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

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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.