3 Easy Ways To Detect Scam Sign

July 21, 2006 - 10:35am | author: fairyjadoo |

People always said ‘how are we going to know the hyip is a scam?’ Well, there is no specific formula been found and no specific ‘detector machine’ been invented for this. However, don’t lose hope. There’s still a way when sometimes we can easily detect whether the hyip is a scam or not before we putting our money into it by following these 3 simple ways.

1. Monitors – this is the easiest and yet some people doubt it. You can check whether the hyips are currently paying or not by viewing hyip monitors/ratings. Usually when the hyips are not paying, members will vote negative on hyip monitors/ratings. If you see ‘not paid/problem/waiting/scam/closed’ status, it’s not a good sign.

Usually members are driven to vote on monitors when they do not get paid rather than when they get paid. It’s a ‘human nature’ that people will act fast when negativity involved.

However be careful with ‘paid’ status on monitors too. Many hyip monitors having ‘paid’ status because the hyips are paying the monitors not the members. Thus, you should pay attention to the commentaries that members wrote about the particular hyip whether positive or the opposite.

Another important thing is, you should check the IP address of voters too in order to distinguish fake voters; voting from proxy server or multiple voters who may be hired by the admin of scam hyips to vote ‘paid’ or cheerlead for them.

2. Bring Down Monitors – when the hyips having ‘not paid/ problem/waiting/scam/closed’ status in many monitors, the admin may bring down all the monitors which were placed/displayed on their site.

If this is happening, it’s a bad sign as they trying to avoid people from seeing their current problems situation. e-bank.net is one example when they brought down all their monitors few weeks before became scam and wealth2u replaced their monitors with ‘calculators’ and finally became scam too. Another one is InvestDot, who brought down only their ‘problem’ status monitors and kept displaying ‘paid’ status monitors.

3. Public Forum – always check out and hang out on public forums. Read what other members post about the particular hyips. Here you can see members posting whether they get paid or not or still pending.

Sometimes you can determine whether the hyips are making selective payments too when you see some members posting that they’re get paid and at the same time some people are not. Members most likely posting negative comment on public forum especially when there’s no update from the admin and the emails are remain unanswered.

Beware with ‘paid’ posts that only contain less than 10 words on public forum. It may be posted by the scam admins themselves or fake posters (hired by scam admin to post ‘paid’) on forum. Example of fake posts; ‘paid today’, ‘this program paid me’, ‘paid again’, ‘I got paid’, etc. (do not trust these kind of posts)

Take a close look at their post counts and the date they’re joined. If the post counts are less than 10 and the date joined more or less same as the hyips starting date; it’s most likely scam posters.

Last but not least, beware of the ‘cheerleaders’. Most of the cheerleaders are those who are small depositors (of course, usually small amounts get paid). What you should do is try to determine who are the most active posters in the particular hyips thread and if he/she always post ‘paid’, try to ask him/her how much he/she get paid and how much his/her deposits. If most ‘cheerleaders’ are small amount of depositors then it’s not a good sign!

Well, what do you think? It’s not that difficult right? To win hyip you always need to pay attention towards the hyips that you’ve deposited money into it. Thus, when you realize bad sign is coming, you know what to do.



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