HYIP and investment autosurfs at a glance

There is a new phenomenon bursting on the scene that is filling your email boxes, your search results and even in your favorite forum.

They are called HYIP (High Yield Investment Program).

More recently, paid autosurf programs are the rave.

Their promises of wealth and financial freedom are well renown and to the novice user, appear to be legitimate and professional.

Unfortunately, that is not the case. Most of these programs purposely hide the owners identity. Why? I speculate because they don't want to be caught by the authorities some day. Why else would they purposely hide their identity? Regardless as to why they purposely hide their identity, lets look further into the flawed business model.

Most of these sites promise their members a return of 1% per day on up to 20% per day. To earn this promised return a member typically has to perform work to get it. This work typically consists of turning your computer on and let it autosurf through 100 pages of advertiser (or some variant of this). Autosurfing means opening your web browser and every 20 to 30 seconds, a new website will appear in your browser. You need not be in front of your computer to make this work. In fact, many members report that they turn their autosurf programs on and then go to bed.

How would this be a good advertising avenue for website promoters when very few members are actually viewing their website and their products/services? Quite frankly, its NOT a good form of advertising. In fact, it could be considered just burning up a websites hosting bandwidth because the advertiser virtually gets NO results from using this advertising technique.

Then why do so many people join these sites?
One answer: FOR THE MONEY!

OK, thats a fair enough answer. People all over the world would like to make money on the internet, no harm in that, right? But, how can the average internet user make money online? Most internet opportunity seekers have asked this question. Sadly, the con men of the world have an answer for this. Voila! Here come the HYIPs! They promise their members a profit percentage that is UNRIVALED by even the richest men in the world. How can a person, who is chosen to hide his identity on the internet, suddenly have the answer that the greatest financial minds have been unable to figure out?

Here's how the typical site is run. The webmaster creates the site, typically from a generic script that is widely available for cheap. He will then start promoting and, like moths drawn to a light, members will flock to the site and join. Some members are naive and hope the site is honest while others more sinister know full well the site is a scam but know that the way to play the game is get in early and profit BEFORE the site disappears into the night. These members will boast about the site, often telling stories of how much they have been paid (whether they have yet or not) because they know that they will only succeed in profiting IF they can get new members to join and invest their money as well.

Lets get down to the underlying "engine" of the site: the money generator. The argument that many pro-autosurf members claim is "the site has paid me before thus, it's legitimate".

No, sorry, that is the oldest game in the book with con men. They MUST appear legitimate for a little while so that they can use the first investors "good word" to attract even more investors. Sure, they could simply rip off the first 10 investors for a few hundred bucks but it is much smarter to PAY those members back, with interest, so they can then brag to the rest of the world of their success. Once this good news hits the internet, thousands will invest money and this webmaster can now accumulate $50k, $100k, even $1million in member's investments. Someday in the not so distant future, the webmaster must make a decision:

Should I pay another month's worth of payouts or should I disappear now?

Only the webmaster knows when he will pull the plug because he has most likely predetermined an amount of money he wants to keep for himself as his goal. Once that happens, ALL members have lost whatever is their current balance in their account. The early members (about 10%) most likely would have profited but the remaining 90% will have lost in the program.

That is how these sites work.

No matter how much or how little we, the people who don't believe in these types of programs preach, the site WILL implode (crash and burn) someday due to the fact that their revenue never exceeds the promised returns they offer their members.


Robert A. Gehring

Rob's Business Portal

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