My HomePages Friends Turns Back On The US

March 18th, 2009 Add Your Comments

First of all thank you to Mizz Mercedes for letting me know about this. It seems like My HomePages Friends (the get paid to search, search engine) are suffering from click fraud. This always seems to happen with any low value, high volume money maker. Things must be getting bad though because one of the countries that users can no longer use the service from is the USA! That’s right, because of click fraud My HomePages Freinds have stoppped accepting US users.

To be honest this is the first network of any kind that I’ve heard of actively banning US users. There are some places in the world (that I’ll not mention cos I always get abuse when I do!) that are very well known for having a large number of users who will try to defraud any system going for a few dollars. I never thought US users came anywhere near that category. In terms of the countries that you can still use MyHomepages Freinds from it leaves:-

United Kingdom
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Australia
Thailand
Singapore
Indonesia
Philippines
Vietnam
Malaysia
Canada

Sorry but if you’re from anywhere else then your fellow country folk have taken away the option of using My Homespages Friends as an income source. It’s a bit of a bummer for people like me who spent the time to promote the service in a niche that is dominated by US traffic but I guess that’s just the way things go. On the good news front at least they are making the commitment to pay out any money already owed to those people whose accounts are going to be closed becuase of this. They could have just closed the accounts and that be the end of it. At least by making the commitment to pay people what they’ve already earnt with MyHPF they are showing themselves to be genuine.

Paul B

2 Responses to “My HomePages Friends Turns Back On The US”

Project: Sugarbuzz March 21, 2009

That’s a bummer. I started using them from the US a while back, and eventually realized that I probably would never get paid. Click fraud aside, I had some doubts about them (I have been hearing some strange reports about their payouts, etc.).

I’ve actually switched over to SwagBucks. For the US, they seem to be a bit better. Heck, since we’ve been banned by HPF, might as well switch, right? Heh. Ah well.
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cass March 27, 2009

Honestly even though i’m from canada i find they have “turned their backs” on the whole thing. It took them 6 months beyond the payout date to pay me (and only after mulitple emails and indications that i was going to be letting people know that they dont pay without being hassled)

Since then they have had WEEKS where nothing counts for searches at all for earnings – the searches count but the value is zero. Beyond that their earnings given have gone WAY down.

I emailed them 2 months ago to delete my account – no response what so ever and my account is STILL there.
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