Making Money Online: I Was Wrong

Copyright 2006 David Lumsden I would like to apologise to 5 good, innocent decent people who took my advice. Their names are John Bridger, Fiona Chapson, Angie Perrin, Sonia Perrin and my best friend Graham Gardener. They took my advice and invested their money in the 12DailyPro autosurfing scheme. At this moment they have not lost their money as such as the program is still operating, however the maximum return they can expect is a refund of their investment, but the minimum is nothing. Do I feel guilty? By thunder Yes I do. They trusted me to give them sound advice but this time I let them down. Now there is a mitigating circumstance. I am not making excuses but if you have got this far, please hear me out. 12DailyPro had up until recently all the way from May 2005 paid out on time every time. Then a series of events occurred. The first one was surprising, but understandable, there had been some difficulties experienced by members about payments made from 12DailyPro to E-Gold accounts. This was a time issue, not a non-payment one. However 12DailyPro told their members that they would no longer take in payments from E-Gold. With me so far? As a consequence members were told to either switch to Stormpay or open an account with EMO. Many members took this up and payments to 12DailyPro started to be made via EMO. To summarise, 12DailyPro continued to accept payments in from both Stormpay (the majority of members processor) and from EMO. Payments out would continue to both Stormpay and E-Gold until all payments were fulfilled, then payments in and out would use the Stormpay and EMO systems. This was a shudder unlike the earthquake that followed and even this started slowly. Stormpay told 12DailyPro that it would only continue business with them if Stormpay became its sole processor, otherwise it would shut its account. Due to the large amount of funds held by Stormpay 12DailyPro were forced to give in to this request. Members were informed and it appeared all was settling. 12DailyPro would process all outstanding orders via EMO, but would only accept new payments in from Stormpay. And that should have been the end of it, but instead the earthquake came. This may not be based on fact, but I will try to explain it as I see it. Stormpay froze the account of 12DailyPro AND many other autosurf programs, such as dadndaves (a highly respected program) among others. As the majority of American citizens use Stormpay this caused a 'storm' of chaos. The freezing of accounts stopped the payments out in their tracks. The whole autosurf industry was basically grounded, the fight with Stormpay with each blaming the other goes on unabated, and the position is still unresolved. To cut the legal side short, Stormpay say they are quite within their rights as the Autosurf programs are either ponzai or pyramid schemes and do not reflect the company programs put to them when signing up with Stormpay. The Autosurfers totally disagree, saying their programs were fully explained and accepted by Stormpay. The legal battle continues. But what about the investors like my friends and I, where does this leave our investments and us? A scam is a scam is a scam! What normally happens is that an autosurf or HYIP program is set up, money is taken in, some given back, more join, more money goes in and the website disappears. Scam over. A recent example of this was 15DailyCash which came and went in 10 days! So what is so different this time? Both 12DailyPro and dadndaves are still here, they appear to be doing everything possible to save their investors. (I have not taken you down the road to what Stormpay appear to be doing with the 12DailyPro Stormpay investors accounts). Who is the guilty party? I wish I knew, both sides are blaming the other, the end is not in sight yet. Who will take the hits? My friends and me possibly, probably, but as yet not definitely. The real answer looks like Stormpay, for if they have lost the trust (even if unfounded) from the risk takers, their earnings loss will be enormous. After all Storm pay's business is largely based on the fees they earn. My advice is simple. Let the dust settle. I restate what I said before: Only invest what you can afford to lose. However there is, yes there still is, one scheme I have the nerve to put to you. It is called isurf2. To take a look, please click on the URL below. At present, it pays 15% daily for 10 days with you autosurfing 40 sites a day. The maximum investment is $200, which would earn you $30 a day. Total amount payable would be $300. (I was paid yesterday using a processor not called Stormpay! Again, I apologise to my friends and hope over time I can re-gain their trust and respect. Fortunately they have all told me I have not lost their love.