HYIP Glossary

The list of terms that often used in HYIP:

Account Balance
The ballance of one's current account inside a program. These funds can be used to withdraw or to invest into program's investment plans.
Account Center
It is where you view(some or all of the following information is available), your statistic, profile, purchase positions, manage positions, withdrawal, advertising, refferals, contact us and logout.
Account Number
The unique number of a personal member account.
Active Deposit
The amount of money that is actively engaged in the money making program.
Affiliate Program
same as Referral Program
Auto-Payment
same as Instant Withdrawal
Auto-Withdrawal
same as Instant Withdrawal
Back Room
same as Account Center
Banner
An advertising tool provided by the company to promote the Program. Thus enabling you to earn referral commission for new signups.
Betting
Some HYIP programs make money on differrent kinds of bets e.g. sports.
Bonus
Funds the administrator adds for some reason to the member account differing from any planned earnings.
Commissions
Compensation received for a referral signup.
Compounding
This is the concept that one earns interest on the interest he have already earned. At first, your money grows slowly, but as time passes, your money grows more rapidly. This is often considered the "eighth wonder of the world".
Example: You deposit $400 to the program with 5% interest and 25% compounding. When you receive you payment 25% will be added to your deposit and 75% you'll receive to your account. So you'll receive (5%*$400)*75%=$15 and your deposit will become $400+(5%*$400)*25%=$405
Compounding Deposit
A deposit with the compounding option used.
Compounding Percents
The percent of earning which is deposited back into the system.
Debenture
General debt obligation backed only by the integrity of the borrower.
Deposit
The funds deposited into the program.
Deposited Total
The total amount of money ever deposited into the program to date.
Diversification
The concept of spreading the money among a number of different investments or investment programs in order to reduce risk. It's the idea that one shouldn't put all of your eggs in one basket. Advice: Diversification is a good way to reduce your risk and exposure to the market. Every good portfolio should be diversified. The level of diversification is up to you, though.
Downline
The people one recruited (his referrals), plus the people they recruited, and so on.
Due Diligence
The process whereby a person investigates an opportunity, assesses the quality of the management team, and the key risks associated with an opportunity.
e-currency
Short for electronic currency.
e-gold
e-gold is an e-currency, issued by e-gold Ltd., a Nevis corporation, 100% backed at all times by gold bullion in allocated storage. Read more at About e-gold.
Earned Total
The total amount of interest one's investments have ever earned inside the program.
Exchanger
A company which is able to convert your cash dollars into e-currency.
Exponential Growth
same as Compounding.
Foreign Exchange Market
same as Forex
Forex
Market for trading currencies internationally. The foreign exchange market is a decentralized market that has no physical exchange floor. Trading is done over the counter, via phone, fax or electronic distribution networks. Turnover in this market is approximately $1.5 trillion USD daily, making it the largest, most liquid financial marketplace.
FX Market
same as Forex
Forum
An online community where members are able to post information to share with others.
Funding
When you put money into your e-currency account using an authorized exchanger.
HYIP
A High Yield Investment Program. These programs claim to invest in high risk, high yield opportunities. An HYIP can be both offline or online, and maybe be investing in a variety of markets. A large portion of online HYIP's are simply ponzi schemes that call themselves HYIPs. Usually every high yeild program goes with quite a risk, so it will be helpful to use divesification while investing in these programs.
Instant Withdrawal
The system payment feature which processes the withdrawals automatically when a member makes a request.
Interest Rate
The amount of money in percent that a borrower pays to borrow money (a HYIP pays to investors). For example, if a $100,000 investment has a 5% monthly interest rate, the program will have to pay $5,000 each month (or any specified period) until the program ends. The goal for investors is to earn the highest interest rate possible without sacrificing any security.
Investment Package (for HYIP)
A set of similar investment plans grouped by some similar properties (payout ratio, compounding feature or other).
Investment Plan (for HYIP)
The investment proposal with a pre-defined interest rate, initial deposit range and other options. One program may have many additional plans grouped in investment packages.
Laddering
Purchasing bonds that mature at various intervals. This provides the investor with greater regularity of income.
Advice: Bond laddering works by purchasing bonds with different maturities. For example, you might purchase 3 year, 5 year, and 10 year bonds. By doing this, you are giving yourself greater liquidity because your bonds will be maturing periodically. If you simply bought three 10-year bonds, you would have to wait 10 years to see any of your money returned to you.
Bond laddering is a good idea for anybody who needs liquidity and a greater certainty of receiving their money at periodic intervals.
Liquidity
