Alert: Opentrade and web problems

It is not time to call Opentrade HYIP as scam or that will become scam, but sometimes web problems are first signs that certain HYIP is about to go down (or even worse, it won't ever come back again). This is not the case for Opentrade, I believe that soon page will be available. Nevertheless I'll keep an eye on this page closely, as I mentioned, I put minimal invest deposit recently.


This is what I received when I tried to log into my newly established Opentrade account:

Bad Gateway

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.

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Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) Server at www.opentrade.net Port 80

HYIP is like gaming

It has been some time ago, when I wrote that HYIP is almost all scam. And at that time I discontinued or better, my accounts were canceled an all investment programs with exception of RTA Online Investment . By the way, this site is still alive and I am very happy that I joined it almost a year ago.

Some days ago, I had a feeling, that HYIP is not bad and that with discipline it can be profitable in a way. But most of it, HYIP is adrenaline, is like a gambling, it is a game. Most of “players” are aware, that 99% of HYIP is scam and it will die sooner or later. The question is, weather you will withdraw your profit soon enough or high yield program will die and make you a loser.

So this gaming attitude is the reason number one, why I came back to the HYIP scene. I will track suspicious programs (again) and also give positive signals for HYIP that are promising. My deposits won’t be high, experiences from Privatefin are very alive – selective payments is the first thing which happen in potential scams. From my perspective I will take HYIP programs as MMORPG games, where monthly playing fees are around € 20.

Agloco - no money for users

As I predicted six months ago in Agloco hype , looks things are discontinued at the administrators part. From my point of view, Agloco concpet was already seen years ago in so called PaidForSurf activities, which resulted in one big scam for users. PaidForSurf sites did definetly take some profit.

I you were one of those unlucky Agloco members, who really run their viewbar, I hope you learned a lesson in here. Basicly looks, that nothing what is free result in money profit. And apparently not all activites (like majority of HYIP) which are conected with investing real money, result in money profit.

Here is copy of Agloco email I received some minutes ago:

AGLOCO Update Notice

Dear Matija,

We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO's operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, but our revenue is currently not sufficient to give Members a meaningful distribution. And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs. As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations. If any Member would like to pursue continuing the operations of AGLOCO, you may contact us at agloco1@live.com .

We would like to thank every Member for supporting our effort to bring a piece of the Internet directly to the user. We hope that we can find a way to keep the operations going.

AGLOCO Development Team

Galleon FX - managed forex, is this the key to real profit?

After disasterous results in HYIP, failer in gold trading and finally, due to lack of time and resources I was not able to run manual forex, I am now trying to make profit in forex managed account at Galleon FX.

This is now real thing. No more unsecure feeling about scam. Let me shortly look at this my new investment.

The site has very good instructions for filling up all forms and papers, since you need to get first signup a form for Galleon, then with their broker, FXCM. Both seems very stable in time and under control. Of course there is a risk of something bad happens and either company "die", but this is not so likely. Since Galleon is getting managed fee based on their performance from you, it is obvious their intention is to perform as positive as possible. All fine from this points. What else do we know?

When you sign up, you have to choose the currency USD or EUR for your account. In fact USD accounts have better statistics than EUR, for examle their USD Account was up about 75% in Septemberm, further more 18% in October for a total of 93% gross in just 2 months.

Their $1000 minimum special has been very popular with 50+ new clients in October. Those that got in and had accounts funded before the 15th are already looking at 15-20% gains in their account. As they have extended $1000 minimum investment for this month too, you just have some days to start a real investing, rather then scamy HYIP.

The FXCM offers very good web based look into account, so you see all open traders, history, current equity, for selected time period. Funding the FXCM account is easy, as you can use Credit cards.

Galleon FC performance over time

Galleon offers you great oppurtunity to take profit in violatile Money Exchange markets. Since managed accounts usually starts with over $25.000, you finally have a chance to enter with much smaller amount. And last thing: robot trading is usually not bringing such high profits as Galleon had it in September, but since it eliminates emotional weakness of a trader, it can become your profit maker.

How could we avoid the bet-funds.com scam?

