Twist to Invex, continues.

Already 253 Bonds owners subscribed to the Bond Group. A lot are missing, we will wait until Friday and then will post information in the Bonds group.

A lot of people who are not in the Invex database as bond owners wrote to the Bonds group to contact us. As told, we will not reply to anybody. Don't waste your time!

Things are 100% under control, the Invex/Gcard scammers are identified and their details will be posted as announced earlier. We will also publish the emails of all people who made large profits with Invex, and invite them to share their profits with people who lost money. Our hacking communauty is very aware of solidarity wehen things are going bad.

We continue to read, here and there, various BS about us, but won't reply at all.

Like Confucius said, "Those who don't know speak, those who know don't speak".

A new message will be sent to this group in the next days.

I said I'm through with Invex. Yet I keep on feeding you all these news. Am I an Invex junky or what? ;^)

Just so I leave no doubt in your mind. The news are from the "new" boys. The ones I talked about last.

Twist to Invex.

I just received the message below. Make sure you read point 0 even if you skip the rest. Interesting stuff.

Dear Investors,

Some OFFICIAL news:

0- We, a small group of people who do not appreciate scanner, have taken the control of Invex Ltd. database, emails and accounts. The full story of the Invex Ltd. will be disclosed later this week. We will, for simplify, continue to use the words "Invex Ltd." and "Lomax Group Corporation", despite they have now no more power for your investments.

1- We have setup a Group for BONDS Investors. Each of them received an invitation to join. The funds for the bonds really invested, and the Invex plan was to run away with the money at the end of December. The bonds were in fact scheduled to be paid to Invex in the end of December.

The Bonds Owners will receive the direct contact information to the organism who sold the Bonds to Invex Ltd., an official bank. The Bonds Investors will be informed in the special group, next week, time for them to subscribe. We will recommend them to elect one or two people who will contact the bank, and to whom we will transmit the digital "keys" of the Bonds investments. That, will be treated in the special group for Bonds owners.

The Yahoo groups do not allow emails that contain "admin", "webmaster", "info", "help", etc. If you are in this case, send an email to invex_limited@yahoo.com with "BOND EMAIL" in the subject.

We will not reply, but will send you an invitation to join the Bonds group.

2- As we told earlier, wo do not reply to individual emails, for reasons that will be explained later.

3- We do hope that each of you who has a GCARD followed our recommendation and withdrawed his funds: ALL gcards are now blocked, after some hackers have disclosed that any PIN code allowed to withdraw funds. It is not sure that it isn't the MYGCARD team itself that dosclosed this, a good way to block the cards "for technical upgrade" as they say, and run away with the money.

4- As Invex Ltd. withdrawed all funds right before closing their website, there is now no money to pay the regular "Non Bonds" Investors.

Later this week, we will disclose the ID, addresses, phone numbers, of the heads of the Invex/Mygcard scam, so that Investors can try to recover their funds directly.

5- This message may be published, as long as you publish it completely.

Regards.

Hmm, a new twist.

I doubt I qualify for the refund from the "old" Invex, so I won't know if the "old" boy kept their promise. Thus proving themselves genuine. I also wonder how the small group of anti-scammers gains access to the Invex Yahoo group. Supposingly, the Invex admin has locked it so that only moderators can post messages.

Whatever. Invex is history to me. No point to waste too much time on it.

My-Crosoft in maintenace, soon.

Before anyone start yelling "scam" the moment they can't access My-Crosoft, read this first:

Dear Members, Ladies and Gentleman,

Today (— meaning Monday, 29 Aug 2005, in case you're wondering —) we transfer the database from the old one in to the new one, when this process is done the website will be down, so do not panic, we thought it can be done with the site up, but could create problems if during this time an investment is made.

As long as the sit is up investments can be made, if your e-gold account number is within the old data your former investments will be included as well during the update.

Ones the site comes up again, there is a new script for the ones who did not feed there accounts in to the new system.

Tomorrow we are on the way to Singapore.

Greetings

Fred and Charly

As I'm blogging, the site is still up. Expect it to go down anytime though. No mention of how long it will be down for maintenance. With the number of old accounts My-Crosoft / Tatijana have, I don't feel this to be an overnight job. I've also come to expect all sorts of problems when dealing with computer stuff. All said, I won't blink an eye if it is a week or two before we see any life again.

Loss in Forex-Trading.

