Autosurfing Arena
Well, wasn't that spiff. The title had alliteration.
In the next few days, weeks, whatever I will probably be taking stock of the current state of play and separating online opportunities into the following three categories:
Online Investment Opportunities
Surfs
Games
Online Investment Opportunities I have already done, to an extent, under which you will find a growing collection of real, possibly-real, or likely-real (or, in worst case scenarios 'hopefully-real') opportunities. Clicking the link will lead you to some basic information and ratings.
Games will be HYIPs and the likes (as well as the more fun versions like EGoldRevolution) which I will continue to dabble in but not much. I think by calling them 'Games' it kinda makes it obvious how you should treat them!
And Surfs is basically just the surf version of Games (unless we're talking about DadNDaves which although having problems here and there for all intents and purposes appears to be real.)
So right now I'm going to have a look at the autosurf arena... (as the title suggests!)
It's kinda been a bad week for surfs and my current 'Big Three' have taken some hits.
WiredSurf went down... I was able to come out ahead. Hope you were too! There are opportunities for refunds and hopefully they will be followed through on. It seems to be increasingly popular to actually pay some refunds, as well as reveal more information. Maybe the refunds are just issued to keep the fanatical blood-lust filled hordes at bay but it works to an extent and it means we lose less money if one goes down! These events are the nature of the surfing beast though.
Remember, treat them like a game, or a way to make quick cash. A variety of strategies are employed by people (get in, get out, play with profit is extremely popular.)
TotalRune seems to be chugging along, paying out a bit, working on their huge backlog. I had my nice withdrawal cancelled because some of it were ref. comms and apparently the largest ref. comm account was 'fradulent.'
I am unsure whether this is true or not, but it seems reasonable enough and I was given the opportunity to launch another cashout (past the Monday date.) Fair enough.
So TotalRune aren't excelling, nor are they crashing and burning. They're fighting an uphill battle but they really do seem to be fighting.
And then comes the big gun... Compact Surfing.
Now, Compact has raised the hackles, ire and fear of the community in the past few days as large payouts were not coming in, the seven day deadline was coming up for some members, and timeframes were as a result of course increasing and creeping, creeping, creeping away from what we were used to.
Very few 'paid' posts were to be found.
Then, finally this morning LuukH released an update.
I didn't know what to expect at first... good. Bad? Program shutting down?
Instead I got something that I wasn't expecting but now that I think of it makes sense and I have seen it before.
Basically, LuukH claims that a lot of members have had hacked accounts with E-Gold going to the wrong account (which is NOT a flaw in E-Gold's security, which the unwashed masses :) sometimes seem to think... E-Gold is as secure as a baby's bottom. Whatever that means! It's people's own lack of understanding coupled with a lack of technical nous and bad luck that sees their E-Gold accounts 'hacked.' Read up on the topic to make sure you are secure.)
So, he has instigated a 7-Day timeframe on payouts, so that people who have had E-Gold account numbers changed have plenty of time to contact support, etc.
Now, the 7-Day/5-Day, 'everyone paid on the same day' thing was tried by WiredSurf somewhat unsucessfully, so I'm hoping Compact pull it off.
I think what LuukH has presented is reasonable and not out of the question (hacked accounts) and has a reasonable -> good chance of being on the level and true.
Hence a 7-Day payout frame, meaning everyone is paid on the seventh day, could work, as well as prolong the surf - as long as it is stuck to and everyone IS paid on the seventh day, not some early, some late. Everyone hates being late in the queue and it can spell disaster for a program like this.
So, it's a wait and see, but what was looking like a bad week for Compact has been somewhat salvaged in my mind, and has a good chance of reaching a state of 'she'll be right' (at least for another few months *fingers crossed.*)
P.S. Don't forget to jump into your Compact account if you have one and update the details listed in the update!
So all in all, I'm neutral on this update. Could last for many more months and pull a 12DP, or it could be a red flag. I'm 'either/or' but shall remain cautious.
Just gotta wait on some nice juicy 'paid!' posts now to see the new terms in effect.
