25 Dollar Mail Scam

Most of the opportunities you find on the Internet are scam, and one of them is 25DollarsMail. This site uses the tried and true dumbass scam formula employed by scammers repetitively, for why they keep using the lousy and easy-to-discover tactic is a mystery, but the fact that people keep falling for it may be reason enough.

The So-Good-to-be-True Offers

* FREE Membership
* Receive eMail on the best products
* All PTC worth $200 !!
* Low Minimum Payot!!
* We pay by E-Gold, MoneyBookers, PayPal!
* Receive eMail on the best opportunities
* We send redemptions with 24hours!
* Adroader guarantee fast service!
* E-mails worth $200 !!
* $2000 Sign-up Bonus
* $200 Referral Bonus !!
* 5 Ref levels of commission under you

Level 1 - 30%
Level 2 - 20%
Level 3 - 15%

As for advertising packages.. Very Cheap! And one could wonder how amazingly this site survives the business when the offers always tip against their favor.

Total Payout

They boast with a Total Payout of $304,088,500.00. Of course, these are delusional statistics. No true PTC site could beat this one, not even the Top Ranking sites.

Keep away from this site!

Peachbizs.com: A look into the Site

Have you heard of Peachbizs.com? I had seen this site advertised on one of the PTC sites that I join, and I gave it a try.. This site seems new, with around 1000+ members, and the funny thing is, out of 1000, nobody got paid yet (according to their site stats), however, that also seemed not to be the case since their Been Paid list tells otherwise. I don't know what data to trust, the Been Paid list or the site stats, as they seem to be contradicting each other. The site is kind of confusing, if you're a first timer, you will surely have a hard time navigating the site. Added to that fact, is the site's rich-colored theme that could gave you a headache. And, when you enter their PTC area, you would be surprised to discover that there are no PTC ads to click.

The site seems to be some sort of a PTR site. As a PTR, they bombard you with lots of emails, however, most of the emails give you points (not cash), this is kind of frustrating since although they frequently gave you points, the exchange rate for the conversion of points to cash is pathetically low (around 1000 is to $0.01), and although, the payout is only $0.25, it would take you months (4-6 mos. or more) to reach it alone.

Any Proof of Payment?

If you could trust the Been Paid list that they have, then there are, but other than that, there's none! I tried looking into other sites and forums, but I can't find any actual proof of payment. To be honest, when I joined this site, I feel like a slave. The low rewards, and the high-load work they give you for reading their emails is a punishment! And with the site's business instability, there's no telling if you would ever get paid.. I had enough.. time to call it quits!

Putboth.com: Another Chinese Scam?

Our team has detected another what-appears-to-be Chinese scam, most probably another phishing site. You can get this link from the spam email with the link to http://i93g534lcopnl.blogspot.com. The Blog contains a Javascript that automatically redirects you to Putboth.com, where the Canadian Pharmacy fake is located. Apparently, the spammers use blogspot (Blogger) to hide the Phishing site, and it's a surprise that they managed to create fake Blogger accounts; this could only mean that the alleged master idiots had defeated Blogger's anti-spam protection. What can I say? Brilliant yet stupid!

Unfortunately, this idiotic trick pulled off by the so-called spammers (lowlifes) did not prevent them from being traced by our team.. So, where is the Phishing site hosted? It's China.. again!

Here are the complete details..

Status: ok

Registrar: XIN NET TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Referral URL: http://www.xinnet.com

Expiration Date: 2009-03-27
Creation Date: 2008-03-27
Last Update Date: 2008-03-28

Name Servers:
ns.xinnet.cn
ns.xinnetdns.com
ns2.xinnet.cn
ns2.xinnetdns.com
=============================
IP Address: 218.61.22.245
IP Location: China
Website Status: active
Server Type: nginx/0.5.35
Cache Date: 2008-04-03 12:14:23 MST
=============================
Domain Name:putboth.com

Registrant:
Haiwei Sun
NO.13,Zhongshan street,Guiyang City GuiZhou Province
550001

Administrative Contact:
SunHaiwei
Haiwei Sun
NO.13,Zhongshan street,Guiyang City GuiZhou Province
Guiyang Guizhou 550001
CN
tel: 851 4355128
fax: 851 4355128

