Investment Blues

Update

2007-08-19T00:16:00.000+08:00

It has been more than 10 long months since I update my blog. I stopped blogging for quite some time due to family commitment and as a result, forgot my password. Only managed to recover it just now. Most of the programs I used to be in were either dead or closed. For those of you who are still looking at my portfolio, please refrain from putting money into any of those programs listed. FYI, I will no longer be updating this blog. If you would prefer current and update to data news, look no further than Jude's No Bullshit HYIP Blog or if you are into Forex, check out his Forex's blog here.

Programs Performance for Sep 2006

2006-10-06T22:42:00.000+08:00

NSFG - 3.75% net profit for Aug 2006. Low but realistic % for Forex Trading.

FX-Experts - Program still in recovery mode. No % paid for Sep 2006.

GIGMutual - Slightly lower ROI than last month at 3.34%. This is the 5th positive month for GIGMutual.

UdachuInvest - Return for Sep is 3.6%. They only managed to trade for a few days due to some human error. Hope for a better returns next month.

Silver Gate Forex Hedging - Low 1st month return of 2.03%. Same reason as UdachuInvest quoted for low return. Give it another few months. Min. for this program has increased to ~~USD$250~~ USD$1000 (Just checked. Min. had increased to $1000).

ProfitPlacementFund - Paid 175% on time. Waiting for fresh fund from other program to come in before making another spend.

ROG's offering (Trade 1)- Similar nature to ProfitPlacementFund. Option email received. Rolled over 100% for another cycle.

Xlentxtra (The Finer Things) - Paid 180% three times. Still waiting for another 2 spends to mature.

Programs on hold
Everymansfund - Their investments were not producing the expected returns. Admin has promised to pay everybody to at least break even status. So far, I had received 2 small payments for my 4 figures spend. Not advisable to join now.

MPDW - No positive update.

PointShareXtreme - New website ready. Heard that they are loading $$$$ into members accounts. Let's see how it proceed from here.

Silver Gate Forex Hedging Minimum increasing again

2006-09-26T07:17:00.000+08:00

Do take note that SGFH minimum is due to be increased from the existing USD$250 to USD$1000 from 5th Oct. If you are one of those who had sign up and waiting to make a deposit, please take note of this new changes.

Programs Performance for Aug 2006

2006-09-06T23:15:00.000+08:00

NSFG - 3.75% ~~gross~~ net profit for Aug 2006. Low %. Hopefully they can do better in the coming months.

FX-Experts - Posted around 10.4% for Aug 2006. Last few days they had announced some trading loss to the amount of 20%. No % will be paid till the program recovers.

GIGMutual - Another improvement in ROI for Aug. 4.37% to be exact.

Private Program 1 - Continue to pay me monthly via check.

UdachuInvest - Return for Aug is 19%. Very good month of trading. UI is private now.

ProfitPlacementFund - Expecting first payout in around the 15th Sep. This is high risk stuff.

ROG's offering (Trade 1)- Similar nature to ProfitPlacementFund. In with a 4 figures spend as well. 1st payout for me will be around 15th Sep. This is high risk stuff.

Xlentxtra (The Finer Things) - Just joined and made 3 spends. Waiting 1st payout on the 20th Sep. Most likely I am going in for 1 cycle only. Will have to monitor how this program develop.

Programs on hold
Everymansfund - Their investments were not producing the expected returns. Admin has promised to pay everybody to at least break even status. So far, I had received 2 small payments for my 4 figures spend. Not advisable to join now.

MPDW and PointShareXtreme - Same old story. Nothing worth mentioning. Avoid at all cost.

FX-Experts - State of Affairs

2006-09-04T23:49:00.000+08:00

This is the post by Rabbit in HYIPDiscussion Forum on the current and future state of affairs for FX-Experts.

I received several Yahoo messages from people telling me that folks here are waiting for an update from me. I would expect Marcos to post a detailed update on what is going on. But since communication isn’t his forte, let me post what I know.

Current Situation

As I mentioned the last time I posted in this thread, Marcos has been paying returns and withdrawals from reserves for some months now. A lot of people withdrew funds since I first reported they were paying from reserves, and they have been paying without touching the main trading account (I have seen deposits but no withdrawals from the account over the past few months).

Why the sudden freeze of the program?

Marcos froze the program because the situation has not improved. Thus, he decided to take a different direction (which resulted in him closing out the losing positions he had opened on the main account with a loss). With the hard loss, the program would have been turned into a ponzi if he had continued to pay the daily returns. And with the daily returns set at 0% for a month or so, people would have withdrawn their funds en masse in panic. One of the options he considered was to set the rate at 0% for a few weeks while raising the principal withdrawal penalty to 25%. The idea behind the raise would have been to stem the amount of withdrawal requests from people unhappy with a few weeks of no interest. In the end it seems he decided to freeze the program for a few weeks.

Will we lose our money?

No one should lose any money. We are not being scammed or anything like that. They are currently in the process of moving to several new brokers which will allow them to use the automated trading systems (not the same as those being used as FXEMA) that will replace the human trader they had before. If past, back-testing, and forward-testing results are any indication, they should be fully back on track within about 4 to 6 weeks.

The Future of the Program

There is a good chance that Marcos will decide not to continue with the program, and refund everyone their account balances (principal plus compounded interest) once he gets things back on track. He doesn’t seem to have the passion he once had for the program (which may explain the lousy customer service some people have been complaining about), and want to focus on the Managed Accounts being offered.

Anyway, I hope this post clarify things and put people’s mind at ease. I have cleared out a lot of PMs from my inbox so if you want to send me a PM feel free to do so. Oh and for those of you that are curious, I have several thousand dollars in the program myself – it is my second biggest public high yield investment after ROG’s “Private Limited Time Offer”.

GIGMutual - ROI for Aug 2006

2006-09-03T21:24:00.000+08:00

For the 3rd month running, GIGMutual has posted an increase in ROI for Aug. This month, the ROI is 4.37%. This figure may be low by any standard but it is a steady increase month on month. Certainly, GIGMutual has become a more stable program in my portfolio.

Mini-audit on UdachuInvest by HansG

2006-09-03T21:21:00.000+08:00

Just for your info, HansG from ParanoidInvesting.com has posted his mini-audit on UdachuInvest. For those who are in this program, do check out his blog for this refreshing article.

New Program - Club-FXTrader

2006-09-03T21:03:00.000+08:00

This new Forex based program is started and run by a veteran member (PeterB) of GoldenTalk forum. Daily ROI is at 1% per trading day. This has generated quite a fair bit of interest in HYIPDiscussion forum. I am certainly paying attention to this one as part of my diversification plan. Jude from Nobshyip has conducted a simple interview with him. Do check out his blog for more information.

NSFG - Withdrawal Delay

2006-09-03T11:06:00.000+08:00

There is some delay in the withdrawal for the month of Aug. Nothing to panic about.

Evening All,

Just a very quick update for you guys that are waiting on your withdrawals.

The money arrived, and then left for Icegold yesterday, however because Icegold is plus 2 hours ahead of me they have already gone past their deadline where they could credit it for today.

This means that it will not credit their account till Monday now and I will then get the egold shortly after.

For this I apologize and since we are the ones at fault we have decided to credit those that have withdrawals pending with the interest for last month for those withdrawn amounts, it is the least we can do.

I need to fudge that through the statement system, so for your AUGUST statements those withdrawn amounts will not show so the system can calculate it correctly. I will then run the withdrawals through the system as from the 01 September and they will appear there.

If you do another withdrawal in September then you will jut have two appear on your statement…..this way the figures all tally up but you get the credit for last months interest on your full balance…..make sense?

The reason for this mishap was simple, Ken and I have joint access to all accounts etc etc, however we only have ONE of those little keycode things to access our online accounts. If Ken wanted to get access to the account he needs that keycode device. If he had taken it he would only have had to return it to me anyway and run the risk of losing it in the mail, since there was no need foreseen for him even needing to get into the account it was not taken…..of course hindsight is twenty twenty J

Anyway, moving onto other matters, we had a good start to the month I am happy to report with a good NFP trading day despite it being a very rocky and difficult one to trade this month. We are several % up currently on the 1^st of the month.

Ken will actually be going away on vacation with his family for the middle two weeks of this month, from the 11^th till the 24^th. As you did with me, please hold off any emails to him during this period, or just email me instead.

Trading will continue during this period as I will be trading a few specific setups that we have been trading these last few months.

That is pretty much it, have a great weekend everyone and a great Labor Day to our US Members and I will speak with you all later.

Paul

FX-Experts - Trading Loss

2006-09-01T21:24:00.000+08:00

Part and Parcel of real life trading....

Dear Members,

After reading this letter, I am sure all my clients are going to be upset, because they all trusted in our potential, but I also can say that a few people will be “happy” and they will say in the blogs and forums: “I said that it would happen”.

What I have to say today, is not that we are closing the company, but that we had a huge lost in the last days.

We will have to change some points so we can get back what we lost without worrying about the weekly profit. We are also changing the broker so we can give you a better service.

We are going to change those points:
- the daily profit is going to be zero;
- we will not accept withdraws;
- we will not accept deposits;

The company asks you to not worry about the situation, our website will be online and we are going to be here working, trying to help you in the best way.

I am sure that most of our clients rely on our service and will understand why we had to change those points. After everything is all right, we will update you, as we always did.

We hope to return to our normal activities in a few weeks.

We are doing everything to provide you a better service.

Thank you,

Marcos Matos.

HYWD Issue 63 is online.

2006-08-30T23:53:00.000+08:00

Issue 63 Inside

- In focus: Club Fx, A Program By PeterB
- 5 Fast HYIP Reviews
- Online Bond Trading
- MLM Scam - 7 Tips to Avoid a MLM Scam
- Simple and Logical Trade Exits
- Victoria Picks: Ecommerce Journal
- Issue 63 Reader's Digest

Pay attention to Club Fxtraders reviewed by Tony. I will be monitoring this program by PeterB and wait for further DD info.

Xlentxtra The Finer Thing - News and Info

2006-08-29T10:50:00.000+08:00

Hi there

Hopefully this newsletter finds you well.

I have just been advised that our server will be undergoing routine maintenance on 29 August. Unfortunately I have not been able to get a handle on the exact time of when - but I do not expect it to be down for more than a couple (2) of hours.

Sorry for the late notice; but I have only just found out.

FYI as it will be midnight server time in around an hour and a half, I don't THINK we have anything to worry about for a few hours yet - but I cannot be sure.

Thank you for your patience, understanding and support.

Andy

NSFG - Update 28th August 2006

2006-08-29T10:49:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone,

Well I am back from a very relaxing and thoroughly enjoyable Honeymoon!

First I would like to thank Ken for doing so well at handling the emails and Trading at the same time, and also for you guys keeping your emails to a minimum while I was away J.

I am going to be very short and to the point here as I have a huge amount of things I need to do.

First off, Withdrawals this month are going to be a little delayed, it seems there was an error with the brokers and the wire was returned back to them. I only found this out when I logged into the account and noticed it was empty…not a good start!

The wire has been resent, but with it being a Bank Holiday here in the UK today it will no doubt not leave till tomorrow. I did request a value date of tomorrow so hopefully it will go through then. I will then send it over to e-gold via icegold who are very good and usually fast.

This does unfortunately mean a delay for you guys that have requested a withdrawal this month, if all goes according to plan then you should get it at the end of this week. I can only apologize for the inconvenience that this will cause the few of you that have requested withdrawals.

I still have a few additional deposits to confirm and will be getting them tonight and tomorrow, so look out for those. If you have not received one by Thursday give me a yell, as it may have got lost in the transfer of emails from Ken to myself.

As many of you may already be aware this months percentage was 5% Gross, which means 3.75% net to you guys. Ken has posted a trading report in the Forum if you want to catch up on the months events. I will be sorting out the statements shortly also, so hopefully you won’t experience any undue delay in getting these.

Finally I would very much like to thank all of you that took the time to send Sylvia and I cards of congratulations, we were both very surprised to see so many of them and we both very much appreciate them and they are currently decorating our lounge!

Have a great week everyone and lets hope we can get September off to a good start with the NFP report this coming Friday!

Paul

GoldenRocks - Update

2006-08-26T12:21:00.000+08:00

There is a latest update posted by Mike Pola in GR private forum. Members of GR should login and read the update.

