Northern Calm HYIP And Online Earning Blog

LightHalzen Is Back

2007-04-28T16:16:00.000+10:00

Title says it all.

My favourite game of the moment - LightHalzen, which has quickly become a juggernaut is back after a bunch of near starts and delays.

And most importantly it is paying. :)

House Of Cards

2007-04-14T16:05:00.000+10:00

My, it's been a while.

Kurt Vonnegut died, a sad moment. Of course, being the literati I am, my main education in the great man came through his Back To School cameo.

I digress, back to making money on the internet through mildly nefarious and slightly dodgy means!

I've been playing a game lately, LightHalzen. I've been enjoying the ride, but lately it's been up and down. Currently it's down again after the latest round of payouts for a major overhaul. They have a groundswell of support and I tend to believe them. I think it'll be up and kicking again, at least for a while and long may it prosper.

Still waiting for Agloco to actually launch. Might actually happen soon, it was meant to happen betwixt April 2nd and 16th. Not looking likely, but soon.

Here's the official word:

"I have just got word from our Shanghai based tech team with an update on the Viewbar status. Most of the QA tests are going well with the exception of the ad servers. The team is currently integrating the Viewbar with the ad servers so that the Viewbar will have ads (and revenue) ready to go when it launches (it would not make too much sense to release a Viewbar that was not making any money). So, while the Viewbar is still on track for release this month, making the April 2nd to 16th window is getting more difficult – and, yes, the Shanghai team has been working seven days a week for quite a while now and will continue to do so until the Viewbar is released.

There is some good Viewbar news for most of you. As I mentioned in my last post, we are initially releasing about 50,000 Viewbars to those Members that signed up first. Our current plan is to release another 50,000 Viewbars every day until every pre-launch Member has a Viewbar (which means all Members should have their Viewbar within the first 10 – 11 days). This should alleviate some of the fears Members have expressed that they might have to wait weeks or months for their Viewbar. We recognize that there have been delays on the front end of the release, so we are trying to tighten up the back end of the release as much as possible.

Also, as some Members have correctly pointed out, AGLOCO’s early revenue will not immediately translate into cash distributions to Members. While we do not know how large our initial revenue will be, we do know that AGLOCO has operating costs to pay. It is important to remember that AGLOCO is not a “get rich quick scheme”, and we maintain that the most prudent way to build AGLOCO as a sustainable company is to calibrate Member distributions to company earnings. As such, the cash payouts will not begin until there is a comfortable balance between AGLOCO’s free cash flow and AGLOCO’s expenses. It is important to add that all Members will begin to accumulate hours from when they first start using the Viewbar (and referral hours will also be earned). Those hours will not be wasted. Both overall hours and monthly hours will be used in determining distributions to Members.

I’ll keep you posted as relevant updates continue to come up.

Brian Greenwald
AGLOCO Development Team"

If that is a true statement, that means Agloco has 50,000 members times, minimum, 10 days. Which means 500,000 members. Not too shabby. I still think it is definitely worth a shot.

It's free, and you can earn money. A simple equation. Whether or not they come through on their promise or take hold of the momentum is another question, but like I said - free.

And because it is about time for a spring clean or whatever-the-hell season clean it is wherever-the-hell you are, the following programs that have been hanging around the sidebar for way, way too long due to my laziness have gone by the wayside:

BlueHeavenMails and KAOnline. Both were in the HYIP/Games section. A bunch of other programs on the list are in various states of disarray, but, well, I'm too lazy to rant on about them right now!

GlobalOnlineDepository (now Global Online Direct, or some such other nomenclature) are one such program going through changes. I will expound on them a little however.

Withdrawals have slowed but continued. I received a cheque that was refused however upon talking to others they have not had the same problem and I am in (slow, very slow) communication with people at G.O.D. about being paid via E-Gold or some such method.

The S.E.C. is investigating them. However, their legitimacy seems less in question, just their ability perhaps.

"The SEC has posted an official Litigation Release on its website.

In part, that document reads,

Without admitting or denying the allegations of the Complaint, Global, Behrmann and Hunter consented to the Commission's request for preliminary injunctive relief, a partial asset freeze against Global, and the appointment of a corporate monitor to oversee Global's ongoing business operations. On April 5, 2007, on the basis of Defendants' consent, the Court issued an Order Granting Preliminary Injunction and Ordering Other Ancillary Relief.

It is the understanding of Global's principals that the "partial asset freeze", along with explicit instructions to them during meetings with the SEC, strictly prohibit disbursement of existing funds to Member/Lenders in any way that would treat some Members preferentially.

The Consent Order signed by Global's principals is intended to provide a reasonable opportunity to protect Member/Lender interests and to facilitate a successful completion of Global's obligations to Lenders."

It's been an interesting saga, very different to any other "HYiP" and it continues... I haven't counted Global out. I just choose not to fret about waiting for an eventual outcome!

Till next time, Ciao Y'all.

It's been a while...

2007-02-18T10:05:00.000+10:00

Yeah it's been quite a while since an update, and I'll clean the joint up eventually but in the meantime here's a quick write-up on the new net sensation. You guys should really check this one out (potentially bigger than anything previously mentioned, along with a potential legitimacy and the fact that it is FREE.)

Agoloco has now officially caught my eye. I’ve been watching it for a while but just recently got around to joining.

Everyone should give it a shot, it looks like the definite “next big thing” and looks like it is going to sweep WAY beyond our little HYIP-world into the area of legitimacy.

Another reason you should join? It’s FREE.

Anyway, here is how it works and why Agoloco could be the next legitamized money maker on the net.

At first it reminded me a lot of AllAdvantage, which was the original precursor to a lot of the surf sites we see today. Indeed it was, however AllAdvantage had a much bigger air of authenticity about it at the time - however the infancy of advertising on the net, slow connections, dodgy viewbars and cheaters, amongst other things, eventually led to its downfall.

Agoloco (A Global Community) has risen from the ashes and is giving us the very important dot points (because I am too lazy to make them into paragraphs):

- Legitimacy! As in real legitimacy it seems.
- It’s FREE yo. Seriously FREE. Why not try it out?
- Rapidly (RAPIDLY) increasing popularity.
- Viewbar is safe and not a spyware-infested pit.

So basically - why not? Massively growing real company that has been proven to work in the past (and proven to be real) that was only nipped in the bud by its infancy. (See above about AllAdvantage.) Now it’s back, it’s spreading in a world where online advertising is at a much more mature state.

Ch-ch-check it out. It’s the one thing, different and real enough, that has convinced me to get off my arse and start having a bit of a ‘play’ again, however this time it appears we’re playing in a bigger, better sand pit!!!

Agoloco.

(Oh did I mention it’s FREE. Never pay. Anything. Ever.)

Yes...

2007-01-18T18:16:00.000+10:00

Yes, there haven't been many updates lately.

I'll clean the place up a little soon, and maybe introduce some other programs I like.

To wit, I mostly got sick or rambling crap about crap! And as the HYIP world takes on an increasingly (and embarrassing) serious tone, I couldn't be bothered to do updates every other minute.

I will admit that - as this arena attempts to turn itself professional, we see a bunch of people who are anything but (always look at this as a bit of fun.)

We also see a lot of people ripping off myself, and others. It's like we injected a tiny bit of (admittedly lame) personality into the mix, and now every other wanker attempts it, like some sort of 'trail blazer' but they just look stupid in the process.

Anyway, things are going smoothly on most fronts, though I have given up most of the 'games' completely. Updates soon.

BlueHeavenMails Nails A Milestone

2006-12-22T15:55:00.000+10:00

BlueHeavenMails continues to putt along with a quite surprisingly good run and as of now is not showing any signs of slowing down or weakness.

“Right now we have 2988 members and soon we will hit the 3000 mark. Initially we expected to hit the 3000 mark by 31st December and then on the Christmas. It seems like we will hit the 3000 mark today itself, that is, 21st December. This means that now we are growing exponentially. Now we are thinking of our new target of 5000 members by mid January.

Watch out for an update coming soon after we get to 3000 members. There is a surprise for all of you.”

Nicely done guys.

And of course the surprise comes now with an incentive for members to upgrade:

“Greetings!

We have reached our first goal of 3000 members well before we anticipated. Congratulations everyone! Together we can and we will make the difference. This has been possible only because of support of the members. Thank you everyone!

In order to celebrate this occassion we have held a contest which runs from 12.01 am to 11.59 pm server time on 22nd December. Here are the contest details:

Upgrades bought over $100 or more stand a chance to win 10% Instant bonus. You will be eligible only if you buy upgrade worth $100 or more. Members can have a max of 4 upgrades at a time. If the last digit of your e-gold batch number is 5,6,7,8 or 9 then you will win 10% of your Upgrade amount paid directly to your E-gold account on 23rd December. In order to claim your 10% bonus submit a support ticket titled “Contest Bonus”. All the bonuses will be paid on 23rd December.

Congratulations everyone once again!

Happy Holidays!”

Movement On The Western Front...

2006-12-20T13:45:00.000+10:00

Whilst I await patiently for my favourite 'HYIP' to actually do something... It has done something.

It's always a good sign that they are alive and kicking.

Global Online Depository have posted the latest message:

"Update, 2006-12-19

The yahoos at yahoo.com did it again! They disabled our support email address after re-instating it with an apology for a similar action a short while ago. Again, they offered no explanation for their unilateral action.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY EMAILS TO globalonlinedepository@yahoo.com. No thanks to Yahoo, your emails won't be delivered to our Support staff!

Rather than divert email support requests to a temporary email address, we are asking you to bear with us for a day or two longer. Two new channels of communication are being activated.

Mailing List. Global has implemented an announce-only mailing list to keep lenders up to date on all things related to the Company. If you want to receive these emails, go to globalonlinedirectmail.com and enter your email address so that you won't miss any important announcements.

Support Center. We are developing our own online Support Center. When it is complete it will include a Help Desk, Live Support, and Knowledge Base. Corporate email accounts will also be provided for officers and other Global staff members. The Help Desk, a trouble ticket and issue tracking system, will be the first to go live. We expect it be be available in a day or two. The Help Desk will replace email-based support and provide a much more reliable channel of communication.

The Mailings List and Support Center will be hosted on our own dedicated server. Please keep in mind that the software running these new applications is being customized to fit our needs. It is a work in progress. Please be patient as refinements are made. The end result will be well worth enduring a few glitches along the way."

Which is all kind of boring. This isn't what we want to hear: When are we going to be able to withdraw by LyfeCard? When will E-Gold be reinstated? Etc. Rumours swirl, but it appears the beast is somewhat kicking still, with reports of cheques still arriving for some, and the fact that they seem to be forging a larger presence in the 'real world' (more brick and mortar stores, etc.)

Global Mutual - DOES SOMETHING

2006-12-18T16:38:00.000+10:00

Being a busy beaver as of late I was going to scratch the muchos lamentable Global Mutual from my "Investments" list. It was one of the originals that had 'something going for it' and appeared to be real... Though it may look a bit like a mangy cat these days.

And just as I'm about to do that it turns out Gordon has been hard at work.

Now when you go to the Global Mutual site, it seems everything leads to the VC Shares. Consolidation is a good thing, and here is the latest positive update. If this indeed comes through, consider this a true comeback from the dead.

It's still a case of wait and see, but at least, when prodded with a stick, GM still groans!

"GMI Go For $10,000 GOLD COMPETITION
GMI Property Trust will mean Commission sharing as properties are purchased, along with a very profitable short to long term investment.

New Investment are currently being drawn up to show how a purchase of $100 of shares each month will create a real nest egg based on Sydney Prime Properties.
Dec-18-2006 02:03:57 PM

GMI Re-Bounds
Welcome back to the Re-launch of GMI. Global Mutual Venture Capital Programs are now twofold.

A New Direction has now been taken, which all members should find to be more secure and more rewarding than the ups and downs of our previous venture capital big dipper rides.

Global Mutual will change its name to International Mutual Incorporated.

Current shareholders are to be paid dividends from GMI property Trust Operations up to Ten times more than their original depsoits or better.

There will be two kinds of shares only. Foundation member Venture Capital Shares and Property Trust Shares.

Properties are carefully selected, financed, purchased, furnished, and corporatly leased for the longterm, then placed in a Property Trust.

Various other Investment Vehicles are also selected to hedge and protect our mutual investment.

Occassionally The Venture Capital Part of GMI/IMI will resurface, in order to raise funds for Company Expenses. There are a limited number of these shares left, so get in early!

Company Officers will take a flat award rather than a percentage. This will ensure the funds go to Investment vehicles.!

More information will be made available in the members area.

From now on there will be at least two kinds of shares available:

Venture Capital Foundation Shares and

Property Trust Shares.

Venture Captital VIP Foundation Member shares will pay up to TEN times the original deposits over the next two years. The Old plan expected to pay out a similar amount, but not for four more years.

Property Trust Share holders will receive approximately 120% over the 3-six month range, be able to sell their shares at a profit, or sit on them untill property sales whereupon they will receive 250-500% profit to boot.

Not a bad come back.

And there is a $10,000 competition to be announced.
Dec-17-2006 09:25:19 PM"

BlueHeavenMails

2006-12-17T16:39:00.000+10:00

BlueHeavenMails continues to be my last vestige of game-playing in many ways.

And fortunately, it continues to kick ass…

So, thither comes a perfunctory “look at us doing well” email. The great thing is they have plenty of room to grow still, so here’s hoping they do.

“Myself and my team is so excited to inform you that we will be reaching our goal of 3000 members even before Christmas. Right now, we have over 2305 active members and we are growing at the rate of more than 100 members each day. We have been around since 63 days now and never missed or delayed a payment.

We would like to make some subtle changes to the program in a very professional way that will extend the life of Blue Heaven Mails by at least one full year.

We understand that change is always understandable and thats why we have the proper protocols in place to prevent a system crash or an exhaustion of the available funds.

Below outlined steps will be taken in accordance with our Terms of Agreement that is on our site for everybody to read as usual.

Step 1. We have placed the ability to sell 900 Blue Points for $20.00 USD dollars until the end of December 2006. After that, members will not be able to sell Blue Points.

Step 2. Now the maximum time the payouts will be paid out has been changed from 48 hours to 72 hours. Even when we had 48 hours as the max time for payouts, we always paid within 24 hours and used the other 24 hours as a buffer in case if anything happens. Here also, we will use 24 hours as a buffer time; so the effective time during which payouts will be made is within 48 hours. However, referral commissions will be paid out within 24 hours of request.

Step 3. We are lowering the maximum to $6000 or 600 Ad Spots so that other less fortunate people can still experience a reasonable return for their lower purchase of Blue AD Spots.

The above changes will be effective starting tonight!

Even after making all these changes, we are still paying very fast as compared to 12by12daily and 13dailypro. We even have the 7 day split up rule which is not available anywhere else. We are the best and will continue to be!”

I like the little cheeky jab at the other ‘big guns.’ At least they’ve got big dreams.

And due to the obligatory wise-punt, gamey nature of it all, here’s my obligatory PAID! (Earlier today, very promptly, for a reasonable amount.)

Global Online Depository...

2006-12-07T19:43:00.000+10:00

Well, I'm a member of the Global Online Depository Yahoo group which seems to get a lot of inside scoops.

The information there is private besides to members, so I can't reprint the latest posts, however one tidbit stuck out:

Apparently the LyfeCard will be active within 10 days.

Here's hoping so!

We now have a date to wait for/cross fingers/look forward too.

Little Engine That Could

2006-12-07T08:26:00.000+10:00

I’m out of lame metaphors, so BlueHeavenMails continues to be my ‘little engine that could’ - a program that started off with a strong hook but also weighed down with the possibility, as many other programs are, of not getting the word out and making it past the first few humps.

They’ve done that and continue to catch on, with growth really picking up now…

“Greetings!

Holiday season has started and our team at BHM is really excited about the future prospects of our Program. This is a quick update from the Manager’s Desk:

Right now we have around 1750 members and the membership base is now growing quite rapidly at the rate of roughly 100 new members per day. We will probably reach the landmark of 3000 members by Christmas.

Paul has been providing support in the forum since a month and now he is also assisting with Live Chat Support. His Live chat hours are 5 pm to 1 am server time 7 days a week. So if you have any general questions about the program make sure to get hold of Paul during those hours.

We are now providing a express Email ad service for the members who want to get their email out the very next day. One email ad link is reserved for Express service each day which will cost you $50. But the email will go out the very next day instead of waiting for 7-8 days. If you are interested, then please submit a support ticket.

We have been running since 55 days now and so far we have never missed a payment.

This is all for now…

Signing off,
Ben Kreher
BlueHeavenMails”

I was paid yesterday as well, same time as usual.

NSFG Breaks The Aforementioned Holding Pattern...

2006-12-05T09:43:00.000+10:00

Despite the suck-full-ness of some of NSFG's recent actions, they continue to be a real outfit clawing their way back.

The main point of contention was the fact these guys didn't bother to tell us about their troubles early on, waiting three months to do so (even if said-troubles were real, which it appears they were.)

Here's the month-end update, and I found it to be refreshingly positive.

"Afternoon All,

Sorry for not getting this out to you over the weekend, but like many of you I am very busy on the weekends now with the lead up to Christmas.

Okay, well trading in November was tough with the only day that there was a real break out being the day after Thanksgiving. After sitting there till lunchtime with zero movement Ken had to leave the desk. Typically of course about an hour after this the market rallied, and rallied big.

Because we are trading more aggressively with the Pool account we had an order that we left in place, which we did not have for the Managed Accounts. Following the erratic movements in the final week we stepped away from the markets and let them find their direction.

We ended the Pool account +1.7% up, taking into account that this was another extremely low liquidity month it is a decent result. Couple this with the addition of the money that we add to the fund then we end up at 4.1%.

Not stellar by any means, but since we do real trading we get real returns.

The Statements will be sent out shortly, and will reflect this increase. As before should you choose to elect to take a withdrawal then please end the email to:

withdrawal@ns-fg.com

It will return you the relevant form. You will need to have this over to me by the 15^th of December.

On another note there have been several of you that have made additional deposits into your accounts, I have these recorded here however they WILL NOT appear on your statements as I am creating another database for these because they would only be eligible to receive the trading gains and not the additional amounts we put in. Please therefore bare with me on this one while I get that arranged.

The auto-trading system has been performing well and lots as though it will do us proud, there were a couple of minor bugs to do with trade management which we need to sort out. The plan for this system, is to get these all resolved, and then go live with our own money in Jan and then put it on general release after this. When we turned it off to get these sorted out it was up some 8% over a few weeks so it is looking good!

That’s about it, as always if you have any questions please do give me a yell!

Paul"

I also omitted a paragraph about an interesting presentation (19 minutes long!) Ken has created to showcase some trading. It can be found at NS-FG's site.

It's great to see these guys still kicking, and here's hoping they claw their way back to the mantle.

Holding Patterns

2006-12-05T09:36:00.000+10:00

As you may or may not have (probably have) noticed, most of my more 'serious' programs, or even my favourite HYIPs, are in something of a holding pattern.

Because I couldn't be arsed, basically, I couldn't be bothered writing up every little tidbit I find out here and there about them.

However, Global Online Depository has been undergoing some growing pains/changing patters as of late so I've been giving them a free pass.

And each time when my 'worry-meter' starts to tick a little higher, life is breathed into them. There's no better way to indicate life* than front-page news updates and that's what we got today:

"URGENT NOTICE: Without warning or explanation, Yahoo has disable Global's Suppport email account. We are scrambling to set up our own email server so that our communications will no longer be subject to third-party whims. Until we announce the new Support email address, please refrain from sending email to globalonlinedepository@yahoo.com. A new Support email address will be announced as soon as possible."

As soon as this problem came up basically, they've got an update on it. So I take that as a positive, and continue to give them a chance to set up the lyfecard and allow us to use it!

Here's hoping.

*Besides paying out, quick support, etc!

Paid To Surf Monitor - Month End/Begin

2006-12-04T14:18:00.000+10:00

Another winning month at PaidToSurf Monitor.

First, they win my award of “longest and most redundant program title.”

Secondly, they win the much more important award of “we had another good month paying out over 10%! Our payout window is also open now and we are happily paying members.”

Joy.

And that’s about that, a quality surf pool that keeps on keeping on.

Blue Heaven Mails - Still The Little Engine That Could!

2006-12-03T15:58:00.000+10:00

Whilst most programs I am interested are in some sort of holding pattern, I’m finding the most ‘news’ so to speak, coming from my two current autosurf (styled) programs, along with, strangely enough, the most stability.

Who’da thunk it?

So here’s the latest from the little kick ass engine that could, Blue Heaven Mails.

“I am glad to inform you that Blue Heaven Mails is growing well now. We are just short of 1400 members and we estimate to have at least 3000 members by the end of this month. Here are some of the updates from the Manager’s Desk:

We have sent documents for Incorporation of Blue Heaven Mails in Panama. The documents are processing as I write and we can hear the good news any minute now.

Our Email Ads have become really popular now. If you have an email ad waiting, it might take up to 7 days to send them out because of its popularity.

We already have many heavy hitters and big buyers at Blue Heaven Mails. Four members have already maxed out their upgrade packages and dozen of members are at least half maxed out. This gives a pretty good indication of the fact that BHM is performing well as members are showing confidence in the program.”

So far these guys are paced really well, continuing a steady growth stream, with most important word being ’steady!’ The gimmick is catching on, and there is admittedly (a little) more value to the ‘advertising’ they offer.

Withdrawals are still processed super-quick and I received one just a few hours ago. I’m hoping there’s plenty of life in this old girl yet, but time will tell.

And what not.

Surfs Up

2006-12-01T10:43:00.000+10:00

Not many updates lately, mainly because I'm waiting for something really important to report. Many things are in a holding pattern at the moment, with updates pending... (Some good, some bad.)

PaidToSurfMonitor just released their latest weekly digest, which basically just contains some food for thought and competitions… PaidToSurfMonitor of course runs their Passive Income Plan which is a great little program that allows you to be a part of all the autosurf ‘fun’ without actually having to surf. (And they also have a great history, and have the respect of many members of the community.)

If you want anything to do with autosurfs, these days I highly recommend these guys as a starting off point…

The main point of the latest newsletter is the continuing evolution of the autosurf ‘industry’ with many now adopting the profit sharing model. (And forgoing fixed percentage returns.)

I won’t print the contents here as it is meant to be for subscribers (though I don’t know if they’d care either way.) Just know that they are alive and kicking!

And a quick note to say that BlueHeavenMails’ gimmick is still paying dividends with quick growth and quick payouts. They continue to be my favourite little engine that could, surprising me that they are doing as well as they are however!

LyfeCard

2006-11-21T15:50:00.000+10:00

Well, my lyfecard arrived in the mail today (for Global Online Depository.)

That was quick!

I have been told in about a week we should actually be able to use it as well.

Good stuff, I'll keep y'all informed of course.

Little Engine That Could And Other Such Cliches...

2006-11-17T22:40:00.000+10:00

The name says it all. Blue Heaven Mails is a nice little program with a nice gimmick/hook - the only worry was that it would get buried in obscurity and people wouldn’t take it up quick enough.

So far however, such worries have been without merit and Blue Heaven Mails continues to be a good little surprising trooper.

Here’s their latest bit of P.R. work:

“We are glad to inform you that so far we are very content with our growth. Our growth rate has increased by approximately 40% in the past week. This shows that more and more of you have shown confidence in BHM and we must tell you that you are the lucky ones to have joined us in the beginning. We have a long way to go as we look forward to be online for atleast 3 years and expand and take BHM to new horizons while doing so. We have already made many upgrades since the launch. We are constantly trying to differentiate BHM from other programs by adding creative upgrades to the program.

