Its a SCAM!!! They stole money from my bank account!!!

TONy, care to elaborate?

Mysearchfunds is a SCAM…first, they erase most of your searches , and when you reach a certain ammount of £, they start to send click fraud emails!!!???
I have reached +/- £50 , and waited 45 days past the end of that month…and nothing, they don`t pay…big SCAM and big loss of time.

If you don’t use it properly, the software will detect that the searches are not genuine, i have just had my 4th payment of over 3 figures GBP.
So it has worked for me, with no problems at all.
Alpexus also have another site called whitedotbox.com, or you can get to it via homepagesfriends.com
as for taking money out of a bank account, no way! show proof.
i have actually sold this on ebay for the past six months, under stay at home internet searching and be paid for it!! no-one has had any problems.

i have received word today, that you will only get the results from Yahoo when you search now, doesn’t bother me, at least i get something

Well, I have 66 searches from last night and they’re gone today. They erased my searches. I wasn’t even cheating because I was using the search engine for a research. Damn cheaters. Yahoo! even joined this bunch of scammers. Everyone should know about this scam. Tsk tsk tsk.

yes its true, its a SCAM! i was supposed to get paid last june and i never got my money. i wrote to them like 4x, but they never replied. i think they only pay a few of their members so that someone will defend them and say that they have been paid to lure more members so that they will earn more, all the while scamming the other half.

I can’t comment on everyone else’s experiences, but I’ve been paid my first £30, and have rarely had searches removed (one or two, but they were repetitions).

They seem ok to me, although I think they’ve become a victim of their own success – I think they struggle to keep up with support and other contact requests.

Hey!
It’s a HUGE scam! Just like “SurfJunky”.
Now they started another site named “http://www.whitedotbox.com” by using the same company address. They havn’t paid me since last six months. Check this new site yourself. Here they said again they are tied up with search Engine “ask.com” just like mysearchfunds.
Hurray!!! They started their rotation again to catch more fish on the net!!!

I found them through a sponsered ad on facebook, a bold move if it’s a scam site…

Scam or no scam, all sites will need some kinda advertising to get started.
And I don’t think the ad hosts/providers are responsible for the verification of legality and authenticity of every ad that comes through. Unless it’s some really crazy ads like selling kids etc…
Just my 2 cents.

SO whats the conclusion?

They seem to pushed heavily by some people on forums, a quick look at digital point points to a member called ste1975 promoting them heavily.

If you have given your bank details to them, and also a password that is associated with either your bank account or email address I would change them with immediate effect.

Looks like a another MLM marketing scam, this time it looks like it is collect valuable data.

that ste1975 on DP has suddenly disappeared in the last week it wouldn’t suprize me weather he has something to do with HPF

Was NOT PAYED FOR AUGUST and alot of people have not SO IT’S A FECKING SCAM!

So this definitively is scam. Right?

It is a SCAM. Just a big liar. I had made 80 search on my first day but when i check my account the other day, IT WAS GONE! What the hack. Its not like I really care about their money, but at least their should show us some sincerity.. And for those, who’d claimed they receive they payment, congratulation. Or maybe you are just one off them, no one else. They said in their web site that it will take sometime before they can make payment to searchers. Okay, its acceptable, i can wait.. But what made me pissed off is that, they delete all my search count! This website? Is a NO.

WTF??!!! ive been using it for sum days and had sum searches erases, i hope to reach the minimum and den check if they pay. ILL LET U KNOW>

I have been using Whitebox since the begining of August and they seem very genuine. One of their staff lives in our area. I have only just reached the threshold for payment so am waiting my 45 days. I have no reason yet to believe that my money won’t come through. These funds were raised in the name of a charity using that charity number. We will see.

My Payments
Date Method Reference Amount
Total - - £0.00
Next Payment Due
Payment due between 15-30 September 2008 for searches before 1 August 2008 £21.79

as u can see it is past the payment time (by their own calculations) and still nothing.. so yes i truly believe it is a SCAM now

as for erased searches..i’ve not watched closely to notice if i have had any but they say duplicate searches will be erased

Except for the first comment (“They stole money”), I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a scam. Some people are getting full credit for their searches, some people aren’t getting any money, but no one is out anything. “Scam” usually means that you pay for some good/service and don’t get what you paid for. Seems like everyone is still getting their search results, which is really the important thing.

They may have a lousy system that doesn’t work as everyone expects, but bad service does not equal a scam.

I have never had any trouble with them been paid £433.49 so far from searching referrals, I have a down line of around 600 friends,

It now also looks like they are rolling out the shopping channel very soon,
With the home pages friends referrer a friend program paying out as follows

How Much Can I Earn?
Homepages Friends is a great way for you to earn funds from your own internet searching and shopping! You can earn even more if you tell your friends and they raise funds in the same way.