HYWD Issue 62 is online

2006-08-24T21:15:00.000+08:00

Issue 62 Inside:

- In focus: CIM Mutual, A Balanced Investment Pool
- 5 Fast HYIP Reviews
- MLM Business Opportunities
- Are FOREX Signals Fool Proof?
- The Basics of Fundamental Analysis
- Victoria Picks: HYIP Topsites - Issue 62 Reader's Digest

Silver Gate Forex Hedging Sign Up

2006-08-23T23:20:00.000+08:00

I noticed that a few of you have signed up under the referral code I provided but have yet to make a spend. Do take note that the minimum to invest in S.G.F.H from Sep is USD$250. It will continue to increase to USD$1000 in Oct and finally USD$5000 in Nov. From now till Sep 2006, the minimum amount to invest is still USD$100.

Xlentxtra - The Finer thing

2006-08-21T15:07:00.000+08:00

I just made a spend to Xlentxtra - The Finer thing. Check out my portfolio page for more info.

Joined Silver Gate Forex Hedging

2006-08-16T20:54:00.000+08:00

Finally made a spend to Silver Gate Forex Hedging today after receiving a nice payout from one of the program.

Silver Gate Forex Hedging
Date Joined: 14th Aug 2006
URL: https://www.sgf-hedging.com/
Referral Code: Check out my Portfolio page here for referral code.
Nature of Program: Forex Trading
Account Type: Pooled
Min. Investment: USD$100
Referral Commission: 5%
Compound: Allowed
ROI: Based on past trading result, returns posted is averaging around 45% per month. Could be lower. I would be happy with a 20% monthly ROI after all the fees.
Fee: ?
Risk Level: Medium
Payment Processor accepted: Egold, D-Carat, Bluebanking Debit Card
Payout: Automatic for interest payment. Principal withdrawal needs to be requested.
Lock in period: 90 days.
Program Status: Just started. First Trading month will be Sep 2006.
Remarks: Definitely worth a $100 spend. Account needs to be funded by the 5th of the month in order to earn for the same month. No DD done on this program yet. For more info on this program, read up my previous post here.
My Strategy: Compound for at least 6 months before withdrawing principal. By then, you should have doubled or maybe even tripled your principal.

HYWD Issue 61 is online

2006-08-16T01:34:00.000+08:00

HYWD Issue 61 is online.

Issue 61 Inside:
- In Focus: S.G.F.H. Investments
- 5 Fast HYIP Reviews
- How I Made 120% In The Stock Market In 6 Weeks - Working A Day Job!
- Top 7 Reasons for Fighting Phishing Scams
- The 77th Richest Country In The World
- Victoria Picks: Lazyman's guide
- Issue 61 Reader's Digest

Silver Gate Forex Hedging

2006-08-14T21:56:00.000+08:00

Silver Gate Forex Hedging (S.G.F.H) is a group of 35 seasoned investors that were hand picked by the CEO of Udachu Financial Services LTD. to act as a think tank for quality investment strategies. Since the conception of Silver Gate we have come together to get to know each other and work closely together for a common goal. Our group has become successful in real estate development and numerous business endeavors.

S.G.F.H is a separate program with from Udachu Invest and Udachu Fund with separate administration, trading strategies, traders and investment vehicles. Their funds are not commingled in any way.

The hedging system is based on volume trading. An automated trading system enters both sides of trade (Buy and Sell). Once a movement pattern has been established the negative side is liquidated and the positive is used to capture a small profit. This technique is also called hedge scalping. A low risk trading technique.

Funds are held for 90 days (Lock period) in trade before they are available for withdrawal. Withdrawals are processed within 24 hours after hold time.

The minimum investment to open an account will have an introductory amount of $100 for the first month (Aug 2006) of the fund being open. If you join after the first month the minimums are as follows $250 minimum the second month (Sep 2006). $1,000 the third month (Oct 2006) and $5,000 the fourth month (Nov 2006). It will remain at $5,000 minimum to open an account from that point on. Investment increments are a minimum of $100 each.

All spends must be made to your account by the 5th of the month in order to receive profits for that month. Returns will be posted on the 5th of each month.

Currently, only E-Gold and D-Carat (something new to me) are accepted as funding method.
For withdrawal, members have the option of withdrawing to E-Gold, D-Carat or Bluebanking debit card (Same as the one used by UdachuInvest).

I have seen their trading statement from May to Jul (2 months). During these 2 months, they have turned in a profit of about 90% compounded. That works out to be about 45% average per month. These are the actual trades executed for the testing of their hedging strategy. Pretty impressive.

S.G.F.H is by invite only. For those who have missed the boat to Udachu Invest after they closed the door (Went Private). Here is a similar opportunity that you would not want to miss out on. Check out my portfolio page here for referral code to access their webpage if you are interested.

My personal opinion: This program is definitely worth the $100 risk (Get in early as the minimum is due to be increased). I will be jumping in this month when my withdrawals from other programs come through. Rod the CEO of Udachu has stated in HYIPDiscussion forum that Silver Gate is open to DD. Hopefully, somebody trustworthy will take up the challenge of carrying out Due Diligence on this program. Rabbit....do you hear me? Don't cover your ears....

Code4Gold a cheater at Daily10Surf?

2006-08-12T23:51:00.000+08:00

Recently, one of the autosurf 12by12 had their egold account blocked after a member code4gold made a stupid report to egold of non payment (see http://code4gold.com/forums/index.php?topic=974.45). It seem this member could also be the same cheater mentioned by daily10surf. See http://www.daily10surf.com/images/cheaters.gif. This is the kind of dumb@$$ that bring down a program.

GoldenRocks - Update

2006-08-11T00:28:00.000+08:00

For those of you who were in GoldenRocks, do remember to check out their private forum for the latest update that was posted today. Look like things are slowly picking up for GR again.

NowDollar News

2006-08-10T00:15:00.000+08:00

I would advise anybody who haven't join NowDollar against contemplating to join this new program. Just pay attention and monitor how they perform first. After all, there are a lot of negativity floating around the internet on Harrolds Media.

Good Morning NowDollar Member,

My name is Steve and I am the New Administrator here at NowDollar. I have worked with Harrolds Media for some time and I am confident in their mission. That mission is to bring to the internet a long term and sustainable Advertising Program that will change the face of internet advertising. I am glad to be working with a very professional member base.

As you may have heard, we are getting ready to launch a New and Ground Breaking program. The details of this new program will be emailed to the members of this program as well as the other programs we have acquired. We were looking to launch this program at the first of this week but testing is taking longer than expected.

Keep an eye on your email over the next few days for the Details!

Harrolds Media is also involved in talks with other Struggling Surf companies. We are looking to bring the Surfing community together. There is great potential in this industry. To take advantage of that potential we must all work together. Our guidelines will be strict and violation of those guidelines will result in swift disciplinary action. Scammers and cheaters will not be tolerated. We must take this stand for the security of our Members as well as the Company.

I look forward to working with all of you.

Steve R. Grayspan

Administrator

Gold Price going up...?

2006-08-10T00:02:00.000+08:00

Top analysts calls for $1200 gold by 2015
Mining Weekly - 8/3/06

* * * *
"[Credit Suisses' Dr. David] Davis argues that, while it is evident that
South Africa's reserve base is rapidly dwindling, an upward trend in the
gold price for the foreseeable future will likely mitigate the downward
trend in reserves. Credit Suisse Standards Securities studies indicate that
gold supply is falling behind demand as the diminishing number of new
reserves fails to compensate for dying mines, worldwide. 'This has been
happening for some time but, until recently, the effect has been masked by
central-bank sales and producer hedging,' says Davis. 'However, central-bank
sales will likely whither, and these banks could become net buyers of
gold.'"

http://www.miningweekly.co.za/components/print.asp?id=90612

USAGOLD Comment: Davis adds his voice to that of Newmont's Pierre Lassonde
in warning that the mining companies do not have sufficient reserves to meet
future demand.

NSFG Admin Announcements (Dated 9th Aug 2006)

2006-08-09T23:54:00.000+08:00

Extracted from Gold-Horizons Forum.

Morning Guys,

Just logged on to do a final email check when I noticed an error on my Northsea mail server.....double checked and our Website is also down.

Not sure what the problem is, and to be honest we are not going to be able to find out as Ken and I have to leave in a few mins for my Wedding.

It may just be a server outage at the hosts end because it was working fine last night.

Just thought I would l post something here for you guys so you know we have not run off.

Ken won't be back till Friday, so if this does not clear itself by then he will look into it then.

This of course has no real effect, since I won't be around to answer emails anyway, and the website is only meant for info for the MA guys.

Have a great month everyone, and I will see you at the end of August!

Paul

HYWD Issue 60

2006-08-09T23:49:00.000+08:00

HYWD Issue 60 is online.

Issue 60 Inside

- Quiz: Guess the dollar value and win 5 bucks
- 5 Quick HYIP Reviews
- Mutual Fund Alternatives - What Happens If Your Funds Fall By 20% Or More?
- The Perils Of Trying To Get Rich Quick
- The Irrational Investor
- Victoria Picks: Jorhyne's Online Investing Ventures
- Issue 60 Reader's Digest

Mini Programs Performance Update for Jul 2006

2006-08-06T15:31:00.000+08:00

Here's the mini update for the month of July 2006 on the progress of those programs I signed up.

NSFG - Things are starting to pick up for NSFG. They post a less than ideal 2.41% gross returns for the month of Jul. For Aug, a min of 5% is guaranteed. Read my previous post on that.

FX-Experts - Currently they are averaging about 10% per month. Not too bad for forex trading. From what I read, they are no longer in the red. Neither are they paying from reserve funds now. So that is a good sign.

GIGMutual - Continue to grow at a slow but steady rate. Despite programs closing/scamming on their high risk portfolio, it still manage to produce a 3.36% returns for Jul.

Private Program 1 - Continue to pay me monthly via check. However, due to their recent changes, I would advise anyone against joining them for now.

UdachuInvest - Return for Jul is 15.4%. Pretty good month I would say. They had just gone private this month. This is definitely one of the better performer in my portfolio.

ProfitPlacementFund - Just joined this one with a 4 figures spend. Expecting first payout in the month of Sep. Will have to see how it goes. This is high risk stuff.

ROG's offering (Trade 1)- Similar nature to ProfitPlacementFund. In with a 4 figures spend as well. 1st payout for me will be in Sep. This is high risk stuff.

Programs on hold
Everymansfund - Their investments were not producing the expected returns. Admin has promised to pay everybody to at least break even status. So far, I had received 2 small payments for my 4 figures spend. Not advisable to join now.

MPDW and PointShareXtreme - Same old story. Nothing worth mentioning. Avoid at all cost.

Programs Closed
AlienTrust - Just closed a few days ago after the sales of their program fell through. No loss here for me as I was playing with their free money.

NowDollar - Sold off to Harold Media out of the blue. I am already in profit. So my existing upgrade will not be honored when they re-open in 2 to 3 weeks time. Stay away at all cost.

Programs under consideration
SDS
IbizaTraders - Jude from Nobshyip has confirmed that they are doing real trading. Looking forward to him releasing his DD or review.
Megainvforum - Will be monitoring this for a few months to see how they perform before jumping in.
FXEMA - Managed Account from FX-Experts
Asianpay Investor Corner

NSFG - Positive Update

2006-08-06T01:00:00.000+08:00

Things are starting to look positive and bright for NSFG again.

Good Morning Everyone,

Sorry for the delay in getting this out to you guys, but as you can imagine with my Wedding on this coming Wednesday I have a huge amount of things to get organized offline.

Okay Good News all round really!

First off our return for July was 3.21% Gross, which is a Net return to you guys of 2.41%. Not a huge amount, but one that we are very happy with considering how difficult July was to trade in.

For those not aware, the geopolitical instability in the Middle East has made the Currency markets in July very unpredictable and we know many many traders who have lost a great deal of money last month. It is this reason that we are happy coming out positive!

Even better news!

We are currently already 6-7% UP in August, as we have previously said we will now lock in that first 5% so you are guaranteed a 5% return for August now. Ken will trade the remaining 1-2% during the course of the month to try and increase this %. If all these positions go against us then trading will be suspended at that point for August and we will stick with the 5%.

