Long running Hyip Program Europe Trade (https://www.eutradeltd.com) has apparently shut down and ran off with the funds in one of the biggest hyip scams in the last year. Europe Trade had massive advertising campaigns, including links in Google Adsense and Yahoo Search Marketing, and it is estimated the number of members in this proram was in the tens of thousands.
Europe Trade did send this email announcing a server move on Jan 31st…
Europe Trade maintenance
“support2@eutradeltd.com”
Wednesday, 31 January, 2007 6:20:35 PM (GMT +08:00)
We are currently performing maintenance on our servers. This maintenance process is necessary to address a temporary problem related to completion of your transactions automatically.
Our technicians have plans to address that issue through a rollback of the website software to the previous version we had through last months of 2006. You can expect transactions to be processed directly to your account(s) within next 48 hours and have the stable operational environment as we were providing earlier.
Please note that during next 24 hours there may be brief interruptions in the availability of our company web site.
We do apologize for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience. |
While many investors believe that Europe Trade will return as promised, it’s not looking so good right now.
One factor leading us to believe that Europe Trade is gone for good, the whois information for Europe Trade has changed.
The former Whois information
Admin Name……….. Peter Morrison
Admin Address…….. 180 Tottenham Court Road
Admin Address…….. Suite 12
Admin Address…….. London
Admin Address…….. W1T 7PD
Admin Address…….. London
Admin Address…….. GREAT BRITAIN (UK)
Admin Email………. peter@peters.org
Admin Phone………. +44.2070431233
Admin Fax…………
Current Whois
Admin Name………… Domain Administration Services
Tech Address……… Level 2
Tech Address……… 120 King Street
Tech Address……… Melbourne
Tech Address……… 3000
Tech Address……… VIC
Tech Address……… AUSTRALIA
Tech Email……….. das@melbourneit.com.au
Tech Phone……….. +61.3 86242400
Tech Fax…………. +61.3 96202250
Name Server………. adenine.melbourneit.com.au
Name Server………. enterprise.melbourneit.com.au
Again, the situation doesn’t look good this time. Another big factor is that Europe Trade had promised a full return of investment principal in 180 business days, and the program was rapidly approaching this deadline. I think many hyip investors knew that a hasty exit was inevitable once the program was nearing the 180 business days in operation mark. The same was seen in the SolidInvestment scam last year and this fleecing comes as no suprise to the venerable and jaded hyip investors out there.