I told you these people "tell it like it is", and "(p)ainting rosy picture is not their job", didn't I? Guess what? I just have my first share of the trading loss. :-(

Am I unhappy? Uh-huh. Didn't you see my emoticon? But, I'm also happy. :) This shows that Forex-Trading are really trading forex. They are no scam or ponzi. So if you're interested in the real deal, this is it!

Er, but I guess you'll have to wait for your chance to get in though. As I'm blogging this post, the sign up for new membership is closed again. Like I said, Forex-Trading limit their membership to 500 only. The good thing is, they re-open up their membership regularly by purging inactive accounts. Be patient. You'll get in somehow.

My-Crosoft and Tatijano.

Listen up, folks. This is for all you who have invested in My-Crosoft and Tatijano till their troubles in May 2005. And for all you who have missed the boat. ;^)

You've till this coming Sunday, 28 Aug 2005, to invest in My-Crosoft / Tatijano to get your 50% bonus on top of your investment. So if you invest $10, you'll get $15 as your balance. How generous can they be?

And for you old timers who invested in these 2 HYIPs and their groups of funds, here's a chance to return to the good old days. Spend at least $5 from the E-gold account you last invested with them, and in their own words, "Monday is the day where you will find your old account balance invested by e-gold, e-bullion, intgold, gold money, netpay added to your present account."

Come on. What have you got to lose? A mere $5. And what have you got to gain? Your old balances stacked with $$$?

Charly (My-Crosoft) and Fred (Tatijano) were known to be honest businessmen engaging in several ventures. Their sites were closed in May 2005 not on their own accord. It was the result of sabotage from within! An investing member! The attempt by Charly and Fred to come back in June / July 2005 was again sabotaged by the same "member". Fortunately, they managed to identify the "member" this time. What actions Charly and Fred have taken against this "member", and what motive this "member" has, I've no idea. But with the cause of the failure identified, I'm quite optimistic that Charly and Fred are now back for good.

So, folks. Let the good times roll.

Invex opens its back door.

Invex closes its front door. Invex opens its back door.

It went private with 1 plan on offer. This is based on the original Gold plan paying 10%-15%-20%-25%-30% over the 5 weeks duration. The minimum to invest now is $1,000. On top of it, you're suppose to pay a one-time non-refundable membership fee of $500. Which means you need to cough up $1,500 initially. The reason? Invex are getting hold of what they term as *serious* investors only.

How to get into the private plan? I'm not telling you here. If you've been an Invex investor, you would have received the email on how to go about it. If you haven't, it is implied that the plan is open to Invex members only at the moment. Either way, that means I don't need to tell you what to do here. :-)

Will I join? Nope. Not that I don't have the means. I'm not ready to plunge in such a sum just like that yet. Not at this stage of my online HYIP journey. Someday I'll though. I'm working on it. Hopefully soon.

Invex closes its front door.

It was another long email from Invex. So long that I don't intend to post it. I'm not in the mood either. If you're an investor, you would have received the email. If you're not, feeding you the whole email is pointless. You just need to know it's closed.

I must say Invex handle the whole closure process very professionally. They set out the difficult online situations they encountered, they go on to tell you the reasons behind the decision to close, they took care of the bonds and refund issues, they then set out the calendar for the major events in the closure. Finally, they sum up with a lesson learnt: 'The "online Investment with Digital Currency" market is not a mature market for real companies.'

You should really read the conclusion in the Invex email if you get a chance. They really get emotion there. Nope, don't even ask. I'm not posting it here.

Is the lesson learnt by Invex true? Maybe. Then again, maybe real companies are not ready for the "online investment with digital currency" market. :-) They don't understand that online investment is a different ball game. Practically every single investor can make their voice heard. "Real" companies are not used to bombardments from all directions at once.

Whatever the lesson, I just lost another cash generating avenue. :-(

This Sunflower is still alive.

Talk about long live. I thought Sunflower Seed was finally a goner. Didn't expect it to spring up again so fast.

Go on. Click the Sunflower Seed link. It will take you to the new site on... Gasp! Tripod. Yes. Tripod. Take a good look at the url displayed in your browser: http://sunflowerseed2005.tripod.com/.

Have you heard the golden HYIP investing rule: Never never invest in a HYIP on a free web host? A high yield program on a free web host is automatically associated with scam and ponzi. So, what is Sunflower Seed doing on a free site?