As I mentioned above, I am getting married on Wednesday and will be jetting off on my Honeymoon with my good lady wife for a nice relaxing 2 weeks, with no children, no emails and not a currency chart in sight J.

What this means is that you will NOT get confirmations on your deposits from me after this coming Monday. However if you are sending via e-gold to 2xxxxxx (Massed out by me) and you get a batch number….then it HAS got there so you do not need to worry, as I have never actually heard of e-gold saying they have transferred gold, but not actually doing it!

If depositing by Wire, our wire details are the same as always and again I won’t be able to confirm them directly, so you will have to wait for my return on this one.

Right, moving onto withdrawals. Currently withdrawal requests come over to me to collate them all together and then withdraw the required amount on the 15^th from the trading account to cover the requests.

For this month only, please can you email your withdrawal requests over to KEN at: ken@northseaforexgroup.com so that he know how much money he needs to take out from trading to cover you guys.

I will process the withdrawal requests myself upon my return, this means they will be done a couple of days later than normal probably on the 28^th, unfortunately you are going to have to live with this if you want to withdraw.

Do not forget that withdrawn amounts will not be eligible to receive interest that is gained this month, just wanted to remind you as I had to clear that up with several of you last month.

I will be sending out the July statements today if I can finish the accounts off, but Monday at the latest if I run out of time.

August is going to be a fantastic month, I hope you all enjoy yourselves!!

Both Sylvia and I would like to thank all of you who have sent us words of congratulations and support, they are very much appreciated!!

Speak to you all later!

Paul

DD on e-gold-forex.biz by HansG

2006-08-05T16:24:00.000+08:00

Here is a mean piece of DD conducted by HansG of ParanoidInvesting. Check it out. The details are pretty fresh and interesting.

NowDollar Sold

2006-08-05T11:55:00.000+08:00

It is finally game over for NowDollar. Now that the egg is cooked. I have no concern posting these update here. After all those negative news that surfaced over the last 2 to 3 weeks on NowDollar, I think Lance is a little cautious on revealing his plan. That has lead to a very bad piece of PR from NowDollar. What I do not like is that he continued to allow members to upgrade while negotiating for the sales of NowDollar behind closed doors. That is hardly ethical. This is all risky business when you stepped in. I had refrained from posting more negativity as there are enough floating around. Too much open negativity can hasten the demise of a program and affect those members who still have big spends in there. You may or may not share my opinion on this. It is always hard to draw a line between warning readers and trying not to bring down a program. For me, I am in profit. I hope most if not all of you who are in NowDollar had pulled out with profit too.

It is getting tougher to play these risky game nowadays. Previously, when yellow flags surfaced, there is still enough time to pull out. It is no longer the case. To be in profit and gain from the program, you have to start pulling out when the going is good. This is a difficult piece of judgement skill that a lot of us are trying to finetune. Time to move on....

From Lance:

NowDollar Members,

I want to send out a quick update. As many of you have heard or read, we are making some changes. The changes we are making are for the success of our members. If we do not make these changes the program will have to end in the next one or two weeks. The new program and Admin has the ability to take not just NowDollar, but the Advertising Industry to the next level. I as well as several other admins in this industry understand changes have to take place.

I am honored to have been apart of one of one of the best advertising sites on the net. We have outstanding members and I have had the opportunity to get to know several of you personally. I would ask that you please extend to the new admin the same trust and professionalism that you have shown me.

Please understand, NowDollar has not just closed its doors. The re-launch of NowDollar will be even greater then the first.

Thank you to all our loyal members for your past and future support.

From Steve, Moderator:
I talked to Lance and he has sold NowDollar to Harrolds Media. Richard is reworking the site with his own scripts to his own business model. Lance will send an email later today. I understand the site will open sometime next week. It is Lances understanding members not in profit from NowDollar will have the opportunity to recover those losses in the new site.

For the record - as a moderator I don't get paid, and I don't have access to the database or back office. At this point all Lance has is a copy of the database - he has no access to the real database and back office either. Also as a moderator I saw my job as keeping order in the forum and answering questions about the program. With the sale I am left a little in no mans land, but need to bring closure on this phase of the program.

I have no contact information for Richard and have no role in the new program. If he asked me I may or may not be a moderator. I was mostly doing this as a favor to Lance, and I couldn't answer any questions about the new program as I have no knowledge of it.

I will share that Lance has talked about it over the last few weeks and based on simulations it looks like an amazingly good concept that paid even better than NowDollar. To that end I will be very keen to check it out.

But like all members I had no clue that Lance was considering selling it last week. Lance was in private negotiation, then the market reacted negatively to Richards announcement which led Richard to withdraw, and the member support of NowDollar shrank which in turn put Lance in a tight spot. Crazy. The site was going great 10 days ago.

I will post more later, but that will be by way of conversation. This post basically tells you what is going on. Look for an email from Lance, and also at some point Richard will no doubt have something to say.

I have to say that based on my conversations with Lance I am very curious to see this new model in action. It sounds like it truly can last indefinitely.

I have a heavy bunch of day job to take care of, but I had to get this stuff public so you could consider options for yourselves.

From Jake, ASA:
Harrolds Media has purchased ND. Better get used to it; they are buying up more sites also. Already set to buy four more sites. Was not given names, due to non-disclosures.

From: Lance

1. NowDollar will open again in 2-3 weeks
2. No one will lose money
3. Not in profit, your money will be placed in your account
4. If you are in profit, your account will be set to zero.

Another note is that Harrolds Media will be the big player in the AS industry. They will be changing the way we think & earn. Yes you will be able to make a living from this industry. You will still be able to earn a 50% ROI but there will be no timeframe. For example your ad purchases may earn your ROI in 8-25 days. These next generation sites WILL NOT FAIL, it is mathematically impossible. Tons of research and computer mathematic simulations have been run on this new business model. Big name corporate advertisers will be entering the market, they want this turf. Scamming, hacking & cheating will be going away. Harrolds Media likes only Alertpay & VirtualMoney period. Better get used to the name Harrolds Media; they are moving in to take it over. Harrolds wants to better lives of people & cooperate with corporate America as well as government guidelines.

Information based on my conversation with Lance.

Jake
ASA

AlienTrust Closed

2006-08-03T18:28:00.000+08:00

After all these struggles, they had finally closed. Read the news here. For those with spend in there. Hope you get your refund (if any).

Yen4Gold closing?

2006-08-02T07:40:00.000+08:00

Here is another program I have been following but never really punt any money in due to their lack of DD and transparency and consistently high weekly yield. Recently, they announced that they had gone busted.....

Last week $9,000 worth of investment withdrawals and ROI payments have been processed. This drained our E-gold reserves, and the rest were paid from my own pocket - E-gold account.

28th June, Friday morning I requested a withdrawal from Yen4Gold NorthFinance forex account, of $8,000, just enough to cover my own hole from last week. The withdrawal was processed much earlier then I expected. At the same time, our trader opened large short GBP/USD positions. As a result, when the US data came out, our trader found himself in the wrong direction, unable to close the positions due to volatility and with just half the account balance he expected to have. Our Yen4Gold NorthFinance account was wiped out. Coupled with last week’s $9,000 investments withdrawal that drained our reserves which everybody who requested last week can confirm they have received it, Yen4Gold is pretty much bust, bankrupt.
No profits, referral bonuses or withdrawal requests can be paid, there are no funds, and right now I don’t see a way to recover from this.

Or have they simply taken the easy way out and scammed? Such is the risk in high leverage forex trading without proper DD.

NSFG - July Trading Report

2006-08-02T07:19:00.000+08:00

Positive month for July but result not very attractive......Hope they can do better than +2.41% for Jul for the month of Aug 2006.

End of July report

July has been the most weird, dangerous and confusing month I have ever traded in my career as it has been heavily affected by outside factors, commonly referred to as geopolitical factors. The market jumped some heart beats on July 5th when North Korea launched their test missiles and things only got worse around mid-month when the Israel/Lebanon conflict escalated. It all meant huge speculation in the dollar, yen, swiss franc, gold and oil and the market chopped along nervously without any clear direction.

Despite the awful conditions, we still managed to end the month in positive hitting a +2.41% net profit mark. It's not a whole lot, but in such a month, I'm just glad we didn't realise a loss like I know so many other traders have done. On the 19th we especially did very well when Bernanke gave his semi-annual statement. We got some very good setups and was able to pick up the entire move on usd/jpy.

After moving steadily up in a firm uptrend since the 10th of July, a critical point had been reached just below the 118 area. Major players had serious options related interest in keeping price below 118 and with the statement from Bernanke that was more dovish than the market had expected, the uptrend ended. We entered short for the first time in 117.67 which was actually before the statement by Bernanke and with a stop above the previous high. As I anticipated, the market dropped and as the short positions got built up in the market, we had time to add to our position around 117.45 and we got into the move that trashed the bullish trendline on the way down, unable to stop the heavy loaded freight train.

The downside target was the touch point of a weekly trendline around the 117 area and we booked profit from all 3 positions just around 116.95 making us a total of +161 pips on that move. It was a perfect entry and a good solid exit that put us into the green zone. Price then re-tested 117.20 and settled just around the 117 area into the Asian session until further drops was seen today.

The market can be a weird place to "be". In a whole month you might be able to sqeeze out a couple of points and then on a day like today, the market generously gives away nearly a full point. This week ahead of the NFP we will remain cautious and only take trades that is based on solid setups. We still have a long month ahead of us and I am sure we will be able to book some decent profits along the way.

DD on MegaInvForum

2006-08-02T07:18:00.000+08:00

Jude from NobsHYIP has just published his due diligence findings on Megainvforum. Do remember to check it out over at his blog here.

High Yield Weekly Digest Issue 59

2006-08-02T07:17:00.000+08:00

HYWD Issue 59 is online.

Issue 59 inside

- In focus: Top Summer Paid Surfs
- 5 Fast HYIP Reviews
- Top 5 Reasons You Should Trade Penny Stocks
- The Biggest Internet Scam In Recent History
- Mutual fund Alternatives - How To Get Bigger Returns With Less Risk!
- Victoria Picks: HYIPmax - everything about investing
- Issue 59 Reader's Digest

GoldenRocks - Update

2006-08-01T17:26:00.000+08:00

There is a insignificant update by Nick over at GoldenRocks private forum. Check it out if you are a member.

PSX - Update

2006-08-01T17:25:00.000+08:00

Here is some update from PSX forum for those of you who are still interested.....

http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=5433&mforum=psg

Dear Members,

Good News to everyone! We are almost done with the programming and it will be uploaded anytime this week with all security measures that we have found necessary to protect our members’ data and their privacy. Both Online and Offline Membership base can now access there account online. To further protect and ensure that data available on the online site will not cause any breach of security, we will be verifying all requests made through our internal system which can only be accessed in our corporate offices.

New Services, Plans, Policies and Terms and Conditions will be laid out this week.

We are also going to place a Support Ticket and establish our Support Groups worldwide to provide a more efficient and better Contact Management and Support Services to our members.

Funding of Accounts can be done in various ways including Direct E-Currency Funds (from e-gold and e-bullion), Check Payments (30 day clearing), Bank Wire, and Western Union.

Payouts will be available in your Debit Cards, E-Gold, E-Bullion and/or Corporate Check.

Of course, the answer to the most awaited question: PAYOUTS will absolutely resume within the first two weeks of August.

Get ready to see the New PSX in Action!

Henry

Azure's Place

2006-07-30T22:59:00.000+08:00

I just listed Azure's Place over at my Blogroll. Azure is a mod over at HYIPDiscussion Forum. Her blog has come across as one of the most informative. I like all blogs that promote good programs and updated regularly. Check out her blog.

UdachuFund and UdachuInvest going Private

2006-07-29T23:42:00.000+08:00

Ok. Here is a piece of old news. For those of you who have sign up UdachuInvest previously and have not invested but are still able to login, my advise is that you get your account funded soon before it get deleted.

Hello Udachu Fund and Udachu Invest members. It brings me great pleasure to
announce that our liquidity and diversification have put us in the position to
close the funds to new members. We no longer require new investors in order to
satisfy the financial needs required for a stable investment club. Our hard work
has enabled us to realize our goals in a minimal amount of time. We understand
that this may bring about questions as to the future of Udachu. We can only say
at this time that we are looking forward to a long and profitable future with
our current members. As of this posting no new members will be accepted. The
fund managers will be undergoing changes for the next few days. We will keep the
members updated as information is available. I would like to congratulate all of
you that have joined us. Here is to a prosperous future...