We share the funds raised 50/50 with you and your friends. What is great is we will pay you some of our 50% from your friends searches and shopping in return for you referring them to us! You can refer as many friends, family or colleagues as you want!

It gets even better! As you can imagine, your friends will want to refer their friends, so can you benefit from that? Yes! We will reward you, for three ‘levels’ of friends. The same will apply to your friends. Everyone wins! Remember, the funds you earn from your friends searches and shopping do not come from yours or your friends 50%, but from our 50% in reward for your referrals.
I would say all looks good for the future of Homepages Friends and this could be web history in the making,

About a month ago i say its a scam on this site but after sending an email to MyHPF a few weeks ago they finaly payed up yesterday ……………

to those who emailed them, what email address did you use? everytime i try to email them to remind about payment due me (thrice rolled over now, havent been paid since june) my mail bounces back. i was due payment for my june/july searches since end august. the bulletin said expect payment mid sept, was rolled over to october, then now again to mid november…. now november is ending and no news, no payment either, no bulletin either.

just because they paid out for a few doesn’t excuse them not paying out for the many who are still waiting. this does look like an MLM scam running out of the internet.

chine same here… they did email me back saying they arent a scam but that they were backed up in payments.. that was 3 months ago.. so im deleting their service now.. its basically a useless search engine for me.. google turns up more accurate results as for the email i used info@homepages-friends.com .. not sure if it works still

i have been using the site for a few months and i tried to contact them a few times but they are not replying so i think its a scam.

I Joined homepage friends back in March and by the end of July , I had reached my quota for payment. According to the rules, I was to be paid on the 15th of September. I’ve sent them 4 letters and each time they returned with a letter stating that they will look into it. It’s supposed to be 45 days and it’s been over 150 days and nada. My vote is SCAM!!!

Move on people, this site is a pure scam now. They don’t pay anymore. I tried to send them emails today and they all bounced back to my inbox saying the email address was a failure (it doesn’t exist).

If anyone has any news from them please email me at lilvietmimi11999911@yahoo.com thanks so much!

I would say that for Canadian HomePage Friends is definitely a scam. They allowed us to build up earnings and they without so much as an email they shut down all Canadians. A

And guess what?? They didn’t send us any money either.

Been due for payment for more than 8 months now. No payment still. Oh well!

I was actually paid by them but it was after DAILY emails and hassling them about not following what they advertise. The last straw for them was when i indicated i had read someone had been paid by them after proimising to pay half their earnings to a charity or something else. and that it seemed unfair that theyd have to be bribed to pay people the earnings they deserve.

However after receiving the payment my search values have gone down to nothing. i can do 100 searches a day and still earn nothing.

Now they dont respond to emails. theres no where to go to delete your account (and emailing them they dont delete it either.

I have been using it for 3 weeks not very often but since last week I have had 0 updates in earnings I Sent them an email but got notting back yet I will leave the banner for 4 more days and if i do not get a reply It’s Gone.

I used our local MySearchFunds from April 2008 through the summer of 2008.
In less than a month I made cca 50 British pounds, and 92 British pounds in total- and that’s without any “friends”. No cheating, either: it’s just that I am a researcher and use the internet A LOT.

A year later, I am still waiting to see a single penny of my earnings reach my bank account…

Oh, BTW: to those who say: it’s a scam, let’s “move on”… why should we “move on”?
After all, THEY did earn good money through our efforts. And if it’s a scam, well, then it should be prosecuted and punished as such.

Why are people so passive about this MSF thing, I wonder?

CLASS ACTION, anyone?

I have 20odd pounds built up through that site from August 2008. I sent them an email 3 months ago asking about this, I received a very polite and prompt reply saying they would look into it. But seriously, it’s almost a year later! I stopped using it when my payment didn’t arrive when expected, it became clear they don’t actually pay up and I found it much more inconvenient than google so switched back to that.

Your content is very interesting, bookmarked
regards khhudf

Big SCAM!!

MysearchFunds must pay me 15 Libras aprox… One day, I’ve a message about “we’re sad to said your countrie is out of us” and blablabla…
Well I couldn’t reach 20Libras but almost they would pay the poor amount of many that I have…and if anyone has idea… The Libra is bit more euro and in Argentinian Pesos it’s x5/6 aprox than in europe… so for me15 libras = $75/90 aprox… So, for many people 75/90 is few money, for me it’s a considerable amount…

atte

Pablo

Since the 18th August Whitebox have not answered the phones or responded to emails. Managed to get someone to go to their Pembroke Wirral office, whereby it was found to have been empty for the past week. About 10 office positions dispayed. Seems they may have runaway.

They had not paid us either at all4charities. Search income was for the benefit of charities too.

Message from all4charities.co.uk
Shop online and your favourite charity gets 100% of the retailer’s commission. No scam