Look at the 1 page content. It says the site is temporary closed and Karsten is on the way to open a managed forex account. It also says the site will be updated with a new layout and a new script. My guess then is that Karsten just dropped the paid hosting to cut cost for the time being. Shouldn't be a big worry here. After all, as I've reasoned, Karsten could have just run away with the money earlier, why bother coming back to restart the investment program?

Incidentally, this new Sunflower Seed site was updated 23 Aug 2005. One day after I posted its disappearance. So I was upset for a day for nothing.

Hope Karsten goes get the managed forex account opened quick. 8% - 15% a month is still no mean feat. Much better than parking your idle cash in the bank.

The meeting was finally over.

Dear Invex Ltd. Investors,

The meeting in Geneva just finished, later than scheduled. An important communication will be done on this list later today,

Thank you for your patience.

Invex Ltd.

I'm patiently waiting for the important communication. Pity I got to go rest soon. Can hardly keep my eyes open.

Is the wait over?

Dear Invex Ltd. Investors,

Tomorrow at 11 AM GMT, there will be a Board meeting with the Lomax Group Corp. managers and the Invex Ltd. Managers about the current situation.

A mailing that will inform you about the concrete operations that will be immediately resumed after this meeting, will be sent to you Investors right after this meeting, that is expected to finish at about 1 PM GMT.

Thank you for your patience,

Invex Ltd.

Is the wait over? Your guess is as good as mine. At least this is a short mail from Invex. :)

Sun not shining anymore.

The overcast is so bad, you don't see no sunshine anymore.

Sunflower Seed is nowhere to be seen right now. Uh... not true. I tried the ".com", and up popped a beautiful web page. But unless Karsten decided to sell real sunflower seeds, it's definitely the wrong picture. I've also tried ".org", ".info", and ".ws". All no go. So, it is gone for now.

Will Sunflower Seed resurrect? There's always a chance. I mean, if Karsten wanted to run with the money, he could have done it when he closed the site on 1 Aug 2005. Why bother to come back on 15 Aug 2005 to re-open the site? To scam for more money? But he didn't allow investment at all!

I'm scratching my head right now. I can't make head or tail of this. Since I can't do anything anyway, I'll just put it aside. And wait. To see if any sunflower is budding again anywhere.

Ugh! Another Invex update.

Don't you just hate me for feeding you all these Invex updates?

Dear Invex Ltd. Investors,

We expected to be back online today (Monday). Unfortunately, we continue to have some technical problems especially in the anonymous remailing system that is beeing installed on our server, and as we explained you in our last information bulletin, we will not come back online until all is not completely ready.

We also decided that, for security reasons, ALL passwords will be changed. When we will be back online, every Investor will receive an email at his registered address, with his investment number(s) and his new password(s).

In case his registered email is not accessible anymore by the Investor, his investment(s) will be terminated and refunded to the account the funds came from. There will be no exception. If the e-currency account is locked for any kind of reasons, the funds will stay in Invex Ltd. as long as the Investors won't unlock his e-currency account.

Since 3 days, we are receiving a lot of messages of support, thank you to you!

We are also receiving a lot of payment requests. As it has already been told, we will not reply to any question concerning the personal cases (accounts) until we are back online. This is a security process, as we will of course not execute any payment order coming from an email address without password!

Moreover, we are a little shocked to receive "urgent payment requests" from people who already received payouts for amounts of 5 or 6 times their initial investment. We perfectly know that some people incitate Investors to withdraw their funds invested at Invex Ltd., on various forum, to make our program collapse. We will not allow this, and that is why our decisions concerning the next weeks payments have already been announced in a previous email. It is anyway sure that people who are already massively in profit with their investments will have no priority at all.

The problem is not to *have the money to pay*, but to have the money *available* to pay! Funds that are invested continue to generate interest, but if we receive $400,000 or $500,000 payment requests in the first days, we will have to massively DESinvest, and that would hurt our program. That is why some limitations have been put during a *limited* time.

We expect to be completely back to our normal system 3 to 4 weeks after we are back online. We will be back online very soon now, it can be today, tomorrow, anyway it will be this week. We decided that even if the mail system is not completely setup on Friday, we will open without mail system on Friday morning at 09:00 GMT, in *any case*.

A special interface has been prepared so that ALL Investors can request a payout and get paid in the next 48 hours, even if it isn't their payment date. Details will be of course published on our webpage.

Thank you for your patience,

Invex Ltd. Staff

If you ask me, I only care about the reopening time which I've highlighted — this coming Friday 0900 GMT — at this point in time. Everything else is moot until the Invex web site is up and running. Once I can access my account, there's always time to come back to this email.