Liquidity refers to the ability of people to get into and out of investments. A "liquid" stock is a stock with a lot of volume that is easy to buy and sell. A "liquid" investment is an investment which is easy to withdraw. A liquid investment is one that you can buy and sell easily and quickly. An example of a liquid investment is a bank account. You can go to the bank and take your money out quickly and easily. An example of an illiquid investment would be real estate. If you want to sell your house, you have to put it on the market and could end up waiting over a year to get your money. Or an investment with a non-withdrawable principal. Understanding how liquid you need to be is important. Obviously, if you're in college, you want to be liquid so you can make your tuition payments. If you're retired, you'll want to be liquid to pay your living expenses.
Maturity
It's the length of time that you have to wait until you get your money back. Or one can say: this is the date the borrower has to repay the lender the principal.
Maximal Deposit Withdrawal Duration
A time period after which the program member cannot withdraw his deposit.
Maximum Spend
The most amount that you can pay into a program in one day.
Member's Area
same as Account Center
Minimal Deposit Withdrawal Duration
A time period after making the deposit during which the program member cannot withdraw his deposit.
Minimum Spend
The least amount of money accepted in order to join the program.
MLM or Multi-Level marketing
Money-making programs which require participants to market and sell things in order to make money, and the money earned is based not just on how much was sold, but also on how much was sold by the other participants you've recruited.
Payout Ratio
The percentage of earnings paid out in dividends. It is calculated by dividing amount of all dividends by amount of all earnings.
Penalty
It is a sum of any currency which administrator removes from the user account and transfers into the system.
Ponzi Scheme
The term Ponzi is derived from the actions of a man names Charles K Ponzi. It is any program or claimed investment opportunity which relies on new investments to pay off the older ones. Those whom invest first are thus paid their returns from those who invest after them, leaving the last investors the ones who lose out. Many HYIPs who claim to be trading, investing, etc are really only running a ponzi scheme. Some have also compared the US Social Security system to a ponzi scheme.
Portfolio
All of your investments. If you own five stocks, a bond, and have bank CD's, those would be collectively referred to as your portfolio. When you hear a person talking about their portfolio, they're just referring to all of their investments. If they say their portfolio is up 12%, it means the average return for all of their investments has been 12%.
Principal
The initial deposit one makes to the account. This excludes any compounded earnings added to the deposit.
Principal Withdrawal
Many programs do not allow to withdraw principal. It damages the liquidity but assures the program owners that the money deposited to their system will remain there for long.
Profile
The personal information of a member.
Referral
The one you recruited to join the program or to make an investment (your referral). Many companies usually pay for the refferals their users or members recruit a persent of referrals' earnings or of a deposit. It is called a Referral Program.
Referral Percent
A percent of an amount that someone's referral deposits into the system or a percent of his earnings which goes to the upline.
Referral Program
A money-making program where you earn money based on recruiting others into the program (referring). Many companies usually pay for the refferals their users or members recruit a percent of the referrals' earnings or deposits.
Referral URL
This is a web site link that contains your specific username or number that a referral would click on to view the program information. This enables you to get credited for their signup.
Re-invest
To put back an amount into the program to cycle again. Closely related to compounding.
Return on Investment
A profit or loss from an investment. An individual's return on investment is easy to calculate. If you invested $20 and earned $30, you would have a 50% return on your investment.
Risk
The measurable possibility of losing or not gaining value.
Spend
(used as a noun) a payment, deposit, transfer of funds.
Sponsor
A sponsor is a person who has referred people to a program.
Sponsored
The listings can pay for being "sponsored" and thus to be listed at the top of the current section. But it doesn't influence the listing's rating, payout or any other statistics. Neither it influences the listing being Normal, Trial or Premium. So please while choosing the HYIP site to invest pay greater attention to the money invested and earned statistics, site's design and the such.
Statistics
The statistics shows information regarding your current program. The following information is available (some or all of the information is available) to view in your account center: You view your total investment, amount paid, amount available, referral bonus, total referrals, referral URL, and if available downloads.
Total Deposit
The total amount of money on all the active deposits inside the program .
Transaction
Any single funds movement into, out of or within the system.
Transactions History
The history of all your transactions.
Upline
The people who recruited you, plus the people who recruited them, and so on.
Withdraw
To withdraw money means to call them off the HYIP or any other program.
Withdrawal
The transaction when one transfers funds from any account in the HYIP or any other investment program to any account outside the program.
Withdrawn Total
The total amount one have ever withdrawn to date.