Udachu

New Standard for Transparency

2006-07-29T22:33:00.000+08:00

Ok. I know I have been missing in action for quite some time due to work committment. Here is something that I felt I have to post. MegainvForum (The FX trading program owned by Jose Gomes who is a friend of Marcos from FX-Experts) is setting a new trend in program transparency. Jose is allowing members of the public to access their trading account for free permanently. This is a first for any legit FX trading programs that I know of. Well Done Jose!

From today on, the access to our TRADING account will be free and permanent
to members and visitors. You will be able to follow in real time the account
evolution day after day! Our program will work in a managed account style,
however with a minimum investment very reduced!
Download the trading platform here: http://www.northfinance.com/files/MetaTrader/mt4setup.exe
Login: 17497
Password: mega 00
Server: NorthFinance-Real

Thank you all,
Jose Gomes Jr.

I will be monitoring their monthly results for a few months before deciding to jump in.

Monitor Gold price realtime

2006-07-17T08:11:00.000+08:00

Found this pretty useful tool which run in your OS system tray that constantly update the gold price. For those who have an interest in the price of gold, you may want to try this out.
The tool can be downloaded from http://kcast.kitco.com.

AlienTrust - Ownership change hands

2006-07-15T18:25:00.000+08:00

There is a very long and important update from AlienTrust over at http://www.northshore-media.com/index.php/post/10949/. The first half of this update deals mainly with manpower movement while the second half covers some details on the selling of AlienTrust to a new buyer as well as some update on the cashout status (basically on hold). Take your time to read the update. For those who are looking to join this program, I would advise that to take a step back and watch for new development from the sideline now as the ship could be sinking. If it does not sink and starts paying again, then it might be worth a second look. Just be cautious with your money here.

MegainvForum Interview by Jude from Nobshyip

2006-07-15T10:39:00.000+08:00

Do check out the interview with Jose (Admin of Megainvforum) conducted Jude from Nobshyip here. The Due Diligence report will be posted by Jude over at this blog soon. Just keep a look out at it. This is another legit program doing real trading. If you are looking for something real after FX-Experts, NSFG and Joyfund, this the one.

12by12Daily - By DadnDaves

2006-07-12T14:52:00.000+08:00

Ever heard of DadnDaves? It was one of the longest lasting surf around at the moment. Those who have been surfing long enough would have knew about DadnDaves and its reputation. Just today (or yesterday), David from DadnDaves launched a new program 12by12Daily. This new surf by David is catching wildfire now. Membership signup has increased to 700+ since its launched. I figured that this will become one of the hottest surfs around given DadnDaves' reputation. Click on the banner below to sign up if you would like to join me in this new adventure. As usual, don't play with money you are supposed to use for paying your meals and utilities bill etc.

Program Details -
URL: http://www.12by12daily.net/?ref=718
Nature of Program: AutoSurf
Min. Upgrade: Each Ad Pack cost $6
Max Upgrade: USD$6000
Max No. of Upgrade Allowed: 2 (total # of upgrade must not exceed $6000)
Referral Commission: 12%
Compound: No.
ROI: 12% daily for 12 days
Credit required to earn for the day: 12 sites
Timer: 15sec
Fee: None
Risk Level: High.
Payment Processor accepted: E-gold
Minimum to Cashout: None
Payout method: Automatic within 7 days of your Ad Packs expiring

HPIfund closed & members refunded

2006-07-12T11:26:00.000+08:00

HPIfund which I announced yesterday that HansG had started has closed adruptly today. All who signed up has been refunded. Read the news here.

Another FX-Experts?

2006-07-11T22:57:00.000+08:00

Missed the boat on NSFG? Looking for another program that are of similar nature to FX-Experts? Check out Megainvforum. The admin Jose is a friend of Marcos from FX-Experts. Marcos is also an investor in this program too. Other than that, there is no affiliation to FX-Experts. Read up what others said and asked about this program over here at HYIPDiscussion forum. I will probably observe how they perform for a couple of months before deciding to go in with some spends.

Pooled Programme from HansG of ParanoidInvesting.com

2006-07-11T22:53:00.000+08:00

For those of you who do not know HansG, he is a veteran member of HYIPDiscussion forum.
Recently, he launched his own pooled programme (HPIFund). This is a programme which enables its members to invest in a diversified portfolio of managed forex accounts with much lower amounts than is possible by investing in each opportunity directly. Check out the programme details over at his blog here.

Can't post comments

2006-07-11T22:43:00.000+08:00

I realised recently that the capability to post comments on my blog had gone missing after I implemented the Java script to expand long post. I will look into the problem when I have the time. Meanwhile, should you need to contact me, please email me by clicking on the contact me hyperlink to the right sidebar. Thanks.

AlertPayPro - Verification on hold till end of year

2006-07-11T00:06:00.000+08:00

Members' pressure play a big part here. At least such a move will be more welcomed than imposing the mandatory verification immediately without notice. People hate being forced to comply to last minute changes.

Hello,

Some members are concerned about identity theft and are leery of providing the necessary information to become verified.
Members you may read our privacy policy, also if you are still leery you may obtain an ein number. Anyone can have an ein number. You can then provide your ein instead of your ssn.
Taxpayers can obtain an EIN immediately by calling the irs Business & Specialty Tax Line
(800-829-4933). The hours of operation are 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. local time, Monday through Friday. An assistor takes the information, assigns the EIN, and provides the number to an authorized individual over the telephone. This process takes less then 30 seconds and you wont have to give us your ssn. Either way ssn or ein, your information is secure, it is immediately sent to our attorney and accountant. No information is kept with us or anywhere else.

All members will be temporarily verified until dec 31st. If your forms are not in by Dec 31st then on Jan 1st 2007 your account will be terminated. Remember you may now use all the functions of APP without submitting a w8 or w9 up UNTIL Dec 31st.

Earnings are now at 11% for the next 21 days.

Regards,
APP

Phishing email

2006-07-08T22:42:00.000+08:00

Received this phishing email from admin@gmail.com. I just find it funny that google will have anything to do with egold etc.

You won $500! Gmail congratulates you!

CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON $500!

Gmail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. Please click the link below and follow instructions on our web site. Your money will be paid directly to your e-gold, PayPal, StormPay or MoneyBookers account.

Click here to get your prize:

http://mail.google.com/members/prizes.php?sid=a3n92dj2d3&rd=us&id=23018392384378&uid=2e5a4h43u2r3u5y1c3&id=28403934224345345

Sincerely,
The Gmail.com staff
Gmail.com http://www.gmail.com

NowDollar - Verification on hold till further notice

2006-07-08T22:14:00.000+08:00

I closed the other verification thread as it is old news. Lance has decided that while verification seems inevitable he has decided to wait until such time as the site is required to do it. He understands all the concerns and agrees that as things stand today only two sites require
it. He has decided to hold off on implementation until it is clear what information the feds want and what they will do with that information. The arguments for and against acting now are farirly balanced, so he is going to do less rather than more and take a wait and see approach. He does not want to jeopardise any members personal information.

Steve

NowDollar - Cashout PP update

2006-07-08T12:29:00.000+08:00

Another decision that will certainly be welcomed by members who are using Egold only. For members with Alertpay and VM # on files who would like to do a last cashout to Egold, take note that the cut off date will be the 18th Jul 2006.

Good Evening NowDollar Members,

This has been a outstanding week for new Members joining our Advertising Community.

I want to let you know where we stand on the Egold Issue.

We will continue accepting Egold as a means to fund your Cash Account. Because we have several loyal Members who use Egold we will not stop cash out request to this processor. However, if you have an AlertPay or VM account we would ask that you please request your cash outs to those processors. This decision was made because of the section of our Member base that can not receive and use the VM card in their Country. We would ask that if at all possible and you can, Please order the VM ATM card or open a AlertPay account.

Let me say this again. If you do not have a AlertPay or VM number on file you can still request your cash outs to Egold.

We want to take care of all our Members, not just the ones who live in certain Countries.

Have Blessed Weekend.

Lance

Summary Report for Jun 2006

2006-07-07T12:14:00.000+08:00

Ok. Here's a mini update on the progress of those programs I signed up.

NSFG - They had changed brokerage and started trading for the last week of Jun. Posted a pretty good return of 3.63% just for that 1 week of trading. Expect things to pick up from here onwards.

FX-Experts - Continue to move on steadily. Currently averaging around 2.5% per week. For the month of Jun, the total returns was slightly more than 10%. I don't keep track of the % returns for individual day anymore. For FX-Experts, I already have my principal out. Currently riding on profits.

GIGMutual - Slow and steady. Maybe too slow to my liking. The return for the month of Jun (2.02%) is just "slightly" better/higher than May (1.8%). As I mentioned many weeks ago, this program will only start picking up speed in about 3 to 4 months after it launched. Hope to see better result for Jul.

Private Program 1- Had paid me via check. I am currently waiting for my 2nd check to arrive. The program is still doing ok although there are some confusing changes which confounded quite a number of members. I am still seeking some clarification on these changes at the moment.

UdachuInvest - Return for Jun is 13%. Not a bad month but certainly expecting them to yield close to their projected returns of 20%. Let's see how well it perform in the coming months. Please check out my earlier post on UI privatisation.

22USD - Not much progress as the interest sort of die off. Anyway, on and off, I will still look at the huge library of stuffs that can be downloaded for use.

Everymansfund - Waiting for 1st payment. They have lowered their ROI. This will affect only new members. The new ROI no longer looks attractive.

AlienTrust - I got my VM card from them. Currently still surfing on the free credit and earning 50cts daily. In a few days time, I will be moving the earnings to the holding account and purchase some upgrades.

NowDollar - My main $$$ earner at the moment. Been paid multiple times. I have rolled my principal for slightly more than 1 month and the yield for me at the moment is around 120% or more for the month of Jun. This program is still doing pretty well. Do take note that they will be paying out to VM and Alertpay only from the 19th Jul onwards. Upgrade can still be done via Egold after this date.

PointShareXtreme - Haven't really been tracking what is happening to this one. Latest I heard is that the debit card is more of less ready to be shipped out. I am waiting to see whether anybody get paid before deciding whether to submit my verification document. There is a 50-50% chance that I may write it off as a lose. Just a small spend of $90 only.

MPDW - Not much progress. Do not invest in this at the moment.

Udachu Invest - Going Private?

2006-07-07T12:10:00.000+08:00

Regarding the news that they are going private, there is some latest update posted over at UdachuFund Forum today. You may also want to check out the thread for the interesting discussion going on over there.

After six gizillion angry e/mails we will rethink the privatization of UI at the end of the month. And will give everyone ample time to get in. if we decide to go private. Which means it will be at least two to three months before this would occur if we decide to go private.
However as Rod and Dusty mentioned we have way to many people in our data base that have signed up but not yet invested so we will begin to delete these names. These people will have to resubmit their applications to UI and are advised to invest at least the minimum so as to avoid this happening again next month.
Actually these angry e/mails are welcomed as many of you must have some future plans for friends and or family members. And we certainly do not want to lose track of our intentions.
So in a nutshell privatization is on hold but non invested accounts will be deleted shortly.
Thank you;
Regards John

For those of you who signed up and have not made any deposit/invest, you have to do so before your accounts get deleted.

NowDollar - Couple of Updates

2006-07-04T07:13:00.000+08:00

Update #1

I just got off the phone with Lance and he asked me to tell everyone that the interface with Virtual Money for Merchant payments/transfers has been down since Friday. We have contacted Virtual Money again and they have promised us that it would be restored by 1pm CST today. Lance will then begin to resume payouts to Virtual Money. He also asked me to let you know that this interface has nothing to do with card to card transfers. This is why you have been able to upgrade. These are large "file" transfers so it is very complicated. We are waiting on Virtual Money so as soon as we can we will finish VM payouts.

I hope everyone has a great 4th of July.

Jim

I was paid a couple hrs ago to my VM. At the time of writing this email, members are getting paid to VM. So they have fixed the interface problem.

Update #2

Lance has increased the maximun upgrade to $9,000.00...