We are in process of getting BHM incorporated in Panama. We already have few big spenders and heavy hitters in BHM who have shown confidence in the program. In the days to come, their referrals and followers will join us as well. So you can expect the growth rate to increase by at least 100% in the days to come. ”

Despite it’s out of the way thread in most of the cheerleader forums, it’s still kicking ass. Way to go, little guy.

Oh Lyfe (Card)

2006-11-15T22:17:00.000+10:00

Global Online Depository is still only accepting company cheque as a withdrawal option as of this moment but I have been assured that E-Gold and E-Bullion are on the way back (perhaps within the week.)

In the meantime they have instituted a debit card - the lyfecard. Information and linkage can be found at the Global site.

In the meantime its a pretty spiff looking card, and it seems to be an established one from my quick persual (though I could be mistaken.)

Nevertheless, I even got an immediate phone call (to Australia mind you) to give me an activation when I ordered mine (did I mention they are free of charge?)

So... Be interesting to see how this pans out. Either way, although the reversion to only company cheque was worrying at first, recent actions such as the instigation of this lyfecard and the personal reassurances that the E-Currencies are on their way back in is very encouraging indeed.

Global continues to be a very interesting beast.

Why Didn't I Think Of This One?

2006-11-12T13:22:00.000+10:00

If you like autosurfs… you’ll like this. It’s a great opportunity that I am kicking myself for not being a part of already.

Paid To Surf Monitor’s Passive Income Plan

After taking a momentary break from autosurfs something caught my eye and I realized “why aren’t I in this?” And then I thought, “why hasn’t it been mentioned here before?”

Anyway, it appears to be somewhat the holy grail of surfs. It’s a diversified surfing fund which has been attempted before but this one comes highly recommended to me by some fashionable (and intelligent) peeps and this one has actually been consistent in its returns and hasn’t hit any road bumps.

So, what is it? PaidToSurfMonitor’s Passive Income Plan (yes I know the full title is an unwieldly one.)

The basics are as such:

“By purchasing one or more PTSM Units You will not need to surf for hours and You will still earn a high interest rate.
Furthermore each 1 PTSM Unit is worth 2,000 Bnner Impressions that will be shown in the middle of the PTSM member’s area. This advertising channel will surely help You boosting Your sales!

We accumulate the funds of the PTSM Units purchased members in a common pool and distribute these funds over several autosurf programs.

At the end of each month, the income (ROI) derived on the membership pooled funds is made available to purchased members.

Banner Advertising
Each Unit is worth 2,000 banner impressions. Just send us Your image and URL link and we will add Your Banner to our rotator within the members area.

Profits Sharing
This is neither a HYIP nor an autosurf, this is a profit sharing program based on the profits of PaidToSurfMonitor.com.

Our choices are based entirely on our experience and research. We distribute a proportion of our profits every month from ALL our activites; the . autosurfs we have invested in, advertising and referral earnings. Profits from all these sources are put together and shared with members of PTSM Units.

Units Tracking
You will have the possibility to track Your own units and earnings at any time from the members area. You will see Your Units purchased, Your monthly income and the monthly performance.

Referral earnings
Our referral program pays you up to 10% of each PTSM Share purchased by your directly sponsored members.

Portfolio diversification.
We diversify our investments to reduce the risk of loss. We maintain a very carefully balanced portfolio of autosurf programs.

PTSM Units do NOT expire!”

I like that bit “do NOT expire!”

Anyway, some of you may be thinking this is some dodgy flash in the pan style thing but it has been around for months now without a hitch and in fact here is their past ROI:

March 2006
+35%
April 2006
+40%
May 2006
+33%
June 2006
+31.2%
July 2006
+22.1%
August 2006
+17.21%
September 2006
+14.30%
October 2006
+10.27%

Nice, right? What is this, the best kept secret out there?

So the answer to me was pretty obvious - I like playing the autosurf game, and I like WINNING. (Because making some good bets equals cash.) Anyway these guys have been doing great and it really tips the odds in your favour, and they’ve got the track record and some really juicy months to hopefully keep it up.

If you’re into autosurfs, it’s a no-brainer.

Passive Income Plan.

And upon returning to the surf world I was pleasantly surprised to see BlueHeavenMails still kicking some ass. I was worried that after a week or two their gimmick/angle wouldn’t catch on enough, but it looks like (so far) their uniqueness is paying off!

So, I’m back to my usual average of ‘two surfs’ except both of them are different - a great pool with huge benefits, and a high percentage PTR.

Viva la difference!

Blue Banking Makes Me Blue And Udachu Smuggles Diamonds!

2006-11-06T15:19:00.000+10:00

So here's a bit of a write-up session on some recent happenings at our friendly neighbourhood UdachuCorp. (*Yes, I know UdachuCorp is not their name, but it fit the sentence and that's all that matters right. Right?)

Anyway, there's going to be a bit of vagueness in this so-called article due to the nature of Udachu's privacy, etc. and I don't feel like losing my account. However, we can skim the basics (otherwise every member of forums like HYIPDiscussion would no longer be Udachu members!)

I am semi-pro Udachu. Sometimes my mental tally of how good they are wavers - up or down - but something always happens to bounce it back to the general position of about a 7 out of 10.

There are a LOT of Udachu cheerleaders however... They are a cut above the likes of SwissCult (SwissCash for those who haven't been keeping score) cheerleaders however. Udachu cheerleader-types have good reason for their cheerleading most of the time, but sometimes it crosses the line. We never like to hear the bad questions (or answers) so sometimes ignorance is bliss, no matter how vague the answers from the higher-ups may be. We get comfortable with something (like a HYIP) so we don't wanna hear those mocking it, those tearing it apart - it's all lies and slander! The power of positive thinking will pull us through.

Don't let yourself fall into such a trap. And although semi-pro-Udachu is my stance on the matter, I often find myself in a negative zone when dealing with the more fanatical Udachu supporters - asking a question with any sort of connotations besides extremely optimistic and positive, or poking your finger into holes which may or may not exist (hence why you poke your fingers in them) results in zealous zeal heaped on you and arguments.

Due to the increased intelligence of the average Udachu supporter over the average SwissCult supporter as well, you tend to find any confrontation happens on a more passive-aggressive, bitchy front.

Which is extremely unsatisfying (but is for those who get off on smarm.)

Some of the most recent obvious sagas includes something I can take credit for somewhat! (Self-congratulatory pause.) However it is not neccessarily a good thing... (I'd find all my support tickets, PMs, etc. that led me to this but I don't think I'm either allowed to print them, and most of them are pretty banal.)

Point of the story is - I tried to deposit some E-Gold to Bluebanking to load my debit card. Lo and behold, I was at the correct Bluebanking site, my computer was clean, I was 'secure' so to speak, the E-Gold API came up as leading to the Bluebanking account but it ended up depositing to some account called "TURKEY."

So, my spend was redirected. I got on the blower and had a whine of course, and before long it became apparent many other people had been affected (not hundreds or anything, but more than a few.)

I started off with Bluebanking tickets where they claimed it was first my fault. They pointed out I should have checked which E-Gold account it was going to. Then they claimed I was the only one affected.

Then I jumped onto UdachuFundForum and the peeps were much more accomodating. I was offered a full refund... Other people had brought the problem to light as well.

It was a complicated little worm, and as of yet I am yet to hear a definitive explanation. I don't think it was end user's fault, nor completely Udachu's. However, if I hear anyone else say it was on E-Gold's end I'll laugh. I 99% doubt that. Their implementation of an E-Gold protocol getting hacked does not mean E-Gold itself has been 'hacked.'

This is all leading somewhere, I swear.

I jump back onto the support tickets and they've conceded somewhat (as well as being arrogant bastards treating me like a moron.) They dole me out a partial refund, and - this is the part I contributed by being such a whiner! - they add the E-Gold account number onto their Bluebanking spend page (due to my question: How the bloody hell are we meant to know if we are spending to the wrong account if you don't tell us which account we are meant to be spending too?)

Okay, I can take PARTIAL credit. :) Because I am padding this out.

So I get back and PM the UdachuFundForum people that I have received a partial refund so I don't need the full one anymore.

That was about two weeks ago and I haven't received the FULL refund yet, but I'm sure I will eventually. (In contact about it now however and should receive the rest within the next day or so.)

Hopefully all the other people affected are having as good luck as mine - if you're not, stand up tall, contact people, and don't sit around quietly.

Soon E-Gold was getting blamed as Udachu deemed it 'unsafe.' To tell you the truth, I don't buy it until I see proof.

So E-Currencies were getting abolilshed - besides Udachu's INHOUSE D-Carat of course. NOT a wholly good thing, though according to the (inhouse of course) forum people you'd think it was the second coming, so I gave up.

(Bluebanking site now has a few little extra security warnings as well.)

Now - it wasn't long after this that suddenly all of Udachu's structure is changing and the programs require you to be part of a corporation or get an IBC. (Won't go into specifics.)

An interesting development, but being the Udachu supporter, yet also Udachu agnostic that I am, I am yet to see proof that this not all just an elaborate full-of-it ruse... Like I said, despite people's claims, all I ever see of Udachu are slightly-less-than-vague musings.

So, change is afoot (and I'll get to the Udachu Smuggles Diamonds bit next time! Stay tuned.)

Either way:

Bluebanking support wins points for a partial refund, but mostly loses points for being arrogant and telling me something that is clearly not my fault is not my fault. However, their responses were quick. They are one of the better site-support people I have had to deal with (just proves how crap other support 'lines' are.)

Udachufundforum support was great from some people (the actual Udachu people) but you do find the blame getting heaped on you by the forum members, or some narky attitudes. These people are never 'actual' Udachu people however. So the forum wins the battle.

For every postive, interesting step I see Udachu make, often unique steps, I also see things that are either vague, arrogant, or make alarm bells ring.

I remain firmly, an Udachu semi-supporter.

I also firmly remain... an Udachu agnostic.

Ciao, y'all.

Buck Hunter Is The Man

2006-11-04T13:19:00.000+10:00

That trendy little title carries two meanings. So it’s like a double entendre without the entendre! (Buck is money and Buck the G.O.D. guy.)

Yes, this is a Global Online Depository update.

I personally still have them on my “HYIP” rather than “real opportunity” list as I have stressed many times, and feel the need to stress again. Although I could see them moving into that category one day.

Global Online Depository has moved into their ’second phase’ of lower interest rates and the like (which are much more in line with what I suppose some people would consider ‘reasonable expectations.’)

A massive backlog of last minute deposits and changes was accumulated and I expected it to slow down the program for weeks, as we’ve seen many other programs do in the past…

However this was not to be the case. Within about a week, things were back to normal speed including withdrawals. They are still catching up somewhat, but it appears their sorting through the last threads now.

Worryingly, my second last withdrawal took a little longer than usual… about three - four days longer… Then a ‘withdrawal sent’ email hit my inbox and I didn’t have any E-Gold despite receiving the email.

Alarm bells were ringing but I needn’t have worried. I caught word that G.O.D’s E-Gold had been compromised.

This signalled one situation that has been played out numerous times before - the program will use it as an excuse to go belly-up. However, I had one saving grace - when a HYIP pulls that kind of stunt they tend to drib and drab out some more payments to prolong the process, so there was still hope.

But I needn’t have worried - this is a SPIP not a HYIP!

So, in a chain of events that impressed me greatly, the next day I received an email informing me that E-Gold had been compromised. This was in relation to my second withdrawal. I was given the choice of check (cheque for us Aussies!) or E-Bullion.

I chose E-Bullion, and received the withdrawal within the next ten minutes! (Quite a sizeable amount too.) Noice.

And this withdrawal was within the normal period once again!

But there was still the case of my first withdrawal. So I contacted the same email address I got the E-Gold notice from…

And within half an hour my E-Bullion was accredited the first withdrawal!

So yes, at this moment in time I am extremely impressed. I would say their E-Gold WAS compromised, but instead of a long, complicated process designed to prolong matters, or make us jump through hoops, I had my money HALF AN HOUR LATER.

Kudos Global Online Depository, you’ve shifted into ’second gear’ as your jargon speak likes to refer to it, and you’re running better than ever.

Every day I keep seeing and hearing interesting reports, photos, and assorted paraphenalia in relation to you guys being legit, and although a few warehouses doesn’t count for everything unless goods are audited in relation to payouts, some of the things I’ve heard are very encouraging.

You may not be on my ‘real opportunities’ list yet guys, but you damn sure are the top of my HYIP list.

Ballad Of NSFG

2006-11-02T16:45:00.000+10:00

Now, as many of you may know, NSFG have been the center of controversy as of late.

At least, surrounding their pooled account they have been...

You see, the problem is that many moons ago (roughly six months) the NSFG boys changed brokers (one of a few broker changes) ...

And they had a large portion of their funds apparently confiscated (detailed explanation below.)

They were down to a certain amount of liquidity, and then traded back up - but due to people making mass withdrawals, the liquidity went back down again. (Imagine they only have about 30% of their funds, and people are withdrawing 100% of their accounts out of that 30%...)

Anyway, the problem is - this was going on for roughly SIX MONTHS before we were told!

Myself, and many, are very disappointed in these actions. Not the confiscation of the money or anything like that, but the fact that they kept this fact from us.

They've been trying to make amends as of late and pumping their own funds back into NSFG... And now withdrawals are allowed again and our account balances have been updated to reflect the true liquidity.

It's a step in the right direction, and I am disappointed by many aspects of this situation, yet other elements of it illustrate to me that these guys are the real deal *(despite their shoddy handling of this situation in its early stages.)

We'll see what happens - though it could take a while to return to full account liquidity (and profits beyond that.)

In the meantime...

Well, here is the original explanatory email. It is vaguely private, but due to the fact this email is a few weeks old and has been plastered willy-nilly throughout the forums I suppose it won't matter if I post it here (and I'm sure the NSFG boys won't mind):

"What I am about to say I something that I had hoped we would avoid, however circumstances have dictated that we must take action now, and that action is not going to be popular for some of you.

I will start at the beginning, many of you may remember way back when we first started we were using ACM in Switzerland as the broker for our Pool Account, and then switched over to FXCM in February so we could run the Managed Accounts.

The problem started when we took our money out of ACM, because of their strict Anti Money Laundering Regulations the money had to be returned to the account which was on file held with them. The account in question at that time was our old Danish Corporate Account. The money withdrew from ACM without a problem, however as soon as it hit the Danish Account, the Danish Financial Authorities were all over it.

Ken was called in by the Ministry of Finance to prove what this money was, which we promptly did. However this did not satisfy them and they refused to release the money in the account to us for onward transportation. After taking legal advice it was clear that we were not going to be getting this money back and the Ministry of Finance went so far as to say that they are keeping this money so that they would not charge Kenneth with breaching Financial Law in Denmark for the handling of other people’s money. In short we had no option but to accept their token offer and move forward.

After this and following the deposit of all the money that was at the time held in E-gold and the Cyprus Bank Account we were at a position of being at 50% liquidity.

We had two options at this point, we could either immediately reduce everyone's balance by 50% or trade back the difference through our own gains from trading to top the fund up. Obviously we choose the later.

We did in fact manage to successfully get the fund up to around 70-75% liquidity by putting our own money into the account from the trading returns…..and in hindsight it was here that we should have taken the measures that we now have no choice but to take. We did not however foresee the huge amount of withdrawals that would occur in the following months which have reduced us again to around 30% liquidity.

This is not a situation that can continue and to ensure that the fund remains liquid and here for the long term, we must take the following steps. These measures are probably not going to be popular with some of you, however they are required.

This is what we must do effective immediately.

1) Freeze all Balances as per the September Statements for the next 3 months

2) Suspend all Withdrawals – Pending and Future – for the next 3 months

3) Return all deposits made this month to their account of origin.

We are truly sorry if this does impact on you particularly if you have requested a withdraw in October, as the last thing that we wanted to do was cause people hardship. However we must do this for the long term stability of the fund for the coming years.

Many of you have already said to me that this is a necessary course of action and have understood the reasons for doing it. At the end of these three months we will be able to re-evaluate where we are again and look to move forward.

I would like to emphasize that if we do not take action now, then the entire fund could be in jeopardy of liquidizing over the course of a few months.

We are very truly sorry that we must do this, and are aware that this will tarnish our otherwise good reputation. The only good thing that we can say about this situation is that the trading has been good and we are not going anywhere, we have a substantial client base so we will get through this……we just wished we had jumped on it a little sooner than now!!

We are both very upset about having to do this, and aware that many of you will be disappointed in us getting to this position. I would like to thank many of you who are already aware of this and the understanding that you have shown.

This is costing us both personally a great deal of money as we have been depositing our own personal funds and trading commissions into the account to get the liquidity to a reasonable level, only for it to get back to this situation again. We however will continue to do this until this problem is resolved to the very best of our ability and use the coming months to get us back on track and moving forward.

In the years to come, this will just be a bump on the road, but it is one that we must cross now. After the 3 months have passed we will see where we are, until then Ken will continue to trade and we will be putting our own trading funds back into the fund to bolster it up.

I am sorry that I don’t have better news, and I am sorry if you have a pending withdrawal made this month.

Moving forward we had always planned to separate the Pool Account from Northsea more directly so that we could become FSA compliant and have already made investment into doing this. Over these three months we will further this goal so that the future will be far better for all and will keep you updated on the progress."

This post would have been accompaneid by a lot more vitriol and spitting, but a little time has passed and I continue to be busy in 'real life' so the 'waiting game' is a little easier to play when you're not checking up on it every ten seconds. Either way... I'm sure we'll see many updates these coming months. (And I know that if NSFG does recover, they're going to find themselves with a lot less pooled account members as people jump ship, and for good reason to.)

Update Intolerant.

2006-11-01T19:30:00.000+10:00

I couldn't think of a funny way to say "lactose intolerant" but make it "lacking updates intolerant."

So I forgo the wit and just jump straight to it...

Anyway guys and guyettes, sorry about the lack of updates recently, I'll hopefully post some stuff soon, but it will probably continue to be fairly intermittent (once or twice every few days) for the next week or two.

Ciao y'all!

Surf WAS up...

2006-10-25T20:48:00.000+10:00

Anyway, a while ago now Emerald Surf went the way of the dodo (*sorry I didn't get to this sooner.)

This means there's no more surfs in my little game/HYIP section besides Blue Heaven Mails (which continues to get by on the gimmick.)

The only problem Blue Heaven faces is the fact it is getting relegated to more obscure folders on the forums due to its fairly unique structure, hook and gimmick. Hopefully it'll still keep catching on though, and I'll keep a few bucks in it.

Anyway...

Is this a maturing of the investment opportunities I present, or does it just mean I don't see any big fun big gun surfs/games at the moment?

Most likely the latter as I'm sure in a few weeks you'll see me in a few other surfs. But for now, a short break! :)

Another Brief Pause...

2006-10-24T12:47:00.000+10:00

Hey guys and gals,

Sorry about the sproadic updates (nothing for a few days and then a blitz of incoherence for a day or two.) Just how my life is structured at the moment...

Anyway, I suppose I'll comment on something as I sometimes do, and not many of the other blogs seem to do (some people forgetting these are blogs and not some big news source. I've seen some people state crap like "this is no place for opinion!" Uh... Then what do they think a blog is? They get clouded by ref-whoring.)

Jude at NoBSHYIP (linky linky at the side and I reprint all my boring, dry 'news-style', non-opinionated crap there :p - hey, if you want a little Chancer opinion visit here! Otherwise what would be the point in a more personal-oriented blog) posted an email from one of the readers about a small problem their having with Global Online Depository.

Now, that's fine. (Although it hasn't been the done thing in the past.)

The problem is more the email itself - someone is having a minor problem! (And is understandably angry. Hey, I crack a massive sook as we say in Australia and stomp the old feet when things aren't going my way and I have a way to change them.)

However, this minor problem is an incorrectly displayed deposit in the script.

They put in $100 or so, and is only showing $12.50 in their account.

They sent an email, and received a reply asking for how they deposited the money. This was around October 10th apparently.

Now, they haven't received a reply since...

And the language of the email claims it is worse than the scammers who post FAKE numbers on the screen and run with the money!

...

Can you see why I think it's fearmongering to go posting this sort of stuff around?

This happens with EVERY HYIP/online program, and emails are sent left, right and center in relation to them (and 80% of them, at least in the early stages, are other HYIPs or smear campaigns.)

I do however think the aforementioned email is legit.

These are the problems:

Around October 10th, Global Online were on their massive anniversary tour.
Recently they shifted into phase two, and have seen a massive influx of deposits (and therefore have a massive backlog.)

So, persistence is key here, not calling them scammers.

They could well be... But I've known of people withdrawing (and depositing!) thousands. $100 incorrectly displayed is just a glitch, that will presumedly be fixed.

This is the reason some programs raise their minimums to massive heights - to avoid this sort of stuff.

Now, as I said, Global Online are not yet on my 'real' list but everyday I see and hear more interesting (and 90% positive!) things about them.

I had to wait about three weeks for a reply from support once, and this was long before the latest influx.

Another time it was within a day or two. It's the ebb and flow...

My problem is, on a hugely publically read news source, we've got someone stating that they are worse than scammers, because a minor deposit issue is being sorted out and taking a few weeks because of the current changes at G.O.D.

Really.

I'll take fake numbers on a screen and real money anyday over real numbers, and fake money.

Global Online Depository - One (Day Left!) ((For Initial Promotion))

2006-10-20T09:54:00.000+10:00

Yes peeps, Global Online Depository has one day left till everything changes (lower rates, no bonus, etc.) And it looks like this time the promotion is actually gonna end instead of being extended!

Anyway, around the way there’s a lot of interesting info about these guys.

But for now I’ll keep it simple, with some minor updates:

I was paid another withdrawal today.

It’s not like you can’t join after the deadline, you just won’t get the bonuses or higher rates! (The rumour is that eventually the loan will be phased out completely and they will go public which means people will buy actual legitimate shares in them instead.) So now is the time if you think this is a good opp and you want to jump on it’s head. That analogy made no sense.

And here’s the latest tidbits from the site:

“TILT!… OVERLOAD!… BOOM!…
Just kidding… well mostly. The rush to beat the deadline has been phenomenal! Thank you for your astonishing support.

However… even with the diligent effort of our Support staff, we won’t get all the new loans activated by the deadline. No worries, though. Loans that are properly initiated and payment sent by the deadline will be activated in due course with the higher-rate existing loan types.

IMPORTANT: So that our Support staff can concentrate on loan activations, we will temporary not be performing any rollover or loan consolidation requests. We have to prioritize. Aside from a slight delay in getting rollovers and consolidations done, members won’t lose any benefit. Our programmer is ferverishly coding the site to allow these operations to be under direct control by members from inside their accounts. He has also figured out a way to allow these operations to proceed with current benefits, even after the deadline. The change-over page has been updated with these enhancements.”

“URGENT NOTICE:
Contrary to what some people are being told, in order to qualify for the current (higher-rate) loans, the loan must be initiated before the deadline AND THE PAYMENT MUST ALSO BE SENT BY THE DEADLINE. The Grace Period is only for transit time of payments already sent before the deadline. Payments sent after the deadline will be activated as the new, lower-rate loans.”

Interesting times.

1 Day. 4 Hours. Etc.

Global Online Depository.

(Can you tell I’m running out of things to say right now? )

GAP Becomes GAP (A Paradox!!! Or not.)

