Before you invest in an Internet get-rich-quick business, you should do your homework. Is the program any good? Are investors satisfied?

Your Money Machine Success System is one of the largest Internet investor plans, according to the Web site MatrixWatch.org. The plan now goes under the name of STA or Success Through Advertising.

The program allows investors, for an initial payment of $79.95, to buy "wholesale advertising credits" that equal what STA Chief Operating Officer Mike Hamilton says is $500 worth of retail advertising space on the program's Web sites.

Investors make their money by getting a percentage of advertising sales and by supporting the Web site with page views, product reviews and feedback to advertisers, he says.

Hamilton told The Watchdog in a telephone interview this week that STA and its predecessor companies have "paid out $100 million over the course of three years" ...