Update July 1, 2015: This site is only a time-waster. Be happy that you wasted only time and not money by participating at this sites hosted in the Ukraine for the case you signed up already. If you did not sign-up then use your time for something better
The reason is described in the article Phishing: Survey & News Sites hosted at the Ukraine.
trastnews.com is hosted in the Ukraine (IP; 195.54.162.155, Coutry: Ukraine, Region: Vinnyts'ka Oblast, City: Vinnytsya, ISP: Pe Dobrogivskiy Muroslav Petrovich), uses the same privacy protection service like tempoquiz.com, whosurvey.com, vacantsurvey.com, multitrendo.com and wheresurvey.com. The domain got created June 19, 2015 (10 days ago).
For registering with trastnews.com you need to enter the following personal information: First name, Last name and one of the payment system ID's from PayPall, Payza or Scrill. The registration is free of charge and there is no membership fee.
The pay out works at trastnews.com individually during 14 days if you have a minimum sum on your balance $2300, before inquiring for pay out you should be sure that you have got a minimum sum and check your payment information.
For the affiliate program of trastnews.com you need to involve new users through your individual affiliate link. You get a profit $35 for every involved user and 15% of his daily earnings.
The news, which you need to read, are looking like the following one:
Texas attorney general says judges can deny same-sex marriage licenses - USA TODAY
After reading news, solve a simple math task and get your bonus. You need not follow the links inside the news - in the above case are the news links from USA today and Google News. I cannot say how many news you can read daily and in which frequency the news are changing. After signing today up I could read 15 news today and got $ 105 accounted.
At the About Company site from trastnews.com is written:
The company was founded in Brooklyn, NEW YORK city in 2014. At present it is one of the leading news agency of the USA.
News sites which want to increase the quantity of customers and raise their rating, appeal to trastnews Company. We successfully work on the territory of the USA and in many European countries.
Exact the above statements are that what makes trastnews.com very suspect:
- A newly founded news company (maybe a little bit more than one year old) will be not able to be one of the leading news companies in the USA in this time.
- An U.S. news company will not wait more than one year for registering their own domain
- A leading U.S. news company will have more content on their site
- An U.S. news company will not host their website in the very difficult region part of the world - the Ukraine and use the Russian domain registry organization.
A leading U.S, news company would be proud about their name and will not hide herself behind an Australian privacy protection service
- A leading U.S. news company will have a better Alexa global ranking then trastnews.com:
| |
| IP Address |
Country |
Region |
City |
ISP |
| |
| 195.54.162.155 |
Ukraine  |
Vinnyts'ka Oblast' |
Vinnytsya |
Pe Dobrogivskiy Muroslav Petrovich |
The following suspicious sites are hosted at the same server - the percentage value is the trust rating:
trendonews.com....0%
start-surves.com....0%
starts-survey.com....0%
start-surveys.com....0%
direxnews.com....0%
start-survey.com....0%
ok-quiz.com....0%
novvest.com....0%
onopros.com....0%
qualyquiz.com....0%
oproska.com....0%
globynews.com....0%
unnonews.com....0%
iorkquest.com....0%
prevopros.com....0%
okanket.com....0%
tempoquiz.com....0%
The domain registry data from trastnews.com:
Domain name: trastnews.com
Domain idn name: trastnews.com
Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.reg.ru
Registrar URL: https://www.reg.com/
Registrar URL: https://www.reg.ru/
Registrar URL: https://www.reg.ua/
Updated Date: 2015-06-19
Creation Date: 2015-06-19T09:55:07Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-06-19
Registrar: Domain names registrar REG.RU LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 1606
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@reg.ru
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +7.4955801111
Registrant Name: Domain Admin
Registrant Organization: Privacy Protection Service INC d/b/a PrivacyProtect.org
Registrant Street: C/O ID#10760, PO Box 16 Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator
Registrant City: Nobby Beach
Registrant State/Province: Queensland
Registrant Postal Code: QLD 4218
Registrant Country: AU
Registrant Phone: +45.36946676
Registrant Email: contact@privacyprotect.org
Admin Name: Domain Admin
Admin Organization: Privacy Protection Service INC d/b/a PrivacyProtect.org
Admin Street: C/O ID#10760, PO Box 16 Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator
Admin City: Nobby Beach
Admin State/Province: Queensland
Admin Postal Code: QLD 4218
Admin Country: AU
Admin Phone: +45.36946676
Admin Email: contact@privacyprotect.org
Tech Name: Domain Admin
Tech Organization: Privacy Protection Service INC d/b/a PrivacyProtect.org
Tech Street: C/O ID#10760, PO Box 16 Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator
Tech City: Nobby Beach
Tech State/Province: Queensland
Tech Postal Code: QLD 4218
Tech Country: AU
Tech Phone: +45.36946676
Tech Email: contact@privacyprotect.org
Name Server: ns1.reg.ru
Name Server: ns2.reg.ru
DNSSEC: Unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2015-06-30T04:22:09Z <<
Update July 1, 2015: The payout has yesterday increased to $9.10 per viewed news. My balance has increase in the last 24 hours from zero to $756 by reading 90 news. Before I don't reach the payout limit and see the money at my Paypal account, I'll not recommend the system.
Take a look at my reports about
and compare the data it by yourself.
Update July 5, 2015: Since yesterday morning the site trastnews.com does not update their news already. My actual earnings are $2,121 for reading 240 news. This behavior shows only which methods are getting used to avoid a payment. A rogue who thinks evil of it. :)
Update July 6, 2015: I have reached the minimum payout and made a payout request. I don't expect a payment, but for making a serious report I need to give them a try. I'll update this posting as soon as I get the money on my Paypal account or the 14 days waiting time are over.
| Data |
Account number |
Sum |
Status |
| 2015-07-06 03:20:10 |
RFAIX@WWPA.COM |
$2394 |
in processing |
Update July 20, 2015: I did not receive more than a phishing email for my paypal account.
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