Yellow flag? Too early to tell as we knew all along there was plan to increase the max upgrade in stages.

Update #3

Lance has also asked me to let you know that it is being mandated to us that we verify our members for tax purposes. Sorry folks but this is comming from above not from us. All members who want to remain as members at some point in the near future will have to fill out an W-8 or W-9. These forms can be found at www.irs.gov.

Again we have no choice in this matter. It is part of what is going to be changing in the surfing world.

We have no timetable as of yet as to when this will have to start, nor do we yet have a concrete plan to implement it. Please don't send in support tickets about this yet. This is just a friendly heads up to give you time to get used to the idea.

Jim

Another surf heading in the same direction as AT. Recently, TotalRune and a few others started requesting for their members to submit verification docs. From the way things look, I believe most surfs will start doing this in the near future. Good or bad, it is still too early to tell. Just keep an eye open on the development.

Fox is in the henhouse at EMO!!! Pass it on! Call to ACTION!!

2006-06-30T23:00:00.000+08:00

Got this from one of the mailing list I am in. Such behaviour is no different from stealing and scamming.

I have been shown two documents from the EMO receiver that is not availabel on the EMO site that he now controls. The documents account for his fees (and expenses, including MEALS!) for March and April. It is no wonder he isn't getting anything done in a hurry given how much he is paying himself out of EMO's coffers (which is OUR MONEY!!!)

A website has been set up so you can download these pdfs and see that the receiver is paying himself 100k+ and 200k+ per MONTH!!

http://www.EMOFundsRecovery.com

You can contact the receiver here and let him know you are outraged at this scandalous waste of EMO's assets!

Gary Burton:

EMOReceiver@FTIConsulting.com

His phone number is :
832-667-5152

I will also be getting phone numbers and email addresses for officials that we can also complain to about this. It must be stopped if we hope to have anything left to be refunded!

Please pass this on to any group or list that needs to know, so many people used EMO and so many people would dearly love to get their funds back... before this guy takes them all for himself!

EMO Receiver = VULTURE!!! Pass it on!

NSFG - Update from Paul

2006-06-30T22:07:00.000+08:00

They closed this month with a 3.63% profit for 1 week of trading. Hope this is the beginning of things to come.

Good Morning Everyone,

As I write this, boxes and men moving things all over the place while I write it on the floor surround me.

So I will be very quick and to the point. This week has been a very good one trading wise and we have ended on +3.63%.

I will let Ken provide an explanation of a few trades at the bottom of this email.

Suffice to say that so far the move away from FXCM and over to BGC has been extremely worth it trading wise…..there are a few teething problems from the compliance side which the MA guys are experiencing which is delaying their accounts being set up, but the principle reason we moved was because FXCM just were not handling our business right. Once this is finally resolved then we will be 100% there, right now we have the pool account running only.

The markets moved a great deal yesterday and we had near perfect fills from BGC, very impressive considering the market conditions at the time, and it fully justifies our broker change.

I do again apologize for the delay in this change, but now we are there everything should go very well indeed for many years to come.

Short, Sweet and to the point….and now I had better make a move, because if I sit still to long I am liable to covered in bubble wrap and packed in the back of a lorry.

Have a Great Weekend Everyone!

Paul

NowDollar - Official announcement on changes

2006-06-30T19:34:00.000+08:00

This is the official annoucement from Lance on the changes with regard to the update I posted yesterday on the changes to the upgrade expiry.

have a quick announcement.

Starting Today, our Advertising Packages will no longer expire in 15 Days. During these summer months many of our Members are planning vacations, spending time with family, or just catching up on some much needed rest. Many of our Members have sent us support tickets stating they will be leaving for vacation and will not be able to surf. So we have made some changes in the way our Advertising Packs work.

When you Purchase Advertising. Your rebate will be paid for 15 Surf Days. That means you will be able to surf today, take tomorrow off, and then surf when you get back and not miss out. Instead of you package expiring in 15 days, you will have 15 surf days. You can now go on vacation and when you return home your account will be just like you left it.

I will break this down for you.

Your Advertising Package will not expire until you surf 15 days. You can surf 15 days strait, or surf every other day. It is up to you. There will be no more missed surf days because you forgot or just did not get to it that day. After you have surfed the 15th time ( once a day) your package will then expire.

We believe this will give our Members some flexibility so surfing will not get in the way of their summer activities.

Have a Great Weekend.

Lance

NowDollar - Important Changes starting 1st Jul 2006

2006-06-29T23:01:00.001+08:00

I pulled this from NowDollar forum (Posted by Steve - NowDollar Mod). For those who do not have the habit of visiting the program's forum, please read the details here.

Not much warning, but I think you will like these changes just in time for summer.
1) Starting on the first upgrades will expire after you surf 15 days.
2) No surfing on Sundays.

If you stop surfing you only stop earning - take a vacation, deal with an illness, simply forget - you will not lose money. As soon as an upgrade has 15 days surfing it will expire.

No surfing on Sundays will allow us to do database maintenance.

This new changes work like vacation mode. Basically, an upgrades last for 15 surfing days. If you don't surf for the day, the day will not be counted. When you have completed surfing 15 days, then the upgrade expires. For example, if you buy the upgrade and then surf for 3 days, took a week vacation (no surfing), when you return from your vacation, you still have 12 days remaining on your upgrade which you need to surf. There will be no surfing on Sunday. Sunday will be excluded from the 15-day term. For instance, if you upgrade on July 1st, you won't be surfing on 2nd, 9th and 16th (which are all Sunday), and the upgrade will expire on July 18th. But, if you miss surfing during this term, the upgrade expiry will be extended accordingly.

If my memory didn't fail me, this is the first surf that I came across which implemented such feature. Certainly a warm welcome by a lot of members. Only disappointment is that members who used to surfs and earns everyday without missing a day will earn less due to the no surfing Sundays in a month.

PSX - Debit Card Ready

2006-06-27T08:13:00.000+08:00

Some news from PSX. I will be watching this closely. If people starts receiving the debit card and getting paid, then I may consider submitting my verification documents.

http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4544&mforum=psg

The 500 Batch

For those who are in the first batch of 500 Debit Cards. Henry has sorted them all out for dispatch. Those who are in the this batch will be notified by email by Henry that you are included. This will start today. Please keep an eye on your email and also look in your Bulk or Spam Folders. The email addresses are the ones that are already on file with him.

The bank processed those 500 last week. The bank are working continually to get more accounts approved and the cards processed for them. Once they are ready, there will be another batch at some point this week.

Payment Requests.

Until the new script is complete and tested. There will be another stand alone script that will be used. The old Payment Request feature on the PSX site is not to be used any further.

This is what to expect when payments resume.....
It will show in your back office what is due to you. You will have an option to request payment to your bank account where it will then be available to withdraw via your DC.

All requests will generate a list that will be sent to the bank for funds to go into your own accounts. You can request whenever you like, BUT the list will only go to the bank in their business hours Monday to Friday. This list will go daily and there will be a pre determined cut off point each day (time to be determined later). The list will go electronically and the process should not be a slow one.

NowDollar - Compounding Option?

2006-06-27T08:10:00.000+08:00

This new feature will certainly be a warm welcome to many of you who are looking to compound your earning without withdrawing.

Good Afternoon NowDollar Members,

We have added a transfer option into our Members area. You may now transfer you Earnings Cash to your Cash Balance.

To do this all your Advertising Packages must be expired.

A 4% fee will apply to all transfers.

Any Questions can be directed to our Members Support Department.

We have finished Processing Cash out Request for Friday. If your request had missing information it was not processed. The cash out request with missing information were deleted and you may resubmit the request for Tuesdays processing.

Have a Great Day!

Lance

NowDollar - Effective July 18th Egold will be allowed for upgrades only!

2006-06-26T23:36:00.000+08:00

Lance has asked me to tell you today that we will not stop allowing upgrades from Egold.

However we will stop paying out to Egold after the Tuesday July 18th cashouts. This should give everyone that wants to continue with us a chance to get a Virtual Money card.

Starting July 19th we will accept upgrades with Egold but will not cash out to Egold. Any egold received we will simply convert over to Virtual Money.

Why are we doing this?....We are tired of the scammers and hackers we are having to deal with day in and day out associated with Egold. The fraud and problems that go on behind the scenes are more than you know. We are determined to keep your money safe and the site secure. Egold seems either unwilling or powerless to help us or some of the other legitimate surf sites with this problem. They are simply leaving us with no choice.
When you combine that with fluctuation in gold prices....well it is too risky a game to play with your money.

We hope you all understand why for the good of the program we must somewhat distance ourselves from Egold.

We are allowing enought time for everyone to get a VM card before we stop paying out to Egold. You can order a VM card right from the front of our website.

Jim

InvestDot - Scammed

2006-06-26T01:24:00.000+08:00

Time to move this to scammed. Their website has not been accessible for 1 full week. I am out of this one with a little profit. It is getting harder to earn from this type of HYIP which requires 2 to 3 months to breakeven. The HYIP scene is changing. Programs are scamming or closing shop faster and earlier compared to 2 years ago. So play this game wisely.

NSFG - Trading to start on Monday 26th Jun 2006

2006-06-25T00:19:00.000+08:00

Well, finally they are ready to go again. Looking forward to positive trading results. Let's see how they perform for this last week of the month.

Good Morning Everyone,

Well we were finally approved with our new brokers late yesterday afternoon after much backwards and forwards of documents, this means that trading will commence from Monday morning.

We had expected to be approved over a week ago, however the fault was ours so for that I apologize.

When Ken and I set up NSFG in the beginning we paid a good deal of money to set it up in a very private and secure manner. This backfired on us a bit when it came to proving our link to the company directly and we had to get all kinds of official documentation signed by our company lawyers, which took the extra week to do, to satisfy the Compliance Department of BGC.

This has all now been completed and we will be full steam ahead from Monday!!

This means that we will have the last week of June to trade in. Unfortunately the markets have moved a great deal this week, as some of you may have been very well aware, we were paper trading and made several hundred pips. What this means is that there may not be a huge amount of movement next week, this is of course not set in stone, as it may continue to make large moves.

However I am just forewarning everyone that we will NOT be chasing the markets to make up any lost potential profits from this week and will only trade when opportunities present themselves. This means that you should not be expecting any huge % from the final week, we will of course as always try our very best in all situations, and if the price action is right then we are very confident of gains.

Okay, now that we have moved over and everything is moving forward I will re-open the general discussion section of the Forum so that there is a way of easy communication between us.

It has been a very hectic time of me over here, as not only have Ken and I been dealing with this broker move and all the compliance issues it entails, I am also moving house next weekend. I will update you all with my contact details when I know the new phone number etc.

If this was not enough I am also getting Married at the start of August so have been planning this to……I must have an unconscious desire for stress I am sure!

Because of the house move next week I will open the forum in the first week of July when I get back my focus so I can effectively monitor it.

Okay well that is about it, once again I would like to apologize for the delay in getting this move all sorted out for everyone, Ken and I are just very happy to be getting back to trading full time, and with BGC we are looking forward to very good times ahead for us all!!

Have a great weekend everyone, and best of luck of your boys are still in the World Cup!!

As always, if any of you have any questions or queries, please do let me know.
Paul

FX-Experts - Offering Managed Accounts

2006-06-24T23:43:00.000+08:00

This may be old news. I just post it here for the record. About a week or 2 back, FX-Experts has started offering Managed Accounts. To sign up, just go to their homepage. There is a managed acc. link on the sidebar. Click on it, fill in the form with your contact info and wait for them to contact you.

For their managed account,
Minimum Investment is: US$25,000
Broker is based: Offshore, regulated, based in Swiss
Expected returns: Between 5 and 15% monthly
Incentive Fee: 20 to 30% of new monthly profits depending on the amount invested

KAOnline - Due Diligence

2006-06-24T23:38:00.000+08:00

Jude from NoBSHYIP has posted his report on KAOnline. For those of you who would like to check on his report, pleasae click here.

NowDollar - Payment Received to VM Account

2006-06-24T16:19:00.000+08:00

Just realised that I have not been posting for 5 days. This is the longest posting break for my blog.
Expect posting to slow down as my day job is keeping me busy with numerous international conference call at night throughout the week. If you really need to check out the day to day happenings in the HYIP world, may I suggest that you visit Leo's Drunk On Life and Jude's NoBSHYIP blogs. Most of the stuffs I had posted in the past were also posted over at these 2 blogs.