Well, I was willing to wait for 1 week before, so it is still according to plan.

No news is good news.

Seems like I've just been talking about either Invex or Sunflower Seed lately. Not my choice. I can't help it they are in the news.

How about the other funds I'm in? How are they doing? You don't hear me talking about them, do you? Well, like the saying goes, no news is good news.

So, you should really go seriously look at Fastmarket. Or FeederFund. Forex-Trading is no bad choice either.

More Invex than you care.

Dear Invex Ltd. Investors,

The technical staff at the datacenter is working hard and things are on the right way. Here are some explainations of what we are doing:

As you know, our server was attacked and seriously hit. We were using the Prolexic protection, that was very efficient, but a small bug in OUR protection (Not from Prolexic, but from US, our technical team) made the hackers able to enter our server.

Using Prolexic, our site's IP address was hidden, and impossible to guess. The "bug" was that in the emails that our server sent to you (for the Support Center, for the passwords, etc), showed the IP address of our mail server!

The hackers entered our server through THIS IP address. Then it was easy for them to redirect the domain to another place, and so appeared this fake "Plesk page".

We will use this lesson, and are working so that:

1- The IP address of the domain will be hidden as before, 2- The mails sent from the server (Tickets, passwords, etc) will be sent through a chain of public remailers. Some of you who know, for example, Mixmaster, the "onion routers" etc, understand what I am speaking about.

This takes time, and we will not re-open the site, even for a "welcome" page, until all is setup. Hackers showed how efficient is their work, and we won't give a chance to them.

We decided to stop working with Prolexic despite we were very happy of their Service, but we prefer work with a 100% new system.

The domain name invex.org HAS BEEN recovered by us.

About the DNS: We let them, until we are not ready to run again, at Zoneedit. We will then change them to a DNS server that will be, too, hidden. Requests will go through a well-protected network, redirected to our hidden DNS server, that will then send them to our "protected network" (Like Prolexic was before), that will send them to our server!

Sorry for all these technical details, but they were usefull as we read all the stupid stuff that is told on various places. About this, we decided to not give any kind of reply. Our only reply will be done by the re-opening of our service.

The question you are all asking is "When?". We are working on the "remailer" system that must be installed on our server. It is hard to setup as it involves cryptography, frequent automatic tests that must be run every 10 minutes or so to be sure that the network that will be used to route the emails is not broken, etc etc.

We are still expecting to be online at the beginning of the week, but we will for sure NOT reopen until ALL is at 100% ready. ONE small error and we are gone for a new hack!

I will just reply to a message from probably a "specialist of security", who wrote "With $5,000,000 received, they are not able to protect their website!" This is a really stupid remark, as bank servers are sometimes hacked too, as governmental servers too! And they have more money than us to protect their business!

A last note about our last update: All what we wrote about, including about some third parties companies, is 100% accurate and will be developped as soon as we will beck online.

Those of you who want contact us may write to invexmail@xxxxxxxxx.net* We will try to reply to everybody, but you probably understand that we are about to receive thousands of mails, so be patient for the reply. Moreover, we ill not reply to questions about "your" investment, with sums that will be paid etc. Just know that your investments are SAFE and continue to generate profits, you will just login when we will be back online and will see them.

Thank you again for your patience!

Invex Ltd. Staff

Must really hand it to Invex for their timely and detailed communication. No trouble then, right? Just a little bit more delay. Let's be patient. Then again, the skeptic in this HYIP player makes me wonder...

Oh well. Only 1 week to find out.

* I don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry to email Invex, so I masked the email address.

Sunflower overcast.

You're not gonna like this weather forecast. We have had bright sunshine for a few days, but right now the looming overcast is, well, looming.

Go try access Sunflower Seed. See? I told you this is no good. An overcast of 404 + suspended page.

Shall we get to see the sunshine again?

Honest. This HYIP is a Ponzi.

I'm a sucker for honesty. Probably because I'm rather a straight forward chap myself. How else would you explain my getting into such HYIP investments as Sunflower Seed and Forex-Trading with — seemingly so if not truly ;-) — honest operators?

Honesty was what attracted me to PonziHYIP after spotting it on the HYIP Farm blog. The admin is a fun loving person, appropriately called "Ponzi". S/he operates the high yield program to experiment if investors will invest in a site open about being a ponzi. Started with $2,000 to get the ball rolling, s/he tells exactly how the "sleazy" operation is run to make money out of you!

