HYIP Experiment- Easy to attract investors (no scam!)

In the following rows I will describe a personal experiment made by me and a friend to see how much people trust and are willing to invest in a very bad hyip.

First, I spend some time (about a month) on a website forum with about 3000 users. There I posted a lot of messages in which I praised the ones that presented hyips and needed referrals.This gained me a lot of "friends". After that I made a website hyip, which I must tell you was really really low on desgin and quality, but I promised big paying rates such as 25% daily for 10 days.

Not to mention that the users deposited on a e-gold account at the website, there were no usernames and accounts, and the domain was a free domain lixe tk.net. Meanwhile, my friend praised my hyip on the forum and posted that he invested 50$ in my hyip and gain profit ,and he recommends others to do so. After a day, people started investing: first only 5$( the minimum was 5$), the next ones 10, 20 and even 50$. In 10 days there were 22 investors with a total amount of 758 $!

This is 34.45 $ per investor! We just wanted to test the people trust in a virtual friend that just posted some topics on a forum. Of course we returned them the amounts invested because we didn't wanted to scam anyone.

The conlcusion is that a lot of people are very attracted by paying rates, they don't look so much at website content and design, or at the fact that is hosted on a free domain. This facts should be alerting, cause more and more scams like the one created by us appear(remember we gave all the money back), and despite people lose money, they still invest in this.