Anyway, I just received a neat big payout (within 24hrs) from NowDollar to my Virtual Money account for a cashout request which I submitted yesterday. It certainly save me a lot of fees when funding through VM. I need to get my VM account limited increased now as my first payment from NowDollar to VM had already exceeded the limit.

CompactingSurfing - Bite the Dust

2006-06-19T09:22:00.000+08:00

Another top surf has bitten the dusk. I am thankful that I got out of this in early with profit. So far, all the top 3 surfs of 2 months ago, namely PheonixSurf, WiredSurf and CompactSurfing, have closed down. It just shows how fragile the lifespan of a surf is. One thing I observed whenever a surf closed down, there will be another promising one coming up to take its place. So who's next? Could it be 13Dailypro? There is a slight possibility. However, I would advise caution if you are in 13DP as I read somewhere in one of the forum a post made by somebody that there are a lot of maxed out members in 13DP. What this means is that funds are continually being drained to pay this members (More outgoing funds than incoming). So this is not a good sign.

Anyway, read on for the announcement by CompactSurfing....

Dear Compact Surfing Members,

I hope you will read this update closely, and consider all that I say here carefully, with the understanding that the Compact Network will be implementing further changes in the coming weeks, but we are here to stay for the long term as I have promised from the beginning.

As of today, Friday, June 16, 2006, Compact Surfing upgrades will be disabled. Allow me to clarify our reasons for doing this, and our plans for the coming weeks ahead:

1. The price of gold per ounce, as all of you know, has dropped significantly in the past several weeks. Because of this, the Egold funds in reserves that I had to maintain for the operation of CS diminished in value tremendously on a daily/weekly basis. There has been a 15 to 20% drop in the value of gold in the past several weeks, from above $700 an ounce in May to around $570 as I write this. What this means is that most upgrade values that were sent to CS and held
online in order to provide the old trademark “fast payouts” dropped in $$$ value while waiting to be paid out. This has been occurring for weeks now. We persisted, believing there would be a turn around with the gold markets, that things would average out, but to date, this has not happened.

We’ve reevaluated the situation, and have decided now to stop taking upgrades until such time as the gold markets stabilize, we hope by mid-summer. We feel this is best for both the company and our members financially. Members have faced the same situation CS has when their payments arrive to their accounts and drop in value within hours…what took several days to
build in profits has sometimes been diminished within hours, sitting in members Egold accounts. In accordance with this decision, the ability to upgrade to CS accounts will be disabled today.

For those who do not understand why drastic drops in Egold might affect the reserves of a program designed like CS, here’s why. The 3 cashout requests per month combined with the processing of requests every day of the week, and 48 hour “fast payment” meant we had to
keep a majority of Network funds in reserve in Egold rather than offline. 48 hours was not long enough to move funds through exchangers online for payments or offline for protection of capital, especially on weekends when banks are closed. This is why, in our last newsletter, we established the 7-business day timeframe as being more realistic and manageable for the future of CS, however, since that last update, we have considered the situation further.

2. On June 9th, we processed nearly $500,000 USD in cashout requests. I continued to use the remaining funds left to pay as many requests as I could, and you can view a screenshot of all
payments sent here:
http://compactsurfing.com/first1.PNG
http://compactsurfing.com/second2.PNG
http://compactsurfing.com/third3.PNG
3660 payments were sent the last 2 days and each single sent was paid.

Moving Forward: We are going to do refunds for members with pending requests, put the program on hold and relaunch in the summer, when hopefully the gold markets have stabilized and by which time I will have had time to implement Compactpay with features available and
debit cards. All funds in my possession less operation costs will be used for refunds. In the coming weeks, the support staff will assist me in this work. Members in profit will not receive
refunds. Those members not in profit will be returned a percentage of their initial upgrade purchase dependant upon the total available for distribution. Earnings and referral commissions will be deducted from your pendings in our calculations. Please be advised that I am doing this despite the fact that our terms have always stipulated that upgrade purchases are non-refundable.

3. All Compactpay members with funds in CP, please rest assured that your funds are secure. I will announce next week the procedure for how returns of whatever you funded into your Compactpay accounts will be executed. After the funds have been removed from the system, during the next few weeks, the database for Compact Pay will be inaccessible to members as my
programmers and I work to implement features which I have not had the chance to dedicate time to. Please be patient and I will update further regarding this in the coming weeks. For those members who have made recent Bank Wire Fundings, I cannot address those until next week when the bank is open so please be patient with this as well.

With that said, the following actions will be taken in the coming weeks. The Compact Network will be relaunched at the end of August/early September and I have decided for now that the following three sites will be the focus of my time and resources: Compact Surfing, Compact Lottery, and Compact Pay

A. Compact Surfing

1. Expect a new layout and design to the site. The site will offer 14% daily for 9 days on your upgrade purchases tentatively. Upgrade units will be $10 USD each and the maximum member balance with active upgrades will be $10,000 USD. Payout Timeframe: Upgrades will become pending in your Cashout History automatically upon expiration. They will be processed
within 7 business days following date of expiration. No more having to request cashout. This setup is perfectly clear on when members will be paid. In addition, I will know exactly what is needed ready in my online payment processor accounts each week to process payouts. As such, I can store the majority of funds offline accordingly so that we are no longer at the mercy of gold price fluctuations.

2. Compact forum will still be in place; possibly changed to vbulletin format as I have received
feedback requesting this from members.

3. More details to be announced when available.

B. Compact Lottery

1. Expect a new layout and design to the site

2. No more purchasing tickets from cash balance; you will be able to purchase directly from Egold and tentatively Compactpay as well. Winners will be paid within 5 business days following announcement of weekly lucky numbers.

3. Cash prizes will be greater in amount, though the number of winners will be less than the past track record to allow for ease of management in distributing payment of prizes. The amounts for Weekly prizes will be announced on the site as well. Distribution of rewards still to be determined by the administrator.

C. Compact Pay

1. I will work in the coming weeks to develop relationships with exchangers to bring on board to
offer funding/withdrawal options for Compact Pay that they will handle individually and efficiently.

3. I welcome any member suggestions with regards to implementing debit cards. Compact Debit Cards are still planned, but due to the current situation, and recent comments made by members regarding their wishes for certain cards, I have cancelled our previous order for cards. For those of you who prefer Cardoneplus over Virtual Money, and vice versa, please contact
Nvus with your reasoning and he will forward me details and I will make a final decision in the coming weeks: cn_nvus@yahoo.com

4. The Shopping Cart Interface will be made available and upgrades/cashouts through CS via CompactPay will be available as well to coincide with relaunch of CS.

Expect further announcements from me in the coming days. The Compact Network is here to stay and we are not going anywhere, I assure you all. After 3 months of hard work and dedication I will not give up and I ask that you do not give up on me now either. We have
faced obstacles beyond our control in the past several weeks, but the above plan of action will allow us to return, stronger than ever. Thank you all for your continued support.

Sincerely Yours,

Luuk Hendriks
Altus Financial Services Inc.

NowDollar - Due Diligence and Guide

2006-06-18T21:39:00.000+08:00

For those of you who are still uncertain whether to give NowDollar a go, do check out this excellent DD conducted by Vincent of Autosurf-Guide and another one I found in DreamTeamMoney Forum.

Vincent's DD on NowDollar
DD on NowDollar from DreamTeamMoney Forum

Also check out this simple yet informative NowDollar guide from Tysin (MMG Member)

NowDollar - Member Support Implementation

2006-06-18T16:26:00.000+08:00

The program just continue to improve.

Good Evening NowDollar Members,

We are almost finished processing Fridays cash out request. We are expecting to finish this evening.

We are rolling out our new Member Support Department. In the Members Home Page you will now see a link to ‘NowDollar Member Support’. The link is located under the Virtual Money logo in the Member News area. This will send a support request directly to our Member support team. This way we will be able to keep our Members request separate from Out side contact request and will be able to take care of our members first. All Support Request will now be handled through this system. If you have not had your questions answered, please resubmit them in the new Members Support Area. Our Members Support Staff will be available Monday - Friday from 9am to 7pm.

We have been in contact with VM in reference to the VM issue.

We are also processing your VM card order now.

Have a great weekend.

Lance

NowDollar - Payment Received

2006-06-17T23:21:00.000+08:00

Received payment from NowDollar today. As usual, paid within 24hrs. Membership growth has been steadily increasing over the week. Sign out now. Click on my portfolio link over at the sidebar to find out more about the program.

InvestDot - Down or Scammed?

2006-06-17T23:11:00.000+08:00

Their website is down and not accessible at the moment. My last daily withdrawal request about 22hrs ago was still not processed. I am not drawing any conclusion at the moment. Their website had went down before and noticed was sent after it came back up. Let's hope that this will be the case this time. Worst case scenario will be that they had scammed. Anyway, I am already in profit as I didn't compound since I joined 3 months ago.

PSX - Debit Card Application

2006-06-17T23:05:00.000+08:00

PSX is requesting members who would like to get paid to submit verification document for debit card application. The application form is from the bank. I only have 1 plan pending payout there for 2 months. Hence I will adopt a wait and see whether people get paid after submitting all their personal information.

Updates by Forum Admin
http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3859&mforum=psg

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:22 am Post subject: PDF Files are now available.
OK everyone,
It seams as though Henry jumped the gun on me... LOL

The bank application forms are available to download from the PSX site.

Fill them in as the samples........
http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3408&mforum=psg

Please remember that it is important to sign pages 2 and 3 of the CIR doc 4 times as indicated.

DO NOT worry about the areas that have been left blank in the samples. You can leave them blank, strike through or simply put N/A