Honesty + fun + $2k seed money + "sleazy" insider information + $1.4k average daily intake at last count. Look great to me. Don't you think?

So, it's no surprise then that I went scouring me E-gold barrel and came up with a measly $3 to pump into PonziHYIP.

Why not? I've been known to go for cheaper thrill before. And you can't get any ponzi or HYIP more honest than PonziHYIP.

Forex-Trading.

Forex-Trading. Your safe investment.

With an investment program name that straight forward, what else can you ask?

We offer several investment plans which are secured by our daily Forex trading.

No bloated returns. 0.3% - 0.5% per trading day in the current 3 plans, plus a 10% or 25% portion in the weekly forex profit.

Please keep in mind that not all trades close with profit. Losses are possible as well. We do our best to minimize the loss risk and take the profitable trades.

And they tell it like it is. Painting rosy picture is not their job.

What is forex-trading.ath.cx for a domain?

It is a dynamic DNS domain. When ever we get under DDOS attack like other HYIP we can change easily the name, notify our members via email and restart again without any problems.

They thought of DDoS attack too. So accessing your account anytime shouldn't be a worry.

Who are we?

We are 2 native German, living in Paraguay and trading for living.

Isn't Karsten, the Sunflower Seed admin, from German as well? Are they all so blunt and direct?

We have experience with Forex Trading since 04.2004.

Years and years of trading experience they have not. But who cares? As long as they deliver their promise.

Direct. Straight forward. To the point.

Like their style. I'm in. You?

These guys are realistic. With just 1 active trader, they are limiting the membership to 500 at the moment. But no worries. All members with "0 Account Balance + 0 Investment + Sign Up older 30 days" are deleted regularly. If you don't get in the first time, come back again. You'll be lucky one day. You'll become that 500th member of Forex-Trading.

Only if you're lucky.

Like I was. :^)

3rd wind coming.

Invex wants this published in full. So, here it is. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Dear Invex Ltd. Investors,

Here is an update on the current situation, please largely publish this email to inform people that are not registered on our mailing list but who feel concerned by the Invex Ltd. situation. Please if you publish this message, do not truncate it.

Seeing the serious technical problems we had to face, I came back earlier from South-America, and am currently in Geneva, Switzerland, where was hold a meeting between the Invex Ltd. and the Lomax Group Corp.

THE SITUATION

As we told you earlier, the server and the domain name were "hacked". First, the IP address assigned to invex.org sent the connections to another folder than the original Invex Ltd. website, where was displayed a forged "Plesk page".

Then, the hackers changed the DNS of the domain name and pointed it to a "For sale" page, with some insulting messages, then (as it is now), on a "Soon back" page!

We have contacted the ICANN to recover our domain name. It takes some time as we had to send the ID copies of Mr. Werner, the Administrative Director of the Lomax Group Corp. who is the legal owner of invex.org. Then, there is an administrative process that takes some time.

On the technical point, we purchased a dedicated box in a Central American datacenter, and moved all the invex.org files there. We decided to cancel our Prolexic protection, not because we were unhappy of the great Service they supplied, but because we wanted be back "100% new". We have hired another team for the server protection, and they will have completed the setup on Friday evening probably.

We do expect to be back on Saturday, and anyway before Monday.

THE PROGRAM

We are conscient that a lot of Investors will worry now of our program, and that we could face massive payment requests. That is why we decided the following rules:

• * All the pending requests before the downtime will be paid as soon as we will be back online.
• * For the new requests, we will, during 2 weeks, accept the payment of only the WEEKLY interest. All requests to receive the compounded interest or to terminate the investments, will be converted into a weekly payment.
• * We will then, after 2 weeks, see the situation and will announce if we go back to the normal process, or if we extend this "Weekly payments only" period.

My feeling is that seeing us back, and paying, will make our Investors, ONCE MORE, more confident in our programs and our Company.

All changements that were announced some days ago, especially about the Silver plan, the Phone line, etc, will of course be done as promised.

