HYIP Due Diligence

June 19, 2006

Source: http://www.incomehunting.com/dd.htm

OK, due diligence is one not to be ignored when joining other investments. I encourage to even conduct an investigation of your own on the programs I offer on this website. It will make you feel a lot more comfortable depositing money in these opportunities. I will give you the basics on how to personally investigate other opportunities. These tools and ideas will prove invaluable in the long run and they will save you from losing a lot of money.

First of all visit the website. Get all overall feeling of the personality of the administrator. If you see a poorly designed site, missed spelled words, bad grammar, errors on the page, etc this may reflect how the administrator may handle your money. Try emailing the administrator, if they answer right away this may be a red flag. Most admins really don’t have the time to sit and answer emails all day. Were an admin of a ponzi or scam are quick to gain your trust and confidence in his program. Give the admin a couple of days to respond, this should be adequate time to respond. Anything over a week or no response is a big red flag. Just use your common sense and judgment in determining potential programs. Here are some guidelines to follow if you are a newbie checking out other investments.

• avoid investments sites that rely on banners or pay per click ads
• avoid sites that list total deposited and withdrawn
• avoid sites that have pictures of fancy cars or buckets of money
• avoid sites that have links to rating sites
• avoid sites that can’t be found in www.google.com (except private ones)
• avoid sites that have a “rate us” link on it
• avoid sites claiming over 30% monthly
• avoid sites that have ‘HYIP’, ‘free’, ‘gold’ or ‘money’ in the URL
• avoid sites that don’t have an ‘about us’, ‘history’ or ‘introduction’ link
• avoid sites that seem similar to others
• avoid sites that have been in business less than a year (exclude MPDW)
• avoid HYIPs that do any excessive internet advertising
• avoid ‘HYIPS’ that claim a rigid profit. Ex. 1% daily (ponzi), 35% monthly (ponzi). Most legit HYIPs offer a certain range Ex. 10-20% (probably legit)
• Some HYIPs say they can “guarantee” a certain rate it most likely a scam.
• Some HYIPs have a minimum of $1 investment most likely its a scam.
• Some HYIPs offer hefty referral bonuses sometimes a scam.

last but not least

• avoid sites that your gut told you to avoid

These are no more than guidelines. Once you get more experienced in HYIPs you will develop your own set of rules.

After, the overall presentation of their website checks out you can query their website in a who is site. Here is a good whois engine here. Just make sure they are not using any free site hosting in the who is info. Make sure the admin is not trying to hide something. If they list a phone number and country you can use http://www.fonefinder.net/ to verify the information.

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