When you send them back in the provided email, you must provide the required ID also.

~~~~~~~~~~~

This is the link to the application :
http://www.pointsharextreme.com/index.php?pr=Debit_Cards

But you need to login before you can view that page.

PSX Website URL :
http://www.pointsharextreme.com/

NSFG - Minor Update

2006-06-15T23:26:00.000+08:00

Ken has posted a quick market review over at Gold-Horizons forum (You will need to be a NSFG member to access the thread). Trading should start today or within these few days. Hope to see some positive results at towards the end of the month for a change.

The Price of Gold (E-Gold) Part 2

2006-06-15T23:18:00.000+08:00

Read up this 2nd part of the write up on the price of gold from Surfboard. Click here to access the article. I experienced this impact about 2 to 3 weeks back. Lost around $100 when gold price tumble. Not is not a good time to keep too much gold in your account. Spend it, invest it, dump it. If you live in Singapore or Malaysia, try Snapgold for out exchange if you just want to get rid of your egold. The deal can be closed within minutes at night from 9pm to 12am SGP time if you catch Robert (admin) online.

QDSurf - Big Red Card

2006-06-15T12:42:00.000+08:00

Previously I mentioned that I will be paying attention to this program (QDSurf). Then there was members highlighted that the admin has gone "quiet" all of a sudden and payout has stopped. Today, I received this email from the program. I think they are severely short of cash. Stay away from this program.

Special Limited Time ONLY !!!

Upgrade with any amount of upgrades
and that amount will be doubled for
free, this is a limited time only !!

GoogleSurfs (0) vs MSNSurf (1)

2006-06-15T00:18:00.000+08:00

Recently, 2 surfs that take after the names of IT giants Google and Microsoft surfaced. Both GoogleSurfs and MSNsurf are not affiliated with Google and Microsoft. Googlesurfs has since lost the battle against MSNsurf. If you are in MSNSurf, don't stay in there too long. I do not see how they can last.

HYWD Issue 52 is out

2006-06-15T00:04:00.000+08:00

HYWD Issue 52 is online.

- In Focus: eTalkShare
- 5 HYIPs On Review
- A Risky Investment Becomes Commonplace
- Online Paid Surveys - Internet Jackpot or Petty Cash?
- Currency Technical Analysis Part 1: The Most Important Theory Ever
- Moneymaking Picks: To Win The World Cup? Where?
- Issue 52 Reader's Digest

Warning - StormHits

2006-06-14T23:52:00.000+08:00

If you have ever come across this traffic exchange program named StormHits, stay as far away as possible and don't associate yourself with them as they are owned by Scampay. Treat them like scam. Maybe they should rename it scamhits.

Virtual Money (1) vs E-Gold (0)

2006-06-14T23:38:00.000+08:00

VM Card seem to be a cool piece of card to own nowadays. I just ordered mine from AlienTrust. With the continual downslope tumble of the gold price, it is more cost effective to fund and withdraw using VM card if you are playing with large amount of money. For a comparision of the cost of using VM and E-Gold, check out this article from Investment Rankings over here.

Also read up this post from SurfBoard's Online Money on the effect of gold prices.

Surf Programs dumped

2006-06-14T23:24:00.000+08:00

Ok. I just dumped a few surfs from my portfolio.

Compactsurfing - Their new payout terms no longer make this program attractive. Surf 9 days and wait 7 business days for payout bring the overall ROI down. I am out of this one after my last payout over last weekend. This surf is 3 months old and still growing strong. If you still decide to continue in this surf, do pay careful attention to the changes. 3 months for a surf seem to be the average lifespan nowadays for most average surfs program. Compactsurfing is definitely above average but it does not heard to pay slightly more attention considering what just happened to their 2 closing competitors PhoenixSurf and WiredSurf.

CanUSAGold - Nothing much to explain why I dumped them. They are not paying and I am not going to wait for them to pay anymore. Move on.

TotalRune - This surf is still recovering from its 2 weeks "timeout". My account has been suspended for unexceptable reason which I will not elaborate here. I have replied Paul with an email showing that he did credit my account with my Scampay upgrade. Have yet to heard from him and I don't think he will reply. If you are still in TR, pay careful attention too as there are a lot of members reporting that they are still waiting for their accounts to be credited with those missed surf days when the site is down. Definitely not a wise time to re-invest in TR.

eDatasurf - Closed. I had received 50% refund from Ramesh. Looking forward to the other 50%. I don't have that huge an amount in this.

Another Phishing E-Gold email

2006-06-14T14:22:00.000+08:00

If you ever receive the below email, delete it and do not click on any link. You will open up new vulnerability on your computer if you do so. This email was caught by my spam filter yesterday morning.

** e-gold Security Update ** Dear e-gold users, We are contacting you to warn you about a virus which is spreading within JPEG images. E-gold has developed a virus protection update to prevent unauthorized access to your account. We urge you to update your account protection following these easy steps: 1. Launch MS Internet Explorer (our security update is developed for MS Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher. Please visit www.microsoft.com for more information). 2. Download e-gold Security Update (less than a minute @ 33.6k) 3. Launch e-gold Security Update and follow the on-screen instructions. 4. Reboot your computer (not necessary if you have Microsoft Windows XP installed).

eDatasurf - Closing Down

2006-06-10T22:20:00.000+08:00

This could be a shock for some of you but not for me. I had see this possibility coming since the day some of those forum members over at HYIPDiscussion started attacking the integrity of the admin. Having taken a neutral stand throughout those past few days when Ramesh is being attacked left right center by a few of them over at that forum, I still do not know what these forumers are trying to proof. We all know that most if not all autosurfs are either ponzi or semi-ponzi. So what's the point of trying to proof the admin is a liar especially when most of us had known him since the days of edatamerge.biz. It has come to a point where a good program just simply have to close down because of this. It is very sad indeed......

Dear Members,

I am writing this with a heavy heart.

Well, I started this program only to help fellow surfers to earn better. I sketched every plan right from day one how to project the site, how to pay all you know. I don’t have to explain it again.

Profits: I never expected any huge profit from eDs for myself. A $1000 profit from this would have made me the happiest person in the world. But I am sorry. Looks like a remote chance, unless I take it from members money, which I won’t.

Last 5 days I wasn’t in good mood at all. I have to deal with some forum gentlemen who called me liar, cheater whatever the best they can. I have true intentions to run the site at top level. But when I am paying properly, maintaining high customer relationship still do I need to listen these?

Well a scammer can listen to all those and leave it simply. Bcoz his only intention is to scam. I am not here to scam anyone. We had very big attacks upto 50GB traffic in one single day. We survived all. Without protection this is highly impossible. But some people always tried to put eDs down from day 3 if I am right. Simply they tried everything to put eDs down.

We are here. Still standing tall. But the question in my mind is simple. Do I need to run eDs listening to all these people?

Well payouts or refunds? What shall I decide? I am not able to sleep reading those posts. People who dealt with me before eDs days knows about me. I never ever had scam intentions. But I am not able to see my wife crying reading those posts. I too have a heart and 2 lovely children. Those people who called me a liar please I request at least after this leave me to sleep peacefully. I am exactly accepting what are you expecting. Yes I am closing down. I cannot listen to those wordings again.

Well saying this I request members to understand we are financially very strong. I have no intention to close the site till now too. Well I can’t see my wife crying. She got nothing to do with this business. But she read those posts. Sorry I lost my sleep for last some days. You all know how hard I worked on those 5 days when we had attacks. I almost worked non-stop. I forgot even my children’s face. In fact refund amount is bigger than payout amount of this week. This is the right proof that I am not closing the site bcoz of financial crisis.

Ok I already started refunding members. This how it is calculated on simple format.

Total Amount purchase from day 1 – Total payments made till date = Balance is what due from our end.

For Example:

Your total purchase so for: $1000
Total payments Received : $ 600

Total outstanding due : $400

I understand there won’t be any profit in it. But when we close the site we cannot pay the profits bcoz we already end up in loss. I personally last $13k so far.

Ok. Since this is a sudden decision, I can’t immediately withdraw funds from the places where ever I invested. We invested all the money we got inside till yesterday. Today’s money is untouched. This will be refunded straight.

So on the first phase I will refund 50% of the total outstanding due, which shall be completed by Sunday June 11th, 2006.

2nd phase I will pay next 25% this will start from Wednesday and will be finished before Friday.

3rd Phase I will pay the final 25% I will pay on or before June 17th 2006 and make sure none of the good members of eDs lose out.

I understand time is money. Whomsoever not in profits lost your valuable time with us. Surfing, promoting. But I am sorry. When I see my family I have to decide this. I am working 16 hours a day. Most of the part what eats my time is investments. Not a very simple work. Very big work. I am a single man have to handle investments. Read a lot, calculate everyday. I am really tired plus handling whiners, attackers and black mailers.

My heart felt apologies for not able to fulfill my promise of making eDs big. I had that only aim to make eDs as big as possible. But I am sorry. Some wordings can change life. I don’t want to deal with the likes of some forum people. I am no scammer. But sure I am a loser at present.

I assure none of you will lose your original purchased money. Maximum of the members are known to me or close to me. I will never put you down. Please don’t worry.

Not like some programs says, “we are refunding” kind of wordings are not here. I promise I will refund each and every one of you without fail.

I know this would have been shocking news for many of you. I am really sorry. My sincere apologies to my supporters. But people who spoke to me today know how we feel. I started this site with big dreams. Ok past is past. Please allow me time till Sunday to finish the first round of refund process. I require this time. It’s a manual process. Not automatic. Kindly please please don’t send me email asking when will mine get processed. I have the list and it will hit you before tomorrow without fail.

I closed the upgrades. Members cannot upgrade after this.

My sincere thanks to Ridzwan of Hotsurfs.com, Jake of autosurfauthority.com and Mike of investdaddy.com for supporting and helping us.

My special thanks to MMG forum members and Talk Gold forum members for supporting me very well. I am sorry. I lost. I have enough money for the payouts to you now. But I want to refund make sure that no one is losing. Many member’s refund money is higher than the pending payouts.

I am sorry for things happening beyond my control. When it comes to family, I have no choice but to decide with family. I request members to please understand me. I won’t scam anyone and your refunds will hit for sure.

Members who are already in profit kindly excuse me. Sorry I don’t have more money to pay you. I think I can’t even process my only staff’s salary after refunds.

Once again expecting member’s co-operation.

Thanks & Regards

Ramesh

NowDollar - News

2006-06-10T11:03:00.000+08:00

Good Evening NowDollar Members

Great News!!

We have just finished Processing Cash Outs for Friday.

Our programmers are working on the AlertPay issue. Members can still make deposits into their cash accounts with AlertPay but please give us some time to credit your accout. EGold has been doing great with no issues. We are still working on giving all Members credit for missed surfed day.

Please take time to look over your account, if you see anything out of order please contact us.

Have a Great Weekend everyone.

Lance

Paid by NowDollar

2006-06-10T09:58:00.000+08:00

Just receive a nice payment from NowDollar for 1 week of surfing. I requested cashout yesterday and was paid today. Very fast payment. The program is here to stay at least in the near future as they had just spent a bomb on DDOS protection from Prolexic. One of the best and most expensive available and currently used by CompactSurfing as well.

Program details -
URL: http://www.nowdollar.com/?ref=1208
Nature of Program: Manual Paid to Surf
Min. Upgrade: Each Ad Pack cost $10
Max Upgrade: USD$7000
Max No. of Upgrade Allowed: 3 Active Upgrade with total not exceeding $7000
Referral Commission: 5%
Compound: No
ROI: 9% daily for 15 days
Credit required to earn for the day: 12
Fee: 4% fee for funding
Risk Level: High. As with all Paid to Surfs programs, I will never assign a medium or low risk.
Payment Processor accepted: E-gold, AlertPay, Virtual Money
Minimum to Cashout: USD$35
Payout method: Cashout can be requested once every 7 days but will only be paid during Tuesday or Friday whichever is nearer to the day you submitted the cashout request.
Program Status: Paying
My Strategy: Go in big and cycle the money for around 1 or 2 rounds then play with profit. This program is still young. Definitely has a lot of life in it.
Remarks: What I liked about this program is the smooth surfing and neat members interface. Admin has strong financial background and multiple income stream. They just invested a bomb on the very expensive DDOS protection from Prolexic. It just signal their intent to stay. Currently from my understanding, only CompactSurfing is using the same DDOS protection. Join early if you want to earn $$$.

Compactsurfing - Payment received

2006-06-09T23:00:00.000+08:00

Just received payment for my upgrade which expired on the 6th Jun 2006. Their payout is stretching to 72hrs now instead of the usual 48hrs. With this payment, I am out of CompactSurfing for the time being. Will be channeling my funds to NowDollar.

PSX - Update

2006-06-09T10:45:00.000+08:00

Hot from the oven. Just received this from my upline.

http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3470&mforum=psg

Here is what we have to date with what is happening with PSX.....

The new script is being built right now. So, HJ is awaiting that so that the PSX site will function as required. Lori has been in touch with HJ about the new scripting and has a programmer that can undertake the task. The deal has been closed and the down payment has been paid.
Meanwhile, Cody, Terry and I have been working on everything else that is going on in the background. We have also been in constant communications with Henry and have made some major steps toward the development of the new PSX.

The major thing at the moment is the progress of the new Debit Card. All the negotiations with the bank are basically complete. Henry will make available 2 PDF files in a secure area of the PSX site. Henry will post when they are available. Both of these documents will have to be printed out and filled in by every member that qualifies to have the Debit Card.
Once you have done that, You will need to scan them so that you can send them to a secure email or fax number that will be issued. You will also be required to supply ID for verification purposes.

Required...
1 x Photo ID
1 x Signature ID
1 x Proof of address.

There will be a list of accepted document IDs that you can choose from. If you do not or cannot provide the required ID verification, you will not get the bank account, you will not get the Debit Card.
