It seems that the vast majority of online investing opportunities suffer from many of the frustrations and inconveniences that offline businesses do. However, online opportunities are visible to a much wider audience and can therefore be subjected to immediate vilification if things don't happen as quickly as people expect.

To some extent this has happened to me2everyone.

It seems that Gold Nugget Invest has been subjected to a blackmail attempt over the last few days. The admin has been keeping members informed of what is going on as they are keen to show that they will not be intimidated.

It seems that a hacker was able to access certain portions of the website and send out emails to members suggesting that they were part of a ponzi scheme.

It seems that Global Connect Pension Plan is very much in the finishing strait for sales of their policies.

Whilst this was a relatively new scheme to me it was already well subscribed and now it seems that it will very soon be closed to new members.

Anyone contemplating an online investment should also consider what steps they need to take to make sure that any gains are managed in the most effective manner.

Every now and again I will do a search for new (at least to me) online opportunities that are available. Most of them fail to impress as they follow the path of many others that offered much but deliver little.

One seeming exception to this is Gold Nugget Invest which is an online investment that uses sports arbitrage as a way to make money.

After a short delay Global Pension Plan have published a new update. Now that their site is back online it seems that things are getting back to some form of normality.

It's been confirmed that the necessary 100,000 member requirement has been met as verified documents for that number have now been received by the Admin.

If you have been interested in making an additional income you will probably have come across several newsletters or websites that provide advice and help. Some are little more than glorified sales pages but one or two do provide better value and can give you a helping hand in finding something that you might be interested in looking into further.

One of these value added services is Shortcut Bulletin from Agora Publishing.

Graham Laurie over at the Cash Master blog is currently trialling the Market Raider Plus software system from Ian Williams.

This is a forex system that provides alerts when to buy or sell a particular currency pair.

It seems that the Global Pension Plan website is back online although it appears that since many people are signing back in the response is slow. However, it is encouraging to see signs of life once again.

Having said that the site is back up I'm afraid there are no new updates to report on what is happening behind the scenes at the moment. As reported previously the last update announced that purchase of policies would cease after 30 June.

A new announcement from the Global Connect Pension Plan team has been published. It says that payments must be received by Monday 20 July otherwise money will be returned to the payment processor used.

Also, there is a cut-off date for receipt of signed agreements which is Monday 10 August. To be clear this only applies to the member agreement that needs to be downloaded from the site.