Moofat
06-27-2006, 02:27 AM
How to find information about HYIPs
Investment-HYIP.info
There are multiple sources of information on the web, but when dealing with HYIPs, you need a good technique of finding the apropriate information. Most of the sites about HYIPs are build in order to promote programs and therefore cannot be considered a reliable source of information.
Your goal is to find the real information about the owners of the HYIP, here you'll read about some good methods how to do it.
Simple search.
Some good results about the program can be simply found at google , by just searching for its name, but it will rarely give you the best results. You may improve those by googling for "scam <program name>" or "I was paid by <program name>" (without the quotes).
To get even better results you can restrict the search to a specific HYIP forum, people usually post there some information and their good and bad experiences, you may learn from those too.
Whois information.
The easiest way to get information about the owner of the HYIP is to check the whois information of the domain. All the domains are registered to someone and the regitration information is public.
You can check it at the whois source. Most of the registrars ( companies which provide domain registration services) now offer whois security feature, it allows the webmaster to mask his private information.
Most of the HYIP owners like to use, so searching the whois information on a domain won't help you much in that case.
Traffic and backlinks.
You can also find out how the site is popular, how many other sites linked to it and, most important, how many people visit it. Hundreds of sites provide this information, but the best site statistic is available at statbrain. Actually, most of these stats can be easily manipulated too:
* alexa rank depend only on visitors who installed the toolbar, and specific sites can drive more attention of alexa users than others. It can also be faked by autosurf and traffic exchange programs.
* yahoo and google backlinks can be obtained easily by multiple link exchanges and submittion services. So take a closer look at the sites which link to the HYIP you're investigating.
* google page rank is considered to be one of the most important features of the webpage, but even it can be falcificate by attaining multiple links from sites with high PR value.
All the public available statistic services providing inormation about sites are not reliable, but still there are a good source of information on sites, so use it, but don't pay too much attention to the results.
Email the admin.
Best way to get information about any investment program owner is just to request it. HYIP owners know that trust is most important in their business, so most of them will usually reply on your messages very fast.
And now here is the most reliable way to get information about a program admin, just check his ip. Extract it from the email (you may usually do so by displaying the full header) and run a whois check on it. That's the ultimate way, you can't get much information here though, but it's always true.
Investment-HYIP.info
There are multiple sources of information on the web, but when dealing with HYIPs, you need a good technique of finding the apropriate information. Most of the sites about HYIPs are build in order to promote programs and therefore cannot be considered a reliable source of information.
Your goal is to find the real information about the owners of the HYIP, here you'll read about some good methods how to do it.
Simple search.
Some good results about the program can be simply found at google , by just searching for its name, but it will rarely give you the best results. You may improve those by googling for "scam <program name>" or "I was paid by <program name>" (without the quotes).
To get even better results you can restrict the search to a specific HYIP forum, people usually post there some information and their good and bad experiences, you may learn from those too.
Whois information.
The easiest way to get information about the owner of the HYIP is to check the whois information of the domain. All the domains are registered to someone and the regitration information is public.
You can check it at the whois source. Most of the registrars ( companies which provide domain registration services) now offer whois security feature, it allows the webmaster to mask his private information.
Most of the HYIP owners like to use, so searching the whois information on a domain won't help you much in that case.
Traffic and backlinks.
You can also find out how the site is popular, how many other sites linked to it and, most important, how many people visit it. Hundreds of sites provide this information, but the best site statistic is available at statbrain. Actually, most of these stats can be easily manipulated too:
* alexa rank depend only on visitors who installed the toolbar, and specific sites can drive more attention of alexa users than others. It can also be faked by autosurf and traffic exchange programs.
* yahoo and google backlinks can be obtained easily by multiple link exchanges and submittion services. So take a closer look at the sites which link to the HYIP you're investigating.
* google page rank is considered to be one of the most important features of the webpage, but even it can be falcificate by attaining multiple links from sites with high PR value.
All the public available statistic services providing inormation about sites are not reliable, but still there are a good source of information on sites, so use it, but don't pay too much attention to the results.
Email the admin.
Best way to get information about any investment program owner is just to request it. HYIP owners know that trust is most important in their business, so most of them will usually reply on your messages very fast.
And now here is the most reliable way to get information about a program admin, just check his ip. Extract it from the email (you may usually do so by displaying the full header) and run a whois check on it. That's the ultimate way, you can't get much information here though, but it's always true.