E-gold account then just add the info into your profile and you are set.Now for those that didnt
recieve payout thru intgold this month for last months payouts (nov-1st to nov 15th). Change over you account details you will show up in our next run of E-gold payouts and will promtly be paid, as we will be changing our scripting to not accept intgold due to the problems associated with them as a processor.We didnt want it to come to this but with no responce from them and members waiting for a payout just dont fit into our business model.

GCISurf's Growing Pain

GCISurf is having some issues, but they are providing us the members with solutions, any reasonable solution is deem to be positive going forward, see below, (Update: scammer, site disappeared):

Yes, we have a couple of issues, but every growing business does. What you will see below is the issues that we are having, and our plan of how we are going to work through them. Having issues is one thing, but having a plan in place to work through them is another.

We have not and will not ever hide anything from you, as we want you to see what is really going on. This is part of what we feel that you deserve as being one of our members.

The payments this month will be sent on the 18th. Going forward, we are going to make a little change with the dates on which the payments are made. We will now make payments within 15th-20th of each month. This will enable us to achieve the most profit on our positions. We will speak to our programmer about how to fit the compounding into this picture and will let you know as soon as we find out.

Before you panic, please let me tell you why the payments will be send at 18-th:
Two reasons:
1) We have positions open in the Brokerage Account and we will lose profit if we close them now. We will close the positions tomorrow and we will make the withdraw of the funds to make the payments. The funds will be here on 18-th and then we will process the payments.

2) Intgold has not responded to us yet and our account is locked. We have a large amount of funds which we can't use, as they changed our secondary password without alert or reason. They asked us for new documents and we sent these documents to them on Friday. We have been trying to contact them for few days now, and we hope they will fix our problem within the next 3 days so on 18-th we are able to process all payments.

If Intgold does NOT fix our issue, we have no other choice but, to close Intgold as a payment option and no longer accept them within the GCI Network. In Addition, we have to recode our script a bit so we are able to process the payments via e-gold, moneybookers and stormpay (for those members who funded by stormpay and have passed 45 days).

We are worried too about the Intgold issues, so us telling you to take it easy would not really be fair. We understand if you feel a little uneasy at first, but we hope you will still continue to support us as you have, and please don't complain because this isn't up to us, and we are working to get through this. We were under the impression that Intgold was a stable payment processor, and we had done everything that they asked to verify our account in the first place, as we currently are a Level 4 with 12 points. Over the next couple of days our focus we will be working hard to get our account back to functional with Intgold. We are having issues getting them even to respond to emails or even pick up the phone, so please be patient as we work to correct things with them.

Again we are glad to have you as members, we could not do this without you!

Someday we will all be looking back on this and saying "remember when"...

Thank you all for your continued support.