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.