QUOTE(jeffayn @ Feb 15 2013, 10:04 AM)
I think people in nature is greedy and never learn any lesson, because if they do, how does a ponzi scheme can be used and repeatedly con people?
Either is a CHGS or GPGS or EWWOPS all is some strip color... but still I know people from CHGS jump in again to GPGS... ... lesson never learnt..

Came across this piece of news in NST:
East West going all out for scheme
Zaidi Isham Ismail, Business Times, 13 February 2013EAST WEST One Consortium Bhd is going all out to woo potential investors to invest in its planters scheme, enabling them more options for the best investment product as well as provide them with the opportunity to ride on robust crude palm oil prices.
The scheme is called East West One Planters Scheme (EWOPS) and is Malaysia's third growers scheme in the market.
East West chief executive Datuk Dr Jessie Tang said the scheme is capable of meeting all financial projections stipulated in its prospectus.
"We are meeting the projection as the East West One Planters Scheme is financially healthy to fulfil its commitment to investors," Tang told Business Times in an interview.
A fixed short-term investment scheme, EWOPS is different from other competing growers schemes in that it boasts an investment period of only six or eight years with guaranteed monthly returns paid every quarter and full capital payback at the end of the investment period.
Tang said EWOPS is not a get-rich-quick scheme, hence there is no investment pitfalls.
Since its launch in September 2011, investors in EWOPS have been warming up to the scheme given its ability to attract high investor confidence and commendable take-up rate.
"Despite volatility in CPO (crude palm oil) prices, the oil palm industry is highly sustainable and is poised to provide more than adequate returns in the medium to long term," said Tang.
She said although CPO prices have been fluctuating over the past 50 years or so, it will nevertheless point to an upward trend that reflects an increase in the global population with corresponding demand for food consumables including palm oil.
She said the ultimate secret recipe that will work favourably for EWOPS is obviously the Sabah factor.
"Sabah has the vastness of land for a steady plantation sector, of which the agronomic factors in Sabah - in particular, good soil with volcanic qualities, good terrain and year-round rainfall are most suitable for oil palm cultivation.
Today, 30 per cent of Malaysia's total oil palm plantations of about 5 million ha are located in Sabah and the hectarage is growing.
With a hectarage in excess of 1.5 million, some oil palm estates in Sabah are bigger than the state of Perlis itself.
At company level, EWOPS has a hands-on management team with relevant experiences in both the plantation and financial sectors.
"Additionally, we have access to clones of high-yielding seedlings and this makes good sense given Sabah is well-documented in the statistics of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board as one of the highest yielding area for the crop's cultivation (average of 20 to 22 tonnes of fresh fruits bunches per ha per year)."
She reiterates that payout returns for the EWOPS scheme is not based on CPO prices and that the scheme has to date disbursed five quarterly payments - with the sixth slated for March 31 this year - as promised in the company's prospectus.
These quarterly payments as well as the refund of the initial investment capital are paid directly to investors by the company's trustee.
In addition, should investors wish to divest their holdings any time during the investment period, the company will buy back any number of blocks, subject to the terms stipulated in the prospectus.
Moreover, after the fifth year when the oil palm trees are more matured, the purchase price is 100 per cent of the initial investment and in addition to the returns that they would have received every quarter from the time they first invested in the scheme, investors can rest assure that their investments are fully secured, she said.
"We are well ahead in terms of our planting schedule as stated by our independent consultant in the latest prospectus. Planters are welcome to track our progress by visiting our website at www.eastwestone.com and view for themselves our photo gallery and progress update," added Tang.
East West is a public limited company engaged in the oil palm plantation business, particularly the development and subsequent management of oil palm plantations and together with its parent company has a land bank of some 16,194ha of agricultural land in Sabah.