It looks like the Italian government was the first one to step up to the plate against JustBeenPaid’s JSS Tripler.

CONSOB, the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission, has prohibited the offering of JSS Tripler to the public.

Now we’ll have to wait and see how long before other government agencies take to follow suit.  With programs like JSS Tripler, it’s always a race between these “opportun ities” failing or disappearing on their own and being shut down by government authorities.    Either way, those last in and those who don’t grasp how the ponzi game is really played get left holding the (empty) bag.

In the bulletin linked above, you will also note that CONSOB has also suspended marketing to the public of another relatively popular, but questionable program called Ricochet Riches.

Those of us that speak out against scams don’t do so just for the sake of being “negative” or to “steal dreams”.  We do so because certain so called opportunities are very easily identified as ponzis or pyramids if you analyze them objectively.  And they are 100% guaranteed to fail and/or be shut down by various government agencies.  The warnings we issue are for the newbies and the naïve.  We already know the typical pimps who push these deals don’t care who gets hurt in the end as long as the break even and preferably profit.

For those of you who aren’t just ponzi players and are looking for real businesses to promote, focus on finding legitimate, competitively priced products and services.

 

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JustBeenPaid JSS Tripler-scam or not

The Sharks are CirctlingAs always, if you’ve been around the world of internet “opportunities” for more than a couple weeks, all you need to see is a guarantee of 2% interest per day and you know that the words JustBeenPaid JSS Tripler scam sound like a good fit.

First off, if JustBeenPaid’s JSS Tripler doesn’t collapse under its own weight soon, my opinion is that it will eventually be declared illegal.  As noted by the PatrickPretty blog, JustBeenPaid’s JSS Tripler is already being investigated by Italian Regulatory Authority CONSOB.

When you promise people a return on their investment, you are selling securities.  And JustBeenPaid is violating the laws of numerous countries that have securities registration requirements.  The owner, Frederick Mann, appears to be trying to tell people that because JSS Tripler is not based in the U.S, it is safe from U.S. authorities(and the authorities of other countries where this program will be declared illegal).

That’s not a bet I’d be willing to take.

Second, and all you need a basic calculator to figure this one out, with or without “restarts” 2% per day is an unsustainable ROI.  It’s simple math folks.

With thousands allegedly joining JustBeenPaid’s JSS Tripler every day now, the liabilities from even the small $10 investments are going to grow to astronomical amounts.

Even with the restart feature, the tripler positions are converter from one current liability into a future liability if/when the matrix that the tripler positions were placed in fills up.  This is not an asset as Frederick Mann claims.  It’s still a liability.

Restarts simply help slow the inevitable collapse.

In a real investment, customer purchases are almost never a liability.  In a ponzi like JustBeenPaid JSS Tripler, every customer purchase becomes a liability.

Banks and credit unions offer a minimal ROI that they feel certain they will be able to cover with the money you put in.

Online trading companies take their fee from you for the trades you make and the profits/loss are all yours to bear.

Legitimate investments state loud and clear that you could lose some or all of your money.

Illegal/illegitimate investments tell you that your money and ROI is guaranteed.  Guess what?  They are lying to you.  Every single one of these programs either collapses or gets shut down.

Now, to address the usual “I got paid” so it can’t be a scam crowd.

Let me ask you this.  If ponzis didn’t pay people in the beginning, how would they gather enough momentum to make big money for the owner?

Many ponzis pay like clockwork for a while.

Some only make it a few weeks or months because they are either poorly run or just didn’t hit it right to gain enough new investors to cover the deficit that offering ridiculous ROI creates.

Other really well run ponzis might last a couple years before the staggering amount of money that needs to be paid out becomes too much of a burden.

Early birds in well run ponzis can make a killing, albeit an illegal killing.

The same claims of “I got paid” have been reiterated by members of ponzis past and will be said again regarding future ponzis.

It’s the same thing that I heard from members of AdSurfDaily, WBWSO, YMMSS/Success Through Advertising, 12DailyPro, StudioTraffic, PIPS, etc., etc.

They all paid well, until they didn’t.  Some collapsed under the weight of the ponzi structure and others were shut down because they are illegal.  Only time will tell which of these outcomes is in JSS Tripler’s future.

“But it’s my money and I can do what I want with it!!!”

Well, yes and no.

Sure, we’re allowed to spend our money however we choose…. on legal products/services/opportunities.

Unless you are in complete denial, you know that JSS Tripler is an investment.  And investments are required to be registered with the SEC or whatever agency regulates them in most countries.  Selling unregistered securities is illegal, plain and simple.

Stating that it’s okay to invest because they haven’t been officially declared illegal is akin to claiming that it’s fine to score some heroin on the street corner because the gang banger there has never been busted for selling drugs.

Finally, I don’t invest in HYIPs and have nothing to lose, so why do I waste my time putting up words of warning such as this.

To those of you who hang out in the forums that monitor and discuss HYIPs/ponzis, I truly don’t give a damn what you do with your money and whether you are spending it on ponzis or drugs.  You already know that these a destined to fail and you jump from ponzi to ponzi trying to get your seed money out, hopefully making some profit and winning this game.

But, in order for more of you ponzi pimps to come out ahead, you have to con as many naïve investors as possible into believing that these programs are above board and that they are making a “safe” investment.  The more suckers who don’t know how to properly play the game, the more likely the experts can come out ahead.

This results in financial ruin for some and does irreparable harm.  But the pimps don’t care.  They got paid.

I waste my time for those naïve souls who just might happen to stumble across this article and at the very least will think twice about breaking the golden rule of ponzi playing….”never invest more than you can afford to lose”.

Eventually, this post will be moved to the Scam Graveyard.  It could be weeks.  It could be a couple months.  And there’s even a chance it will be a couple years.  But in the end, that’s where it will be and JSS Tripler will end up with far more losers than winners.

The end result is always the same.

 

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Neobux: Scam or Not

NeoBux is a paid to click opportunity that I’ve known about for several years but really never gave much thought to because I was never really into the whole “paid to” arena.  I’m also naturally leary of opportunities that allow you to “upgrade” to higher levels of earnings.

They have been around close to 4 years now as of the date of this post.  According to their site:

NeoBux was first introduced on March 25th 2008 in a pre-registration phase.
The official opening was shortly a month after, on April 30th

And although I’ve been around long enough to know that many scams can actually run for years, I’m not lumping Neobux into the scam category.  After deciding to try some new things, I registered with NeoBux on December 22, 2011.

Now, take a look at the difference between the totals on the two banners above.

In the first banner, earnings do not equal payments and the way NeoBux is set up, your actual profits are generally going to be significantly lower than what the banner indicates, especially as the total gets higher and higher.

From what I’ve observed, anybody that is earning significant income has upgraded to Golden or higher.  And these packages can carry a hefty fee up to $890 for the Ultimate Golden Pack which is over and above the $90 Golden upgrade.

Fees like this would generally have me running for the hills, but after scouring through the NeoBux forums and reading about the different strategies, comparing the different earnings rates at the different levels, and evaluating what they charge for advertising versus what they pay their users I decided to give NeoBux a shot.

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