How to spot Ponzi: Investment part: 1. It's offering way more then any real life investment funds .... (Even somewhat stupid & naive people can spot scam. Ponzi way is to blindfold these people with insanely good offers) 2. It takes smallest possible investments. (serious business have support/administration costs and don't want 10$ invesment). 3. Ask yourself: Do I have some speciality that this "investment" needs? (Ponzi operator don't care who you are. If he does not require anything from you, why is he offering you 10x or 100x more then Banks?) 4. Is my 10$ really an investment? It's one meal in restaurant for Christ's sake. (Why would anyone gather pennies from thousands of people offering them insane ROI when he can get 1 simple loan for 2-4%/year. He can't bankers are not that stupid).
Ad clicking part: 1. Purpose of advertisment is to bring customer. (Ads on these Ponzi PTC doesn't bring any customers. People clicking are not interested in offers whatsoever). 2. What's the value of click? (Targeted traffic from China is worth about 1$ RPM, these are real people that clicked on targeted advertisment and are interested in sites product or have intention to do research about that product That's 0,001$ per real click of potential customer). Why would any AD NETWORK pay you 0.05$ if you're from India and you're not interested in advertisment whatsoever?). 3. Take Adsense. They have CTC, smartpricing and clickfraud protection, they don't want junk traffic brought to advertisers. (You see? no groups, no levels, no huge referral % offers, no packages, no BAM, no recycled ads, ... - these are bullsh!t rules)
Now I hear from you "NOT A SCAM, NOT A SCAM", I've got paid, I have payment proofs.
That's THE MAIN rule of PONZI. You got to pay people. You don't really need to pay most of them as they "reinvest". So they only think they've already earned investment. In reality PONZI operator still keep the money.
Now I hear from you "NOT A SCAM, NOT A SCAM", this site pay for 3 years. Most Ponzi last for several years. With insane referral program, it takes some time until widthrawals grew over deposits. That's moment when Ponzi operator close the site.
Yeah, you might think I'm too stupid to see opportunity. And you're investment genius so someone needs your 10$.
REMEMBER, Biggest Ponzi scheme lasted from mid 1980's to 2008, over 20 years.
You, gifted and fortunate investors probably never heard about Bernie Madoff ;)