One thing which I learned in my one year activity in HYIP is, that it is crucial to get the feeling, when certain program will go down. There has been numerous signals we can learn - from some suspicion very attractive new offers to selective payments (no, I can't forget Privatefin SCAM). Let me show you, what I've learned from Bet-funds.com scam.



First signal, that something is going wrong was, when they announced, that Moneybookers is no longer a way of payment - what is very strange, since they suppose to operate with bets, and many bookies uses MB.

Second signal is something completely new to me. If one would check the date, until when domain name bet-funds.com was registered, a very exact date of when site will go down could be announced. So when you invest, check also this rather small but seems important detail.

Today I did domain check again, similar as I did over a month ago in September, when bet-funds was down. What I found is, that domain name has been paid a week ago. What that means? Was original administrators so lame, that they forgot to pay for domain? Maybe this is not a scam after all, but rather unprofessional team with insufficient Internet knowledge?

Those questions will be clear soon. All records show, that today some guys from Italy are behind this. This is what I found on www.checkdomain.com:

Registrant:
Andrea ralli
via damiano chiesa, 5
roma, rm 00136
Italy

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: BET-FUNDS.COM
Created on: 11-Sep-06
Expires on: 11-Sep-08
Last Updated on: 25-Oct-07

Administrative Contact:
ralli, Andrea  revenuedriver@gmail.com
via damiano chiesa, 5
roma, rm 00136
Italy
0635404810

Technical Contact:
ralli, Andrea  revenuedriver@gmail.com
via damiano chiesa, 5
roma, rm 00136
Italy
0635404810

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.FASTPARK.NET
NS2.FASTPARK.NET

So if you lost some money on bet-funds as I did, maybe it is time to stop losing your assets on scam HYIP. I closed all my HYIP activity or better, their admins scamed away. Therefore I suggest you my dearest reader, invest into proven programs. At this moment I can suggest you only one, RTA online investment, which will soon be online for a year, with honest and cooperative admin Max Willis behind. I remember how he was fighting when he came online with his Invest pool, that his program is not HYIP. Maybe I didn't understand him completely, but now I do. RTA may not have the highest profit, far from that, but it has stable daily profit, which will survive for a long time (while all those HYIP scams will die).

Keep your money safe and stay away from HYIP.

ALERT: Phishing letter to e-gold users

I have just received a phishing e-mail with subject: Notification e-gold Accounts User Agreement Update, which is a very very dangerous. It is pretending it is official e-mail from e-gold, but it is not. If you'll enter your data on link, they will hack your account. BE AWARE! Always be sure you are logged to correct webpage. E-gold is using https protocol, while site you are forwarded on this pshising e-mail is under http. Spread the word!!! Protect your e-gold.

The messageI received is pasted here:

e-gold Users.
This is Letter from Dr. Douglas Jackson; Chairman, e-gold, Ltd.

e-gold and its Operator, Gold & Silver Reserve (G&SR®), including G&SR
exchange service OmniPay® in cooperation with the United States Government
and pursuant to a lawfully issued written request, from now we starting
verification of all our e-gold accounts.

e-gold operates legally and does not condone persons attempting to use
e-gold for criminal activity. e-gold has a long history of cooperation
with law enforcement agencies in the US and worldwide, providing data
and investigative assistance in response to lawful requests.

Click here to start verification of your e-gold account

I hope to have additional and useful facts shortly and will communicate
them when appropriate. I can assure you e-gold is up and running,
supporting its customers, and continuing to grow.

Dr. Douglas Jackson

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

Please do not reply to this automatically generated email message.

ALERT: Liberty Reserve - fake emails

Liberty Reserve (LR) is a very good alternative to e-Gold, but today they announced in their blog Alert. Fake e-mails has been sent from some hackers, so be aware if got any strange email in the name of LR with this content (copy paste from their blog).

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Dear Sir or Madam,
Our security department detected an IP access associated with your account indicating your account could be at risk. This is most likely due to keyloggers, trojans, viruses or some type of malware on your computer. Please clik here for protected your account. we most likley won't be able to help recover your funds in the event of a compromise,so it is highly recommended. Thank you.

Regards,
Security Operations,
Libertyreserve
-- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DON'T CLICK on links if you got such an email. This reminds me on Blue people case, but this time the service producer (in this case LR) has done everything correctly, as there was no break into e-mail database.