2006-10-19T17:45:00.000+10:00

Yes, inevitably the struggling Global Ads Pro has semi-bitten-the-dust.

This has been coming for a while now but Trish fought tooth and nail. It’s a shame, but she gave it a valiant effort…

And it’s one less game for me I suppose. (Been weaning myself off the games for a while. I ebb and flow - surely enough in a few months again I’ll be playing to win again!)

Anyway, here’s the explanatory email:

“Dear Members,
Sadly, I have made the decision for us to part ways with GAP-paid-to-autosurf.
I find it extremely difficult to explain the “why”, but maybe I’ll find your understanding by summing up, that I am really a chicken, who breaks down every time there is a wave of rightfully impatient posts in forums and hackers remind of themselves by changing the e-gold account number for upgrades on GAP as well as (and probably the most) when part of GAP’s funds got stolen a while ago from one of the storage accounts.
At times it took me a couple of days to regain the strength to keep battling and recovering, but the bottom line is, without being able to afford the kind of security measures and administrative tasks improvements found on David’s 12by12daily, it has become a ridiculous battle.
So what now?
A few days of finalising the financial matters will follow as per the following:

THE PROCEDURE:
1. Upgrades have been disabled.
2. Oldest pendings will be taken care of in the first instance (aiming at having completed any with a September expiry date by midnight my time tonight, Thursday, Oct. 19th) - progress will be indicated in this section every few hours.
3. Any current active upgrades will be refunded as soon as possible (again, aiming at having this completed by midnight my time, Friday, Oct. 20th) - progress will also be indicated.
4. Once the above has been completed, further pendings will be processed, beginning with Oct. 1st outstanding ones, then Oct. 2nd. and so on until all paid up to and including Oct. 18th server time expiries - any expiries happening after Oct. 18th server time will be treated as current active upgrades that will receive a refund of amount purchase only (no profit will be paid on these).
4. Signups will continue and Terms/page content will be updated once all financial matters have been taken care of.
GAP will remain as a free traffic exchange and advertising program - you are all very welcome to stay or free to leave.
I will be gladly transferring all my efforts back to SDU (surf-down-under.com), which has again been picking up strongly and has hopefully as big a spot in your hearts as it has in mine for remaining a paying autosurf for exactly 14 months today.
Big thanks to the many members who have shown their support up to the last moment prior to this notification. I understand my decision will probably leave many surprised - it was a very difficult past 24 hours or so of decision-making. I also sincerely hope the post will not leave any member upset, as my intention is to have all funds returned and all pending cashouts paid as soon as it is physically possible (some rough calculations indicate about 28 hours of work are needed to process currently active upgrades alone - I trust you’ll appreciate it would be hard to have this done in one go).
Finally, any support mail requiring attention will be responded to as soon and when it is possible time-wise. Naturally, matters pertaining to the finalisation of GAP’s payments will be of higher priority, but, as usual, I read it all.
Off to work then, Trish - take good care everyone!
Trish”

Global Online Depository Initial Promotion... Nearly Ended!

2006-10-15T11:16:00.000+10:00

Well, the Global Online Depository countdown is at 6 days now… (That’s six days till the initial promotion and bonuses finally presumedly end!)

So if you want in on this program, and are sure about it, make sure you take advantage of that fact.

They’ve steadily climbed up my list of HYIPs and remain my favourite (though they still haven’t entered my ‘real opportunity’ list, as, I still haven’t had a chance to follow up too much due to ‘real life’ though all the snippets I hear are intriguing or good to say the least.)

So anyway here’s an email update:

“”Hi Global Online Depository TEAM,

wanted to share some info we learned tonight with you on Global.

1. Five New Customer Support Personel hired!! Yay this should help to clear up back logs of outstanding deposits and outstanding withdrawals. Please bear in mind though that today alone they had 1800 emails so please be patient and give them some time. Contact them at globalonlinedepository@yahoo.com if you have a deposit or withdrawal that is over 2 weeks without action.

2. Global sales are through the roof!! Over $200K in sales per day.

3. Global now has 10 warehouses and the inventory is moving in and out at an amazing pace.

4. Global Direct Bank Deposits are on hold. The best method is to send by express mail to
Global Online Direct at: Global Online Direct, Inc., 60539 Peach Road, LaGrande, Oregon
97850

5. Cease and Desist Orders which are incorrect that many have seen on Internet are in the
process of being removed.

6. Company is on track to go public by end of 2006.

Remember the countdown to October 21st is on.

Regards”"

There’s some interesting goodies amongst that, and I love the fact they’ve referenced the Cease And Desist Orders rather than ignoring them.

So guys and girls, there you have it.

Also, Emerald-Surf have adopted the 50-50 payout rule! Great for longevity, but enough to disgruntle little old Chancer. (More mucking about.) But at least since they’ve adopted it, they have insured payouts have been made super quick to ensure that peeps who need the cash to meet the 50 - 50, can use it from their last payout! So I give them props for that.

"Oh it's Heaven!"

2006-10-13T15:16:00.000+10:00

That’s a Curb Your Enthusiasm reference (the second episode of the first season with Ted Danson.)

“Everything’s heaven with him!”

Which leads me to Blue Heaven Mails.

Currently I’m in two surfs after the ‘Gram Network’ went bye-byes a little earlier than expected, which I will get to later in another one of my badly patented “Chancer’s Surf Updates.”

Although two is my usually liked number, I’m always on the lookout for the latest trick or gimmick and I think Blue Heaven Mails have it.

All my usual comments about big up-and-comer surfs applies (fairly pretty site, blanket advertising, etc.) however the gimmick, the unique spin, here lies within the fact that instead of surfing each day you have to read an email.

(TIP: Keep that anti-virus scanner handy, just in case - just as you should when surfing.)

So, it has the PTR crowd, it has the AutoSurf crowd, it has somewhat UNIQUELY (ooh capitals!) intermingled the two - and it is getting curious buzz, which is the best kind as it leads to word of mouth.

Blue Heaven Mails - it’s still extremely fresh, and will it be heaven? Time will tell.

(Also please note that reading an email seems to be a much more effective frame of advertising than an autosurf, so maybe this will attract some people actually wanting to advertise for a change, as so many surfs who’ve tried to legitamize in the past have tried to.)

So that’s a curio - and here’s the current Big Gun: EmeraldSurf.

This one just keeps getting more and more buzz, and like fallen giant AlienSurf, Friday is cashout day - which means if you upgraded today and surfed - you could then cash out and be paid tomorrow.

Just thought I’d mention that as Friday is the day when activity EXPLODES with this monster, it’s definitely the flow (whereas the rest of the week is the ebb.)

EmeraldSurf.

Look for my updates on this beast, with lots of potential, in a few days as the weekly updates are released…

And the beleagured GlobalAdsPro just doesn’t give up… An admirable trait!

“Hello All,
Took a much needed break from “here” today (well, yesterday for me - 1:25am Friday morning here) - very busy day too, but had my beauty sleep for a few hours and back to it now - thank you for your patience awaiting replies to support enquiries - checking them now.
Needless to say, payouts will continue shortly

Previously…

Phew… overnight mail has been responded to and I didn’t even need my chamomile tea - I’m still trying peeps. Also, have a look at this - actually, I got a couple of such uplifting emails today and I say THANK YOU to the authors:

Somebody said it couldn\’t be done, as he with a chuckle replied… That maybe it couldn\’t..but he would be one, who wouldn\’t say so till he tried! So, he bulkled right in, with a trace of a grin (on his face if he hid it..who knew it?) And he started to sing..as he tackled the thing.. that couldn\’t be done.. AND HE DID IT!

Previously…

WOW… I’m not even sure I am able to express how I felt seeing members post in a couple of forums with their words of support and willingness to donate funds to help recover the hacked ones…it really cost me a great deal to make that post mentioning the hack, but I really did not want anyone (especially Misty!) to think wrong about me. I truly am trying my best here, and, like it or not, am a litle proud of myself that I managed SDU for almost 14 months now and GAP for around 3 - even though it’s been a bumpy road more often than not. I don’t know about others, but it is really not easy to sleep somebody out there is waiting for a payment - fact is, as I have written in previous updates, there is still a long road to catching up all older payments. Even if wanted to pull more of my personal funds, I can’t … there are none left and whatever comes in the meantime, goes straight to the GAP account for payouts. (David B. iffered $100 to be deducted from his account for me to go out or treat myself to something - such a big heart, David - but how could I possibly?).
I am trying to be as fair and square with payouts as possible (and NO, I do not pick some members over others! like some are trying to suggest) - I basically try to do what is most efficient timewise as well as for creating new cash so it may be used for generating recovery funds for what was lost and hopefully help me rebuilt the reserves. With one exception…occassionally, if a member has just received a payment, considering there are many others waiting with 2 or more pendings, I will rather send a payment to another person, instead of 2 payments to the same person. And it hurts me too. There is nothing more that I am willing to see again than a payout list where there is only one pending for each person!
Back to your offers of donating to a recovery fund - I spent 2 days thinking about it and, as much as I appreciate your good will (I do!), I’d rather avoid going in that direction right now - it is heavy as it is to carry the financial burden for so many people. Instead, what I am hoping I am seeing in the correct way, there is a slight increase again in new signups and re-purchases - so, if you are able to re-purchase more often, it will have same effect as donating to a fund, as it ill place more funds that can be put to work again. I have places where I have a very good record of generating extra funds and no funds to put in there.
Please, try not emailing me about payments you have not received, please - try to look instead at the ones you HAVE received…
I realise this is getting far too long for this message section, but just wanted to let you know I am here and still trying to not give up
take care
Trish ”

Oh, and coolly enough (blue = cool, remember) with Blue Heaven Mails you get a Joke Of The Day when you log in, keeping with the whole PTR theme. Its like an autosurf, but easier, more effective advertising, and a unique theme which could/should grab the mass consciousness’ attention… A good bet?

Fly On The Wall...

2006-10-13T13:04:00.000+10:00

Well the FX Experts saga continues...

And just to let everyone know, there are still public tidbits leaking out here and there.

Here's the latest one:

" Good news are coming guys I hope to post good news this week yet.
Thanks for you patience."

There's a lot more stuff floating around but I won't bother posting it for now until we get the official word from Marcos himself.

I don't think, from all I've gathered (though I'm not going into deep at the moment - hence the title, Fly On The Wall... I'm just staying away from the fracas), Marcos has not nicked off or anything.

However this doesn't excuse his poor communication and treatment of his investors at this point - I am not impressed at all, and most of the things he has done have been completely contradictory of his original aims and mission statements.

But hey, a little something is better than nothing and I can also see his reasoning behind waiting for good news and some actual progress before pulling back the curtain.

-> Doesn't mean any of us like that method however!

And in addendum - the latest word is that once our FX E accounts break even, Marcos is out of the $100 game and will only be concentrating on the much larger Managed Accounts. Fair enough after all the death threats and similar such nonsense that emanates from those eager to jump on which ever bandwagon has the most horses in front of it at any one time.

However, as said before - he could have stymied some of those threats with a paragraph update every day (even if there was nothing to report.)

Really it's a catch 22, two sides to the coin, but I think we'll be pleasantly suprised, and perhaps it is best if Marcos just concentrates on something other than people who've lost a ton ($100) threatening to blow up his country (or whatever is the current threat of choice.)

CIM Update

2006-10-11T13:29:00.000+10:00

Well Community Investors Mutual is temporarily closing its doors to new investors... Here's the explanatory write up:

"Witht FXE temporarily closed, FXIG suspending withdrawals, and with several other authentic programs facing unique problems of their own, CIM has decided that for the time being it will close its doors to new members. The present state of affairs in the HYIP world has limited our investment opportunities and there is no point in accepting new members funds if these cannot be invested profitably and safely. An evaluation will be made in November and if things seem to be coming back to normal we may reopen for membership again."

SwissCult And The Prophet Of Doom

2006-10-07T19:11:00.000+10:00

In tonight's sequel to the SwissCult saga, we find the prophet of doom hanging ever closer. It's just a matter of when the sickle falls.

There's news stories, some related, some not (which have vague links) which are swirling waters, and as usual, the SwissCult idiotic faithful are spurting off useless contradictions left right and center in an attempt to parlay fears and get their money grubbing fingers on as much green as they can before the ship goes down.

The amount of money some of these idiots have swirling around under them is outrageously ludicrous. Please note that those who have this much in their SwissCult accounts are all made from 'sales' as those who like to think they are professionals refer to it.

Please note they are professoinals because they signed up for a dodgy Malay program on the net.

The sad thing is, as this whole shebang goes bang on itself, most of these idiots have gone out into the real world, enlisting friends and families, lying to their faces. (Apparently this is 'work.' Very bad shyster salesmanship now counts as work. How many of the gullible line our shores?)

How often have we seen: "Ooh I work to increase my SFP SPF SIP right side left side! ha ha no mind no more ppl in this forum i go out in real life talk to people bst way to get sign ups!"

Yes, also best way to have those irate below you, those who aren't sitting atop the pyramid when it goes down, coming and beating your ass with whichever is the preferred sporting implement wherever you are.

Capice?

SFP? STFU.

Now there's a lot of scams and a lot of promotion out there, but these people are really under the impression that SwissCult is real and have let it invade their reality and instead of losing ten, even a hundred or two bucks in a surf, or HYIP, they're swindling people out of their life savings and always 'guaranteeing the money.'

Pretty Pictures... Of Trucks And Warehouses. And Surfs

2006-10-07T19:09:00.000+10:00

Global Online Depository continues its countdown to the end of its intial promotion - so if you know you want in, now is the time.

Anyway, the main reason I mention that is because they have a new PDF newsletter up with lots of photos. Are they real or not, is another question - but there’s lots of photos! And not much textola this time.

I was also paid by them on my first larger withdrawal. So they’re definitely at the top of my HYIP list (but yet to enter my ‘real opportunity’ list - I’m waiting on a little info and some spies to get back to me, and depending on what I find out they could well move onto that list!)

And moving onto surfing news… I’m down to two now, as anyone who follows my surfing soap operas would know.

GlobalAdsPro is still powering along, catching up here and there, other people having problems. If nothing else, it’s the surf that won’t give up!

And EmeraldSurf is catching massive buzz waves, and each week its activity seems to increase a great lot on Friday/Saturday - why? Cos it’s payout day!

Reminds me of the beginning of Alientrust, the ebb and flow, which is a good thing as Alientrust expanded into a bloody juggernaut.

I’ve been paid promptly for this week and here come the mini ‘go Emerald Surf!’ updates from their admin:

“Dear Emerald Members,

All the pendings are PAID! We want you to have a nice weekend having some extra cash to spend with.

Today we paid some members for the Bronze rewards for their hard work in promoting Emerald Surf.
We believe more members will be receiving the bonus soon as many are close to the range by now.

We would like to once again urge our members to us a small favour, please vote for us.
Every vote is precious in ensuring the longetivity of the program.

Thanks very much!

Emerald Surf Admin
Carlos”

The amount of pages/posts these guys receive around payout day are quite a jump over the rest of the week combined. People love to hear that ca-ching of cream hitting the old E-Gold.

Anyway, that’s enough barely sentient rambling from me…

SilverGate Forex Hedging

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

Hello loyal readers, and people who just read to make fun of me and my inane contradictions!

Anyway, today is the semi-introduction of a new program - Silver Gate Forex Hedging.

You've probably all heard about it for over a month now so I couldn't be bothered writing much about it. It's an Udachu spin off (kind of.) Anyway, once again it is 'seemingly legit' so I'm putting it into my online opportunities column (as in potentially real investments.)

As I said, so many people have written about it and it has set the community abuzz so there's not much more to say about it.

If you're not in it yet, and want to be, you need an invite code so email me and ask. The minimum is being raised over time so if you want to be in - quick sticks!

Which brings me to their first monthly posted return - 2.1%.

This was due to some mucking about and E-Gold mishaps that I won't go into due to the private nature of Udachu and its offshoots.

UI and UF are still doing pretty well... (though UI was affected by the same thing that affected SGFH.)

Anyway... That's enough of that. :) We've got to be all raincoats, trenchcoats, cloaks and daggers and any other assorted paraphenalia when publically speaking about these programs.

It's Party Time With Global Online Depository!

2006-10-05T10:38:00.000+10:00

People have been asking me some more about GlobalOnlineDepository, the main question being “have you been paid?” (As you don’t see much about them in the usual scam-oriented forums.)

Well, happily to report I have been paid once again but this time for a much larger withdrawal than my small, early ones.

Tying in with that here’s some tidbits. It’s their anniversary so they are having a party, which means:

“DUE TO THE OVERLAP OF THE ANNIVERSARY CANADA TOUR AND THE OCTOBER 16th SWITCH TO THE NEW LOAN PROGRAM, THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 21st. THE END OF THE GRACE PERIOD WILL REMAIN THE SAME.”

So all the initial bonuses are extended once again!

Goneskis...

2006-10-05T10:11:00.000+10:00

Hey guys... Just back from a few days break and it appears bloody NetGlobalTraffic and GramHYIP are goneskis. (That means "no longer exist," peeps!)

By the time he opened the third program in his 'gram network' I was starting to get a little suss as we say in Australia, but not so much yet... I figured they'd have a few strong cycles in them before any suspicion rose to the fore.

Ah well... My Aut0Surf profits minus my NetGlobalTraffic loss ends up being about even in the end. Hope anyone who joined up didn't do too badly but always remember this is the nature of the beast (seeing as it is a game.)

Stinging me a bit after my run of good luck though!

Emerald Surf appears to be remaining strong however, and Trish keeps powering on with GlobalAdsPro so they remain my two surfs at the moment.

GlobalAdsPro Movement

2006-10-02T06:51:00.000+10:00

Well, after the disappointing news that Aut0Surf (with a zero, sadly) has hit the wayside... I was paid the last of my prior pendings by GlobalAdsPro.

Despite being beleaguered, Trish just somehow manages to keep powering on with this program...

Straight from Trish herself comes some news in a vein of good humour.

"Sunday, midnight Aussie time
Was sick today and basically spending more time in the bathroom than anywhere else (I know...who cares) - just stating a fact for those who appreciate being informed.

A birdie sent me a message (thanks amino-acid) that MMG considers me a scam - just as well I was sick. Are they going to put SDU in the scam section too? 13 months+ and paying? Honestly...I gotta laugh hard!! :DD as there seems nothing else to do... - again, I know...who cares!

Have fun bashing while I try to get some payouts done
Trish"

Aut0Surf Now Zero...

2006-10-02T06:45:00.000+10:00

Well, one of the ‘gram network’ has fallen by the wayside…

At least ‘Scott’s’ final appraisal is honest.

“I hate to say it but the time has come to close Aut0Surf.

The current stats are

Users: 910

Active: 802

Invested: 2427.00 Grams

Paid Out: 2329.16 Gram

Of course as stated from the start there will be no refunds and there is no way I am about to start using other funds to bail this out.

I am sorry to those who lost, but please remember you all knew the risks.

I have just sent a PM to Jason (asfx) to move this thread.

I am expecting panic on the other programs I run, but I will not and I dont think the admins of MMG will allow any kind of attack.

Please note as an admin I have only kept 4% of the funds.”

And a little more from the admin:

“I know that some people are mad, but I gotta say thanks to all for your support.

My other two programs will be ran the same way. From the start I have explained what I am doing and I aint going no where.

I, like the people who lost, feel a little downhearted, but we should all know that these sites are not real profit making businesses. They are games, and by running the games fair means people and the admin make a little profit.

No one here should be making thousands, its not possible. We are here to make a few extra bucks to buy the little things in life your normal salary cant afford.

Play in a site for a few weeks, and if you make a profit take the wife out for a nice meal, buy your kids a new toy that they have been on about for weeks, or put the profit in a regular savings account.

If you think that by playing these games you can leave your full time job you need a real shock, and you might get it when a site you invest BIG $$ in vanishes.

We are a communitity of people, who wanna make a profit. Of course everyone can not be a winner.

If you do not understand what we are all doing here then please go and visit

http://www.google.com and start looking up porn or warez and leave the MMG world.”

Like I said, at least he is continuing the honest streak… A bummer nonetheless. Aut0surf just need some fire under its butt to really catch on and last a few months but despite best efforts didn’t spark - will NetGlobalTraffic, or will it be adversely affected by the closure of Aut0Surf? Not to use a crappy cliche, but ‘time will tell!

Updates On Autosurfs. Now With Simplified Title.

2006-10-01T10:38:00.000+10:00

Well here’s another update on the surfs, I, Chancer, am in at the moment.

Which basically means I copy and paste a lot of stuff and crack really bad jokes! Who’s with me!

I’m really running out of headlines for these little posts - maybe I should just keep calling it “Chancer’s Surf Updates?” Anyone like that idea?

I was paid by Emerald Surf (and Global Ads Pro… it appears Trish is making real headway into those pendings, I’ve only got one left to go now) and they released their ‘goodies’ email which is a collection of free ebooks for members.

I won’t reprint it here as, well, I take it the idea is that you get the free goodies if you are a member!

Anyway, here is another email that explains it all…

“Hi Emerald Members,

We are glad that Emerald Surf has been running smoothly so far and we are gaining interest gradually. In fact a lot of members expressed their compliments personally to me. Our evolving concept in Emerald Surf has been applauded by members and those who shown interest in Emerald Surf. We appreciate members support as without it we wouldnt have gone this far.

As a return you can expect uncompromising integrity and dedication from us to make Emerald Surf a huge success. As you can see we position our self at a different level of game play compare to other ordinary programs. We are not just another paid to surf program, but a combination of traffic exchange + MLM + a lot more.

One of the evolving concepts in Emerald Surf that differentiate us from others is to try to make Emerald Surf a learning while earning platform for all upgraded members. Besides gaining monetary returns from paid surfing and affiliate program, you will also enjoy from weekly Emerald Goodies.

Emerald Goodies is basically some education materials such as eBooks, reports and audios encompassing subjects such as personal development, financial, sales, communication, network marketing, Internet marketing, motivation, etc.

Web templates will also be given out for FREE.

These materials is either freely available or we have the full resell rights, all the upgraded active members will receive the download links every weekend from us so remember to check the mail!

As you are probably aware of, the best investment one can make is investing on his own education. In today highly competitive environment, it is vital to gain more knowledge and skills, especially in personal finance, business and marketing. Hopefully these selected goodies can guide members in the right path on their quest of reaching financial success and freedom.

We have a solid infrastructure - Dedicated Server and Ddos Protection to withstand the expected future growth, to give you the best user experience and peace of mind while you earn and learn. I am sure that there are lots of programs out there that offer more attractive payment plans, but bear in mind that Emerald payment plan and affiliate program are well planned for stability and sustainability.

We have ambitious plans to make Emerald Surf a truly sustainable, value added program and a win-win opportunity for home business owners, advertisers and opportunists that seek for lucrative returns. Below are some of the plans that will be added to our online services in the near future: -

Emerald Online Studio - Online design services at discounted rate for Emerald Members

Emerald Advertising - Other than Emerald Surf as traffic exchange, we will offer other online advertising channels whereby Emerald Members can advertise and get their sites reach out to more users

We hope to build a long term partnership with you with unlimited opportunities ahead.

We look forward for your continuous support, thank you!

Emerald Surf Admin

Carlos”

This is a very interesting spin on the usual autosurf concept, when combined with the already quite-tremendous growth, that could lead to even bigger growth! So Emerald Surf is looking pretty sweet at these early stages, with a few relatively-unique twists, which is what we’re always looking for.