HYIP : Finally, the Secrets of the 'Get Rich Quick' Scams Are Revealed

We have all read the ads for the latest “Get Rich Quick” program, promising great wealth in a short amount of time with little or No effort. I am sure you have read ads like this plastered all over the internet.

“Make $30,000 in 30 days – guaranteed – with this system!”

“Work just one hour a week and make $20,000 a month – Guaranteed!”

This sounds great and the owners of these get rich quick sites are laughing all the way to the bank. The sad thing is they play on people’s hopes and fears. The prey on people that are in a financial crisis, people that need to make lots of money in a short period of time.
The internet has become full of these get rich quick predators! So much so, that internet marketing has been given a blanket reputation of being a scam. The facts are that the internet is full of legitimate opportunities, despite the work of the online jackals.
If you are someone looking for an internet business opportunity that is legitimate I have some tips on how you can smell out the rat and find a real opportunity!

Below is a list of tips to keep in mind when looking for the right internet business opportunity:
1. The old saying, “If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.”, is still relevant when it comes to making a business decision. In order to make money you have to work for it, there is not a real wealth building system on the internet that will allow you to go from internet novice to making a five-figure-per-month income in 30 days or less.

2. It is probably a scam if there is not a real-tangible product or service related to the business.

3. Stay away from all chain letters or anything that requests you to put your name on a list, send someone on the list money, and redistribute the mailer in return for the chance to make money. That is not only a scam it is illegal!

4. Stay away from companies that emphasize recruiting new members into the company more than product sales.

5. Make sure the company has a customer service department that can be contacted and one that replies to their customers in a timely manner.

6. Make sure the company has contact information posted on their web site. Most scammers do not want you to have a way to contact them.

7. Do a Whois search to see who owns the business and where they are located.

8. Think scam if they repeatedly tell you that this business opportunity is perfectly legal. If it is legal you shouldn’t have to tell potential customers.

Some internet business opportunities I would stay away from:
1. HYIP’s or High Yield Investment Programs – I have to admit there are some investment programs on the internet that are legit. The HYIP’s to avoid is anything that promises or guarantees a huge return on investment in a short period of time. Some of the ones online claim to return 1000, 2000, even 3000%, pure B.S.

2. Money Doublers and Matrixes – These sound great but they constantly depend on getting new people into the business. Many of them are here one day and gone the next.

3. Any program that requires you to put your name on a list, send money to the first person on the list, and then mail the list out to X number of people.