DEBIT CARDS

Invex Ltd. stops with immediate effect all collaboration with myGcards: On August 11th, one of our largest Investors (A Titanium plan and a few Platinum plans), sent a $80k (USD 80,000!) wire to fund his gcards he purchased through Invex Ltd. Our Investor already sent large wires after our payouts, to fund his cards, and never encountered any problem. This last time, after waiting 6 days, mygcard decided to block all the cards of our Investor, and declines to send back the $80k wire, with an allegation of "suspicion of fraudulous transactions". MyGcard yesterday asked our Investor to supply a copy of an ID. Our Investor sent it about 12 hours ago, and myGcard doesn't reply to his emails. Our Investor has lost $80,000, stolen by mygcard, at least at the time I am writing this message.

I have personnally tried to help solving the case with Mr. Alain Vignard, the Vice-President of myGcard. My efforts have been vain, our Investor doesn't even now receives any reply to his emails from the myGcard Support. If the case isn't resolved in the next hours, we will publsih on the Invex Ltd. website all the emails exchanged between me and Mr. Alain Vignard.

Another reason about the immediate cessation of our collaboration with myGcards is that we got serious evidences that the Vice-President of myGcards is personnally involved in money laundry with large amounts of cash transferred between a few countries. We have been told that some official investigations are about to be launched. Despite this does not concern Invex Ltd. at all, we cannot continue working with myGcard.

That is why we will not resell any more Gcard, and we will not accept anymore reload requests. Cards purchased can always be reloaded directly by myGcards, assuming the company will not disappear tomorrow.

We do apologize for this situation, as we recommended and promoted the cards offered by myGcard.com. It seems that we have been too confident in the kind words of the myGcard Vice-President and didn't do enough DD.

BANK ACCOUNT

We got, at least, a positive reply from a Western European reputable bank and will be able to offer bank accounts to our Investors. The price will be $200, including a debit card, a TRUE debit card with a "Cirrus" logo, directly emitted by a LICENCED bank. Applicants will not need to visit the bank. The details will be available on our website as soon as we will be back.

NEW DESIGN AND WEEKLY VIDEO-CONFERENCES

Our webmaster used this downtime to prepare a new design for the Invex Ltd. website.

We will also launch, mid-September, weekly video-conferences. The program will be announced soon, right after our comeback online.

Dear Invex Ltd. Investors! Two times again, we went offline for technical reasons, for attacks from hackers. Two times already, this incidents were used by a few people to defamate our Company. Two times, we went back. We could have thought that these "specialists" would be a bit more decent, today. Sad, but NO, they are back on various forums, with their "We told you", or "They are gone", etc.

We at Invex Ltd. feel very sad for them: Our third comeback will show them as the... Specialists, they are really!

Thank you to You, Invex Ltd. investors, and see you soon online!

Renaud de la Taille
Invex Ltd.
https://www.invex.org

What do I think? I'm not thinking. I'm taking my weekend early. All else can wait till Monday.

Or later.

Riding the wind.

This just came in from Invex.

Dear Invex Ltd. investors,

Here is the situation:

1- The server has been hacked, and the site sent offline.

2- The domain name invex.org has been stolen by hackers.

For the point 1-, the server files have been transfered to another server. We are changing our security system too, stopping to work with Prolexic to be back on a 100% "clean" basis. The security system should be ready before Monday Aug. 22nd, very probably on Saturday.

For the point 2-, we have contacted our registrar who asked to send copies of the passport of Rudi Werner, the administrative director of the Lomax Group Corp., as the domain invex.org is registered under his name. We had also to fill a few forms. All has been submitted and the domain invex.org should be back to us in the next 72 hours. Then we will have to change the DNS to reflect our new data center.

It means that the Invex Ltd. website will be back online at least Monday, and very probably earlier.

About the Yahoo Group, we have closed the "Talking group" as it was mailbombed by thousands of messages. The "Information group" (This group) cannot be bombed as it is setup to automatically reject all messages. Our Yahoo mailbox (the group owner) is also mailbombed, all messages are automatically trashed, that is why we do not reply to anybody.

We are of course aware of all what is currently told on various forum, and decided to not give any reply. It is the 3rd time we have technical issues, it is the 3rd time that "specialists" are giving their lessons, and it will be the 3rd time they will show their lack of competence.

At least, our soon comeback will make a great and free advertizing for Invex Ltd.!

Thank you for your patience!

Invex Ltd.

That took care of my concern over the disappearance of the Yahoo group. Come Monday latest should be the D-Day to strengthen the faith of the investors in Invex.

Gone with the wind?

The Invex site is down.

Dear Investors,

The server is currently attacked and we are moving it once more. Thank you for your patience.

Invex Ltd.