And moving onto the ‘gram network’… Aut0Surf has seen steady growth since a few days ago adding a few hundred more members in such a short space of time. Sooo much room for these guys to grow though when compared to the ‘greats’ which went into the tens of thousands of members.

“Gram Network UpDate

——————————————————————————————

Aut0Surf.Com

Aut0Surf started on 13th August 2006 and was the first Surf site to bring the concept of grams to all surf players,

Offering 7% Daily for 21 Days
2 Cashouts per Month
5% referral Scheme.
901 Active members

Over 2500 Grams Paid out to members.

Although not huge, Aut0Surf started the Gram concept and it has built a very nice active membership. Hundreds of payments have been made all within less than 24 hours.

Keep supporting Aut0Surf.

http://www.aut0surf.com

——————————————————————————————

NetGlobalTraffic.Com

NGT started on the 26th September 2006. Again based on the Gram concept this site is aimed at the surf player who likes more of a risk.

17% Daily for 7 Days
1 Cashout per week
5% referral Scheme
307 Active members.

Already in this short time over 220 Grams Paid out.
Live stats available - http://netglobaltraffic.com/AdvancedStats.php

Again not a site running into a membership of thousands the site is attracting alot of good members who seem to be advertising and building good downlines.

Keep Supporting NGT

http://www.netglobaltraffic.com

——————————————————————————————

GramHYIP

Launched on the 29th Spetemeber (24 hours ago). Based on the Gram concept again however this site attracts the wider HYIP Player.

Only 1 day old and over 440 Grams has already been deposited. Thats approx $8470.

Twin Plan site

20% daily for 6 days or 150% after 6 Days
6% referral scheme.
Manual Payments

To early really to talk about.

Support GramHYIP

http://www.gramhyip.com

——————————————————————————————

I have built a good network of gram based sites here, which have already paid out over $53,000 at todays gold prices.

Any member of any of the above sites, please keep supporting that site, this is the problem so may sites fail. Post in forums, use the monitors, pass the details onto friends. I hope we are all grown adults in this industry and we all know how these sites work.

Please keep the support there.

If anyone needs help or advice regarding the gram concept please come to MMG and PM me. My nick is ‘Aut0Surf’ and I am normally online.

Thanks

Scott.”

And that about does it for now.

Aut0Surf Rip Offs Have Begun!

2006-09-29T12:24:00.000+10:00

You know Aut0Surf and NGT are hitting the big time when other surfs are starting to pilfer the 'grams' concept off them - UNC of MoneyMakerGroup has created DarkCitySurf on the same concept.

There's nothing wrong with this and is a good idea (and it's not like Aut0Surf was that original, just their implementation of it) it just goes to prove that Aut0Surf has a solid plan and the fact other peeps are jumping on the bandwagon is a good sign.

But if it were me, I'd stick with the original and the best.

(By that I mean Aut0Surf and its ilk for now.)

Rog Resumes

2006-09-29T12:08:00.000+10:00

As predicted yesterday, Rog is back in business on his "Trade Ones."

And as also stated, my point remains on the fact that we should not be blind cheerleaders - whether that faith is rewarded or not is a moot point towards the attitude we should take.

Anyway, looking forward to a nice juicy payout from Rog eventually nonetheless.

More FX Experts Ramblings

2006-09-28T22:01:00.000+10:00

This is a post from Marcos Matos (the FX E admin) over at HyipDiscussion:

"Dear gargi and members,
We lost more than 50% here in a BIG mistake made by our trader. We don't lost EVERYTHING because I closed half of positions myself (rabbit can confirm all this).
I just deposited days before FROM MY OWN MONEY 200k+ to help on fxe's situation and recover this money faster. So, this is why I am not planing to refund you guys like FXIG made FOR NOW.
Also we have a HUGE opportunity to recover your money. An application in this new broker takes about 1 month, however, as I know some guys there, it will be ready faster. I will keep you guys informed about everything is happening always. Let's just be patient please. Put in mind that I am more anxious than you guys, but in this kind of situation, it's better to walk than run.
I cannot do more than I am already doing for you, sorry.
Thanx"

As time goes by, I'm becoming increasingly saddened by his actions and think it actually shows a large LACK of professionalism (despite the cheerleaders.) However I still know that he's for real and FX-E is not down for the count yet guys.

Which brings me to how saddening it is too see people blindly idolize Rog (of "Rog's Offers") at HYIP Discussion... Not realizing the fact that the reasons they have so much faith in him are exactly the same reasons people have so much faith in SwissCult (EVIL), etc.

This is not to denigrate Rog, he could indeed be for real, and I have some money with him... Just the blind adulation (including from many 'senior' members of the community) whilst he experiences some difficulties with E-Gold (apparently - not to say he isn't, but how do we know for sure?) is just a little saddening.

Of course being proved right in their faith (which I think we will) does NOT rule out the fact that it is still blind faith. :)

Remember -> Rog is not Dog spelt backwards.

Ramblin' Surfs

2006-09-28T17:48:00.000+10:00

So now I’m saddled up with four autosurfs, which is more than I usually dabble in, but here’s the latest from the two new big guns - EmeraldSurf and NetGlobalTraffic.

Emerald Surf is catching on quick (as I predicted it would - self congratulatory prat that I am) and perhaps quicker than I believed. The admin is showing good nous so far and I liked this little statement:

“Good point being bought here, the purpose of not showing stat in our site is, we think stat give a false illusion that affect members decision. Most importantly, it is useless. Anybody can create a hype by manipulating stat, I can make EmeraldSurf hit 50K deposit on the first day, is easy, but what is the purpose besides creating a false impression, to lure the potential member?
Since there is no way to verify the accuracy of statistic, we might as well discard it, to be fair.

Another point you bought up is honesty. I do agree that the perception of “honesty” in this arena is hard to build, and real integrity is even hard to come by. Reputation can’t be built over night, I will leave it to time to show our integrity.

Rest assured we will honor you a valued added experience even you only have a $5 upgrade, and we never trying to force anybody to join.
Our ultimate plan is create a long term win-win relationship with our members.
We have total confidence on our business plan and strategy, and lots of new ideas ahead. Stay tuned!

Thank you!

Emerald Surf Admin
Carlos”

Despite the broken English (at least he doesn’t have a name like “John Smith” or something, Carlos is perfectly reasonable an admin name to have slightly broken English) he shows a good understanding of the community and the right way to gee them up! In fact, he has basically said what I usually say, in relation to stats, so I like him. *thumbs up.* I expect this growth surge to continue and continue…

And other than that NetGlobalTraffic is also experiencing some nice initial surges of growth (unlike the steady but not speedy growth of Aut0Surf.) This one is still extremely fresh and here is the 24-hour birthday update!

“I would just like to thank you all for your inital support to NGT. Not even 24 hours old, and there is alread 140 members and over 300 Grams in active ‘Ad Packs’.

To answer a question some people have asked regarding the cashout.

You are allowed to cashout once a week. The week starts on Monday, so if you wish you could request for example Saturday and then again on Monday.

If anyone has any suggestions or comments please let me know.

Scott
Admin of Aut0Surf and NetGlobalTraffic”

And a personal message from Scott to me which once again illustrates his good understanding of the pulse of the community. This is key to a good autosurf these days, and he quite rightly (and surprisingly honestly!) mentions that NGT is riskier than Aut0!

“Within the first 24 hours of NGT being out there, I had over 100 active members and over 300 Grams in deposits, far bigger than the first 24 hours of Aut0Surf. This was no surprise to me as people had seen how I run Aut0Surf. Also another reason I believe for the fantastic start was the difference in the plan.

Aut0Surf offers a 47% profit after 3 weeks (21 Days) while NGT offers 19% in one week. I believe NGT is more risky than Aut0Surf due to the slightly higher ROI and the more cashouts over the 3 week period compared to Aut0Surf.

Will running a second site increase my workload and will it affect the service I offer?

I dont think so. As I have stated many times, Aut0Surf is a very good site, with very active members, but its not a site which runs into thousands of members. I believe NGT will be based on the same lines also.

Approving sites, answering support requests, making payments, auditing accounts, keeping an eye on the server and also looking at what is happening in the surf world does not really take alot of time. I would say it takes about 2 - 4 man hours, and with NGT this takes it to about 3-5 hours. This of course will increase if/when I see a sudden increase in activity in either site.

I would again, just like to clear up the reason why a second site was started. Comments had been made regarding Aut0Surf and the length of time the ROI was returned. NGT simply is there to attract a different kind of member. A member who enjoys a site with a little bit more risk. Both sites are different, bot carry there own risks and both are ran seperately. The only connection between the two sites is that they both use Grams as a payment method and they are both ran by myself.

Scott.”

Thanks Scott - I think you are quite possibly the freshest Aut0Surf admin out there at the moment (let’s hope you keep it to two surf-oriented sites for now though!) You display a genuine sense of honesty rather than the usual ‘honesty’ of admins.

Oh, and I’ve been paid by NetGlobalTraffic already, just thought I’d add (seeing as I was paid in the last five minutes. )

Just thought I’d use bold for that little addendum!

Yet Another Surf...

2006-09-28T12:35:00.000+10:00

Aut0Surf (with a zero!) continues steady growth with many loyal members - though anyone will recognize that this is not blitz-level growth (in terms of speed.) Which doesn’t really matter due to the longer time frames, and the high percentage of upgraded members. It can be acknowledged that the lower rate and longer time frame COULD be keeping some people away though… So Scott McCann (Aut0Surf admin) is doing what some ‘big’ programs have done sucessfully, and some haven’t… He is starting a second autosurf to address these issues.

NetGlobalTraffic

“Welcome to NetGlobalTraffic.. The second Gram Based Site ran by Scott McCann

WHAT???? I hear you cry.

Before you start to panic, take the time to read the folllowing.

The reason I decided to start another site is very simple and easy to understand. Comments have been made regarding Aut0surf and the length of time the ‘Ad Packs’ were running. Some people thought the 3 weeks were to long, some loved it and have made Aut0Surf what it is today.

Some people asked if I could start another site which did not take as long to return the ROI. After thinking about this for a few days, I thought it would be better to cater for all people that have different tastes in the surf world.

A member of Aut0Surf contacted me and informed me that he had a new surf site for sale, and would I be interested. Once I was shown the domain name, I automatically fell in love with the meaning.

After further conversations with the owner of the domain a deal was struck. He refunded the old membership which only consisted of a handfull of people and I paid he a fair and honest price for the domain.

The domain was transfered to my control and I changed the way the site worked into my style of basing the site around Grams. A new design was sought and finally merged into the script.

NetGlobalTraffic benefits

* 17% daily for 7 days= 119%
* 5% Referral Commissions
* Ad Packs Last 7 days
* 15 Pages to Earn
* 15 Second Timer
* Minimum ‘Ad Pack’ cost 0.25 Grams
* Maximum ‘Ad Pack’ cost 250 Grams
* Secure and Safe Script
* 1 Payout Per Week
* Maximum of 3 ‘Ad Packs’ running at any one time.

NetGlobalTraffic.com is a seperate site and is not tied into Aut0Surf.Com. All monies are seperated and will never be used to ‘Bail’ the other site out.”

Interesting. I’m in both minds about this one, but mostly leaning towards the positive at this early stage (I love the fact there is a little history behind it as well.) I usually stick to two or three surfs (at this moment being Aut0Surf, Emerald Surf and GlobalAdsPro as my ‘third’) but figure I might as well jump in this one. Lots of positives to it, and it is so brand spanking new.

(And before anyone says Aut0Surf is running out of money please remember that payments STILL occur within about twenty minutes of request, rain or shine!)

And here's a little tidbit on gold from Aut0Surf/NetGlobalTraffic:

"SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures closed Wednesday above $600 an ounce for the first time in more than two weeks, extending strength from the previous session with supportfrom strong overseas demand, firmer oil prices and the recent conclusion toEuropean central bank sales of the precious metal

Scott"

Obligatory Surf Update

2006-09-27T12:34:00.000+10:00

Nicely done, Global Ads Pro - despite my mangled account (only mangled due to my old pendings) being confused as to whether it meets the 45% rule, I was still paid for one of my old pendings! And all my current ones are up to date - just waiting on one more, from the 9th, to go now before my account is all caught up.

And from new big gun Emerald Surf:

"Hi Members,

Just to drop by to let you guys know that we are going to have an interesting benefit for all the active members - weekly Emerald Goodies, I am sure that will beneficial to all of the self valued person like you! More details will be released soon.

That's our goal, to provide more than what you expect.

Thanks
Emerald Surf Admin
Carlos"

Solid Selection!

2006-09-27T09:22:00.000+10:00

Just looking over my HYIP column and realize that it has been the same (with additions) for ages now, with barely any of the games going down...

Pretty happy with that!

Global Online Depository Falls Into Line (In A Good Way!)

2006-09-26T16:47:00.000+10:00

Global Online Depository stays on my HYIP list rather than my ‘Online Investment’ Opportunity list -> However, it may be soon working it’s way up.

It is gaining a lot of buzz and I’ve seen some relatively massive mover and shakers, who usually don’t bother with this arena, signing up and getting on board.

The reason it may soon be moving up my list, for me personally, is because I am once again going to follow up on them in person (and am fact communicating with a few people who can go do some personal visits for me.)

But in the meantime, one thing that irked me if they ARE real is the comparatively high interest rates and the long running promotions to gain initial investors.

Looks like the yard sale is about to end and the rates are about to fall into a much more ‘realistic’ category with the end of the promotion. Which I think is a bloody good thing, and bodes well for upcoming further research into their validity.

Anyway, here’s the word straight from the horses mouth:

“AT 12 NOON, MONDAY - OCTOBER 16TH, 2006 HKT
Global Online Depository’s Loan Program Is Changing
What Will Stay the Same

* Referral Program. Global’s 4-level referral program will continue to pay referral fees according to the current fee schedule.
* Existing Loans. All existing loans will continue at their current interest rates to the end of each loan’s 365-day term, unless you request active loans to be consolidated. After the deadline, consolidateion will close existing loans and create a new loan under the new loan program
* Compounding Option. Members will continue to have the option of setting the compounding percentage for each active loan at any integral value between 0 and 100 percent. The compounding option will also be extended to the new loan types.
* Hold Periods. Withdrawal and transfer of interest payments and referral bonuses are still subject to 90-day and 30-day hold periods respectively.

What Will Change

* 25% Add-on Bonus. This bonus will be discontinued.
* Current Loan Programs. All current loan programs will be closed. No new loans will be activated under current loan types and rates.
* New Loan Program. A new series of loan brackets and rates will go into effect after the deadline. All new loans activated after the deadline and grace period described below will be of the new type and at the new rates.

New Loan Program
YOU LOAN - WE PAY
Name Minimum Maximum Rate
President $500.00 $4,999.99 0.125% - one eighth of a percent
Diamond $5,000.00 $9,999.99 0.250% - one quarter of a percent
Platinum $10,000.00 none 0.500% - one half of a percent
Deadline

* 12 Noon, Monday - October 16, 2006 HKT. Precisely at this time, all current loan programs will no longer be available for new loans. In order to lock in existing rates, a pending deposit record must be submitted from your account prior to the deadline. A pending deposit is generated by completing the 2-page “Initate a Loan” form.
* Future Intentions. You may not submit a pending deposit record with the hope of receiving sufficient funds prior to the end of the grace period defined below. All payments for pending deposits submitted prior to the deadline must also be sent prior to the deadline or they will not qualify for the current loan programs and rates.
* Add-on Bonuses. All add-on bonuses will also be discontinued after the deadline is reached.
* Rollovers. After the deadline, all rollovers will be activated according the the new loan program and at the new rates. No add-on bonuses will apply even for loan activations under the old loan program during the grace period for receiving funds at Global’s office.
* Account Consolidations. After the deadline, combining smaller loans into a single new loan may not be advantageous to existing members who have active loans under the old program. New loans resulting from account consolidation will be under the new loan program and rates. Be certain you understand this before requesting consolidation of your loans after the deadline.

Grace Period

* 12 Noon, Monday - October 31st, 2006. Payments for all pending deposits must reach Global’s office no later than this time. The sole purpose of this grace period is to allow sufficient transit time for payments enroute to Global’s office, which were sent before the deadline defined above. Payments sent after the deadline do not qualify for the closed loan programs and rates.
* Automatic Down-grade. Payments which reach Global’s office past the end of this grace period for receiving funds wiil be activated under the new loan program at the lower rates. If it is apparent that your funds were sent after the deadline, your payment will be applied to the new loan program even though you completed a pending deposit record prior to the deadline.

To Make It Absolutely Clear: In order to qualify for a new loan at the present rates make sure to have all pending loans in the system by the deadline. You do this by clicking “Initiate a Loan” and completing the 2-page form. You must also send your funds by the deadline. The grace period is solely for the purpose of allowing reasonable transit time for payments you have already sent prior to the deadline to reach Global’s office. Payments sent after the deadline will qualify only for the new loans at the lower rates. ”

So guys and gals, there you go. If you do want in, now would be the time to get on the bandwagon, at least initially.

There’s lots of interesting stuff about Global Online Depository floating around right now, lots of comminques from people who’ve visited their warehouses and been astounded by the enormity. Things are heating up, can’t wait to see how any future research should do.

Global Ads Pro Current Situation

2006-09-25T22:01:00.000+10:00

Well, I was paid on time for one of my current Global Ads Pro pendings, as has been promised - however I am still awaiting her (Trish the admin) to work through the backlog and clear out mine.

It's still going, either way, and here is the latest random update from the main page:

"Late Sunday (11:14pm), Sep. 24th (Aussie time):

Member A. sends in this support request:

Subject: Action Problem
Message: Dear Admin
Hi,
I wanna explain some Action PROBLEM that I find in you site.
I started surfing in you site at 8/28/2006 and as you see I did not miss any surfing day to now.
You say that you paid 18x7 = 136 percent per each upgrade account.
Look at my account upgrading & payment carefully that I shown blew:

I up 20$ at 8/28 and must earn 20x136 = 27.2$ but I resived only 26.2$ missed 2.0$ = 10% of my original upgrade!
I up 10$ at 9/03 and must earn 10x136 = 13.6$ but I resived only 12.6$ missed 1.0$ = 10% of my original upgrade!!
I up 3$ at 9/07 and must earn 3x136 = 4.08$ but I resived only 3.78$ missed 0.3$ = 10% of my original upgrade!!!
I up 5$ at 9/10 and must earn 5x136 = 6.8$ but I resived only 6.3$ missed 0.5$ = 10% of my original upgrade!!!!
I up 10$ at 9/17 and must earn 10x136 = 13.6$ but I resived only 12.6$ missed 1.0$ = 10% of my original upgrade!!!!!

Totally 4.8$ to now
Can you explaine it , WHY?????

That WHY? Is not like other why? That you write on your site.
Excuse my for previous uncompleted contact that send by mistake.
Sincerely
Axxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Trish replies:
Hmmmm.....my dear friend, 18 x 7 still =s 126 in my books (not 136) - I'm sure I would have been eaten alive long time ago if it was not ;D

Thank you :)
Trish"

If she can only catch up the backlog and keep the two-day timeframe on current expiries, GAP will continue to kick ass.

Shiny And New Emerald Surf (like an Emerald, y'know)

2006-09-24T11:41:00.000+10:00

I always like to juggle two or so autosurfs as you have probably guessed if you read my ramblings.

At the moment, Aut0Surf is experiencing nice, steady long term growth.

However, GlobalAdsPro, whilst I still have faith in it and think it will go for a while yet, is experiencing some setbacks.

Whereas Aut0Surf is experiencing that steady growth, I’m waiting for that next ‘instant bait,’ that surf that hits the big time straight away and slams on the growth for a few months.

It is hard to tell, with no clear winners in this field - but one has caught my eye.

EmeraldSurf.

Here’s the basics:

- Tries to pretend it’s part of some big corporation (ala Compact, etc.)
- Unique hook of combining Auto + Manual
- Semi-unique hook of a minor MLM element for those who want to take part of it (big referrers get some extra cash bonuses)
- Similar earning structure to the ‘instant greats’ (9% for 15 days = 135%.)
- Admin is active on the forums
- Generating lots of buzz on aforementioned forums
- Most importantly, the people on the hype-forums think this one will be the next ‘instant hit’ (which then works as viral marketing!)
- Slick site, nice look.
- Payments on a certain day rather than requests etc. (previous ‘instant hits’ like Alientrust also adopted this method but it hasn’t been seen for a few months now - this will work in its favour.)
- Fresh!

And that’s it really! Maybe it won’t be as big an ‘instant hit’ as the true greats, but it’s doing well at this early early stage.

You know what the Beastie Boys say - “CH-CH-CHECK IT OUT!”

I’d post all the info from the site here, but nah, you can just clicky-clicky the link if you want to know more specifics! (Keeping my post relatively short for a change.)

Emerald Surf.

Aut0Surk Kicks Collective Ass (So Far!)

2006-09-23T18:19:00.000+10:00

I think Aut0Surf is the most kick ass aut0surf at the moment, and still has miles of potential. It’s slightly lowered earnings/longer time frame have seen somewhat of a return to the days of a year ago, where people would start small in autosurfs and build up their balance over a few months. I’ve noticed this with most people I’ve talked too - it’d be a cool return to the trend of ‘long term’ (relatively) autosurfs.

Anyway, here’s the latest email updates:

“I would like to start this update by saying one thing.

“Thank You to all the Aut0Surf members who have shown there support”.

Whenever a member joins any kind of Surf program they only do it for one reason. That being profit. A member wants to join a site, deposit some money, perform the daily task of surfing and get paid a profit at the end of the process. However from my point of view and in fact any admins point of view the comments made from the members is golden. By now Aut0Surf is 42 days old, that means we are entering the THIRD cycle, hundreds of people are in profit, hundreds of people have been paid. I would like to ask all members who have been paid in the past, been paid over the last few days to show there support for this site by voting for us in the various monitoring sites, or by posting a comment in the various forums there is a thread for the Aut0Surf program. This is not a long process and only takes a few seconds.

So how is Aut0Surf performing? The site is performing well. Below you will see the last 10 days worth of credits being issued to our members

2006-09-22 9358
2006-09-21 9127
2006-09-20 8982
2006-09-19 8942
2006-09-18 8273
2006-09-17 8067
2006-09-16 8103
2006-09-15 8055
2006-09-14 7525
2006-09-13 6664

So what does those figure show. Well it shows one thing, after 42 days of operating this site the growth is still there. Ok, there’s not thousands of member in the site, in fact in total I have 638 members.

How many of those members have Upgraded? 88% of those members have currently got a upgrade with me. This figure is fantastic and is more than the normal % of upgraded members that the average surf site gets.

Overall the site is looking really good, active members, increase growth and a healthy cash balance. Please keep supporting Aut0Surf, if you have been paid by me, had a question answered by me, completed your daily surfing with no problems, take a few seconds and show your support by posting in a forum or placing a vote with a monitor. This only takes a few seconds and shows support to the site.

What does the future hold for Aut0Surf?

To be honest, this is what I have been hearing lately via email. I don’t know what the people who ask this question would like to hear. The future holds what you have experienced over the last 42 days, a good small aut0surf site with growth and solid payments made to its members.

I had planned about 10 days ago to give all members the opportunity to actually buy a piece of software that I am an authorized reseller for, however while beta testing the software several bugs had been found and this project is now actually on hold. The reason I was going to run this offer was to allow the profits made to be returned to the pool of funds for the aut0Surf site. Hopefully more details will be given about this software over the coming weeks.