All future payments will be paid to you through your card.

There will be a new section in the Forum that lays out in detail, what you will be required to do. There will also be an FAQ section dedicated to the DC.

The new PSX plans are being worked on and HJ will post the details for those very soon. I am sure that you will like what is going to be offered. Until Henry posts about them, we will not be accepting any questions relating to them so please do not ask.

All that I can tell you for now is that PSX will be here for the long haul. What will be, will be the best thing for longevity in comparison to anything you have seen on the Internet.
PSX will be here for years to come. You will be excited about this business. You will not be sorry that you joined PSX.

We have ALL had some major waiting time with all the delays, but it will be worth it. All is going to happen. I am personally very excited about the new set-up that will be.

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In case you are wondering what is signature ID, forum admin has replied a member the following :

Anything that is government issued that shows your signature, like a passport, drivers license etc.

Eg. A passport that shows both your Photo and Signature will act as 2 of the requirements.
http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3471&mforum=psg

Scampay - Back in Business

2006-06-09T10:31:00.000+08:00

There is this bad news posted by HYIPBlog that scampay is back in business. For those of you who still have access to scampay website and has received update from them, are you able to verify this truth?

If they are really back in business, this does not look good for those of you who are still fighting hard to get their $$$ back via chargeback. For me, my 1st chargeback was disputed by scampay and I have filed for arbitration. Still waiting for news from the bank. Hope all goes well for the members against scampay.

NowDollar - Some update from me

2006-06-09T10:25:00.000+08:00

NowDollar website seem to be loading smoothly in a lot of places now. Some of the members who complained that they are unable to load the site and login to surf are now saying that the site is loading. This is good news and I am expecting this surf to get up to speed once Lance gets the remaining scripts and credits for missed surfing sorted out. This day should be fast approaching. Thereafter, expect this program to go full stream. Their DDOS protection from Prolexic has worked pretty well after the implementation and has continued to keep the website up even after continual attack. A lot of money has been spent by Lance on this protection feature. So don't expect NowDollar to disappear anytime in the near future. Join now and start earning money.

NowDollar - Earnings will be credited till upgrade expires

2006-06-08T14:29:00.000+08:00

I am retracting the extended days to the active advertising packages. Because of the DNS issue and some Members unable to access our site, I am going to just give credit for all missed days and all Advertising Packs will expire at the end of 15 days.
I am also disabling the cash out request until tomorrow afternoon server time to give the support staff time to make all the changes and make sure everyone has been credited for missed days.

All support tickets will not be answered regarding this matter. We will take all other support tickets regarding other matters. Please understand this is the best for all our Members.

Some Egold and AlertPay deposits are still not showing up when they are made. If your deposit does not show, please email us. Put Deposit in the Subject line. It could take up to 2 hours to be credited to your account but you will get credit.

Thank you for all your support and after tomorrow everything should be back to normal.

Lance

NowDollar - Payout and Upgrade

2006-06-07T17:35:00.000+08:00

We have just finished processing all of Tuesdays cash out request.

I have also started updating Members account for lost Surf days.

We will get to everyone so please give us time.

If you have made a deposit to your cash account and it has not shown up yet. Please send us a email with user id, processor and amount.

Have a Great Day.

Lance

High Yield Weekly Digest Issue 51

2006-06-07T07:39:00.000+08:00

Check out some juicy writeup/review in this issue.

HYWD Issue 51 is online.

Inside this issue:

- In Focus: Money Moves Asia
- 5 Fast HYIP Reviews
- Online Income: Separating Fact from Fiction
- Hi-Profile Identity Theft Scams
- Importance of Options Trading Education to the Investor
- Victoria Picks: Money Making Scams Finally Reviewed
- Issue 51 Reader's Digest

NowDollar - Deposit Issue Fixed

2006-06-07T07:37:00.000+08:00

Good Afternoon NowDollar Members.

I have just finished with updating the accounts that made deposits. Our cash deposit system was not adding the deposits to our Members account. We should have the problem fixed now.

Thank you.

Lance

NowDollar - Surfing problem?

2006-06-06T16:03:00.000+08:00

Good Morning NowDollar Members,

If you were not able to surf Monday Please Contact us and we will give you credit. Our new DDoS protections is great, but it takes longer for our site to get out there. We have been having some issues but are dealing with them one at a time.

Again let me say, If you did not get to surf yesterday please contact us. We want to get your account credited.

We would ask that you give us time to get all the bugs worked out. Things are a little rocky now but are smoothing out fast.

We processed over 100 cash out request today and we will do the same tomorrow. After Tuesday we will be back to our Tuesday and Friday Noon Cash Outs.

Please check our Forum for answers to your questions before you submit a ticket. We have some outstanding Mods there that can take care of almost anything.

Have a wonderful Day

Lance

GoldenRocks - Update

2006-06-06T11:36:00.000+08:00

There is a long update posted by Nick Pola. If you are a member, login to their private forum to read the news.

NowDollar - Up and Operational Now

2006-06-06T07:26:00.000+08:00

NowDollar is up and running. Their DDOS protection from Prolexic is in place now. DDOS protection from Prolexic is expensive. Coupled with a 3 servers loadbalancing solution like AlienTrust, Lance must have spent some serious money on this program. It just signal his serious intent to be around for a long while despite the fact that his membership base is only around 1500 at the moment. This surf has all the things going to become a top surf. Sign up now. The rate is 9% for 15 days. Not 8% as shown in the banner below. I will contact Lance to get the banner updated.

We are back up and running after the DdoS attack over the weekend. They are still attacking us but our protection is holding. I would like to thank all of our Members for their understanding. We are processing cash outs now. We will still process cash outs on Tuesday as stated in our Terms and Conditions.

I have added two extra days to all active upgrades to make up for the missed days of 6/3 and 6/4.

We are not giving credit for 6/2 because we were online for 18 hours Friday.

Our forum will be up and running sometime today.

I am sorry the DDoS protection we had in place was inadequate. We are very well protected now.

Our moderators have done a outstanding job keeping our members informed about our progress. Thank you Steve and Jim for your dedication.

I still have a lot of work so I will keep this short.

If you see anything out of place in your account please contact us and we will check into it.

Thank you again for your support.

Lance
Admin NowDollar

There will be no Surf Holidays for the last 2 days. Instead, the upgrade expiry has been extended. Do check your history after you login to verify the expiry date.

We have been getting several emails about added expiration dates. Please check your History. The extended days will show there. If they do not. Please let us know. I will also be keeping an eye on the exp Packs over the next two weeks to make sure our members get the correct pay out.

Lance

PSX - Debit Card Update

2006-06-05T22:36:00.000+08:00

Nothing firmed up yet. Just take it as another piece of news for the day.

http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3388&sid=a265f0482fc58c0f94e605aff89f20d8&mforum=psg

As Henry has mentioned that we will be getting a completely different Debit Card than originally planned. Forget about the original one. It is no longer.

However, now that the new one has been mentioned, we are already getting questions about what, why and when. We don't have the answers for you at this stage, but we are working on it for you.

We plan to set up a special section in the forum, just to give you the answers with step by step instructions and what you need to do to get your card. There will also be a special Questions area in that section just for your inquiries about them.

Yes, you will need to get your personal ID sorted out and ready. These will be required by the bank. We will list what you need when the new section is set up.
Also, there is NO room for wrongful addresses. If you want the card, you have to use your actual mailing address. You will be opening a personal account with the bank and you know what details you have had to give if you have ever done that.

There will be no room for BUT, BUT, BUT. You must comply as required.
We want to make this as painless for you so that it will be smooth sailing.

The new card is just one of the upcoming extras that will be offered by PSX. You will love what is to come... again, don't ask right now. All will be revealed by Henry very, very soon. PSX is going to be bigger than you would ever imagine.

Please just have faith and you will all be happy campers very soon. You have waited this long, so what is just a little more wait to get these benefits.

NowDollar - Coming Up soon

2006-06-05T21:37:00.000+08:00

Here's the latest update from Jim (NowDollar Mod) over at MMG.

Latest update from Lance.

We are done with what we needed to do......

Prolexic is done with what they needed to do.........

DDOSers are still hitting us.....(would not want to leave them out of this)

Our host has a DNS error. So as soon as our host untangles their end we should be up and flying.

We basically are sitting on the launchpad ready to blast off if only we could get our host to light the fuse.

So we wait......this is not easy for me because I stand in front of the microwave and tell it to
hurry.

Jim

NowDollar - Latest Update

2006-06-05T15:14:00.000+08:00

This update was posted this morning over at Autosurfcafe by Steve (one of NowDollar Mod).

The site should be up very soon. NowDollar has protection from prolexic, same as compact surf, same as egold. We should have no more downtime from DDOS.

All current upgrades will be extended two days to compensate lost surfing. Surf holidays are harder to implement than upgrade extensions.

Next cashout is Tuesday. All cashouts will now be processed at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays CST. Note: If you had an upgrade expire since last Tuesday and got a cashout you will not be able to cashout this Tuesday as there is only one cashout per 7 days. So make your plans accordingly.

If we get online before midnight tonight server time DO NOT SURF. Save it till tomorrow. The exception is if you upgrade today, Sunday, server time. Then surf. (This sounds complicated so my simple interpretation is don't upgrade to day, don't surf today - do it tomorrow) I gather surfing today will mess up your account and we will have to fix it manually. But there are no problems upgrading and surfing Monday.

Please check your account for any anomalies - missing downline and etc and send in a support ticket with lots of details - member ID's, dates, email addy's, amounts, batch numbers and anything else that will help resolve it.

NowDollar now has new terms and new protections. I believe NowDollar will be one of the big surfs in short order.

TotalRune - Another Long Update

2006-06-05T10:17:00.000+08:00

Nothing much on this update except to calm your nerves to let you know that they are still around.

Hello Everyone,

Just a quick update on things again...Myself and my staff have been working like crazy to edit everyones accounts. We seem to be moving along pretty nicely, but obviously this takes time. Thank you for your patience.

We will be opening up Cashouts and Compounding tonight but I deffinitely need to let you know that with everything we are doing to get things back to normal again... cashouts WILL TAKE LONGER THAN NORMAL. This is b/c we will not be able to drop everything and just do payouts. Besides the fact that even when we have nothing to do except payouts, it takes more time than it normally would with all these hackers and fraudulant upgrades. We check every account in detail before making a payment. It just HAS TO BE DONE, or we ALL lose. I will do my best to do cashouts, edit accounts, and answer emails as quickly as possible... but I WILL NOT answer emails about cashouts until we have caught up on everything.

With this being said, I am also suggesting that some of you might want to compound this week and this will free up time to catch up on all the editing. Then next week we should be back to a normal time frame again. Free members you might want to compound some of your balance and cashout some and then you wont be sitting around everyday waiting for the cashout request to be processed just so you can upgrade again.

Also some of you might have received your debit cards and might want to request payment to them. Remember, all you have to do is put the request in as an Alertpay cashout with your DEBIT CARD NUMBER. Thats all. You will then be cashed out to your card, and once the cashout is processed the cash is available almost instantly.

WE DEFFINITELY RECOMMEND CASHING OUT TO YOUR CARD.
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Anyhow things are starting to look up again. I can see a light at the end of this disasterous tunnel. We still need to do a few more things for security purposes and to get back 24hrs of smoothe sailing. The raffle went well on IMF, congrats to our winners. Dont worry we didnt forget about TR. The raffle for TR will start sometime this week...We will let you know when that is. Some of you may have noticed that IMF has remained at 3% the past cpl of days. This is b/c until we get things fully back on track and get a better/true analysis, we need to leave it at 3%.
This should not be something to be upset about as 3% a day for 67 days is still a 201% return.

Egold upgrades:
As you may or may not know, someone has been running a script that somehow has managed to change our merchant code for Egold. Until we can counteract against this, we all need to make sure that we dont pay the wrong account #. Our account # for egold is 3002911. You will either see an Automatic Upgrade in your members area or a Manual Upgrade. If it is an Automatic choice, just make sure when you go thru the motions that the account # is correct. If it isnt, do not confirm your purchase thru that form. Just login to your egold account and send a payment to our account for the amount you wish to purchase, then shoot me an email at billing@reportsgalore.com with ur ID# and transaction details.

Im sorry that some things have to be the way they are, but unfortunately some ppl will never stop trying to break rules, and/or cheat the system. To this day we STILL have ppl trying to do DDOS attacks and SQL injections, and things ive never heard of or wanted to hear of.

These are the things I guess I signed up for huh. Its pretty pathetic if u ask me.
Also anyone who has a problem with me or my programs, say it to me! NOT SHAUN, NOT ANITA, NOT LIZ, NOT MEAGHAN, NO ONE BUT ME! Im referring mostly to the cowardless chatroom tough guys.

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ON A BETTER NOTE...I TRULEY WANT TO THANK YOU ALL WHO HAVE

BEEN SOOOOO SUPPORTIVE AND UNDERSTANDING.

We appreciate it! We are trying our best folks, plz know that. Its just not that easy when you have so many obstacles and/or haters trying to constantly bring you down. Ok guys and gals, I really need to get back to working on the things I should be doing.
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Thanks for your time, support, understanding, and patience.

TR and IMF Admin,

Paul