So one of my buddies, Benjamin Chow, told me today that he was freshly involved in a new organization called Proventus Entrepreneurship Group. Their mission is to apparently help poor people in India live a better life.

Benjamin wanted me to write about Proventus in my blog, and I thought it would result in an interesting blog post, so I decided to take his suggestion.

The founder of this group (not Ben) is an individual who, in the past, has asked me for personal help but had different underlying intentions and deceived me. However, regardless of who the founder is and how moral or immoral he may really be, I think Proventus is a joke, and was most likely made as a résumé filler.

Their revolutionary concept for the website is that the more money they raise, the more they can help poor Indians.

Because that’s not common sense at all.

The website is ranked as one of the worst websites I’ve seen. Not only is it poorly formatted and laid out, the content looks like it was written by a high school freshman who is trying to impress his English teacher by combining multiple (and not directly related) thoughts into massive sentences.

And of course, the advertisements.

In today’s era, free web hosting with no forced advertisements is so abundant that companies are starting to give you free gifts to use their free hosting. But no, Proventus is too good for free web hosting with no ads. They have to use some random website hosting company called Biz.ly that forces you to have adver­tisements all over your pages.

The best part? It’s Biz.ly that’s getting all the revenue from those ads, not the person who owns the web­site.

Good luck convincing people that you’re a charity website if your website subdomain has .biz in it (which is representative of “business”) and you have advertisements all over the place.

Want to see how horrible this website is for yourself? You can find it at Proventus.biz.ly. I don’t even want to turn that into a link because I’m afraid that someone might think I’m endorsing it (which, I guarantee you, I’m not). If you’re too late and that website doesn’t exist anymore, it’s most likely because it failed and they gave up on it. Which, I’m sure, will happen very soon.