If you have any ideas, or comments regarding the aut0surf site or the direction you would like to see us move please contact me. I am online 18 hours a day and will read every email.

So to wrap this update up I would like to remind you of the important points.

1. Aut0Surf is now in its third cycle (42 days old)
2. The growth is still solid.
3. Aut0Surf has a high rate of upgraded members compared to free members. Better than most other sites.
4. Healthy Cash Supply
5. More support from Aut0Surf members would be good.
6. Other opportunities also possible.

If you have anything to say, or would just like to talk to me, please get in touch. You will find I actually do respond and listen to you guys.

Have a good weekend

Scott.”

Payouts are still massively quick with no slow down either. This is a good slow burner with LOTS of potential left. Please note I said potential - following through on it is always up to the program/admin/users!

Aut0Surf - a quality proven beast that has so much potential and room left to grow (if it follows through on that potential!) it’s amazing.

More Word From Marcos

2006-09-21T19:04:00.000+10:00

Yo, I keep y'all updated, don't I?

"Well,
I just made some changes on Mega Investments style, you can check www.megainvforum.net website.
Trading will be made in a safe level of leveraje (you guys will still able to check the trading account).
New trading account at NorthFinance.com:
Login: 24234
Platform: http://www.northfinance.com/files/Me...r/mt4setup.exe
Password: mega01
I just ask you guys to do not jugde me or José. Just give us some time. You will see this account growing up and FXE coming back on track soon.
Let's work, this is the main reason of our life in my opinion.
Thanx"

(Marcos has taken over MegaInvForum, which was run by a friend, Jose Gomez Jr. who literally lived like a block away from him.)

Somewhat reassuring, somewhat befuddling.

Blonso -> Greatest Bear Ever (Besides Baloo. And any other iconic bears of my youth...)

2006-09-21T18:36:00.000+10:00

Was that hyperbole ye spot thar in the title! Arr, probably - though Blonso probably could take the title as coolest/greatest Randomizer ever. (Yeah yeah I know International Speak Like A Pirate Day was a few days ago now…)

Anyway, Blonso is catching on like wildfire (for the type of program it is!) and is a randomizer with a twist. I’ll just copy and paste the explanations rather than offering my own summation below, but in the meantime consider this: Lately, with the super-saturation of autosurfs and other games, randomizers and alternative ‘games’ are making (and if not already making, are poised to make) massive come backs.

In a little over two weeks (so yes, it’s still fresh) Blonse has exploded at MMG and other such joints -> The sort of places to get the best gauge of programs like this.

And Blonso is a cute and likeable chap! (I can just feel my manhood slipping away…)

So, randomizers suck you may think - but this one doesn’t. At least not at this stage! I see Blonso much more as being a randomizer with the potential of say early StormySurf, or GoldenRocks.

One of the key points being that once you receive 150% maturity, you receive no more until you make your next spend. So basically, as long as it keeps growing, you’ll get paid. Luck is no longer such a factor.

The admin is well respected by the general denziens of the cheerleader forums as well and is doing a great job so far at bringing us something fresh, unique and interesting.

So, guys and gals - if you want something fun, check it out, especially whilst it’s fresh.

Check out the other unique features below:

“Blonso is the Bear that shares. The money you pay to Blonso for your membership will be split up between active members in his program, in other words he is a randomizer. A Randomizer on Steroids if you want to call him.

What is a Randomizer?

A randomizer is a program where a person who wants to join buys membership in the Randomizer. Every randomizer program has a different purchase amount and normally this spend a new member makes is split into 3 parts of which one goes to the owner of the randomizer, one to the person who referred you and one to a random member. Then you will then be included in the randomizer membership for the life of the program to start recieving random payments from the payment new members pay to join.

What’s the difference between Blonso and all the other Randomizers?

Blonso does not have only 1 type of randomizer purchase amount like almost all others. He has many different randomizer amounts and sometimes adds new ones. Blonso is intelligent and has his own unique method to distribute the money by splitting the new member’s payments into 10 equal shares (and not 3 like others). He distributes the 10 shares by giving 1 share to the radomizer owner, one to the new member’s referral upline, 1 share to the Investment Pool and the 7 remaining shares are split between random members. So there is even more chance of random members getting paid as opposed to the 1 share distributed to a random members which is adopted by almost all other randomizers. Randomizer purchases last until you earn 150% of your randomizer purchase back and not for the whole lifetime of the program like others. This increases the chance of more spends resulting into more random payments sent out and members profiting. Also this ensures that members will not lose out and will always make a profit from their spend, the profit being 150% back, no matter how long it takes. There is also an Investment Pool which 1 share out of every purchase will go to. This will be used to strengthen the program. A percentage of it will be used in other programs to generate more money and be split among members at the end of every month. Another percentage amount will be used as prizes for contests we will be having on forums etc… and also used to advertise the program extensively around the industry. Members will get a percentage of the profits made from the Investment Pool at the end of every month which will go out to ACTIVE members.

Randomizers and other money cyclers have become the new interest of 2006 and also a better profit method for members in this industry lately with all the problems we are facing with increased scamming. ”

So, Blonso, it’s a bit of fun. (Just don’t stake the house on it remembering the key word of FUN!)

And guys, if you become a member of this (don’t see why not! :p) make sure you spread the word if you can spread it as the key to making this last and last is to get the word out there and capture the MAINSTREAM imagination. To many of the average punters, it will be a foreign and alien concept… But one that the average surfer/etc. is sure to love if they jump on!

Marcos Speaks! (FX Experts Update)

2006-09-18T17:22:00.000+10:00

Just to let y’all know that he’s still around, Marcos, the FX Experts admin posted the following reassuring post - nice bit of tautology there - around the forums (though admittedly more frequent reassurances/updates wouldn’t hurt.)

So, with a drum roll, here’s an FX Experts update:

“Just calm down guys, please.
I hope to re-start tradings this week. I already told you and I’ll tell one more time.
No, I won’t SCAM you.
You guys will see a 0.2% daily pecentage in our website soon (with no principal withdraw and deposit allowed for some time). This is the only way to show you guys that we still working here, I guess.
Thanx
Marcos”

Global Ads Pro Clarification

2006-09-18T11:58:00.000+10:00

GlobalAdsPro

I have multiple pending upgrade payouts, as some people do and Trish has provided this clarification as to how much we have to be upgraded:

"I don't ask you to put more money in - this is what is in your head - you ALWAYS only need to have 45% of ONE pending upgrade provided. Not sure how else to explain that."

So rest easy peeps, you only need enough in your account to satisfy ONE pending payout, not all of them combined! Makes me rest a little easier.

Aut0Surf With A Zero Raises Max

2006-09-17T11:25:00.000+10:00

A self explanatory update for the venerable Aut0Surf (*with a zero!)

“Several members have emailed me wanting to take advantage of the current price in e-Gold.

To allow all members to take advantage of this if, they want to I have raised the maximum number of Units you can now buy from 500 to 1000.

Before this change when someone maxed out there account it would of cost them approx $2300, now it will cost approx $4600 at todays prices.

Basically this will help those members who do max out by earning another $250 if the price of gold rises just $1 per Gram, which is possible as it is trading at $18.56.

I am not prepared to raise this figure again, as it may unstabilize the program if certain HNR’s come in.

I hope this will help those people who have emailed me about this subject.

Scott.”

Global Online Depository Extends Their Extensions

2006-09-14T15:52:00.000+10:00

With the feelers out and everything I be finding out, GlobalOnlineDepository continues to climb up the ranks of my “Top HYIPs” list. Not that that’s not my “Top Real Opportunity” list as I am still not completely sure, but they’re doing well where they are right now anyway…

The big news:

“YES… YES… YES!!!

Through the end of September, Global is still accepting new loans, the 25% add-on bonus is still in effect, and there is still the option to compound earnings on new loans.

ATTENTION: Please include your name and account username in all correspondence with Global. We are still receiving too many payments and correspondence with NO username. Everyone’s cooperation with this request would be most helpful. Thank you.”

I’m both iffy and positive about that one at the same time.

Then we’ve got some more run of the mill stuff:

“Rollover Request and Account Consolidation

New questions and answers pertaining to rollovers and account consolidation have been added to the FAQ page. Please read them.

Rollover. A rollover occurs when you use money in your account to create a new loan to Global. You may no longer do this from inside your account. Too many members were not doing it properly. All you need do is send an email to support stating your username and how much of your account balance you want to use for a new loan. BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR ACCOUNT USERNAME. We’ll do the rest. If an add-on bonus is still in effect, we will credit it to your account before doing the rollover.

Consolidation If you have more than one active loan you may ask Global to combine them. Before requesting this, please understand the effect it has on hold times for earnings. Combining accounts closes all affected active loans and creates a new loan from the released funds. As a new loan, earnings from this loan are not available for withdrawal or internal transfer until the loan is older than 90 days.
Sep-12-2006 03:53:04 PM
RETURN OF THE MACKER

The “KING OF KASLO” revisits La Grande, Oregon, on Labor Day weekend…

Hello again everyone… “BEE HIVE” is the best way to describe the activity and progress that has/is taking place since my Memorial Day weekend visit. Thank you “Uncle Buck”, wife Mary, and family for the fantistic down-home country hospilitaty this past weekend in the beautiful La Grande valley. After my first visit, I have received dozens of phone calls and emails, and I thank you for this. Please feel free to contact me. The most asked question has been “Is this a real company?”

Well, all I can say is - IT IS!! We now have 3 warehouses in the the La Grande area (and 1 in Boise, Id). Product is coming in and moving out at an incredible pace. Deals are happening every day. “Uncle Buck” and the famous Nashville producer, Jim “Miltie” Malloy, are setting up the studio for the upcoming Radio and TV auctions that will soon be worldwide. I witnessed all this first hand. Not only did I enjoy my visit, I feel even more conifident and excited about the future of Global. Wayne “The Macker” McElroy - Kaslo, B.C.

if you have any questions PLEASE feel free to call me (themacker) at 1-250-353-7565 (pst) or e-mail themacker@telus.net
Sep-12-2006 03:33:45 PM”

For a change, at this moment I don’t have much more to say… but should in the near future.

GlobalOnlineDepository.

Aut0Surf Updates

2006-09-14T15:12:00.000+10:00

Well, whilst a lot of crap falls to the wayside I’m still a fan of GlobalAdsPro and Aut0Surf, which of course is my segue into: “Oh look, GAP and Aut0Surf (with a zero!)” updates.

Well there was a longer GAP update about payouts and Trish’s life at the moment, but it has now been replaced with:

“E-gold’s back - payouts continue.
Have a great day Everyone!
Trish”

Aut0Surf is in the process of kicking ass and taking names (and chewing bubblegum) as per usual.

Here’s the latest:

“Gold has been in a bit of rollercoaster movement over the last 48 hours, and this does seem to have worried a few people in a few threads of other programs I have been reading.

Again this is another reason why the move to Grams is needed, and I wish that other admins who use e-Gold would move to this concept. If you know of any admins who wish to stablise there program from sudden price changes, please get them to contact me.

I am a strong believe in e-Gold, they are awell established business that operates worldwide, and is the ideal processor to use in this industry we are all in. The last few days has seen several sites which I will not name close or be placed on hold due to there e-Gold accounts being hacked. The majority of these sites have blamed e-Gold for this, and fail to understand what security meassures are needed when using the processor.

When we all create a e-Gold account we all agree with there terms, and we agree with the main point that all transactions are final. The following question needs to be asked by every member off a site that has claimed to be hacked, is it an excuss or did they get hacked? If they got hacked then it is only the admin of that site who can be blamed and not the e-Gold Business as a whole. If e-Gold accounts are that easy to attack, why is it they large business who hold huge reserves of gold are never attacked?

Anyway, enough of my rambling, back to Aut0Surf.

The growth is still here, and more and more members are joining each day. The growth can be seen below.

2006-09-12 6868
2006-09-11 6310
2006-09-10 6273
2006-09-09 5880
2006-09-08 5695
2006-09-07 5545
2006-09-06 5394

I have no problem with payouts and they are still ontime for all members.

I would like all of the Aut0Surf members to show there support not only for the site, but for the concept as well. Hopefully by now you would of seen first hand the reason that Aut0Surf was developed to work in grams.”

Nice. Once again the rollercoaster of gold has acted like a great publicity boon!

Just remember - when it comes to Chancer predictions, accept no imitations. If they’re nicking my style, then they’ve got no nous!

Google Pack

2006-09-13T20:05:00.000+10:00

Try the Google Pack (see the top of the sidebar.) It's got lots of essential little utilities, especially useful to newbies - although anyone can benefit.

And remember - Google's the bomb, yo. They jumped on the firefox bandwagon a long time ago! So they know their stuff.

I'll be back tomorrow with some actual HYIP related stuff! :)

CIM August Report

2006-09-10T09:59:00.000+10:00

Well here's CIM's report for August.

I don't agree with his lack of confidence/understanding on the FX E situation.

CIM however continues to be a great opportunity, especially for the little guy.

"Monthly Report for August

I am pleased to report that the month of August was very much in line with the club’s performance during the past six months since we went public. The ending MPU value of $6.811 showed an appreciation rate of 8.21% over the previous month of July. This is better than July’s rate and, actually the second best month in our six months’ public existence. It is very nice to see this kind of consistency and I can only hope that we are able to maintain this growth in the face of turbulent signs in the future. I’m especially happy about our achievement in August in the face of problems encountered with three programs in our portfolio.

Many of you are most likely aware that Epaybet.com, FX-Experts and FXIG are encountering serious difficulties in their operations. Epaybet in fact has decided to throw in the towel and announced in August that it was discontinuing operations. The admin has assured investors that all monies will be refunded together with profits as of the date it ceased trading. The refunds will start being paid out from late August and will take about two months to complete. Some investors have confirmed having received full refunds on their investments but we have yet to see a refund on ours. I anticipate receiving something from late September onwards.

FXIG, through FeederFund, has also reported having difficulties in their trading activities and won’t be paying dividends for some time in the future. It is my opinion that we should not be alarmed by this since, being in FeederFund’s portofolio, I have much confidence that FXIG will eventually emerge from their difficulties and continue providing good profits in the future. As investors in high yield ventures we should all know that it is not always a bright day in this field of business.

Of more concern to me is FX-Experts. Although the admin has given assurances that refunds will be sent out to investors it becomes a question of how much of our original investment would be returned to us. This is where our reserve balance will come into play and hopefully be able to absorb any losses incurred.

On the positive side, all the other portfolio components seem to be chugging along nicely. In August we added two very promising new programs, Ibiza Traders and Silver Gate Forex Hedge Fund. We won’t be seeing the results from these till end September and I am confident they will both make up for the shortfall from the closed programs.

Thank you all,

Admin"

Make sure you check them out if you haven't already.

Surfin' USA!

2006-09-08T15:35:00.000+10:00

Aut0Surf has been continuing to grow well, and it seems that less and less people are confused by the concept of grams now (seriously most of these people didn’t even know E-Gold was based on weight-of-gold and not a national currency!)

As people grasp the concept, good growth happens.

Scott, the admin, sent me this update:

“Things are going really great at Aut0Surf. the growth is still there as can been seen by the number of credit being issued daily. See below

2006-09-07 4545 (Still 15 hours to go)
2006-09-06 5394
2006-09-05 5179
2006-09-04 4830
2006-09-03 4416
2006-09-02 4350
2006-09-01 3830
2006-08-31 3498
2006-08-30 3631
2006-08-29 3502

Some people still seem to be a little confussed by the Gram concpet but I am hearing many good comments from alot of users regarding the concept. I believe over the following few weeks we will see the start of other sites launching using weight and not the USD Value.

I have been looking into finding other ways of bringing funds into the pool and over the last few days I have been trying out a script I am an authorised reseller for.

The script is in the early stages and more work needs to be put in to merge it into the Aut0Surf Script. I will update you on the progress over the coming weeks.

The first cycles have already happened and Im glad to see the majority of people are respending which is increasing the fund reserve which is all good news. I fully know that at the moment Aut0Surf is not a well know site but I feel I am due for a burst in growth over the coming weeks, as more and more people see the site growing and the threads I am in the the various forums coming more active.

Chad from TheSafeList.org highlighted a problem with the server, he informed me that is was a open DNS server, as soon as he highlighted that to me I got it closed straight away. I have still not found how this happened as it was closed to start with, however when my main host did some more work on the server I belived they opened it. Many thanks sent to Chad regarding that.

The advertising is still going ahead, however I have heard mixed feeling regarding one source of where I placed a few banners (ASA). Some people have told me that they are total scam, but we will see.

On the whole, all is good. Members are happy, Im happy and the growth is still there.

Keep in touch.

Scott.”

As usual, the update makes me feel all warm and gooey - it’s personalized, doesn’t sound robotic and exudes honesty (at least insofar as honest as an autosurf admin can be!)

Nice touches are the interesting ways of measuring growth (credits issued), honesty over some people being confused by the grams concept, and the fact he points out he pays attention to the community, having heard bad things about one of the monitors he uses.

Also, the attempt to up the revenue is of course a pre-requisite of a ‘big gun’, from StudioTraffic, to 12DP, to Wired and Compact. Sometimes this attempt to up the revenue may not be wholly successful, however what is important is that many people believe it is, or at least see this expansion and makes the more confident to put money in - it becomes more than your run-of-the-mill surf. It’s all about public perception, and so far Scott is doing a great job.

Which brings me to my other current favourite surf - GlobalAdsPro.

If you were looking to pick a new surf, I’d go Aut0Surf (with a zero!) first, because GlobalAdsPro takes a little longer to earn money with due to the new rule, but I also think Trish makes a good go of being an honest admin, putting out a good public perception, and think that her new 45/55 rule will see the program last far longer than your average surf (which is somewhat balanced out by the fact it takes longer to earn a good profit from them!)

Anyway, I was paid just a few hours ago and here’s the latest news:

“currently working on Sep. 3rd payouts - was nearly finished with the 3rd when the server died about 1 hour and a half ago - my apologies, but right now I’ve got to shoot off to my ‘earthly’ job and won’t be back until evening - will resume payouts then. Thank you for understanding.
Trish

WHAT’S SLOWED US DOWN?
Yep…no matter how much good will I have to accomodate those who do not appear to have to 45% match their pending with a new total of active upgrades, I do need to keep in mind overall program performance. And I am getting bogged.
Therefore, another tough decision time: Beginning expiries of Sep. 4th server time, IF you do not have the required 45% left in active upgrades, you will need to work on it if you wish to receive payments. In other words, there is no time limited placed on your account - since it has been at least once upgraded, it is not considered for deletion as is the case with free accounts that have never upgraded (these are removed after 7 days).

In other words, I will now focus on paying first of all those who DO HAVE 45% in active upgrades and are already on the pending list. THEN I’ll catch up on all those that need a little help AND are pendings from before, and including, Sep. 3rd. ANY NEW pendings, from Sep. 4th onwards, WILL need to be matched with 45% value in total of active upgrades for payments to be processed - BUT, those who are not able to match immediately, will be welcome to do so WHENEVER they are ready to purchase more upgrades.
Hope I was able to explain this clearly - meanwhile, back to it after a very busy (and enjoyable!) Father’s Day here in Oz.
Kudos to ALL Fathers around the globe
Trish

Again, our e-gold number is: 2703877 - and no other - IF you have unfortunately made your upgrade to any other egold account, please, do not email us. IT IS heart-breaking to me too, however, I have made an effort to make the VALID egold number clear and it is your responsibility to ensure you do NOT progress with your payment UNLESS you see 2703877 through the entire transaction progress. - please, keep your eyes open!”

So, good to see both surf programs on the positive end of the news spectrum at this point in time!

You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth...

2006-09-07T17:55:00.000+10:00

There were certain things about the current FX Experts situation I was unsure I was allowed to share at this point...

However, someone else has come out and said certain things, nice and clearly, so that takes me out of any hot water! (Cos I'm just the messenger now, and the information is now public forum... So Chancer can't get in any trouble.)

Rabbit (his blog) posted the following in HYIP Discussion.

"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”."

A nice, succinct and informative bit of writing from Rabbit as usual.

Global Online Depository Killed The Radio Star!

2006-09-07T17:32:00.000+10:00

Well, there’s an interesting Global Online Depository update, which I’ll at least to endeavour to check out - they have unveiled an online radio show.

“New Radio Show on KCAA

GOOD NEWS! Our new radio show is on the air. You can tune in and see the show as well as hear it. You can also chat live.

Note: NO Global business, please. This show is not for Global business.

Broadcast time: 10 AM to 12 noon (Pacific) weekdays.

You can listen to the show on the Internet and even see Buck in his studio during the broadcast.
Go to theamshow.com or www.kcaaradio.com”

For the sticklers out there, this is a unique little tidbit which can be used to go some way towards verifying that indeed Buck Hunter is who he says he is - you really can’t beat him sitting there on screen can you? We know who to chase with flaming pitch forks if he’s full of it now anyway…

As time goes by, these guys definitely march towards showing us how unique and different they really are. Here’s hoping it continues.

Global Online Depository

Back In The Saddle

2006-09-07T11:36:00.000+10:00

Well, I was away for a few days. You could have kind of guessed this by non-presence, but for those up the back of the class... I was away for a few days.

That's why you were staring at an empty white/black board.

FX Experts

I suppose FX Experts is something many people are waiting for information on with bated breath. I have been loath to say anything due to all the rumour and swill (swill being incorrect, BS rumours) floating around.

However, Marcos has posted an update in the forums, and since it's official-inado I thought I'd reprint it here then randomly address a little of what's been floating around (though not much because really, I couldn't be arsed with all the smear campaigns and people pretending they know what's going on.)

"Dear friends,
I am sending this update to let you know that I am still around and have not gone anywhere. We are still in the process of moving to a new and better broker so that we can resume trading and bring the program back on track. We hope to start trading again some time next week or the week after. More updates will be posted as the time goes by.
Thank you all for your patience and understanding.
Marcos

Yes, I still alive.
No, FX-Experts is not dead.
Yes, we can recover this situation.
No, I am not a russian SCAM LOL"

Good to see Marcos approaching this with good humour.

Yes FX Experts is real. Ignore most of what you read. I've had a feeling for quite a while that we might see some sort of change in the pooled accounts (private, raised minimum, something like that) because it has become an increasingly huge amount of work for Marcos to handle. This then adversely affects both his and Hermann's performance.

One example of the smear campaigns/unfounded rumours - idiots getting on their soap boxes saying "FX Experts has been losing money for months."

Uh... no.

To reiterate what has been said in this blog many times in the past - they had a fairly major swing trade in the red there for a while... a while back. The current negatives only popped up over the last few days of FX Expert's current operations.

So they haven't been trading at a loss for month straight.

I won't expound much more but leave y'all with these two pieces of advice:

A lot of people, be it for fame or glory or hits will act like they are all buddy-buddy with Marcos and have the inside scoop. Don't listen to them.
And the other majority of people will be busy acting up on their soap box, as if they know it all (but these are the ones spreading the negative rumours.) Ignore them as well.

Basically, ignore everyone but Marcos. He may not be the most communicative chap to the general public at times like this, which is quite annoying, but he'll get there.

The current situation is a shame but is only a hiccup and it will be sorted one way or another - I remember a statement I printed ages ago from Marcos where he stated they have strategies in place to ensure refunds can be made if necessary, so bear that in mind when Marcos is talking about losses. The current losses aren't catastrophic - they just need to be gotten on top of before they head the way of catastrophe! (It rhymes.)