4. Any MLM or Direct Marketing company that does not offer a real product or does not emphasize product sales. If all your recruiter talks about is recruiting more people then run!
You can educate yourself and stop being scammed by the get rich quick tricksters! Just remember to not make spontaneous purchases, research your potential internet business opportunity, and keep in mind that “if it sound too good to be true, then it probably isn’t”.
The internet is full of legitimate business opportunities that can provide a full-time income, even great wealth. If you are looking for a REAL internet business take a look at these great sites:
Stop being scammed and find a viable Internet Business Opportunity.
Fire the boss and find the Best Home Based Business for you.
Most successful internet businesses are built around niche markets and they provide real products and services to that market. Providing quality information products to a specific niche is a great way to make money on the internet!
Selling information is the most profitable enterprise on the internet!

The Secret formula to profiting on the internet is summarized below:

A viable internet business opportunity is built around identifying a profitable niche, then building a useful and informative web site around that niche. Finally, it only becomes profitable when you can successfully send targeted traffic to that site and convert them into paying customers.
The above paragraph is the SECRET to making money on the internet with your own web site. Any system that tries to teach you any different is more than likely a scam!

How To Prevent Getting Scammed

Step One:

Use the following Whois Lookup sites to find out the Web Owner details information:
Lookup IP Address
Lookup Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Lookup IP Address belongs to (Organization)
Lookup Country
Lookup Continent
Lookup State
Lookup City
Lookup Latitude
Lookup Longitude
Lookup Timezone
Lookup Registrant (website registered address, person contacts & etc.)

http://www.showmyip.com/
http://centralops.net/co/
http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/whois.asp

Step Two:
Before participate the Web Program, review Web Owner Site's operation location, and ascertain you fill comfortable with the Web Site. In any event of defaulted by the Web Owner, you can locate them & have them report to Internet Fraud Authority.

Step Three:
Search Internet Service Provider (ISP), and IP Address belongs to (Organization) email contact and record down. In any event of defaulted by Web Owner, you can file a complaint and has Scammer Site report to the ISP against them for abuse of Internet Fraud (obtained an information here is good enough to put Web Site liar in hot soup. With this power tool you can force the Scammer close up his Web Site or shutdown by ISP neither.)

Step Four:
If you got deceived, submit full details of the Web Site details information (refer to step one) with your e-payment confirmation and file a complaint email to the followings to alert the relevant authorities of the Internet Fraud:

1. Internet Fraud Coordinator: ifcc.tp@fbi.gov.
2. International Web Police: Director@Web-Police.org.
3. ISP Provider; abuse@........ (refer to Step One, search the abuse email contact of ISP Provider /and IP Address belongs to…and complaint of web site Network abuse).
4. Locate authority (refer to web Registrant station address, search on Internet to locate of country authority; such as “address/state police” or “(country) government authority”.
5. E-gold Service & CC to Web Site Owner.

The Authority information sites for 1, 2 & 3 are:
web-police
ifccfbi
scamwatch
fraud.org/

Lastly to say; an investor should take note on Web Site's ISP registered at un-privileged country, in any event of cheated you can address your problem to the locate authority /or police station to expose the cheater web site. If possible put on forum page to draw attention to other investor help to obtain email contact of the locate police authority.

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Important Information Please Read Carefully

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-The best,safety and perfect operating system is LINUX.
-If you have Windows, never use Internet Explorer, and download for free FIREFOX browser
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-Use separate contact emails for operations involving transfer of money.
-Never use the same passwords for different accounts.
-Make passwords from 10-20 different numbers and letters.
-Never access your e-gold account by clicking a hypertext link in e-mail.
-Never open emails containing attachments. Most likely they contain a trojan.
-Verify website identity before entering password.
-Try not to access your e-gold account and when you make a deposits from a public computer.
-Try not to visit suspective-looking websites, they may launch trojans to infect your PC.
-Use latest versions of firewalls,antispyware and anti-virus programs.
-Avoid downloading ActiveX and Java applets in your browser.
-Always use AutoUpdate function in your Windows OS.

Can I make living on HYIPs?

If you are beginner in this HYIP industry, definitely NOT! In HYIP business, the possibility to earn high profit is comes with high risk. No HYIP lasts forever! It is possible that a HYIP will go bankrupt or run away with investors money. Don't invest money in a hyip that you can't afford to lose!