When you should get out of a program

In the previous part we already talked
about emotions, the ‘internal economy’ of a program and the
programs’ statistics.

One of the known resources for your research on HYIP
information are the so-called HYIP monitors. These websites
list as much programs as they can and give basic information
about it. This information includes: start date, how does it
make profits, what are the investment plans and what are the
additional costs involved.

But they also have a feature for their users to rate the
program and leave a comment. Visitors leave a message when
they got paid, or they’ll let you know when a program
stopped paying. Of course, based on human logic, these
systems won’t give 100% reliable results. The system can be
cheated and some voters can be made by guys who get paid by
the owner of the program.

The best programs only got good ratings, you won’t see a
“not paid” sign anywhere in their ratings. If there are just
a few, you can check at forums if the program is paying,
paying selectively or not paying.

However there’s a big downside on these monitors. Some are
corrupt, in other words, they’re taking money from program
admins to show a good rating and filter out the bad ratings.
Other monitors are semi-corrupted because it’s fairly easy
to vote (either positive or negative) on programs.

The better scammers know exactly how to get past the email
verification and the IP check. That’s the way they can break
programs down with negative votes, and gain more trust from
investors for their programs by adding positive votes for
their own.

While new monitors are in development, that also have added
security- and cheatmeasures, no single monitor will ever be
lose from corruption and scamming. That’s why you need to
look everywhere for information.

This is how I measure the monitor: if a program has less
then 100 votes and more then 1 of them is negative, I don’t
invest. And when a program has more then 100 votes the
negative ones have to be less then 4 or 5 in count, and some
may’ve been from the same range of IPs.

Look closely at the IP ranges and the email addresses,
sometimes a trace of scamming is clearly in sight. If you
happen to see a lot of the same IP ranges, or the most of
the votes from a single free email provider (like hotmail) –
you can be sure the votes are fake.