A bit more than half a year ago I got a messages from a friend here on Markethive who recommended me to sign up with Gramfree, a free opportunity that says it pays you for using it free and you can withdraw your Grams as Bitcoins or even as US $ with PayPal and other payment services as soon as you have a balance of more than 500 Grams. Today 1 Gram according to Gramfree is 2.69 US$ so 500 Gramms is today 1,345 US$. Quite interesting amount, right?

When I at that time checked the Gramfree Project as they call this opportunity, every scam alarm was on so normally I should have stopped there.

My Markethive friend was very exited about the Gramfree Project and when I checked on Youtube I noticed that hundreds of Gramfree users had made videos that showed how they withdraw their money. They said that so many users got paid that you should select payment in Bitcoin in order to receive the money as soon as possible but because the great number of withdrawals one could expect a delay of about two weeks.

Can all this be a hoax? Can they get hundred of people to make fake withdrawal videos or where these guys sitting there and make all these fake videos using fake identities?

I decided to test. It could be done quite easily using a few minutes a day in about 166 days. It takes that long time to reach 500 Gram if you don’t recruit. It could be two outcomes, either I would end up earning around 1,000 US$ or I should reveal quit a substantial hoax.

In early October I had reached the amount of 500 Grams and made a withdrawal. I selected to receive it in Bitcoin in order to receive the money as soon as possible. Below you will see my withdrawal in an image I made just a minute before I started to write this.

As you can see it is still pending more than two month after it was initiated. Don’t you agree that the Gramfree Project most likely is a substantial hoax. I promise you though that I will let you know here if the most unlikely payment should appear in my account some time in the future.

I also find it very strange and disturbing that people strongly recommend opportunities to their friends without a throw test first to make sure that the opportunity pays on a regular basis.

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Olov Forsgren is a retired software engineer with lifelong experience in marketing. He has been active on Internet since 1995. His hobby is sudoku solving, web development, social media marketing and inbound marketing.

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