As a wise mate of mine said: "Why would he run with a little bit, and lose the million dollar clients?"

So ignore the hype, and when the time comes, we'll all know the score. It's a shame we have to wait like this, but this is still a real opportunity with a good admin and a quality trader.

KaOnline

Oh look, KaOnline are still hanging around and generating a lot of buzz so here's a collection of recent news updates from them, starting with a big one from the end of August:

" American Airlines AAdvantage "Fly FREE with KaOnline" Promotion:

This promotion has been underway since mid August, however we were waiting for some scripting to be complete on the web site before making the official announcement. Our Master AA Account has been funded with miles and a few hours from now the first actual mileage "payout" will take place. Here is a bit of information on how the promotion works:

KaOnline clients can earn up to 60,000 miles per calender year. 60,000 miles is good enough for a first class ticket within the United States, or a choice of international coach fares. Destinations and origins vary, please see www.aa.com for details.

Miles are awarded monthly on the 1st of each month. KaOnline clients are credited with 150 miles per month for every $1,000 they have on deposit in either their S.E.E.D. Account, or anyone of the available G.O. Funds. Compounded interest does not count toward your overall balance.

Coming in the next few weeks we will also be giving 1,000 bonus miles to anyone who refers a client to KaOnline who then deposits a minimum of $1,000 into their account and participates in the AA Promotion. These bonus miles are above and beyond the 60,000 mile yearly limit. A limit of 10 referrals or 10,000 bonus miles is allowed per client.

Be sure your AAdvantage Number is entered correctly in your KaOnline Account Profile. We are not responsible for incorrect account information.

The KaOnline AAA (Authorized Accounts Administrator) Program:

Starting on the 1st of September we will begining to receive requests for applications into the new AAA Program. An AAA is essentially an offline broker for KaOnline. As an AAA you are privy to additional information about KaOnline´s activities and are allowed to pool offline investors money into your KaOnline AAA Account. AAA´s are paid a commission slightly higher than that of a normal referral and they receive direct profit sharing on all the returns generated by their pooled funds. Print materials are provided to the AAA, including pamphlets, business cards, and letterheads to facilitate their marketing efforts.

We are currently creating a special AAA Account interface within the current client login. This feature will allow our AAA´s to list their client´s information within their account and our system will run all the accounting automatically and make the whole broker process quite user friendly. This interface will be ready by October. Until this interface is complete AAA Accounts will be held within the AAA´s current individual account and moved once the scripting has been tested.

AAA´s will also be able to offer their larger clients a free asset protection package which will include a discreet trust account, and offshore international business corporation (IBC), and a VISA electron debit card. This package is currently ONLY available to AAA´s and a select group of their clients. Depending on how it is received it may be offered to our entire on and offline client base at a discounted rate come late 2006 or early 2007.

For more information please email Kevin, Sub-Director of KA ONLINE INC. and the AAA Program Coordinator, at Kevin@KaOnline.biz or call him at 1-866-675-6882 (USA / Canada Toll Free) or +1-302-407-1559 extension 102.

CPW Fund Return Explanation:

The CPW Fund continues to confuse some investors. We have updated it´s mini-prospectus to try and clarify it´s payout schedule;

The CPW Fund Term runs from Wednesday to Wednesday (12 AM GMT to 11:59 AM GMT). All deposits made to the CPW Fund are posted the following day at 12AM GMT. This is to say that if you make a deposit on Tuesday evening, it is officially posted on Wednesday at 12 AM GMT. If your deposit is made after Tuesday (Server Time GMT) you will receive a portion of your earned interest that coming Wednesday, and the remaining interest, plus your principal, will be credited the following Wednesday. Example: Client A deposits $1000 USD to his CPW Fund on Friday. His deposit is posted Saturday at 12AM GMT. On Wednesday he is paid 2.86% interest (4/7ths of 5%). The the following Wednesday he is paid 102.14%, of which 2.14% (3/7ths of 5%) is earned interest and the additional 100% is his returned principal deposit.

The CPW Fund has a very strict trading schedule. Money is moved into trading each Thursday and moved out each Monday. Essentially the fund only trades 5 days per week. This schedule is absolute, and it cannot be changed as the trading strategies of the three management teams all revolve around this schedule. The fact that funds follow this schedule means that COMPOUNDING IS NOT POSSIBLE. The CPW Fund by our own definition is a "Quick Flip" Fund, you move your money in, profit, and move out. If you are looking for a similar return with compounding in place take a look at the RD Fund.

KaOnline Call Center:

Our call center has been functional since August 1st. It´s call volume has been steadily increasing over the last few weeks. If you have a question please give us a call. The call centers hours of operation are Monday thru Friday 10 AM till 6 PM and Saturdays 11 AM till 3 PM. Please be aware that the call center operational hours are based on EST (Eastern Standard Time GMT -4). If you call at anytime other than the posted hours your call will not be answered.

Suggestions:

We are very interested in what our clients have to say about KaOnline. If you have any suggestions or comments please send them to us via the S.I.M. System."

And two more recent, smaller tidbits:

"Now Accepting Applications

09/06/2006

We are now officially accepting applications for our newly launched Authorized Accounts Administrator program. If you are interested or simply have some questions please contact our Sub Director and AAA Liaison Kevin via email at Kevin at KaOnline.biz or via phone at 1 866 675 6882 or 1 302 407 1559 during normal business hours.

ALERT! Extortion Attempt ALERT!
09/04/2006

If you come across any bad press in regards to KaOnline please contact us via our Call Center so we may take immediate action to put a stop to these extortionists, as earlier today we received an extortion attempt and we believe a smear campaign may be in the works. Your cooperation is appreciated in this matter."

So there you go, if nothing else they're keeping the publicity ramped up...

If nothing else, the fly-for-free program is at least interesting and original for a program of this nature.

The AAA program seems a little SwissCult-ish, but lets see what these authorized people view first. Who knows - proof? :) But then again, they could just be blinded by some very well written misdirection.

I hate to use this phrase, but - 'time will tell.'

FX Experts Hiatus

2006-09-01T13:24:00.000+10:00

FX Experts has suffered some losses so is taking a hiatus:

"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."

Dudes and dudettes, I won't say much right now, as obviously news/progress is pending.

However, Marcos is still around. It's not a scam guys, we've just seen the downside of the risk of forex trading.

For those screaming that the sky is falling down, I don't think FX E is going anywhere.

So stay tuned!

Windfall Of Publicity

2006-08-31T19:16:00.000+10:00

Okay, E-Gold had a glitch earlier today that saw gold tracking at 300 bucks an ounce rather than the $600+ area it should have been.

There was much panic in the areas that still don’t understand how E-Gold works (you own GOLD not US DOLLARS in an effort to create a global currency, peeps) but one thing this temporary glitch has done is given Aut0Surf (with a zero!) an awesome opportunity to jump on the bandwagon.

Seriously, this is some great free publicity for them, and I’m impressed to see ‘Scott’ their admin jumping on it so quick and running around the forums spreading the good news…

This glitch runs onto the field with perfect timing to give Aut0Surf a real. life. example. of the positives of using grams. Score for them.

“A few hours ago all e-Gold users saw first hand what could happen if there was a sudden price change in gold, and the panic it caused.

Due to a still unexplained error by e-Gold.com (if someone knows a true answer, please email me) mass panic was caused due to e-gold suddenly quoting Gold at $320 per oz, while the actual world markets were still trading at $620 oz.

In basic terms this meant when people logged into their accounts they saw that half of the money in USD had vanished.

I was on the MoneyMakerGroup forum at the time and the thread which was discussing this soon had over 100 people in, all shocked that there e-Gold balance in USD had been cut in half.

You can see the mass panic here

Money Maker Thread Example

However, during this error which lasted about 90 mins, one thing did not change. That being the amount of gold you actually owned. The weight of gold did not change it stayed the same.

How can a sudden drop in the price of Gold affect the HYIP/Aut0Surfs out there?

Well, let me explain.

Lets say you were in a autosurf and had a pending payout request for $620. If the owner of the surf had paid this request before the e-Gold Hic-up, the admin would of sent $620 to the member. This $620 would of weighed 1 oz of gold.

If the owner of the surf had paid this request during the time that e-gold got it wrong, the admin of the surf would of sent $620 to the member, which of course is just under 2 oz of gold.

Now, like what happened during this serious error by e-Gold, when the price corrected itself and e-Gold was showing Gold back at $620 oz what would of happened?

Well the member who got paid $620 (just under 2 oz) would now be displaying approx $1200 in USD value for the payment which was made, because the surf admin had to send him just under 2 oz of gold to cover the $620 payment. That member is probably thinking he got a good deal, and is not thinking about others and the surf admin and how this could result in the surfsite closing and people losing money.

So how did this affect the surf program?

1.Lets assume the surf site had 3oz of gold in there account, and gold was at a $620oz. The USD value would of been $1860.

2.The e-Gold error then occured, and they were quoting gold at $320oz. The USD value would of been $960.

3.The request for $620 came in and the admin paid.

4.The surf site actually paid this amount, to cover the $620 payment 1.93oz of gold would of been transfered to the members account. Leaving the surf site 1.07 oz of gold with a USD value of $342.40.

5.Once e-Golds price had been corrected and went back to $620oz, the surf admins account, still having 1.07oz of gold would show a USD value of $663.40

Now look at 1, 3 & 5, Can you see anything wrong?

$1860 ( Original Balance) Minus $620 (Payment) = $1240. However the actual balance is $663.40

$600 difference just from one payment. This difference may result in the site closing as the admin can not afford to pay out to the members.

Conclusion.

I know first hand by the number of emails I have got, that alot of people do not understand how e-Gold works and find the whole Gram Concept confussing.

If you sat back and actually thought about just how e-Gold works, its easy to see how random and sudden price changes of Gold can affect any HYIP/AutoSurf that deal in USD.

Using Grams as a ‘Unit’ of currency not only protects the admin of a site, by securing themself from any sudden changes, it can also benifit the end users as a set weight of gold is transferd and not the USD value.

If any member finds this totally confussing and would like more examples and a clearer explanation please get in contact.

Scott.”

And yes, he goes onto explain gold/grams/etc. again.

WHY you may ask? Well, many people STILL don’t get how it all works (not just Aut0Surf, but E-Gold in general) so I suppose repetition is the only.

Though I know you, dear readers, are smart cookies and caught the drift long ago!

Aut0Surf.

CIM Update

2006-08-31T15:32:00.000+10:00

Here's a self-explanatory Community Investors Mutual update, which basically means I don't have to write some lame commentary where I try to be 'humourous.'

"Dear Members,

We have received numerous emails from existing as well as potential members questioning the need for keeping personal information about themselves. It seems there is a general preference that names, addresses and phone numbers not be included in members records and there has been a consistent clamor that these details be removed from our customer database.

After much discussion among the senior members of our club it has been decided that for the safety and privacy of all members we shall no longer maintain in our database personal information other than the email address and e-gold account number of each member.

All names of members, addresses and phone numbers will be erased from our system and permanently deleted from our files and databases. Members will be identified solely by their email addresses and egold numbers. We will still ask for the country of residence purely for statistical purposes.

Please ensure that all your communications (such purchase/sale of MPUs) with us contain your email address and egold account number for identification. If you have any questions please contact us via email.

Admin"

And in other news...

2006-08-30T18:55:00.000+10:00

On a side note, Global Ads Pro raised their maximum another $100 to $1200. Usually I don't pay too much attention to strategies and the like with surfs, but I gotta put my thinking cap on with the new terms in regard to payment. Some people are a little annoyed that it's been sprung on us like this, but like Trish said "more or less" 45%, and as was seen just a day or two ago, she relented to member's ideas about helping out those who lost E-Gold so if there's too much of an outrage... I'm sure we'll see a solution.

(Please note that Chancer is not actually SURE. He just guesses we will!)

And NSFG ended the month with 3.75% (5% gross.) This was the locked in percent and although it was looking pretty sweet there for a while during the last few weeks suddenly it's back down to 3.75%.

Ah well, better than a bank and at least we know it's real!

Surfin' USA

2006-08-30T18:25:00.000+10:00

Well well well, the autosurf updates comes thick and fast these days, and of course I have the latest Aut0Surf (with a zero!) and GAP updates (seeing as their the ones I’m in!)

First up, the biggest new is GlobalAdsPro’s latest changes.

Before I get onto that, I was paid promptly once again, and I’ve got a fair bit of faith in them game-wise so I’m going to stick with them despite these changes which limit the short term earning potential a little.

Anyway, the changes are that basically they’ve adopted the increasingly prevalent approach of having current upgrades affect your ability to cashout - it may be troublesome somewhat, but I suppose if the motives are pure it can add to the longevity of the program a huge amount… So as usual there’s pros and cons.

“It is your choice, folks…I either stay in the mailbox, or do payouts…can’t do both and at the moment you seem to only see what you want to see in the update as nobody appears to have noticed this: “PLEASE NOTE: a “more-or-less” approach will be adopted for the next few payout runs”

August 28th expiries are being processed now

IMPORTANT CHANGE:
A lot of work AND thinking has been done this end.
I do hope that not many of you wish to see me dead [as in “dead person” who forgot to eat and sleep] nor dead GAP [as in the admin had no time left for business but to process payouts]. The following is to aide both to stay alive:

1. Effective immediately, in order to receive payouts, your remaining active upgrades will need to add up to AT LEAST 45% of your pending payout.
for example:
your pending payout is $378
your remaining upgrades will need to add up to AT LEAST $$170.10

2. 3rd upgrade option is added - to help you ease into the change and spread yourselves a little.

PLEASE NOTE: a “more-or-less” approach will be adopted for the next few payout runs (so if your remaining upgrades are around the 45% mark, you’ll be fine). However, if you have been doing the $1 thing while awaiting a $1260 payout, you’ll need to change your ways, I’m afraid.

We’ve got a good thing going here and I trust you realise this. I am a rather dedicated person and, like it or not, there must be something right I’ve been doing for the past few years to keep me still around and not burning of shame.

Kind regards to all
Trish ”

Now onto the Aut0Surf updates…

I was paid very promptly by these guys once again, and their updates are a little less news-worthy than GAP’s and much more of an explanatory nature…

“It seems that many people are still finding it hard to work out how much in USD one Gram of gold is.

If you goto Aut0Surf you should see a live chart displayed in the first block of text on the right. The chart shows you the live and current price of Gold that is actually being traded around the globes markets.

As the price of gold fluctuates with changes in exchange rates so does your balance in E-Gold, however the AVERAGE price is approx $20.

You might of seen that your E-Gold balance actually increases and decreases in the USD balance that is shown this is die to the live price changes E-Gold work on.

You can tell what weight of gold you have by logging into your account and viewing the balance, You will see a section called Equiv.Grams, and underneath this a figure. This figure is the weight of gold you have in Grams.

Now for example lets say you have 2.06 Grams of gold in your account and at the time of viewing your balance the price of gold was $20 Per Gram, you would then be displaying a Value (USD) of $41.20.

Example 1

Now imagine that you had no other transactions and the next time you logged into your account your Value(USD) shows $43.45, you might think something is wrong with your e-gold account as you have gained an extra $2.25. Well infact there is nothing wrong with your account, what has actually happened is the price of gold has rose to $21.092 per gram.

Example 2

This of course can go the other way. If you had logged in and found your USD Value was $38.50 you might be alarmed and think that someone has hacked your account. You might be wondering where the difference of $2.70 has gone. Well again, its gone no where, all that has happened is the price of gold has dropped to $18.68. All the time in both example your weight of gold has not changed it has always been 2.06 Grams.

Now imagine the amount of money an sucessful autosurf takes in. This figure can sometime be very large. For this example lets imagine the price of gold is $20 per Gram and the autosurf has 600 grams of Gold. Of course by now you should be able to work out that the USD value of the account would be $12,000.

Exmple 3

As in Example 2, let imagine the price of gold dropped from $20 per gram to $18.68. Now the actual weight would still be the same (600 Grams) but the autosurfs USD value would be $11,208.

This means that a drop in the price of gold has affected the autosurfs USD value by $792. This USD value has just vanished from the account and there is nothing the admin could of done. This $792 might of been your payout!!!!

Summary

The balance shown in your E-Gold account is based on the actual price of Gold per Gram. Everyone who has a e-Gold account has to understand this. The weight of gold you actually owns never changes but the USD value does depending on this price.

By running a program (Aut0Surf) that works on weight (grams) prevents any sudden change in the price of gold from affecting the program. This means the program is more stable and in a far better finacial position.

Please read the following post made by one of my members,

Money Maker Thread

Hope this clears up alot of the concerns.

Scott.”

I have noticed a lot of people still not really understanding the grams concept, or even E-Gold itself… So hopefully this’ll help a few of the more befuddled members!

Ciao y’all.

GAP Tells Us We Rock!

2006-08-29T16:09:00.000+10:00

Earlier today I theoriezed that Trish of Global Ads Pro might relent and do something to help those who were affected by the injection attack and lost their E-Gold to the hacker’s account.

Whaddya know, I was right!

Here’s the official word:

“I read your suggestions and you guys ROCK! - I will be taking care of setting up a “help-a-mate” egold account and the funds collected there will be used to help out those who lost funds to hackers while participating in GAP. Can you trust me? Well, you’ll need to judge for yourself - I feel quite comfortable with my ethics and have been for the past few years online, though
It’s another hectic day for me today, so I’ll be taking care of the above sometime late tonight.

Also, I’ll be adding a page and link in the menu above to that page - the page will contain list of programs where, if you wish, you could participate and know you are helping GAP and everyone here.
Means I will not have to send out any emails [a fella was not too happy with last one, even though Itried to make it as gentle and clear as possible, that it was purely as a matter of factly stating a re-birth of a program, whose owner I happen to have exchanged communication in the past. - btw, the fella was refunded promptly his $1000+ … I really don’t have time to enter into any discussions of what’s right and wrong when it comes to little issues like that. I’m here to help all make a bit of pocket money, not to make my life miserable].”

Aw, how nice! *puppy dog eyes* (Rock, indeed we do!)

Global Ads Pro continues to impress (compared to Generic Surf #9000 that is.)

Global Ads Pro Gets Injected

2006-08-29T11:13:00.000+10:00

Global Ads Pro was victim of what is commonly known as an injection attack for a little while there yesterday.

Basically, someone changes something whilst the rest of the site remains the same. Usually it's the E-Gold number... so here's a special warning in bold/

Please always be extra sure that it is the correct E-Gold account you are spending too, no matter the program.

See, bold makes it important.

Anyway, here's the update:

" Payouts for Aug. 26th expiries are now complete

Please, take note of our egold number: 2703877 as it has been right from the beginning.

Guys, as much as I'd love to be able to just credit those whose payments were stolen, I just can't. I am as upset as those affected..what do we do peeps? what do we do? :((

August 24th payouts are now complete as well as August 25th

Please see FAQ question 1 for current processing times.
Please, be notified: Neither GAP's employees, nor myself, may be held responsible for your purchase errors, such as funds being stolen by hackers.
Please, again, take careful note of our egold account number for purchases as should appear during your spend: 2703877
Please, kindly notify us ASAP, should you notice any change to the payment interface.
Thank you for being diligent,
Sadly
Trish
admin @ GAP"

In some ways, it is fair enough that people won't be credited as it is good for the longevity of the program. It is often stressed on basically every surf site to ensure the E-Gold number is correct - it is our responsibility (well, at least 50% our responsibility!) just one one we often forget. However, I'm sure there are a few people who blindly spent and lost their money - so perhaps from that perspective it may not seem so fair! It's all a matter of balance, and many members are suggesting a slightly larger fee be taken off of our payouts to make a fund to pay those who were duped.

Either way, I'm still confident in GAP's ability to keep kicking ass and taking names, though this has acted as a refresher course in reminding me to always check the E-Gold account.

I'll be double checking - and I hope you guys will be too!

Random Wrap Up

2006-08-28T16:42:00.000+10:00

About time for a tidbit filled random wrap up I think...

FX-Experts... You not in? Why not. You throwing heaps of money into some scam, but leaving the bare minimum in FX-Experts? Why! Seriously, you can reinvest as little as a dollar, and it's better than throwing that money down the drain with ponzi after ponzi as I see many people continuing to do. Playing games is fun, but make sure it's in moderation!

Aut0Surf and GlobalAdsPro... These surfs are kicking butt and taking names. Just thought I'd point out that if you joined Aut0Surf (with a zero!) ("with a zero!" copyright Chancer) now, you could still grab your two cashouts for the month... As the two cashouts each month are calendar month, not month-from-when-you-join. GAP seems to really be catching on now.

And in another time-is-running-out offer, Global Online Depository is still offering their 25% bonus + compounding offer, so if you want to jump onto this ship, now is really the time - as in a few days (I think it ends end of August, from memory) this bonus will no longer reply.

They remain high on my list of "HYIPs I like" and they have given lots of stuff out to chew on, and ponder if they are real, but until I get a chance to follow up some more (remember last time I tried Buck Hunter was away and I was sick AND lazy) they remain purely "HYIP." I see a lot of people being 'suckered' in - photos can easily be faked and doctored, or even just random photos of people unrelated to the program for example.

They're making big claims about 'going public' and listing on the SEC but remember people - this is all just words.

Having said that, there is a good chance, better by the day, that they are real. But as of now, remember - don't believe what is spoon fed to you at face value.

Either way, they're looking like a great opportunity.

Diggos has gone quiet and quiet possibly stalled as I have previously mentioned, but I also think, so far this program has been somewhat anomalous. Remember that before it opened in its current incarnation "Peter" came back from the dead so to speak and refunded members. So who knows - this could be another part of the 'master plan' so to speak... If it was, it'd probably be a chance for "Peter" to kick out his definition of whiners who are bad for the program (those who ask questions :) .)

It's not likely, but hey, it's minutely possible he could return!

And thus ends this random wrap up.

Aut0Surf With A Zero Interview

2006-08-26T15:41:00.000+10:00

So, here's my mini Aut0Surf (with a zero!) interview. I'll add a few comments here and there. My comments (besides questions) will be in italics.

1. What inspired you to start up an Aut0Surf?

I had been very active in the PTR/PTC side of the money making business for several years, and recently I matured into the 'Big Boy' arena, even though the PTC side gave some good returns of about $900 per month per site.

Phew, he was pretty handy at the old PTC if he was netting that much! Or he had a lot of bloody time on his hands. :)

PTC had taken a major turn for the worse, with alot of the feeds bringing in new rules, and the ever increasing issue with cheaters saw the average price per click drop. The PTR was mainly used for advertising and was used to build good downlines in the PTC's I was in.

In the past I have moaned about various sites, with poor design, poor plans, non communicating admins, silly domain names, ridiculous ROI's etc etc.

I got into a good deep chat about the whole industry with a good online friend (Hi Bro), who actually told me to shut the **** Up or do something to see how easy it is. So I thought I would. That afternoon I started thinking about what site I would run and decided on a Surf as the life of the Surf outlasts the life of the HYIP, even though they are based on the same concept.

I like the honesty of his answers so far. And his use of "put up or shut up." :)

2. Why Aut0Surf with a zero?

I get angry with the amount of stupid domains being used (same here man!), and people actually trying to convince others that they had a real business. I did not want this for my site, I just wanted to run a Surf with a domain that did not give any false impressions or hope to the masses who believe that a site called FX-xxxxx.com actually invest in Forex and return 20% Each Day.

You see names like FX-Experts, ForexSurfing, blah blah Investments etc etc all the time. I just sat there and started going through various domains I had put on paper and tried Aut0Surf and it was available, and it looked good, so I registered the domain straight away.

