Breaking News! Adventures4U is a scam!

Adventures4U isn’t the first website to scam it’s members and it certainly won’t be the last. This money making website that was created by Steve Smith, may just be the worse one ever. Sure, there have been thousands of other websites that have ripped people off, but none of them did it as well as Steve Smith and his family did. All of the signs were there. Why did 61,000+ people get fooled by this website called Adventures4u.com? Perhaps it was the daily emails we got by Steve Smith that screamed this site is honest! It’s going to be around for a long time! It’s not like the other programs! So why did 61,000+ people lose their spot in this revenue sharing program?

Let’s first start with Steve Smith and his explanation. One day we get an email saying that a hacker had tried to break into Adventures 4u last night, but have no worries or fears. They didn’t succeed and no one is going to run us off. The very next day and I mean the very next day after those words were spoken; Steve Smith tells 61,000+ members that his family is receiving death threats and he will be closing the website. So 1 hacker attempt won’t shut the website down, but a couple of death threats did? If they were 2 death threats to Steve Smith and his family, he let the person or persons making those threats, out weigh the hard working and good integrity folks that numbered-out at over 61,000 members. Does it really seem logical that you would turn your back on 61,000+ members, due to a couple of online death threats? Well that is what Steve Smith was hoping you would believe.

The truth is that Steve Smith is just a sorry piece of white trash that ripped thousands of people off; due to poor math skills, technical issues with Adventures 4u, and shutting down the site when it was most convenient for him. The warning signs was all there. The message on the homepage that read “This is a Panama Business“; when all the members knew Steve Smith lived in the United States of America. These revenue sharing websites, ponzi websites, randomizers, and other websites do their best to skirt U.S. laws. It’s illegal in the USA, but apparently a website that appears to be in Panama could get away with it.

Another big clue was when members would request their entire earnings for the week; which they had the right to do. It was their money and their earnings and the option to request 100 percent of your earnings was there for the taking. You would get subtracted some Ventures for doing it, but it was allowed by Steve Smith and his family. After one particular payrun, Steve Smith sent out an email condeming these folks for taking 100 percent of their earnings and even took steps to enforce tougher penalties on your Ventures for the people that were just taking their earnings.

A common clue with scam websites is the emails that tell their members NOT to send in a support ticket about a certain thing or issue. We got several of these types of emails from Adventures 4u. Yes Steve Smith, that makes sense, if you’re a member here at Adventures 4u and don’t understand something; then please don’t send in a support ticket. An honest website with a honest admin on board would want to help each and every member they could and asking people not to send in a support ticket is just rude and shows how little Steve Smith really cared about his members.

What did Steve Smith do with our money? He spent it! He even told this through his daily emails he would send out. One week it was a “badly needed vacation” and they wouldn’t be around to answer support tickets, but don’t worry, “we rarely take trips and when we get back, we will be back at it for a long time to come“. Just a few weeks later, a new email arrives saying “don’t send in support tickets this weekend, the family is taking a weekend vacation“.

I’m not sure why Steve Smith continues to say he never missed a payrun in 10 months. In the logic he uses, he’s not missed a payrun as long as you do eventually get your money. We had a certain time our earnings would appear each week. This was at midnight server time on a Monday. Often it would be 30 minutes or 2 hours past midnight when these earnings would appear. Hey Steve, even if your 1 minute late, you missed a payrun. The few times you were days late, you missed a payrun. The time we waited 8 days to get our earnings, yep you guessed it, you missed a payrun. Steve Smith did miss payruns!

So why did Steve Smith shut things down at Adventures 4u? If he was scamming so many people out of money, why did he stop? What ended the faith of Adventures4u.com? The website was slowing down; due to the 61,000+ members. The surfing there was getting slower by the day and he had to fix the lag every member was experiencing. This was the beginning that led to the end of the scam website we know as Ad Ventures 4U.

Once the computer programmer got to working on things, the site would have to go offline and shut down. So that the bugs could be worked out. Since members didn’t have a website to login in to each day, this led to fewer members buying Ventures. When people don’t keep flooding in or spending new money in this revenue sharing program; then the earnings are just not there to pay. A lot of people knew this, but apparently the math skills of Steve Smith didn’t. This is where he learned he couldn’t pay everyone their earnings, because the site had missed too many days, and there was just no money there to give back to members, because Steve Smith and his family was spending it. It was during this time he knew he would be closing down the program, but waited a couple of weeks before doing so.