Technical Contact:
SunHaiwei
Haiwei Sun
NO.13,Zhongshan street,Guiyang City GuiZhou Province
Guiyang Guizhou 550001
CN
tel: 4355128
fax: 4355128

Billing Contact:
SunHaiwei
Haiwei Sun
NO.13,Zhongshan street,Guiyang City GuiZhou Province
Guiyang Guizhou 550001
CN
tel: 4355128
fax: 4355128

Registration Date: 2008-03-27
Update Date: 2008-03-28
Expiration Date: 2009-03-27

Primary DNS: ns.xinnet.cn 210.51.171.209
Secondary DNS: ns.xinnetdns.com 210.51.170.66

Who are they?

WouldMillion.com and Putboth.com are hosted on the same host Xinnet.com. We cannot verify who the real people behind the dirty tricks, but we highly suspect that they could be of the same hacker group. There's doubt if they are really Chinese, but one thing's for sure, they are hiding behind proxies.

200EuroMails: Scam Detected

It's another day, and we found another scam site on the net. It seems that these putrid sites never seem to diminish, they just keep adding up, piling into a mountain thrash. Among the scam site that everybody could put on their scam list is 200EuroMails.net that offers:

• Get Paid for Reading Your eMail
• No Downline required for payout!
• All Emails Worth €200!
• Payouts start from €50000!
• €2000 SignUp Bonus!
• €200 Reffeal Bonus!
• Payments via E-Gold, MoneyBookers, PayPal, !
• International Honest and English speaking Members are Welcome!
• 4 Ref levels of commission under you!

Level 1 - 12%
Level 2 - 3%
Level 3 - 1%
Level 4 - 1%

Pretty cool offers but if you check the advertising package, wow.. it's cheap.. this site's owner could only either be a philanthropist or a scammer..

So there you have it.. another site that uses the same scam formula, as if it works..

Alertpay going berserk?

This is terrible news for Alertpay users. Last time, I wrote an article on this blog entitled Alertpay Bug Issues, which contain the bug issues that Alertpay was having. These are rather script related issues or bug in the system, but is frustrating to those who uses the said payment processor.

Today, I read another news regarding Alertpay, it is said that when handling and cross-referencing loads of payments, you, of course, need access to your account, but just recently, Alertpay has not only stopped answering to 90% of the customer emails, but now, their website is also going berserk.

When processing payments and checking account, you get a runtime error 80% of the times. This means processing payments takes a very long time and double payments may occur in the system. If the bugs continue to progress, we may be seeing the downfall of a promising payment processor in the future..

CoinMachine gave me their 2 cents

I joined CoinMachine.info, a PTC site that offers a low $0.02 payout, at least, that's their policy when I joined them. Unfortunately, they switched it to $0.10 a few days later. And would you believe, the change occurred just a day after my cash out? Call me lucky.. but, I barely screwed up.

When I found the change in their minimum payout, I thought they would deny me the money, but I was wrong.. You see, 2 days later, I receive an email from CoinMachine.. this is what it contains..

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Well, it looks like they honored their word, and I'm glad that they are not like the other sites which gave out excuses instead.

As soon as I receive the email, I immediately opened my Paypal account and confirmed that they did pay..

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I know, it's a measly 2 cents, but at least, it's real! And since CoinMachine did show some proof, that could only mean that CoinMachine is among the legitimate PTC sites of the web.

Summary of Offers

Here is a summary of what CoinMachine offers..

$0.10 Minimum Payout with paypal (formerly $0.02)
$1.00 Minimum Payout with Alertpay
Free Membership
PTC $0.001 - $0.008
Referral earnings now 10%
Click exchange ratio: view 2/ get 1 x-credit
Payout from other processors soon

I estimate that you could reach $0.10 alone in approximately 2 weeks. But, you could make it a lil' faster if you have downlines. To get downlines, refer your friends through the promotion link found on the CoinMachine site.

Business Stability Issues

I could see that CoinMachine is struggling for a place in the PTC/PTR industry. It's capability to pay its members quickly means that the site has enough funds to support the network, but the increase in payout could mean that the site is having some problems. Hopefully, we could remedy it through promotion..

