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Autosurf For Cash - End Of The Story

By Elaine Currie

Get Paid To Autosurf programmes were once a highly popular way of making money on the Internet. These programmes offered an easy way for literally anyone to make money quickly. There was a risk factor: a return on your money was never guaranteed but surfing was easy to do and, if sensible precautions were taken, a surfer could earn a lot of money in a short time. Thousands of ordinary people found themselves making huge profits practically overnight for almost no effort. The situation has dramatically changed but, before we look at the reasons, let's take a quick look back at recent history.

Autosurfing - The Early Days

In the early months of 2004, hardly anyone had heard of autosurfing for cash and by December 2004 there were only around 40 get paid to surf programmes and about 35 of them offered 1% daily if you surfed 100 sites per day. There were a few 2% programmes, one 4% programme and one 5% programme. It was generally accepted that any programme offering over 2% was high risk. Things changed rapidly as more and more people caught the autosurf for cash bug.

12 Daily

Then a company called 12 Daily Pro appeared. As you might guess from its name, 12 Daily offered payment of 12% daily. Also, upgraded membership lasted 12 days and you only needed to surf 12 sites to get paid. Most people involved in autosurfing considered 12% far too high to be sustainable and predicted that 12 Daily Pro would disappear within a month. They were proved wrong: 12 Daily Pro went from strength to strength and people who would not have dreamed of going into autosurfing for cash previously, were investing large sums of money in 12 Daily Pro. Caution was abandoned by surfers in the light of 12 Daily Pro's success and people broke the first rule of sensible surfing for cash by investing money they could not afford to lose.

Autosurfing - The Boom Starts

Other companies offering similar high percentage earnings sprang up and people (reassured by 12 Daily Pro's stability) were eager to join. By early 2006 there were 372 total active autosurf for cash programmes. Of these, 110 companies were offering 2% or less 94 were offering from 3% to 5% daily, 54 were offering from 6% to 9% daily, 91 were offering from 10% to 19% daily and 23 were offering from 20% to 55% daily.

Less Surf, More Cash

Instead of a daily surfing requirement of 100 sites, the newer sites had a daily surf requirement of as low as 9 sites. The emphasis had moved away from the original concept of autosurfing to advertise your website, with the getting paid part as a welcome bonus. It was all about how you could get paid for doing very little. Indeed, few of the newer high percentage sites bothered with bonus clicks, nobody cared if surfers were looking at the sites rotating as long as the cash kept flowing.

The Storm Is Brewing

Then came "the storm" when a payment processing company called Stormpay destroyed 12 Daily Pro and damaged the autosurf for cash industry beyond repair. The following is what happened.

12 Daily's 50 Million Dollars

The owner of 12 Daily Pro was about to move a large amount of money from 12 Daily's Stormpay account into a new payment processor they had added for their members' convenience. It is widely believed that Stormpay did not have enough funds to cover the money 12 Daily Pro wanted to move. Indeed, there were rumours that Stormpay was secretly bankrupt. and did not have the 50 million dollars it was supposed to be holding on behalf of 12 Daily Pro.

An Ultimatum

Stormpay gave 12 Daily Pro and most of the bigger autosurf for cash companies an ultimatum: they must either drop all other payment processors and use only Stormpay's services or they would not be permitted to have Stormpay as a processor. As most of the get paid to surf companies' members used Stormpay, they were forced to give in to this blackmail and they moved their cash over to Stormpay. As soon as they had everyone's money, Stormpay started blocking their accounts, starting with 12 Daily Pro. The effect on the autosurf for cash industry was devastating. The autosurf for cash companies could not get their funds back from Stormpay in order to pay their members and so they could not continue in business. Many companies crashed almost immediately as a direct result of Stormpay seizing their funds, others sank because they had invested their members' money in 12 Daily Pro or the other companies which had disappeared.

Hit By The Storm

Once they had frozen the accounts of the big autosurf for cash companies, the owners of Stormpay turned their attention on the smaller autosurf companies and wiped them out virtually overnight. Stormpay then started making unauthorised withdrawals ("charge backs") from accounts belonging to ordinary customers. Then they froze customers' accounts and blocked them so that the customers could not access their funds or even see what cash (if any) they had left.

Aftermath

After this short but very violent storm, a few of the honest autosurf for cash companies resurfaced and managed to keep running but, one by one, they sank and hardly any of them have made it through to now (summer 2006). New autosurf for cash companies are starting up (it seems as if there is a new one online every day) but far too many of these new companies vanish within weeks or even days of launching. The people who join these new autosurf for cash companies are mainly individuals who know nothing of the history of the autosurf for cash industry and, therefore, take the programmes at face value, or else they are gamblers who are prepared to take losses along with the gains.

The End

Websites specialising in autosurf for cash advice, information and downline building have closed down because the only honest advice is quite simply that it is no longer a good idea to rely on autosurfing for cash as a way of making money, the risk is now far too great. It was good while it lasted but the golden days of getting paid to surf are over and former surfers are back to working to earn money!

Post Script

Stormpay is no longer a payment processor for anything other than transactions through it's own auction site. Nobody got their money back from Stormpay and, as at the time of writing, nobody has been able to find out what Stormpay did with all those millions of dollars of other folks' cash.

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