Givers Forum is another giving scheme that replicates the popular MMM. GF also functions the same way like MMM, where participants Provide Help (PH) and earn 40% of what they PH in 30 days. They can get help (GH) in 9 days.Failed Promises
PH/GH
Immediately you register on GF, and make a PH, you will receive a message that you will be paired in 6 days, however I have noticed that participants never get paired in 6 days. Many have waited up to 20 days to be paired and some never get paired at all.
TRANSACTION
While some people have been paired and made the necessary donation to avoid been blocked, the system got them paired with a new set of people again to repay the same amount they have previously concluded. Since this is a glitch in the system, many will refuse to make double payment and send complaints to the admin's info@giversforum.com but will never get a response until they get suspended.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
This scheme has zero customer service. The team appears to be inexperienced in online business. Since most web businesses are faceless, the best way to look credible to users is by providing a responsive customer service. I expect that the owners of this scheme will put up a more advance and organised customer support rather than have everyone send complaints to a single mail. That is way too disorganised.
WEBSITE INEFFICIENCY
In the recent days, the website has gone offline for several times and came with more pain whenever it comes back up. Some users have been deregistered after website came back up, some had their PH removed, some lost their referrals, some transactions reset,etc. This could signal the future of this scheme as they may just go offline one day when there is too much money in the system. This is where a good cutomer service would have been valuable. At least tell participants what is going on.
FOUNDER OF GIVERS FORUM
I am yet to find out who owns this scheme as the whois I did run on all the sites show that the owners did private registrations for the websites. The scheme currently has 3 websites registered with 3 different registrars but hosted on one single server which is BLUEHOST. The first website www.giversforum.com was registered in August, 2016. Here is info I found.
Domain Name: GIVERSFORUM.COM
Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, LLC
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 440
Whois Server: whois.wildwestdomains.com
Referral URL: http://www.wildwestdomains.com
Name Server: NS1.BLUEHOST.COM
Name Server: NS2.BLUEHOST.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 18-oct-2016
Creation Date: 02-aug-2016
Expiration Date: 02-aug-2017
>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:04:51 GMT <<<
Domain Name: GIVERSFORUM.NET
Registrar: FASTDOMAIN, INC.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1154
Whois Server: whois.fastdomain.com
Referral URL: http://www.fastdomain.com
Name Server: NS1.BLUEHOST.COM
Name Server: NS2.BLUEHOST.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 20-nov-2016
Creation Date: 17-oct-2016
Expiration Date: 17-oct-2017
>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:05:21 GMT <<<
Domain Name: GIVERSFORUMOFFICE.NET
Registrar: TUCOWS DOMAINS INC.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 69
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: http://www.tucowsdomains.com
Name Server: NS.INMOTIONHOSTING.COM
Name Server: NS2.INMOTIONHOSTING.COM
Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok
Updated Date: 20-nov-2016
Creation Date: 20-nov-2016
Expiration Date: 20-nov-2017
>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:10:23 GMT <<<
I am still watching closely this scheme for its credibility. I will be updating this page often once I have a new finding. Please do check this page often.
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