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. :^)