Honeygain - Effortless Passive Income just by sharing your internet connection

The first thing to say is this is definitely NOT pyramid selling.

When nothing is being bought or sold, the commodity is you, the user.

The first few people to join the scheme, sign up a few more people and get referral bonusses from them. Those new people sign up others so they can get referral bonuses. Eventually, you will have people at the bottom of the pyramid triangular-model when no-one else wants to sign up and they end up getting just a few cents a day.

What are the legal implications of using the service? What if the bandwidth you provide is used as part of a Botnet in a denial of service attack(DDoS)? What safeguards are in place?

They do install a VPN so the user can't see the traffic being used, and they can't see the users traffic. They don't currently download malware.

Possible negative repercussions:

• You break the acceptable usage policy of your ISP and get throttled or banned completely
• Honeygain is bought by Evil Inc, who push an update to their VPN software which allows them to see your data
• Your bandwidth gets used as part of a DDOS and you are held responsible.

Yeah. No good can come from you voluntarily giving random internet people anonymous access to your device and internet connection (not to mention your account details so they can give you all that wonderful referral money)

No tangible evidence the company has done this. True.

The US government is concerned about 100 million users in America having the chinese-owned TikTok on their phones. What happens if Honeygain gets sold to a Chinese entrepreneur? Now the Chinese Communist Party have a back door into your home network. If I was to build a scheme like this, selling it to the highest bidder, and not caring what they do with it after would be my main driver.

Trustpilot. 13.5K reviews by people for whom there has been no negative side effect(yet).

I dunno, for yourself I'd definitely think twice about using this. Their own sub Reddit has people complaining that they've got banned and warned from their internet provider over websites they were accessing.

Think the below link should work. I've never heard of them until today so really don't have any skin in the game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Honeygain/s/KKBzZs8LNB

Yeah all of those 13k reviews are from real people and not bot generated lol.

Your public ip is probably being used for shady stuff at the very least. It might be used for criminal activity too. (Child porn, cyber fraud such as invoice redirection etc,)

Id bet that as part of their t's and c's they dont allow you to use your own vpn client.

For non techy people the best way i can describe this is its like letting a burglary gang borrow your car and taking money for it. Even if they dont commit an actual burglary.