Bam Paid Review: XSharePro based Ponzi scheme
There is no information on the Bam Paid website indicating who owns or runs the business.
The domain ‘bampaid.com’ was registered on the 9th May, 2012 however the domain registration information is set to private.
As always, if a MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.
The Bam Paid Product Line
Bam Paid has no retailable products or services. Instead members join the company for free and then make investments with the company.
Bundled with each investment are advertising credits, which can be used to place advertisements on the Bam Paid website.
The Bam Paid Compensation Plan
Bam Paid members join the company and then make investments into the scheme. These investments in turn attract a daily ROI, paid out at a rate of 6% a day.
Investments are made in $29 lots, capped at $10,000 per account.
Bam Paid investment returns are capped at 345% (just under 60 days). The website also mentions a “120 day cycle”, but no further information meaning it’s unclear which takes precedence, the 345% ROI cap or 120 day investment maturity period.
Bam Paid also pay out referral commissions on all investments made by members you recruit into the company. Any investments made by members you personally recruit (your level 1) attract an 8% commission on the amount invested. Investments made by members your level 1 recruit attract a 2% commission and 5% on level 3.
Joining Bam Paid
Membership to Bam Paid is free, however members must invest if they wish to earn any money:
After you get a Free account log in to members area and click on the Members link then ADD FUNDS.
Free members who don’t add funds are able to generate commissions by recruiting new members and convincing them to invest, but if they want to withdraw anything they need to first invest money themselves.
Conclusion
BAMPAID.com is an advertising program which generates traffic for your sites and also rewards you for advertising. We are NOT an investment site we are an AD agency.
Despite the above claims, it is not possible to actually purchase advertising from Bam Paid without being a member. Furthermore, the company also states:
Its (sic) so easy just join and place an ad for anything you want then get paid on that AD and a % of ALL other ads placed.
Yet stresses multiple times all over their website that
you do not need to place an ad or have a program to make money just join, click on the Members link then ADD FUNDS to become active for payouts.
Next you can just watch your funds grow.
“Add funds” of course just being another way to say “make an investment”.
With no other revenue sources other than member investments and a daily ROI paid out of this same money, all Bam Paid are doing is using new investment money and re-invested money to pay out returns on owed investments.
Or in other words, it’s a text-book Ponzi scheme.
This is confirmed in the company’s refund policy, which states:
You are purchasing the text and banner advertising. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. NO REFUNDS.
If advertising was indeed being purchased by members, should they not use this advertising then they’d be wholly entitled to a refund. Of course when you’re paying out returns with money invested by new and existing members as happens in a Ponzi scheme, that’s not possible.
When new members stop joining and investing and existing members stop re-investing their returns, the entire thing collapses with nary a product sold by members to a retail customer.
Bam Paid runs on ‘XSharePro’ (image right), who credit their $200 backend script as being an ‘advanced revenue sharing script’. “Revenue sharing” of course being code for Ponzi returns, seeing as 100% of the revenue and returns paid out in Bam Paid comes from member investments.
Amusingly enough, XSharePro openly refer to member payments as investments on their website (‘xsharepro.com’), and also claim that
blasting ads all over the web is not always profitable; in fact, most people who advertise online are losing money.
The only way to generate a sizable ROI and potentially make a small fortune online is to sell advertising to others.
A bit of an overly general explanation of what happens in a Ponzi scheme but honestly accurate nonetheless. Well, perhaps except referring to the admins of Ponzi schemes as “gurus”.
it’s xSharePro not xProShare. so fix that.
Right you are. Got it right in the article, no idea why I fuddled the name in the title!
Cheers for the correction.
that was quick… 🙂
You were very right in your anaysis. Bam paid is now doing selective payment of only $10. It talks about new site which never comes up and everyday encourges people to buy more spots of $29 and $50.
What can I do with SCAMMERS on internet?
They are a scam, I have 4 Pending withdrawals for over 2 weeks now, and none of my referrals are getting paid either, and they have deleted all the tickets that I submitted and have not replied to me not once.
Good thing I only went in with $60.00
I have to agree with Jen. This outfit is a big SCAM!!
I invested $29.95 and from my daily ROI I am trying to withdraw $10 and nothing is happening. And yes, they deleted my support ticket as well.
Yeah, I had a couple hundred just sitting in my STP account, so I invested into Bampaid. The most one can “TRY” to withdrawal in 24 hours time, is $10.
I now have 22 withdrawal requests in dating back to Oct 12th. I certainly do not expect to get paid…but I have been bammed!
Bam has opened their new site for old and new members,the old members were told they do not have to join leading up to the new site opening,Now the old members have to join and be active (buy ad packs) to get paid for both the old and new sites, They have not been paying in the old site for 2 mths,
So this means to get paid you have to buy ads to pay yourself in the old bam , They have been lying and misleading for the last 2 mths,
Front Page of Old Bam site:
First come first paid tells me what a real scam Bam really is.
Looks like they ran out of investor money and are just looking for new cash injections.
Yeah… that’ll last.
I have great problems with BamPaid and have written to them and waiting on a reply. I would like to know where can we report this situation and try to get our money back.
I have 7 positions in the Old Bam and 2 positions in the new.
Thanx Ronald
Hey Ronald, good luck trying to get your money back. I have sent them TONS of email and support tickets.
In fact, my last email to them I just said “you are a serial scammer”. No response but soon after that, my account is now blocked!
Unfortunately for members, even the usual suspect HYIP ponzi forums have now declared Bampay dead and moved it to their scam department.
So glad I only test drive these kind of sites with minimum investment. We need to start blogging that BAM PAID is a scam. I will be.
Every support ticket I have sent has been deleted. Thank you for this site and investigating these kind of sites.
So far…. That will soon change….
WHAT’S THIS???
c’mon you stupid Bamscam Admin, make your mind up! Do we have to be ACTIVE in Bam2 to be paid from Bam1, or do we just need a USERNAME in Bam2 ??
It’s looking like he changes the rules every time he wakes up !!
Yes, it gives you more chances to scam even more money, doesn’t it?
I doubt it, Bamscam Admin…. Not all people are that stupid……
Spread the word ?…..Certainly !!
To all new members thinking of joining Bamscam2… (oops Bampaid 2)…. no, i was right the first time.. BAMSCAM2….DON’T JOIN ! GO AND JOIN ANOTHER PROGRAM ! THIS ADMIN IS USELESS!!
Just email that Bampaid is a SCAM, lol
STAY AWAY FROM BAMSCAM !
I put a disput on Bampaid in the end of September and they didnt even communicate much inside payza. They sent separate emails to me – once they laughed at me and told me that I will never get my money back but Payza told me not to give up.
It took about 2 months then I got my money back. Im glad I did coz if you say that you are not getting paid from the old bampaid I would have lost the money anyway even if I had bought adpacks in the new one.
I heard the new one is paying but it will stop eventually, I suppose they put the max withdrawal soon to 10 dollars there too, lool.
i put 30$ and buy 1 position but not have been paid yet the time support ticket also delete every time this program is 100% ponzi no body get paid.