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Our good friend Jude Rodrigues informed us that he is closing down the No Bullshit (NOBS) HYIP Blog as he bids farewell to HYIP investing after several years of monitoring the industry. The NOBS HYIP Blog may be gone but it's not yet over for the NOBS Network.

Jude promises to launch a new site that will cater to genuine income opportunities such as real estate, mutual fund, commodities investments, private investments, managed accounts, and affiliate marketing, among others.

To receive updates regarding Jude's plans, head over to the NOBS HYIP site and sign up for their newsletter.

One is not enough, two is not too much, and aplenty is just what's needed.

That seems to be the motto of owners of High Yield Investment Programs (HYIP) who are utilizing tens, probably even hundreds, of domain names to redirect to their HYIP site.

Pinoy Money Talk recently discovered several HYIPs that use a plethora of forwarding URLs. These HYIP administrators purchase bulk domain names (for a few dollars a piece) in the hopes of easily luring "investors" to their high-yield investment offers. They even advertise through Google Adwords using multiple slogans and URLs, although the ads redirect to only one site.

One of these is Investment Gold Profits (www.investmentgoldprofits.com) which we have found, as of this writing, to be using more than 40 forwarding domain names (Update: We've already identified 50 forwarding URLs).

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For some days now, HYIPRanks.com, one of the largest forum and monitoring sites of High Yield Investment Programs (HYIP) has been inaccessible and, as of this posting, merely parked under GoDaddy.com.

According to a discussion thread in TalkGold, the HYIPRanks website was severely hit by DDOS attacks and their e-gold account was also blocked. Until today, no official word has been heard from the owners of HYIPRanks.

Anyone got news? Post a comment below. 

Looking for a good investment opportunity that can earn huge returns for your money?

Try McWhortle Enterprises, an "established and well-known manufacturer of biological defense mechanisms" whose Defense Systems are routinely used by Fortune 500 companies to "protect their far-flung executives living in dangerous areas."

McWhortle has always been a closely held private corporation. But for a limited time, it is offering "a small number of prudent, thoughtful people the chance of a lifetime" to invest in the stock following the launch of its popular, high-technology product, Bio-Hazard Detector.

McWhortle assures investors a triple return on their investment.

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PinoyMoneyTalk.com started in 2005, initially with the aim of providing Filipinos with an objective guide to successful investing in High-Yield Investment Programs (HYIP). In our more than two years of experience in the HYIP industry, we have seen different types of investors come and go.

In this article, we present to you what we think are the three basic groupings of HYIP investors: the Cheerleader, the Naive Player and the Informed Gambler.

Which one are you? 

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Winning entry of jrb in the "How Pinoys earn money online contest":

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Been hounding the internet for money-making schemes since 2002. Lost thousands in HYIP (High Yield Investment Programs), actually hundreds of thousands. But a lot of hard lessons learned there. My advice for newbies: NEVER go there. Instead, spend your money studying internet/affiliate marketing rather than putting your money on ponzi schemes. They are never the "investments" that you perceive them to be.

I never gave up because I knew millions could be made compared to the thousands lost. Now I earn about $1K+  a week. From what? A combination of freelancing, outsourcing, adsense and affiliate income. There are a LOT of genuine opportunities out there. The problem is that it usually takes years to distinguish the diamonds from the ordinary rocks.

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It all started with one spam email. It was the last week of December 2004. I was cleaning out my Yahoo! inbox but instead of deleting all mails in the Bulk Mail folder, I retained one whose title caught my attention. It proclaimed: "40% return after 5 days! No risk!"

I clicked the link in the mail despite the resistance of the voice in my head: "Fool! Don't trust these people! 40% return in 5 days is impossible. It's definitely a scam!"

I know, I told myself, but I'll just try searching for this in Google to see what turns up. Who knows, this might be the 'pot of gold' I've been looking for!

One keyword led to another and I jumped from one site to the next: MinistryofGold.com, MoneyMakerGroup.com, TalkGold.com, HYIPDiscussion.com.

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One year ago…

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December 6, 2005
12DailyPro's 12 Days of Christmas

12DailyPro celebrated Christmas of 2005 via the "12DP 12 Days of Christmas" where it donated cash to 12 chosen charities and offered a raffle contest to upgraded 12DP members who got a chance to win various prizes including an ipod, laptop, camcorder, even a car. Revisit 12DailyPro's 12 Days of Christmas contest in this 12DailyPro discussion thread.