I'm fine with this explanation if it stands alone. We've gone through this DDoS attacks before and they have come back. Couple with the disappearance of the "invex_limited_talks"* Yahoo group though, they worry me. The group just went poof like that. If my reply to a post didn't bounce, I wouldn't have known at all. Triple these with my previous concern, I'm upset.

Not that I'm not in the black with Invex. It just doesn't help make losing a golden-egg laying goose a less depressing thought. My only consolation is that the "invex_limited"** Yahoo group is still around. So maybe there is a good explanation to all these?

* invex_limited_talks - This is the discussion forum for Invex members.
** invex_limited - This is for announcement by Invex.

Sunflower budding, again.

Karsten said he will be back on 15 Aug 2005 after his planned vacation. Guess what? He's really back!

Sunflower Seed is back in business... not yet. The member area is still locked as Karsten puts through the changes he indicated before he went on vacation. In his own words:

I'm back from my little vacation trip here in germany.

Plans for the future:
- no refunds at this time.
- open a managed forex account.
- all members will get a profit out of the managed forex account and can withdraw their initial investment after a resonable time.
- the trades will be showed so anyone can be sure its real trading and how much profit will be earned.
- the site will be updated: new site, new layout and a new script
- will post regularly updates about the upcoming new structure.

More updates in the next days.

65% of a poll were confident Karsten would be back. The fact that he did come back definitely boosts the confidence level. Is it any wonder that every posts in the Sunflower Seed forum are so far positive, or at the worst, neutral?

So Sunflower Seed is budding again. I'm looking forward to the day it blossoms.

Amusing copycat HYIP

When I saw this copycat HYIP, I almost went ROTFLOL.

TradeInvest? Didn't it died long ago, like 3 months back? Started in late 2004 and ended in May 2005 or thereabout, TradeInvest was one of the biggies in its heydays. Very successful and very reliable, paying out like clockwork. Many swore by it. As events unfolded though, it was nothing but a very well run ponzi after all.

I've no doubt the current reincarnation is run by some scammer-wannabe. The operation is a complete copycat of the original, starting from the web site layout, the color scheme, the pictures, right down to the investment plans, rates and durations excepted. That was what almost sent me ROTFLOL - the faithfulness to reproduce the original.

Did you take a good look at the returns? 20% daily for 10 days, 210% in a week. Oh, this is the best part: 1200% in a month! Pump in $100 and get back $1,200 in a month. Wow, we'll all be millionaires in no time putting our hard earned money here. Who are these guys kidding?

So, this is my warning to all new players in the HYIP field: Stay far away from TradeInvest. Don't be lured by the high return rates to try your luck. No respectful HYIP players should give this site a second look. Of course, those real pros who want to play a hit-and-run game excepted.

Turbulence beneath the calm?

I've expected much more reactions at the Sunflower Seed forum. What with Karsten, the admin for the high yield investment program, suddenly revealed that he initially wanted to run a ponzi HYIP site. He was now confused and remorseful. He was going on a planned 2 weeks vacation and putting everything on hold. He would most likely come back to run an honest, bona fide investment site. Yet, I see hardly any posts regarding the fate of Sunflower Seed.

Sure there were the usual naysayers and optimists. Only thing is, I can count them all with one hand, almost. What happen to the rest of the investors? Also, other than the first couple of days, the forum is rather peaceful right now. Everyone seems to weather the crisis pretty well.

Maybe this is the aftereffect of the recent collapses of Prime Fund and Syncinvest*. If these two could close just like that, what do you expect of the smaller funds? Or maybe there is turbulence beneath the calm. Karsten is scheduled to come back after 15 Aug 2005. Maybe the turbulence will only surface then?

Who knows? Only time will tell.

*PS. If you don't know, Prime Fund and Syncinvest were two of the most reliable and long term online HYIPs. Somehow, both "decided" to close shop back in Jun 2005 after a series of DDoS attacks. It was speculated that their closure caused the closure of a series of smaller high yield programs which invested in the big two.

Received my Invex interest on cycle 2

Though I told you to be careful investing into Invex at this moment, I should let you know that my withdrawal request was honored. I've received my 1st interest from cycle 2 today. Nothing spectacular. Still, a return is a return.

Does this boost your confidence? Are you tempted to put in some funds? Can't wait to get your 1st interest too?

I understand how you feel. Everyone wants to earn an easy buck. Please don't just think of the returns though. You must think of the risk too. As I always say: Invest in Invex at your own risk.