Here's the update:
"Dear Compact Surfing Members,
This is an important update on the status of Compact Surfing. It clarifies what the future holds for the Compact Network, and how I plan to ensure that what we have built with our members in the past 3 months continues to grow and prosper.
I will be honest with all of you, recent events have given us cause for concern, and the steps we have taken this past week, and are about to take, are to ensure our security remains one of the best in the industry for both our Network, and for you our members.
For three months Compact Surfing, as all of you know, paid usually within 48 hours of cashout request. However, when payouts were processed so quickly, many members who attempted to contact support and have cashout requests stopped to egold accounts that were hacked were unable to do so in time, and as a result, their requests were paid out to hackers who ran off with their funds.
This has been a very serious issue for many members. I have had at least 10 support tickets sent every day for over a month relating to such hackings. The amount of member money lost to hackers is now in the tens of thousands of dollars, and it must be stopped. I did not create this program to feed the hackers. This business and program was created for the benefit of the members who have supported us and handed over their trust to us.
Then, several days ago, we had an even more serious issue to address. During our scheduled work on Compactpay, a situation arose that required our immediate attention. We had a hacker access the database through a vulnerability, and though he got no valuable information, and did not infiltrate anyone's money accounts, we dropped all else we were doing, and set about encrypting our database, among other things. You can view the email message that the hacker sent here: (POST IMAGE SCREENSHOT OF WHAT THE HACKER WROTE TO YOU, BLOCK OUT HIS EGOLD # SO HE DOES NOT GET ANGRY BUT YOU HAVE TO POST THE IMAGE TO SHOW YOUR PROOF ABOUT THIS)
In light of all the events above, I have now decided that CN will be implementing new additional security measures regarding hackings, and revamping our payment system accordingly to fit these measures. There will be a required step that all members must take before we continue on with our payouts. The changes we are implementing will allow members the needed to time to make their hacking reports, and will allow staff the needed time to stop payments to hackers, even during our busier times. The following are the changes that will be made, effective as of today:
1. As additional security, we ask that all members update their passwords on the Compactsurfing site at this time with a unique password you have never used anywhere on the internet before. You can do this by clicking on "Edit Account Details" after you log into your CS account. Then scroll down to where it says "Password Change." Type in your current password in the field that says: "Your Password." Then type in your "New Password" and "Confirm New Password" and click on "Save." This is to ensure that if any of you have the same password with CS that you are using with other sites, or have used in sites you've been with in the past, that hackers do not have easy access to this information.
2. Official Payment Time Frame: Members may still hold multiple upgrades to a total of $10,000 USD. Members may still make 3 cashout requests per month. However, from here on forward, Compact Surfing will now make payments in 7 BUSINESS days following the date of your cashout request. That means you will no longer count Saturdays and Sundays as work days for the CS Payment Department, and you will be paid on the 7th business day after you make a request.
To clarify, if you make a payout request on a Monday, what day do you expect payment? Count: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.. Monday of the next week is the day you are to expect payment. This new payment system applies to all current pending payments, and to all those in the future.
This will be the same time frame as 12dailypro established, for those of you who are familiar with that program. It will end all discussion of what day you are paid. It will allow my support staff and you, the members, ample time to contact us in the event that your payment processor account is hacked so that we can put your cashout requests on hold and prevent your funds from being paid to hackers. (To date, tens of thousands of dollars have been paid out to hackers, despite our efforts to prevent this, and we feel, changing our payment strategy will result in more profits for all involved.)
I will allow until this Friday, June 16th for members to change their account passwords and to review their account information in their back office for any other changes they may wish to make. I will then begin processing payments: all pending cashout requests made on the 6th and 7th of June will be paid next Monday. This will be in line with the new payment terms since, though I was ill last week for 2 days, I processed payments over the past weekend. Requests made on the 8th of June will be processed by the end of the day, this Monday, June 19th, and we will go from there.
Please go now and update your passwords and review your accounts. I will follow up with further updates during the week regarding the status of Compact Surfing and the rest of the Network sites,
Sincerely yours,
Luuk, Olivia, Nicholas and Staff
Altus Financial Services Inc."