Everything was running fine and people were buying up Ventures left and right; at least this is what our emails were saying 2 weeks before the website would be shut down. Then Monday arrives and members took a 75% pay cut from their normal earnings. How could this happen? No warning signs that sales were slow and purchases were far and few between. This is because Steve Smith wanted to pocket as much money as possible. He may have even thought he could slip this 75% pay cut by us. Not a chance! People left and right wanted to know why their earnings had drop so much without no warning. In his usual unbelievable logic, Steve Smith explained this dramatic pay cut quite easily. He simply took your earnings, I repeat “YOUR EARNINGS”, and invested it into his new Trading Gold 4 Cash website. He said this was a move to secure our long term future, so without ever asking his 61,000+ members if this would be all right, he just took your money and put it in the website. Several days later we would learn that people in profit would not receive any more earnings and there would be 1 last cashout for those that were not in profit. The final cashout was another missed payrun and Steve Smith blamed the payment processor Alert Pay for this.

Anyone that has seen the Trading Gold 4 Cash website, you know this is a website you could get up for less than 100 dollars and with a year of hosting paid. You need the packets to send folks and you could spend another 100 bucks getting you started off with a good supply of these. Steve Smith took 75% of members earnings to invest it in a website that costs 200 dollars to get started? I was only 1 of the 61,000+ members at AdVentures 4u. I was pretty low on the totem pole there, but my earnings alone paid for about $22 of the new Trading Gold 4 Cash website. Steve Smith and his family probably cleared close to $100,000 on the week we all got shorted 75% of our earnings. The money spent on Ventures after that and before we received the shocking email on that Friday that the site was shutting down, I’m sure the Smith family cleared enough money that put them over the $100,000 mark in a 2 week period.

Another big rip off we see these days on the computer and on television is the Cash for Gold companies. These companies will take about $200 worth of gold and send back $5 in cash for your gold. They create one way systems; where you send in your gold, and they send you back cash. You have no chance to bargain or deny the money they send you back. Once you send in the gold, there is no way to retrieve your gold back. This is the next thing this white piece of trash has went to and no surprise that Steve Smith is now running a Cash for Gold website. These websites make awesome money for the people that run them, but they are ripping people off. Don’t help Steve Smith continue to sucker people out of their money and you will get burned in the end.

The best way to combat Steve Smith is to keep up with him and warn people about his past history. He has already sent an email saying not to ask for gold packets if you don’t plan on sending in your gold. I encourage all 61,000+ members that got ripped off at Adventures4u.com by Steve Smith and his family; that they do send in for a request packet. Don’t pay no shipping costs, because these Cash for Gold sites are suppose to send you these packets for free. It’s not a large amount of money, but these packets are a small way of making Steve Smith and his family pay for the $100,000+ he has stolen from the people that use to make up AdVentures4u.com.

If you plan to join and help promote TradingGold4Cash.com; please keep these words in mind and these are the exact words Steve Smith said to his 61,000+ members at AdVentures 4u:

“You think I am doing this because I am a scammer? Think again, I am doing this because I cannot control the issues of hackers, scammers and the threats.”

These words were spoken by Steve Smith in his response to closing down the revenue share portion of Adventures4u.com. This was in an email that got sent out on 8/28/09. If he can’t control hackers, scammers, and threats; why on Earth would you want to join any website he is associated with?

There hasn’t been 1 email or even 1 sentence where Steve Smith has taken the blame for the abrupt end of AdVentures4U.com. He has only blamed others; while it was mine and your earnings that ultimately paid the price. Steve Smith is the worse of the worse and he truly is just a white piece of trash that has no business being online. I encourage all websites and TE Owners to look down on Steve Smith and recognize his scamming techniques and the shady business of Cash for Gold websites. Don’t allow his TradingGold4Cash website to be seen on your traffic exchange, blog, ptc site, or any other advertising platform. Surfers should report Adventures4u.com and TradingGold4Cash.com to the admin of these advertising platforms. They will take action once they see the level of damage Steve Smith has caused to money making websites and marketing online in general.