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December 13, 2005
StudioTraffic fading out?

While member payments continued to be delayed, StudioTraffic (ST) made another bad move by removing egold as a withdrawal payment option. The act immediately earned the ire of a lot of members. Irked by the "impatience" of these members to wait until full account auditing was supposedly complete, ST owner John Horan offered to close and settle the accounts of members who cannot wait anymore.  Reminisce the events in this StudioTraffic thread.

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December 27, 2005
FeederFund News

FeederFund (FF) announced that existing members must have at least $250 in their account balance, otherwise they will be required to pay a subscription fee. The official FF update goes:

Existing Members with a total balance greater than $250 will be exempt from the subscription fee, but this will not be an option for any new member in the future. There will be no rush for subscription payment. We are looking at the end of February as the most likely cut-off date but we will provide more information on payment methods and timings in mid January 2006.

Find out succeeding FF developments in the FeederFund board. 

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December 21, 2005
Jim Hunt is leaving 4Daily

4Daily.com admin Jim Hunt sent an email to 4Daily members explaining that he is leaving 4Daily for greener pastures. Some members, however, thought this was a mere ploy to exonerate Jim once 4Daily fully collapses. Some even claimed that a transfer to new owners did not actually happen. 4Daily eventually announced that "new owners" had taken over but that was not enough to revive the program. Reminisce this program in the 4Daily board in the Pinoy Money Talk forum.

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Spammers and referral whores* have devised an innovative way to get investors to notice their advertised programs. For several months now, these people have been sending spam using names of popular HYIP forums, HYIP monitoring, and other HYIP-related sites.

Here are examples of spam we received purportedly coming from known HYIP sites. The sites have constantly denied any involvement in the sending of these spam mails. Be warned that these referral whores are in it only for referral commission. Worse, if they are the program admins themselves, these spammers want to bait you in to the program hoping you would spread the news of the program to other people.

DO NOT support these programs. DO NOT click any link in the mail and DO NOT join any of the programs they advertise. You risk yourself being scammed if you do. Report the mail as SPAM in your mail box so that the next time they send you mail, it will be sent directly to the Junk Mail folder.

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One year ago…

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November 12, 2005
HYIPDiscussion forum brands StudioTraffic (ST) as non-paying

A falling out with StudioTraffic.com prodded the administrators of the HYIPDiscussion.com forum to set the autosurf program as non-paying in its HYIP list. The problem apparently erupted when ST denied HYIPD's withdrawal requests. This proved to be the beginning of StudioTraffic's end. On this same month, ST members in several countries reported that they were barred from surfing. It was also rumored that an overseas ST payment office have shut down because of delayed payments.

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November 14, 2005
SensaTrust verifies FeederFund

FeederFund got a boost after a reputable, third-party site SensaTrust.org verified and recommended the pool investment program. Surprisingly, however, it was SensaTrust that would disappear in the HYIP scene months later. (FeederFund is still alive until today albeit some of its programs have recently experienced major shake-ups). SensaTrust did not run away — some of its admins are even still active in a few HYIP forums. What happened was SensaTrust's domain was grabbed upon expiration and some admins decided to lie low after they were supposedly contacted by authorities who were conducting investigations on high yield programs that they know.

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November 14, 2005
Paid Response out, Paid Exposure in!

After a few weeks downtime, PaidResponse (PR)'s site went back again online today, but this brought no good news to members. Upon the return of the site, Aaron Bowering announced that Paid Response, his first autosurf program, will cease to operate and will instead be merged with his new autosurf program Paid Exposure (PE). Members were asked to transfer their PR accounts to PE. Months later, PE would also close down with not a single member receiving any payment.

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November 17, 2005
DD on 12DailyPro introduces Charis Johnson and proves program is legally registered

PMT members discussed the results of a Due Diligence (DD) made on the then up-ad-coming autosurf program 12DailyPro. The DD released information about program admin Charis Johnson and details of the business including address, phone numbers, and certificate of incorporation. It would take months before most 12DP investors would discover that a legally registered business such as 12DP does not always equate to a profitable and sustainable investment program.

[tags]HYIP, HYIP news, HYIP update, 12DailyPro, StudioTraffic, FeederFund, Paid Response, Paid Exposure, hyip scams[/tags]