I'll give him a pass on the slight disrespect to my old chestnut FX Experts there, as he is merely using it to illustrate naming conventions...

It gives no false hope, no mentions of the dreaded Forex, did not give any impressions that it was a real business etc etc.

Teh DREADED Forex! However I am enjoying the honesty. We all know that 99.9% of sites that claim to be backed by "teh forex" are full of it (not including that select handful of quality such as, well, FX-Experts for example!)

3. Grams is a good idea - you don't fear any associations with MPDW and their gram system? Although I suppose every surf that uses USD could be associated with every scam that uses USD, but when something is different, sometimes people make the association with something else that has stood out!

To be honest I have never heard of them. Just googled it and I have read several of the posts on the talkgold thread.

The idea of the gram structure was simple. I was a member of CS (compact Surf), and I did make a profit. When it ended I noticed the excuses they gave and actually thought at the time that a sudden rise and fall of the price of gold could really affect a surf that had a large reserve. I worked some examples out and notice that a medium price change could affect the funds of the average surf.

I don't think that the majority of people understand that the online currency we all use (e-Gold) is actually based on the price of gold. I still see people post on forums, asking why there gold balance changes!!! Unreal if you ask me.

Too true. Many people are not realizing of this fact.

When I came to actually start planning Aut0Surf I noticed that alot of admins/ex admins were still talking about bringing in the 'Gram' structure. I was really shocked that it had not been done already, and thought that if I was going to run this surf then I wanted something different.

4. How do you plan to keep on standing out in the 'marketplace?'

Good question, and I suppose one that every admin finds hard to answer. I have not got unlimited funds for advertising, although I have got a set amount. To stand out in the market you need to be different then the hundreds of 'others' out there. I feel the 'Gram' structure is different and helps Aut0Surf stand out from the crowd.

People need to keep seeing the mention of 'Aut0Surf' be it on forums, or by banner advertising. I have active thread in some of the popular forums as some people will not visit any other forum then the one they are used to.

MoneyMakerGroup
TalkGold
KingofDollars
EMarketCafe
DreamTeamMoney
.
& TheSafelist

He has a good understanding of the need to keep the name out there to perpetuate an autosurf for the period of its life cycle - good to see!

5. Two Cashouts a month plus a reasonable cash out window could see a fair bit of longevity (Compact had three a month and gave us three massive months.) What are your plans for longevity?

The whole idea of these sites is to allow people to make money, after all that's why we all spend hours online every day looking for the right program. In an ideally world these programs would run for ever and we all would make alot of money and have no need to look for good money making opportunities online. But in the real world I hope the vast majority of people understand that this will never happen.

From an admins point of view I need to keep both sides happy. I needed to find a way to keep money inside the program while keeping the members happy. To do this I needed to decide on what kind of ROI I would operate the site on. I had thought about ranges from 10% to 20% but had noticed that the lower ROI sites lasted longer (obviously), but at the same time did not attract the vast amount of members. I talked with a few friends to see what concepts they would be happy with and made a decision on the structure I have.

6. How's the growth?

First Signs are good.

260 members with 110 of the members upgraded.

Number of sites shown in the rotator increasing every day. ( Last 5 Days Below)

2006-08-23 2495
2006-08-22 2230
2006-08-21 1966
2006-08-20 1127
2006-08-19 1151

This was of course as of a few days ago and I've noticed them ramping it up a fair bit quicker again since then.

7. Upcoming plans? Any plans for Anti-DDOS protection, as this can be a big buzz word amongst the community and having the good stuff in place could encourage a lot of people to join.

No major changes. From my experience when an admin makes a changes to the plans once the program is running it sends panic signals to the members. When I first came into the HYIP game I got hit by an HYIP who suddenly started a doubler. Once all of the happy members had deposited into the doubler the following day the site had vanished, so had the admin.

Anti-DDOS..... Yes I have seen this all over the place, especially a few months ago. However I don't think people demand it now. I talked to my host regarding this, and I agree with what they say. A DDOS attack can not really be prevented as the attacks come from different sources, yes there are pieces of software and hardware which can filter out the attacks quicker than the tech guys at the data centers but the attack still takes place. Take E-Gold for example, they have the Pro Logic protection and since they moved to that I know of several occasions that they have got attacked and remained offline for hours.

Very true actually - although it can be helpful for many people who want "anti-DDOS protection" before going into the program, not fully understanding that many surfs have used FAKE DDOSes as an EXCUSE or an EXIT STRATEGY for shutting down!

8. How long do you plan on keeping the paid sticky? People tend to panic if it is dropped too early. (I know you already answered that in the thread...)

Yes I have the sticky thread on MoneyMakerGroup, and I will keep this till the end. Some people believe that it's not needed and is just away for the MMG team to make money. Having come from another popular forum (GetPaidForum) I know that the threads at the top are active and people tend to click on those first. I think of it as a way of getting Aut0Surf noticed.

9. How do you respond to the (slightly weird I'll admit) claims that there are similarities to TenDaily (I don't see any to tell you the truth, but it'd be good to hear your opinion on it.)

I saw this on MoneyMakingGroup, at first I thought WTF, but I have read many forums and I know some people like to get there kicks by causing trouble. This happens in every forum I have ever visited hence I have never replied to that poster, and in fact I am shocked to find the poster is a member of Aut0Surf and has upgraded.

I have lost count on the number of comments made from people stating that the admin from one site is somehow connected to the admins from others. People seem to get pleasure from making a conspiracy theory out of nothing.

Sometimes the conspiracy is true, sometimes it ain't! But I like your use of "at first I thought, WTF!" Made me chuckle.

10. A little about yourself?

Scott McCann 24 years of age. Been online for sometime, experience in Paid to Read, Paid To click. Graduated to HYIP/AutoSurf.

I'm nothing special just a normal Joe. I don't know what you want me to say here.

Well, that'll do mate!

11. Still gonna be here in two months mate?

Thousand dolalr question. I imagine so as the ROI I have will allow the site to maintain a good life span.

END INTERVIEW

So there you go. I found it to be a fairly fresh and different interview to most of the guff you get from admins (and I'll admit I ask slightly different questions as well that get to the point which can change the course of the interview a bit.)

Anyway, this freshness and some of the honesty displayed has given me faith that there's a good CHANCE we'll continue to see some solid growth from Aut0Surf for a while yet!

Stay tuned, if I'm struck by inspiration (or boredom) I'll bring some more juice.

Ciao, y'all.

Aut0Surf.

Aut0Surf With A Zero And GAP Updates

2006-08-26T15:39:00.000+10:00

In a few moments I'll post my little discussion/interview with the Aut0Surf admin. It's a mildly amusing read and raised my confidence in Aut0Surf a little, at least in relation to it being worth a spin!

And in other Aut0Surf news, they continue to be my current favourite autosurf baby (note that GAP is my fave autosurf toddler/small child!)…

Why?

In the purely extraneous category:

The name is catchy, if you say Autosurf with a zero!
The site beeps at you. (So does pretty much every other site.)

In the less extraneous category, recently they moved to dedicated hosting. Basically, the admin said they were going to move to some nice juicy hosting within the next day or two and they did. No mucking about, no noticeable downtime, and all minor problems that remained were quickly sorted out. A great way to gain some cred amongst the surf-lovers.

“The server was ordered on Wednesday with a lead time of 2 days. So hopefully the server will be ready today.

Once its ready, we will quickly take the site down to tranfer files to the server then place a redirection on the shared server to the IP of the new server while DNS issues are updating.

I am not expecting much downtime but as you can imagine some users may experience a short spell in downtime.

Starting from a shared server was taken on advice given from the host, however instead of going through this process when the site starts to grow, I decided to do it now to prevent further confussions.

Sorry about the look of the site today, I am getting a new look installed.”

So they completed that move with no noticeable whiplash - nice.

And back to the extraneous category, many people like the design and it is prettier than the majority of sites - I don’t know why surf admins bother with ugly, standard designs when it is cheap-as (or easy-as if you can do it yourself) to at least get it prettied up a bit!

And back to the less extraneous column - people are being paid.

And now to the ‘latest updates about Aut0surf column:

“I do not want to get into any arguments with any members on this, but I have to explain a few things and get this sorted from an early stage.

Aut0Surf is an autosurf site, which states that people will receive the daily commissions if they surf a set number of sites. In the case of Aut0Surf people need to surf 10 sites to get the 7%.

In the case of network issues and the site being offline for the majority of the day I will make the decision if to credit the members for the downtime, and of course this information will be posted on the following forums

MoneyMakerGroup, TalkGold, KingofDollars, TheSafeList, DreamTeamMoney, EMarketCafe, ASA Forum & GlobalGoldTalk.

If a member forgets to surf for one day, please email me stating that you forgot and I may credit, however this is not a guarantee. Please do not state that the server was down when I have proof that the server has maintained 100% uptime so far.

Members today are looking for honest and fair admins, all I ask is that the members be honest with me. If you forgot to surf say so, please do not state the server was offline when it was not.

Members have 24 hours to surf to claim the 7%. If when the member tries they have an ISP problem, please try later.

I am running a open and fair site, all I ask is the members be open and fair to me.

Scott

PS If a member continues to forget to surf, may I suggest that they look into the various HYIPs that are out there that do not require any daily activities from the members.”

Fair enough! (Seeing as the title of that email update was in fact fairness.)

And in GlobalAdsPro news:

Yes, we had server downtime during August 24th - however, since the site was available for at least more than 14 hours out of 24, there will be no manual fixing of accounts (there is no other way of making the individual credits). This would only delay payouts terribly as I have a tight rehearsal and other work commitments schedule over the weekend through to Wednesday.

Oh, and don’t hassle Trish about a payment! You’ll get sent to the back of the queue. (Which means you have to wait another day or two.) She’s made that one very clear.

Remember - surfs are risky. Games. But can be fun. These are just two of my current favourites. As you know, there’s about a billion out there.

GlobalAdsPro And The Mini Update

2006-08-25T12:16:00.000+10:00

GlobalAdsPro was down.

Here’s why, from Trish’s (as in the admin) announcement:

“Server must have gone down shortly after my trip to bed (around 2am my time) and I only found out wehn I got back to the office a short while ago. We’re now waiting for the server finger to push the re-boot button - simple as that.
Instead of getting crossed, try to imagine what this means to me….catch up times again, as I cannot stop any of my other schedules [unfortunately] to be round the clock at GAP.

Cheers
T”

And now they’re back.

What a delightful merrygoround… Speaks volumes for people’s trust in Trish, David Cannard, etc. that when GAP goes down for a while/sees problems for a few minutes, much like Cannard’s sites, that there ISN’T ten thousand people screaming that the sky is falling down!

Global Online Depository

2006-08-24T19:45:00.000+10:00

Here's some not-so-fresh Global Online Depository updates.

Although my attempts to follow up on them have been slightly thwarted so far (mainly due to my busy 'real life') the more I hear about them, the more of a positive feeling I get.

They remain in my "Medium Risk HYIP" section but I have a feeling they'll long outlast everything there, and if I get a chance to follow up on them they could well graduate to the 'real' Investment Opportunities section.

Anyway, I digress.

"Participation in Global is still growing at a healthy clip. In order to accommodate growth, we review our administrative procedures periodically. One area that needed attention was the management of withdrawals and internal transfers."

"Withdrawal/Transfers

Global's policy with regard to withdrawal and transfer of cash from member accounts has been enforced only loosely in the past. With the organization getting larger every day, this has become more and more of a problem.

For the most part in the past, it worked on the honor system. However, tracking a 90-day hold on interest earnings and a 30-day hold on referral bonuses can be difficult in very active accounts. Due to the size of the organization and time constraints of administrators, it has become increasingly difficult to check hold times manually. To make matters worse, the only control our software provided over internal transfers was the ability to disable them altogether - an option we did not want to impose on our members.

Consequently, our software has been modified to address these issues. The 90-day hold on interest earnings and 30-day hold on commissions aren't new policies by any means. Heretofore, they just weren't enforced very well. Thanks to customization of our software, these policies are now applied automatically to all accounts.

Pending withdrawals. Some member accounts that have a negative Net Available Cash value also had pending withdrawal requests. These have been deleted. Requested amounts have been restored to member accounts. If this was enough to bring your Net Available Cash back to a positive value you may re-enter your withdrawal request with a lower amount provided your last withdrawal or transfer was at least 7 days ago.

New information has been added to the FAQ page under section Withdraw / Transfer. Please read those updates before contacting support.

Thank you.

Global Online Administration
Aug-20-2006 03:16:28 AM"

This definitely has come into effect instantly, and my backoffice is a lot clearer and easier to understand now. Anyway, apparently I withdrew some money before I was supposed to so I'm seeing a negative there for a while until enough days rack up to release my other funds! Oops. It's all good though, it was my own ignorance of the terms.

Anyway, Global Online Depository are chugging along nicely, as I have said, and let's see if I get off my ass eventually and follow up on them, or continue to be lazy and entangled in 'real life!' :)

Win Some Lose Some

2006-08-24T16:19:00.000+10:00

Although Diggos is facing some problems, my two favourite autosurfs are powering along:

I was just paid by Aut0surf (with a zero!) within an hour of request. She's gaining some momentum.

And GlobalAdsPro just keeps kicking ass - their latest mini update?

"Currently paying August 22nd expiries."

I can confirm this having received my latest payment. Trish always comes out swinging, and GAP is gaining momentum as well.

Anyway, thus ends this mini update. (And if you want to avoid the ups and downs - stay away from the games. May I suggest FX-Experts? :) *shameless plug*)

Diggos Stalled?

2006-08-24T15:40:00.000+10:00

Be careful peeps, it appears that 'Peter Sweeney' has gone quiet on the Diggos front and a lot of payments are pending.

There's still room to breathe, but it's not looking good - so don't throw any more money at this one!

FX Experts - Sorting A Problem

2006-08-21T18:28:00.000+10:00

Bloody hell - how many updates did we pump out today? Keep coming back guys, cos, you know, Northern Calm RULZ.

*Ahem*

Anyway, as usual, the inside scoop -

FX Experts has had a little payment mix up for the week, with some members being paid out more than they were meant to be.

This has resulted in Marcos halting the rest of the payments temporarily whilst he sorts the problem...

Nothing major, a lot minor and it'll be sorted soon.

What's That In The Sky? Why, It's Another Aut0Surf!

2006-08-21T18:22:00.000+10:00

Here's something I prepared earlier - check this one out if you're a fan of the ole' Surfs.

Yes, I’m jumping onto another autosurf.

Why another one? Well I’m continually looking for the ‘next big thing’ to satiate my gambling streak, and although this one really doesn’t strike me as the ‘next ginormously big thing’ it definitely has the potential to be a solid Big Thing. (TM.)

They’re off to a good start with the name - Aut0Surf.com. I was complaining that no surfs were adopting names that stood out anymore (FerrarySurf anyone - pah!) but then again I digress - 12DP, Compact, Wired, Phoenix, etc. all had fairly run of the mill names. And in a way, Aut0Surf is really clutching at the ‘minimalist’ naming straws - but it’s pretty hard to forget. It’s Autosurf. With a ZERO! So I give them marks for that.

But c’mon Chancer - a surf needs a few more marks than that for you to plonk some dosh (translation: put some money) into. Well, what caught my eye with Aut0Surf, much like Alientrust and co. back when they first started, is that it has taken a slightly different angle - and done it sucessfully, rather than looking like a poor hodge podge.

The site itself is pretty, though nothing genius. It has relatively custom wording on the front page (though we’ve seen it mostly before.) The grammar is not perfect, but not that poor either.

They’ve adopted the “two cashouts a month” rule which has been used by some of the most successful recent surfs (that is, adopting a cashout method that does not plague the system with instant cashouts every ten minutes and cripple it when it hits critical mass.) Case in point - CompactSurf, it’s solid three-month long run, and it’s three-cashouts a month rule!

The payout rate is 7% for 21 days (which makes 147% all up.) That’s pretty reasonable, and that slightly-lower rate could make it a much better bet in the long run and give it much more room to breathe and grow.

Referral commissions are 5%, which is nowhere near as exorbitant as many other recent surfs so theoretically won’t put too much of a dint into their longevity.

So bla bla bla, Chancer, the usual crud about autosurfs - what made you join this one?

Well, they’ve grabbed themselves some blanket advertising and are picking up a good rep., which is good.

Their admin is extremely responsive and pretty well written, another hallmark of a longer-lasting surf.

But that’s all the usual stuff - these guys have brought the ‘custom’ to the table that they need to thrive.

They are using grams of gold instead of USD as their currency, and have custom-edited scripts to reflect this.

Yummy!

Why? Well many surfs in the past, including some of the aforementioned “Big Guns” (Compact, etc.) shifted some of the blame onto the rapid fall in the price of gold that it experienced recently when it adjusted for the massive boom it had had over the prior months.

Now this may or may not be true, but surely it did have an effect.

What is more important is the PSYCHOLOGICAL effect this has left on people - they have an aftertaste in their mouths, and are worried about gold fluctuations. Many scammy sites are trying the idea of other, dodgy e-currencies, or their own in-house e-currency (which is one of the worst signs of all!)

Aut0Surf acknowledge - like most of the quicker of cats out there - that E-Gold is solid, solid, solid and an inhouse processor is a stupid idea.

Adopting the grams method avoids the fluctuations completely. This may bode well at the fluctuating of gold prices, but what it bodes much better for is the psychological aspect that many of the average punters who fuel these things would be worried about.

By attacking this angle, putting this spin on it, Aut0Surf could be setting itself up to nab a lot of punters. And why not - it’s always that angle, that little bit of freshness, no matter how much, that draws people in.

Alientrust pulled a similar trick with its unique design, and “Mission” oriented approach. Look how long it lasted - it’s only now truly gasping its last breaths.

Phoenix, Wired and Compact all had some unique spin.

Surfs always need something to stand out - Aut0Surf has that. It’s not something that makes me think “juggernaut!” but it is enough for me to think “hey, this might catch on and tip the scales in its favour.

Here’s hoping! Fingers crossed for Chancer and his latest bet.

“Welcome to Aut0Surf.Com. Thats right, another autosurf thats just launched, but this one has one BIG difference.

I have actually re-coded the whole script, and that is alot of lines of code, to make the script work on Grams of Gold, and not USD, carry on reading for further information.

We all know that the price of gold rises and falls and in todays world, one day Gold could be near $700 Per Oz and the next week its at $560 per oz. In the past, Surf Admins have suffered and some programs have had to close due to the sudden drop in funds in the AutoSurfs E-Gold Account. Imagine being an admin and waking to find that gold has crashed and you can no longer operate the surf.

Well, with Aut0Surf that will not happen. Each member can buy an ‘Ad Unit’ for 0.25 Grams (1/4 of a Gram), upto a maximum of 125 Grams (500 Ad units). From then on, for every day that member surfs 10 or more pages from the rotator they will recieve 7% of the total amount of Grams they have purchased. That right 7% of the Gram Value not the USD value. This continues for 21 Straight days, aslong as the member surfs 10 or more pages.

Everything in the script has be re-coded to Grams. Moving away from USD can only bring stability to the program. All sections have be re-coded ranging from the Surf Section, Paid to Click Section, Bonus Cash Section, and of course the secure Auto Upgrade section.

7% for 21 Days brings you in a nice 147% ROI in just 3 weeks. Ontop of this, members can earn 5% in our referral program, this is another good way to increase the members earnings, remember the referral program also works in Grams. If someone you bring to the site spends 3 Grams (12 Units) you will recieve 0.15 Grams.

Members can cashout out twice per month, whatever amount they are showing in their balance. We do not charge any fee;s for this, however payments can take upto 7 days to appear in your E-Gold Account. The whole Surf Industry is going through a rough time, and WE need to enure that everyone pulls together and works hard to bring back those good old days. This will take alot of work and effort by us all, I will run this program well, and all I ask from you the members is your support.

There is no guarantee that you will make money. While we believe that our system will make money for those who actively participate, it is possible that you will not make any money under certain circumstances. The earning rate and referral rates may change from time to time. The money we pay out is earned from sales of ‘Ad Unit’s;, site and email advertising, additional traffic credits, and other revenue producing activities we may undertake.

Aut0Surf.com is hosted on a shared server at the moment, based at Go-Mama-Hosting, which is a very well know hosting comapny who caters for the Surf/PTR industry. After speaking with the staff and listening to their comments I have decided to host on a shared server and will increase to a dedicated server with the same host as time sees fit. If any script issues arise and I am unable to correct, Go-Mama’s sister company Scripts-R-Us provide a fantastic script support guy called Kevin who will step in and help me out.

My name is Scott, and I am your admin of Aut0Surf.com. I am aware its not going to be easy and we may encounter some minor problems, remember this script has been trolled through line by line and changes have been made. Over the last few years I have been a very active member in the PTR/PTC world and have crossed into HYIP’s/Surfs over the last 12 months.

So welcome to Aut0Surf and lets have a good time and enjoy the real benifits of what these Surf programs are meant to achieve.”

So, their introductory spiel is a fairly personable one, with some unique flashes. The fact he emphasizes the 7-day period gives me hope as well, as 12DP and now 12by12 as well as many other surfs realize this is the way to go for longevity versus the super-quick payouts which result in a very early critical mass and make it a lot harder for the average Joe to play.

Anyway, Aut0Surf.

I’m sure we’ll see people popping up with strategies of when to cashout to maximise gold performance any minute now… (wait, it’s already happening!)

You know, check it out. It’s putting along nicely and is only a week old. At least it’s better than FerrarySurf. Seriously, how lame is that? They wanted to rip off FerrariSurf, couldn’t they just grab another car and spell it CORRECTLY. Ferrary just looks stupid. What about PorscheSurf or LamboSurf or something.

Wait - what was I talking about again?

CIM Mutual Update

2006-08-21T12:37:00.000+10:00

Community Investors Mutual has issued an official update. Thar she blows:

"8/20/06

Dear members:

We are now in the second month of having opened CIM to outside investors and as the club’s membership grows steadily, with more deposits coming in constantly, it is becoming apparent that we need to do something about increasing the security of our funds from hackers. When the club was limited to a few members there was not much liquid cash in our ecurrency account to worry about. But now there is a constant flow of cash entering our accounts and very little withdrawals so that it is becoming necessary to move funds in and out of various ecurrency exchangers and bank accounts to maintain safety and security from hackers.

As you will note from many reports in forums, e-gold is constantly under attack from hackers and we see many of their customers’ accounts being successfully emptied of funds. While this is a risk we have to face in this industry, I am trying to minimize this by keeping our egold balance as small as possible. In so doing I have to move funds out of egold and into safer places and back again into e-gold when there is a need to do so. This moving of funds in and out of banks and ecurrency exchangers entails having to pay fees each time and these fees range from 1% to as high as 4% per transaction. As you can well guess these charges eat into the club’s profits.

There are very few sales or redemptions of MPUs so there is hardly any income derived from the 7% redemption fee. It is gratifying to see that members have enough confidence in the club not to want to sell MPUs but at the same time the anticipated revenue from this source is not happening.

It is therefore decided that to recover some of the currency exchange fees and maintain the club’s profitability we will now be collecting an entry fee of 3% for all new investments or new purchases of MPUs. This will apply to all new members as well as new purchases from existing members. The money generated from this new fee goes directly into the club’s coffers and not to me or anybody else.

I’m sure all of you will agree that we cannot afford to compromise the club’s safety and profitability and this new policy is for the good of the club and its long term existence.