In the next few days, weeks, whatever I will probably be taking stock of the current state of play and separating online opportunities into the following three categories:
Online Investment Opportunities
Surfs
Games
Online Investment Opportunities I have already done, to an extent, under which you will find a growing collection of real, possibly-real, or likely-real (or, in worst case scenarios 'hopefully-real') opportunities. Clicking the link will lead you to some basic information and ratings.
Games will be HYIPs and the likes (as well as the more fun versions like EGoldRevolution) which I will continue to dabble in but not much. I think by calling them 'Games' it kinda makes it obvious how you should treat them!
And Surfs is basically just the surf version of Games (unless we're talking about DadNDaves which although having problems here and there for all intents and purposes appears to be real.)
So right now I'm going to have a look at the autosurf arena... (as the title suggests!)
It's kinda been a bad week for surfs and my current 'Big Three' have taken some hits.
WiredSurf went down... I was able to come out ahead. Hope you were too! There are opportunities for refunds and hopefully they will be followed through on. It seems to be increasingly popular to actually pay some refunds, as well as reveal more information. Maybe the refunds are just issued to keep the fanatical blood-lust filled hordes at bay but it works to an extent and it means we lose less money if one goes down! These events are the nature of the surfing beast though.
Remember, treat them like a game, or a way to make quick cash. A variety of strategies are employed by people (get in, get out, play with profit is extremely popular.)
TotalRune seems to be chugging along, paying out a bit, working on their huge backlog. I had my nice withdrawal cancelled because some of it were ref. comms and apparently the largest ref. comm account was 'fradulent.'
I am unsure whether this is true or not, but it seems reasonable enough and I was given the opportunity to launch another cashout (past the Monday date.) Fair enough.
So TotalRune aren't excelling, nor are they crashing and burning. They're fighting an uphill battle but they really do seem to be fighting.
And then comes the big gun... Compact Surfing.
Now, Compact has raised the hackles, ire and fear of the community in the past few days as large payouts were not coming in, the seven day deadline was coming up for some members, and timeframes were as a result of course increasing and creeping, creeping, creeping away from what we were used to.
Very few 'paid' posts were to be found.
Then, finally this morning LuukH released an update.
I didn't know what to expect at first... good. Bad? Program shutting down?
Instead I got something that I wasn't expecting but now that I think of it makes sense and I have seen it before.
Basically, LuukH claims that a lot of members have had hacked accounts with E-Gold going to the wrong account (which is NOT a flaw in E-Gold's security, which the unwashed masses :) sometimes seem to think... E-Gold is as secure as a baby's bottom. Whatever that means! It's people's own lack of understanding coupled with a lack of technical nous and bad luck that sees their E-Gold accounts 'hacked.' Read up on the topic to make sure you are secure.)
So, he has instigated a 7-Day timeframe on payouts, so that people who have had E-Gold account numbers changed have plenty of time to contact support, etc.
Now, the 7-Day/5-Day, 'everyone paid on the same day' thing was tried by WiredSurf somewhat unsucessfully, so I'm hoping Compact pull it off.
I think what LuukH has presented is reasonable and not out of the question (hacked accounts) and has a reasonable -> good chance of being on the level and true.
Hence a 7-Day payout frame, meaning everyone is paid on the seventh day, could work, as well as prolong the surf - as long as it is stuck to and everyone IS paid on the seventh day, not some early, some late. Everyone hates being late in the queue and it can spell disaster for a program like this.
So, it's a wait and see, but what was looking like a bad week for Compact has been somewhat salvaged in my mind, and has a good chance of reaching a state of 'she'll be right' (at least for another few months *fingers crossed.*)
P.S. Don't forget to jump into your Compact account if you have one and update the details listed in the update!
So all in all, I'm neutral on this update. Could last for many more months and pull a 12DP, or it could be a red flag. I'm 'either/or' but shall remain cautious.
Just gotta wait on some nice juicy 'paid!' posts now to see the new terms in effect.
