HYIP Due Diligence – Investigate its History

This Step in Due Diligence is important if an HYIP claims to be in existence for some time. Since most HYIP’s only exist for a few months before they collapse, it’s no use trying to find something about their history other than what one can find on some monitors.
In the case of Elite Alliance.net with their claim of existing since 2002, however, some history should be available to prove the truth of that claim. In his interview with Paul from Money News Online Leon Reiter evaded an answer to Paul’s question: how did you manage to do it for as long as you claim without a functioning website and without any traceable record of your existence?
Yes sure, the registration certificate of Elite Group S.A. in Panama states the year 2002 including the following dignitaries:
TESORERO CHRISTINE DESGRANGES
SECRETARIO CECILE FERAY
PRESIDENTE ERIC DESGRANGES

From this data it seems that Elite Group S.A. is a family business. It is not the registration document for Elite Alliance, though.
Another search on Google may bring you to: “RED FLAG ALERT #2 - fake forex AND fake Rolex at the same address” posted on realscam.com. There you can find the IP address: 174.37.9.199

So let’s check this out.

Type http://174.37.9.199 into your browsers search bar and up comes: an Elite Alliance.net site. Check that IP address in Who Is, however, and it can’t be found.

Then check sitefile.org/replicacenter.com.htm and you’ll find:
This is a sitefile evaluation of the replicacenter.com domain that was registered on Jul 15 2002.Our system estimates that replicacenter.com has a revenue of about $3 USD per day and is worth $1,978.Our data shows that the site is hosted in Dallas, US. The website is active on the IP 174.37.9.199 and receives about 135 unique visitors per day. Alexa ranks replicacenter.com at 1,233,518 .

Oops! Something is really fishy here! Does realscam.com have a valid point for his post?

The two IP addresses given for replicacenter.com on Who Is don’t open up, like 174.37.9.199
REPLICACENTER.COM NAME SERVERS
Name Server IP Location
ns17.zoneedit.com 209.126.159.118 San Diego, CA, US
ns3.zoneedit.com 76.74.236.21 Los Angeles, CA, US

Has replicacenter.com has disappeared from the web? No, the site http://replicacenter.com/ is still online, so maybe those two IP addresses are constantly too busy to open up.

If you, as reader of this blog post, have an explanation for these abnormalities, please post them in a comment below.