Admin"

Very reasonable. Though I hope everyone realizes that it's not E-Gold itself that gets hacked, it's people's accounts (e.g. spyware stealing their passwords, for a very simle example, or people not using the SRK. Most instances of E-Gold 'hackings' are in fact laziness, or a misunderstanding of security, on the users behalf.)

NSFG On Track For A Kick Ass Month

2006-08-21T11:40:00.000+10:00

I mentioned earlier in the month that good ole NSFG had managed to achieve it's new goal of locking in 5% minimum profit a month.

That was all good, though nowhere near as much as the months they had during the "bad ass period" as Chancer shall now call it.

Many people were worried that they were slacking off and only aiming for 5% a month from now on - which is cool for mega large accounts, but the little guys might be a little disappointed (after all, having a bunch of double digit months perhaps gave us all slightly inflated expectations.)

However, despite at one point claiming he would only be doing monthly updates, Ken has decided to regularly weekly, mid-weekly, and 'whenever he feels like it' updates again and the news is good as NSFG trades itself into the 'win!' zone for the month.

I have no idea how much they gained percentile wise, but they seem to be back 'in the zone.' Good news right? And that's with a week or two off this month.

Dilly Dallying

2006-08-21T11:39:00.000+10:00

Ooh, so an update on some of the games I’m involved in is in order:

My only current autosurf, GlobalAdsPro, continues to thrive. The membership has steadily grown to 1800+ members, which means they have plenty of room to move, plenty of room to live still. Trish is on top of things most of the time and payouts continue to come out steadily from all reports (plus seeing them plonk into my E-Gold account on a regular basis confirms this.)

Anyway, no more ref. commissions between Singaporean members is allowed:
“No referral permitted between members from Singapore, effective immediately - any current and future referrals like that found in the system will be removed from their Singaporean upline
For the well-being of the program
Cheers!
Trish”

Also the upgrade limit has been raised once again, to $1100. This steady upwards movement of the upgrade ceiling should help prolong the program, and it’s great to see some forward thinking and planning.

GlobalAdsPro continues to play SUCCESSFUL underdog!

Diggos is still paying me like clockwork - currently the terms are double your money within 30 days, and you’ll be paid within three (3). (I’ve noticed most paid within a day at most, but it’s designed for longevity, or at least that’s the clothing it’s purporting to wear, so I’m happy to wait when the time comes.)

Paid Paid Paid

2006-08-17T17:50:00.000+10:00

Oh look, we (as in the collective "I") sound like MMG or something "Paid!"

Anyway, withdrew some Diggos cashola to E-Gold and it went a lot more promptly then I expected. I was expecting at least a three day wait, but instead received it within 24 hours (easily.)

Also GlobalAdsPro paid me (but now the site is down for me... :( .)

Anyway, it's great when the games are paying out! I still highly recommend Diggos, in terms of gaming.

SwissCult To Be Elected Into Malaysian Government

2006-08-16T17:12:00.000+10:00

Yes, the Cult Of Swiss sadly continues to grow.

The cult cottage industry continues to pop up around the behemoth (of shite.) Now we have third party sites like SwissGoldz.com. All of these third party exchangers are creating a thriving exchange market which is giving the Swiss RM E Points Or Whatever The Hell They Are Called REAL VALUE.

Stop it.

Seriously - if you're going to build a castle, don't use sand and flimsy fibro as your foundation. That's exactly what you're all doing by using the creaky scam Cult Of Swiss as your building blocks.

It's taking... or perhaps it has taken... over Malaysia.

Where's next? Australia? If so, I'll be waiting on the shoreline with some mates and big sticks. Back foul beast, back...

(Stay away from SwissCult. Try Scientology instead.)

If we really want to worship something fake from Switzerland, and will it into a legitimate existence, can't it be one of those big blonde chicks with the fake...

Nevermind.

(That was all a little incoherent so to sum up - SwissCash is a scam. Around the scam, a bunch of third parties have popped up. If enough third parties pop up they can basically legitamize the fake financial behemoth and morph it's currency worth something. If there's enough supply and demand...)

FXEMA Up

2006-08-16T13:13:00.000+10:00

FXEMA is now up and running in a more visible state so if you head on over you can see more than just a blank logo screen now.

What's that? "Go Marcos?" Indeed! Relatively cheap managed accounts for us all.

Just remember that this one is traded 'mechanically' rather than by someone like Hermann.

Global Online Depository Chugging Along

2006-08-16T12:30:00.000+10:00

Global Online Depository is still chugging along.

I had some follow up on talking to the admin's but that got lost by the wayside.

I have been a little skeptical but continue to hear good news from third parties about them being real.

The latest goss is that they are but a short distance away from being fully SEC approved, with a callsign - which means they'll be publically traded. Interesting.

In the meantime, I had a pending withdrawal for ages and I was thinking "is this the beginning of the end?"

Well, it turns out it wasn't - Buck Hunter needed my E-Gold account (although it's in my back office he needed me to add it in the comments) and sent me an email saying as much.

Pretty much, I replied with my E-Gold acct. no. and I was paid literally within an hour or two.

These happenings have made me decide to throw GlobalOnlineDepository onto my "Games/HYIPs I Like" list, and could move up further onto the 'real opportunities' list depending on what I find out.

In the meantime if you want to get in, I recommend getting in now, as compounding will be enabled for ONE MORE WEEK. Just a heads up for those who might be interested!

The 'games/HYIP' list is looking pretty healthy if I do say so myself.

Global Online Depository

New FX Experts Spin Off

2006-08-15T09:17:00.000+10:00

FXEMA, the new FX Experts spin off, sort of bridges the gap between 'little guys' and 'big guys' for managed accounts.

Go here to read a nice write up about it at my good mate Van Bassidor's blog.

My one question remains though, which I am too tired to answer at the moment as I am about to do some travelling - I get the impression the account is automatically traded, rather than by someone like Hermann.

Global Ads Pro

2006-08-13T14:41:00.000+10:00

I removed Creative Concepts from my little HYIP/games list. They were getting too iffy. I think KAOnline is a far superior replacement in terms of 'games.'

And GlobalAdsPro paid me again and continue to putt along swimmingly - they are really starting to pick up a good rep now, with steady momentum. All of my payouts so far have been a lot quicker than I have expected.

KaOnline - Awesome HYIP

2006-08-13T09:58:00.000+10:00

Yes, KaOnline.

An awesome HYIP.

Awesome, you may say? Why, this is better than everything?

No. It's just awesome within the realms of HYIPs/probable games.

I've been a bit too slack to jump into KaOnline for a while but the continued buzz has made me stand up and take notice. They've got what it takes to go the distance -

Very community active admin, who is actively seeking to push this everywhere.
Some details released.
Complicated, custom, awesome and expensive site.
9 - 11% weekly returns!
Withdrawals are mega quick.

Of course, as far as I can tell, no actual verification of the HOW they are making the money they are bringing in has been released, so they stay firmly in the the HYIP column - however they rank above everything else I have in there at the moment.

That's about it for now. I think their uniqueness and originality could see them soldier on for ages, if they're a 'game.' (That's the polite way of putting it!) And of course, so far they've positioned themselves so that all they'd need to do would be release some more tiny portions of information to start pipping the 'legit' goalpost.

KaOnline - ch-ch-check it out. (Remember I have it in my HYIP section for a reason though!)

Ferrary Surf

2006-08-10T17:07:00.000+10:00

Okay, there was a FerrariSurf.

Now there's a Ferrary Surf.

HOW STUPID IS THAT.

When are people going to come up with interesting or cool names for these things?

Whoever designed the site is like the illiterate brother of Luigi and Guido from Cars. FERRARY!

Daily10Surf No More

2006-08-10T16:48:00.000+10:00

Anyway, I think it's no more. (Daily10Surf that is.)

Might be time to suss out a new and better surf then... watch this space. I'm inclined to wait and try to hold off to an obvious 'big gun' arrives. But then what am I gonna do with my surfing addiction?

I see some people dancing the ashes claiming that it was from the guys behind Daily11Surf...

So?

Seriously, ALL admins for surfs are basically scammers. Most of them come from the masterminds behind one or another.

So, a surf that had massive potential, went for a bit over a month, had a 'professional' approach, and garnered heaps of buzz (Daily11) but shot itself in the foot too early...

Theoretically such 'professional' scammers should be able to pull off another month or two.

Of course they were scammers, but if it was from the Daily11 guys, they've proven they're GOOD scammers! (As in able to build momentum.)

Anyone, I only had one upgraded ref., a guy I know from HYIPD, so hopefully he is not too much out of pocket.

It just makes me shake my head, the self righteousness of people who claim "see, I told you it was from the Daily11 guys!" Well, guess what people - "see, 90% of HYIPs and surfs are from the same interlinked group of scammers!"

There's no room for smarm in game-playing. Cos we know it's a game. Or at least, I hope we do.

Okay, okay... there's room for smarm when educating the masses who think it is a 'real surf' with 'honest admin.' :)

However, plenty of room for "I told you so's!" when a program claims to be legit or many think it is (*cough* SwissCult *cough*.)

Not Much

2006-08-10T13:45:00.000+10:00

Title says it all. Not much of interest for me in this arena at the moment.

Diggos is still paying and I'm weighing up how far to play it hard before I start to syphon off some profit. I've got a good feeling (though just a feeling but let's hope it's Grand Funk more than a feeling) they'll be around for a while yet.

GlobalAdsPro continues to impress. I'm surprised to not see so many people jumping on the bandwagon in an explosive manner, but as long as they keep lesiurely boarding then it's 'all good.'

I was tossing up whether to give 12by12 a go but then decided against it. It may have worked for 12DP, and I have faith in Dave to an extent, at least in his motivations, but I find that the huge INSTANT hype the program garnered, as well as a massive influx of members combined with mucking about with a dodgy site that is on-again off-again (such a thing sets off the masses) and things like missing referral commissions make me think twice. 12DP lasted so long because of steady, prolonged growth. 12by12 hit really hard to the jaw, and then has sat back weaving and bobbing. When nearly all the members of the community jump in first few days, where has it got left to go?

Like I said though, let's hope Dave's best intentions pull through for many and create a monster surf.

Everything else is chugging along nicely, hence the lack of updates. Don't forget to check out CIM Pool...

Oh, and the FXIG and NSFG returns for the month were disappointingly a little low. I usually wouldn't complain but after months and months of minimal returns compared to the explosive returns of the past, it's only human nature to be a little disappointed after placing false expectations in their head!

Hangin' Round (With GAP. That's Global Ads Pro, Not Madonna's Front Teeth)

2006-08-07T23:07:00.000+10:00

You know, like the Lou Reed song from Transformer. “You keep, hangin’ round…”

Anyway, GlobalAdsPro 3-day + system is finding itself well into effect now.

Some people will say, “but oh, a wait is a bad thing!” But it’s never that simple. Trish has the cred, if there is such a thing in this ‘industry’ (bah) to try and roll it on for months and a slight wait on payouts can help a lot. (See 12DP of course, and even 12by12 has adopted the surf - wait - pay strategy from the get go.) PR wise, it’s a lot better to enact such a thing from the beginning of course, so people don’t cry the sky is falling down. It could of course be falling down. It’s a gamble, that’s the whole point, there’s that risk - but there’s usually four sides when the two-up coins are spinning! (That’s a really lame joke. You see, two-up is an old Aussie gambling game with two coins. So therefore, four sides. See, I told you it was lame. My joke, not the game.)

“August 6, 2006 - payouts catching up is going well: all accounts showing as upgraded and whose upgrades expired before or on Aug. 3 up to this moment have been paid as have a number of later expiring upgrades from Aug. 4, 5 and 6.”

People on MMG are happy… but then again, they nearly always are.

P.S. No offence made by Madonna joke. I love the woman!

Global Ads Pro - Everybody's Doin' It

2006-08-06T10:08:00.000+10:00

Well, it seems that every young whippersnapper surf these days is coming out and exposing the scammers/cheaters in their system.

Some people, as we say in Australia, have ‘cracked a sook’ about some surfs sharing too many details about members this way, and there is validity to that argument.

Either way, here’s the latest tidbit from GlobalAdsPro on that front… Interestingly some of the cheater accounts shown are merely there to flog another surf. A conspiracy? I’d like to think so.

Because conspiracies make it fun!

Also, despite the slowdown with the ’scrupulous checking’ of accounts, it appears (according to the forums) they are continuing to chug along with the payments. Many people may see this as a bad sign, a few-days-gap, but it can in fact be a positive thing, especially if the excuse is found to be valid. That three days, kept consistent, could end up prolonging the life of the program by who knows how long (but then again, it could not - but sometimes it’s not so simple as to say “this is good!” or “this is bad!”.) (The seven day 12DP wait had a lot to do with its endurance, and in recent times we’ve seen programs with nigh on instant payments - the problem being of course, that they bite the dust that much quicker.)

So as usual, there's two sides to the coin, don't just listen to one, look at both sides of the fence. Anyone can say on a forum like MMG "oh it's a bad sign! other programs did this and went down!" (which could well be true as well) but none of them bother to balance that up with the other side of the coin, and to look at the WHY - another program may have doen a similar thing and went down, but the mitigating circumstances surrounding it could once again be thoroughly different. Don't be a sheep, don't scream the sky is falling down (and alternatively don't shout that the admin is 'the saviour of the industry!), be liquid! And always treat an autosurf like a game.

Anyway, here’s the mini little cheater expose posted by Trish…

“Temporary solution to Singaporean and similar accounts (same IP) - no referral commissions will apply. In other words, such accounts will have their upline as well as downline removed as the next priority task after all payouts are caught up.

Payouts will now take way longer as I will scrupulously audit each and every account, no exceptions. The result: below I will place IPs, email used, link(s) submitted for rotation of scammers who believe I’m an idiot not to notice no funds have ever been deposited into our account from theirs - do they really reckon I’ve got a mint at the office?

If you are a program owner, feel free to email me for some eye-opening information - but I reserve the right to decision who I share the information with.”

Moronical Happenings

2006-08-05T13:53:00.000+10:00

Oh, my GoogleSearch box is working again. Use it to search through my idiotic rantings. :)

The HYIP/surf world is a great source of unintentional comedy for many people.

Firstly, we've got the idiots running around acting like they're qualified-advisor types, giving pointless advice filled with naivete. You'll often people shooting down your own well-informed opinion as well just so they can flog an obvious scam and not acknowledge it is a scam.

The problem is, we have a lot of people with no clue, acting like they DO have a clue. They use past precedents without taking into account the nuance and difference of it all.

It's like they walk into a courtroom and claim that Suspect A, who killed a man accidentally, should be treated the same as Suspect B who killed and pillaged twenty people on a mammoth serial killer binge.

It's not the same - and this applies to HYIPs. There are similarities, and precedents, but few too people know how to read them properly. The problem is, you'll get a lot of white noise from people who are telling you they DO know how to read the precedents.

Just remember that the nice and amiable people are often the ones pushing the biggest agenda, and are too afraid to step on any toes! That's how they get the most sales. Pretending to look out for the little guy for example, but in actuality just protecting their interests.

I don't lie about what's going on here - if I like something, I say so. I write a LOT of crap and in there you'll usually find both sides of the fence. If I say it's a GAME it's a game and treat it as such! :)

Talking about those pushing the biggest agenda let's look at the SwissCult brigade. I got one of my posts deleted at MoneyMakerGroup - seriously, if you want to learn ANYTHING do not go to MMG. MoneyMakerGroup is like a hive of scum and villiany to quote Star Wars. It's the sort of joint where you get posts deleted for referencing another program, 'hijacking' a thread. The very fact that you can get reprimanded for trying to discuss a program and use comparative analysis makes it a 'hijacking' should illustrate to you right now what MMG is - a PROMOTIONAL tool.

Nothing else. Just a chance for people to flog crap programs. Fair enough but don't treat it as anything else. I myself visit often, but I make no illusions about what it is.

I got my latest post for being 'negative.' Now, I presented factual tidbits, as well as some comedy, some conversational points and some well-informed opinions but, see, because it was 'negative' it wasn't allowed in the thread.

It's 'hijacking.'

Okay, so we're allowed to discuss, but not compare it to anything. We're allowed to discuss, but not show any opinion other than positive?

So I take it you're all getting how crap MMG is right? And I'm sure, dear readers, you're a smart bunch, and already realized this!

Anyway, I've got a good feeling it was the whiny SwissCult sooks who went whinging to the mods to get me deleted because I was ruining their cult-like recruitment drive.

Play it wise and smart in this 'industry' and remember that the devil and the alligator (or croc if you're an Aussie like meself) are the ones with the brightest, nicest smiles.

On another note, my game of the moment paid me again - Diggos. I'm playing it hard and hoping for a GoldenRocks style run, but that's because I'm none-too-bright! I'd definitely recommend a bit of play on it, but play smart.

I also didn't mention earlier that I was paid by another game, GlobalAdsPro. They've got potential despite minor setbacks, but I wouldn't exactly go calling it 'blazing potential.'

Also, I'm following up on GlobalOnlineDepository still... I'm getting there. As of yet, my withdrawal request of probably 4 - 5 working days ago hasn't been processed.

NSFG July End Update

2006-08-05T11:30:00.000+10:00

Well the end of July rolled around and NSFG booked 2.41%. It was a tough month, and as many of you probably noticed, the geopolitical climate was not exactly predictable.

And in some more 'look at us we're making lots of money!' style news, for the month of August they have already locked in 5% (as in they promise not to fall below that.)

Nice!

Back Again...

2006-08-05T11:04:00.000+10:00

Yes after a day or two of absence, Chancer returns!

What's been happening in the meantime?

Daily10Surf is still here. And still paying.

My more highly recommended surf of the moment, if you are into that sort of thing, GlobalAdsPro, was apparently the victim of a hacker...

"A whole bunch of accounts using same IP have just been suspended - Congratulations!

Payouts will now take way longer as I will scrupulously audit each and every account, no exceptions.

Automatic upgrades will return to GAP in near future as our technician is working out a solution.

If you are a program owner, feel free to email me for some handy information."

Automatic upgrades are ON for the time-being.

Some extra security has been put in place - but of course, unless you're a hacker yourself, it's pretty hard to know how inventive they turn out to be next :|

Payouts are going slow as I am auditing each account as well as e-gold site appears impossible to navigate at the moment.

I will be adding any and all manual upgrades in a few hours."s

Fair enough if true. This doesn't change my stance on their potential potential. In fact, if the three day gap is kept consistent it could benefit the program.

Well that's it with the game/surf updates, more to come later on...

Guess Who's Back? Daily10's Back.

2006-08-02T15:50:00.000+10:00

Yes, Daily10Surf is once again back up and running.

And I'm off because I need to travel for the next 48 hours or so, so I'll catch you all on the flipside (i.e. a day or two.)

Ciao!

Welcome To The GAP

2006-08-02T14:02:00.000+10:00

Well, I added Global Ads Pro to the "Medium/High Risk HYIPs I Like" column. I am too lazy to make another 'autosurf' column, and this keeps it neater...

I haven't added Daily10, but might after a period of time, depending on my outlook on it then.

Conspiracy!

2006-08-02T13:55:00.000+10:00

Here's a post of mine, taken directly from NoBS HYIP... It references a post I wrote yesterday that I posted as well, at that site... I thought I'd post it as is, because I find the whole conspiracy angle amusing. (Case of the disappearing post! A good laugh.)

"Yesterday, I wrote a post with a bunch of updates on my favourite games and also had a mention of the Goldenrocks news.

Today it seems to have disappeared. It would have been the post before Jude’s mention of the Goldenrocks update.

Looking in my little ‘back office’ so to speak, here, it goes from blog post #1256 to #1258… Case of the disappearing post?

Well, anyway, there’s more little morsels so to speak so here they are…

Global Ads Pro (the GAP of the title) has got a little (understandably!) flustered update from Trish…

“Hi Everyone,

Honestly…enough, is enough…. what else can one do to keep you satisfied?

You all want to make money - nothing wrong with that. But it also seems the 5-10 min. you spend daily making it here is too much. Yet then you ALSO do not seem to have enough activities on your hands - You kept me most of this morning (my time) in my mailbox….with questions like:

“where do I click to add my site to rotation?” (answer: the button says: “add new site”)
or this one:
“I have expired. have I fallen through cracks?” (no offence, but maybe I wished you have Your upgrade expired a whole 2 hours before I got to the office this morning!!! - do YOU sleep and eat sometimes?).

So I have decided enough is enough…only support mail that pertains to urgent account issues NOT mentioned already in the News Flash or anywhere else on site will be responded to. I have just discovered the “delete X” in my outlook.

Also, I will NOT accept enquiries submitted via the GAP support form which ask about issues on any other site I maintain or am employed at - when I deal with GAP issues, that is where I am…I cannot hop over and open another few browser windows to check or fix your account elsewhere without losing sanity.

So please, next time, before heading straight for the support form, stop and think: is it really that hard to browse through the few GAP pages for the answer to my question? Is it going to be actually quicker if I find the answer myself?

I do enjoy serving you,
take good care
Trish
@ GAP”

Daily10Surf is down, and I much prefer GAP anyway, but they appear to not have chucked a runner as of yet, as they were back up with an announcement from the admin, now they are back down again.

An explanation is offered:

“Looks like its gonna be a long night as the sever again is offline.

Just an update: we are still at the datacenter working on the problem and we are aware the server went down again. This time it won’t take long to get the server back up - we were in the process of getting a kernel error corrected with SWsoft however the server crashed again before we were able to (fully) apply the fix.

We will post updates regularly here whenever we have new information.”

I fully expect them to come back (though nothing is certain!) in the next few hours - as what would be the point in an exit strategy so early on when most are only making tentative test spends? A nice bit of alliteration there.

Oh, and Peter from Diggos posted some explanatory stuff:

“I was surprised to see no questions posted here.

One member PMed me and that is all, well for those who are interested.

I am taking longer to send withdraw request payouts for one reason.

About the only questions I have received lately are about how a member can use and/or abuse the referral bonus sytem in order to make more money and that is not what Diggos was built for.

So effectively I changed the time it takes to receive your withdrawal request - to remove the incentive to withdraw funds, then respend back in again just for that small ref bonus.

I am not in business to shuffle around the same money over and over until the top referrers get it all (like most out there).
I want a balanced system where members can accept this rule gracefully and understand that it is with my best intentions in mind to make the change and make you wait a couple extra days.

Another positive thing this does is that now I know in advance exactly what will be needed to payout. Without this advance knowledge I might be forced to withdraw from certain accounts where it would be better if the funds could stay in place. (sorry I cannot give more details)

The problem did not get out of hand because I wont let it, and I hope people know they will get paid exactly as described.

What I want members to do is purchase advertising using the internal account feature and save $1 fee. Take out only what you want to spend somewhere else.

As our sales increase, so do payouts and at some point I will be forced to automate more of the payouts.

In the future you can expect that Diggos might only do one payout per week but that too is a good thing.

I got one PM that said change is a four letter word in the hyip industry and I can agree with this statement.

Diggos is not an HYIP, we are a solid group of advertisers that will prove
to the world how easy it is to enjoy great ads and profit too!

Anybody wanting a refund only needs to ask.

CHEERS

Peter”

Diggos is picking up some nice steam and they continue to be my favourite game and I have my fingers crossed for this one!

Oh, and SwissCult got moved to the Referral/MLM section in MMG! Ha ha. Stay away from the cult of Swiss, people!

Let’s see if this post mysteriously disappears too! It’s a conspiracy, I tells ya! "