Quote from: supermoney on October 13, 2015, 02:09:20 PM

Quote from: james.lent on October 12, 2015, 01:44:21 AM

Quote from: leex1528 on October 12, 2015, 01:20:52 AM

Quote from: james.lent on October 12, 2015, 12:55:48 AM

the problem with it being called a scam is because the admins are running away with a small pot...

This isn't always the case, granted it happens. A lot of times a ponzi fails because of math, and the site owner isn't running away with anything. The whole idea is person 1 puts money in, person 2 puts money in and doubles person 1, now person 3 and 4 have to put in to cover person 2. You can see how quickly this will fail, my example is people putting the same money in.

Yeah maybe but those here run away with the pot. Everyone understands that ponzi's are bound collapse at one point but a sincere admin wont run away once his targeted balance is reached. That doesn't seem to be the case with the admins here though.

Not true, I've seen admins here closing without scamming. Oh by the way, sometimes an admin must runaway with a small pot because he can't afford to lose his investment (server, domain, DDoS, script and so on in terms of money).

Yeah, but rarely it happens.

When I see HYIP, I see most of them close and leave without a word. Those other ones that dont, do eventually end up doing the same at a later time which is the same thing.