The site, according to their site statistics, currently has 2,400+ members. If the site stats do not lie, then we could see that the site has a need to grow. However, this does not mean that CoinMachine is a poor site, it's just that not too many people knows it. Anyway, it's too early to predict the outcome of this site, but since they pay, I know they can be trusted. I am going to continue patronizing this site, and see where their business venture leads to.

Want to try it?

If you want to try, CoinMachine, please click on the links below.. note that CoinMachine currently supports Paypal and Alertpay.

Sign Up for a CoinMachine Account
Sign Up for an Alertpay Account
Sign Up for a Paypal Account

I am going to give my update on this site in a couple more days.

PTC/PTR rips off their members

Hey guys, do you know what PTC/PTR managers/owners use for a business tactic nowadays? To match up with the growing competition over PTC/PTR businesses, they employ a business strategy wherein they would open a PTC/PTR that offers low minimum payout, that goes for as low as $1. You might had already seen sites like these popping out of thin air. Be warned though, most of these are scam and since they are new, you wouldn't notice it until the last hour. And while there are some legitimate businesses using the same scheme that really pay, these businesses are bound to change that low minimum payout anytime soon.. Of course, I'm not talking of all low payout sites, unfortunately, most of these, most especially among the new ones are more likely to change their policy and increase their minimum payout quota when the right time comes.

I already joined 4 PTC/PTR sites that pay on low minimum, they are Cash-Hi, IncomeBux Webspacemania, Xclix.net, and CoinMachine.info. Out of the four, only one kept its word - Cash-Hi, two of them (Xclix and CoinMachine) increased their minimum payout suddenly, while IncomeBux Webspacemania, gave out her excuse letter.. So, why? Why are PTC/PTR sites ripping off their members just like this? Don't they know that stunts like this could result to a lot of frustration and angry faces?

Well, the managers explained that the increase in minimum payout was to speed up the payout process, however, this sounds like a poor excuse. Is this really the reason? Although I must agree that it could be very stressful to pay a lot of people in a short period of time, and that, increasing the payout could remedy the problem, they forgot to think about the hopes of the many? People joined them because of the promise of low payout.. and now, they are breaking the promise, and this is really frustrating.

The Business Strategy

Would you guys believe that I can see through their business strategy? I'll let you know what I see.. This is how it goes..

To catch up with other PTC/PTR sites, they have to gain a lot of members in a short period of time. Of course, advertisers would most probably chose a PTC/PTR site who had the most members, why? Because no advertiser would want to show their ads repetitively on the same people.. you see, they are looking for the right visitors, and to better find these people, they need to expose their ads on a vast number of people. Moreover, repetitive ads die out with time, people get tired of looking at the same ad over and over again. As interest drop, the ads go to waste.. Another example is that you have 10 viewers, and you have 100 ads.. 2 members became interested and joined upon seeing the ad, 8 were not at all interested, if out of 10, only 2 had joined, then only 20% became useful and 80% of the ads became useless. If it were showed to other people, the remaining ads could had gained additional profit. So, this is the reason why advertisers are more likely to chose a site with vast members, and PTC/PTR managers/owners know this very well.. So, to get advertisers, they need members, and they had to do it fast.. of course, their bills couldn't wait, moreover, other PTC/PTR sites might absorb the majority before it could join them, and this will be a great lose (the lose of falling behind) . Now, with that in mind, they focus on techniques that would better catch the attention of the people, and attract them to join. And what better way to do this? A low payout! You see, people have this attitude of wanting instant cash, or cash out of less work. PTC/PTR owners see this and take advantage of the weakness, so they go for it even without thinking of the repercussion. And even if they were aware of the consequences, they also know the fact that once people join and started working for them, people have a probability to stay.. Of course, if you're a member, and have earned quiet a sum, would you quit and forfeit your earnings? Unlikely, isn't it?

You guys should also note that low minimum paying sites are more unstable compared to high minimum paying sites.. the reason.. low payout are fast to reach, therefore, in a particular site's case, payments become more and more gradual, and the site had to catch it up with new advertisers. If there are no advertisers advertising on this short period of time.. the site is doomed to extinction..

Perhaps now, you know why they suddenly raise the payout quota, lessen the ads on the site, or delay the payments.. you now know why PTC/PTR sites rip off their members. It's more like they were forced to.. yet, you should becareful.. if they can't meet their promises, that makes them unreliable.. and if they are unreliable, there's a tendency that you won't get paid after all.