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  • Payment Processors Used By Surf Firms Offline

    UPDATED 8:56 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Two popular payment processors used by autosurfing firms are offline simultaneously.

    The main pages for SolidTrustPay of Canada and StrictPay of Panama both will load. But registration buttons for both of the processors are generating server errors and will not load. The problem appears to be affecting secure (https) connections.

    Some members said they could not access their accounts. Others described the problem, which is being discussed on autosurfing forums, as intermittent.

    Neither company has explained the problem on their main pages. The secure pages for both SolidTrustPay and StrictPay are generating a “Connection Interrupted” error message in Firefox, and a “cannot display the webpage” error in Internet Explorer.

    UPDATE 3:13 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) One of our readers reports that sign-up pages for the processors worked from his location. We again tried to get the pages to load in Firefox and IE, and they threw server errors. Why this is happening is unclear.

    UPDATE 8:56 P.M. EDT (U.S.A) SolidTrustPay and StrictPay are accessible now.

  • MegaLido Members Take A Pounding

    Reports online suggest MegaLido members are receving paltry refunds of less than 10 percent from the payment processors they used to fund their MegaLido accounts

    The precise percentage of the refunds is unclear. What is clear is that MegaLido is yet another autosurf that went bust.

    MegaLido was widely promoted by members of AdSurfDaily in the aftermath of the government’s August seizure of ASD’s assets. Promoters pitched it as a safe, offshore alternative — all the while blasting the government for its actions in the ASD case.

    MegaLido used multiple payment processors — SolidTrustPay, Strict Pay and AlertPay. Members now are left holding the bag.

    One member reported a $13 refund from a $180 stake. Another reported a $26 refund from accumulated paper “profits” of $1,200. Yet another member said he had invested $2,000 and got back about $700, a loss of $1,300.

    Even a partial refund is a win or sorts, however. Many autosurfs fail and participants lose their entire stakes. In some cases, autosurf operators remove all or part of the money from their payment-processing accounts, making even partial refunds impossible. In the MegaLido case, it appears as though the payment processors were able to provide partial refunds based on money the operator left in the accounts before his access was blocked.

    His name reportedly is Michael, although that’s not for certain. Some MegaLido members have speculated that the autosurf was part of a Nigerian scam, although that’s not for certain. It also has been reported that MegaLido was operating out of Europe. That’s not for certain, either.

    What is for certain is that many of the people who played got burned.

    One of the most grating things about the MegaLido ads was that promoter’s couldn’t possibly have verified their claims. No autosurf using a Ponzi model is safe, for example. Promoters gushed and gushed about MegaLido, positioning it as the source of gushing profits — but all of it was smoke and mirrors.

    MegaLido, positioned as a safe haven and a long-term winner, lasted only weeks.