Here's the update:
"Dear Compact Surfing Members,
This is an important update on the status of Compact Surfing. It clarifies what the future holds for the Compact Network, and how I plan to ensure that what we have built with our members in the past 3 months continues to grow and prosper.
I will be honest with all of you, recent events have given us cause for concern, and the steps we have taken this past week, and are about to take, are to ensure our security remains one of the best in the industry for both our Network, and for you our members.
For three months Compact Surfing, as all of you know, paid usually within 48 hours of cashout request. However, when payouts were processed so quickly, many members who attempted to contact support and have cashout requests stopped to egold accounts that were hacked were unable to do so in time, and as a result, their requests were paid out to hackers who ran off with their funds.
This has been a very serious issue for many members. I have had at least 10 support tickets sent every day for over a month relating to such hackings. The amount of member money lost to hackers is now in the tens of thousands of dollars, and it must be stopped. I did not create this program to feed the hackers. This business and program was created for the benefit of the members who have supported us and handed over their trust to us.
Then, several days ago, we had an even more serious issue to address. During our scheduled work on Compactpay, a situation arose that required our immediate attention. We had a hacker access the database through a vulnerability, and though he got no valuable information, and did not infiltrate anyone's money accounts, we dropped all else we were doing, and set about encrypting our database, among other things. You can view the email message that the hacker sent here: (POST IMAGE SCREENSHOT OF WHAT THE HACKER WROTE TO YOU, BLOCK OUT HIS EGOLD # SO HE DOES NOT GET ANGRY BUT YOU HAVE TO POST THE IMAGE TO SHOW YOUR PROOF ABOUT THIS)
In light of all the events above, I have now decided that CN will be implementing new additional security measures regarding hackings, and revamping our payment system accordingly to fit these measures. There will be a required step that all members must take before we continue on with our payouts. The changes we are implementing will allow members the needed to time to make their hacking reports, and will allow staff the needed time to stop payments to hackers, even during our busier times. The following are the changes that will be made, effective as of today:
1. As additional security, we ask that all members update their passwords on the Compactsurfing site at this time with a unique password you have never used anywhere on the internet before. You can do this by clicking on "Edit Account Details" after you log into your CS account. Then scroll down to where it says "Password Change." Type in your current password in the field that says: "Your Password." Then type in your "New Password" and "Confirm New Password" and click on "Save." This is to ensure that if any of you have the same password with CS that you are using with other sites, or have used in sites you've been with in the past, that hackers do not have easy access to this information.
2. Official Payment Time Frame: Members may still hold multiple upgrades to a total of $10,000 USD. Members may still make 3 cashout requests per month. However, from here on forward, Compact Surfing will now make payments in 7 BUSINESS days following the date of your cashout request. That means you will no longer count Saturdays and Sundays as work days for the CS Payment Department, and you will be paid on the 7th business day after you make a request.
To clarify, if you make a payout request on a Monday, what day do you expect payment? Count: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.. Monday of the next week is the day you are to expect payment. This new payment system applies to all current pending payments, and to all those in the future.
This will be the same time frame as 12dailypro established, for those of you who are familiar with that program. It will end all discussion of what day you are paid. It will allow my support staff and you, the members, ample time to contact us in the event that your payment processor account is hacked so that we can put your cashout requests on hold and prevent your funds from being paid to hackers. (To date, tens of thousands of dollars have been paid out to hackers, despite our efforts to prevent this, and we feel, changing our payment strategy will result in more profits for all involved.)
I will allow until this Friday, June 16th for members to change their account passwords and to review their account information in their back office for any other changes they may wish to make. I will then begin processing payments: all pending cashout requests made on the 6th and 7th of June will be paid next Monday. This will be in line with the new payment terms since, though I was ill last week for 2 days, I processed payments over the past weekend. Requests made on the 8th of June will be processed by the end of the day, this Monday, June 19th, and we will go from there.
Please go now and update your passwords and review your accounts. I will follow up with further updates during the week regarding the status of Compact Surfing and the rest of the Network sites,
Sincerely yours,
Luuk, Olivia, Nicholas and Staff
Altus Financial Services Inc."
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