ALERT: Phishing letter to e-gold users

I have just received a phishing e-mail with subject: Notification e-gold Accounts User Agreement Update, which is a very very dangerous. It is pretending it is official e-mail from e-gold, but it is not. If you'll enter your data on link, they will hack your account. BE AWARE! Always be sure you are logged to correct webpage. E-gold is using https protocol, while site you are forwarded on this pshising e-mail is under http. Spread the word!!! Protect your e-gold.

The messageI received is pasted here:

e-gold Users.
This is Letter from Dr. Douglas Jackson; Chairman, e-gold, Ltd.

e-gold and its Operator, Gold & Silver Reserve (G&SR®), including G&SR
exchange service OmniPay® in cooperation with the United States Government
and pursuant to a lawfully issued written request, from now we starting
verification of all our e-gold accounts.

e-gold operates legally and does not condone persons attempting to use
e-gold for criminal activity. e-gold has a long history of cooperation
with law enforcement agencies in the US and worldwide, providing data
and investigative assistance in response to lawful requests.

Click here to start verification of your e-gold account

I hope to have additional and useful facts shortly and will communicate
them when appropriate. I can assure you e-gold is up and running,
supporting its customers, and continuing to grow.

Dr. Douglas Jackson

This automatic email notice lets you know that modifications have been
made to the Account User Agreement for your e-gold account.

Please do not reply to this automatically generated email message.

ALERT: Liberty Reserve - fake emails

Liberty Reserve (LR) is a very good alternative to e-Gold, but today they announced in their blog Alert. Fake e-mails has been sent from some hackers, so be aware if got any strange email in the name of LR with this content (copy paste from their blog).

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Dear Sir or Madam,
Our security department detected an IP access associated with your account indicating your account could be at risk. This is most likely due to keyloggers, trojans, viruses or some type of malware on your computer. Please clik here for protected your account. we most likley won't be able to help recover your funds in the event of a compromise,so it is highly recommended. Thank you.

Regards,
Security Operations,
Libertyreserve
-- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DON'T CLICK on links if you got such an email. This reminds me on Blue people case, but this time the service producer (in this case LR) has done everything correctly, as there was no break into e-mail database.

Alert: What is wrong with Bet-funds?

A rather solid program, which was looking promising, has severe problems. After some days of unavailability of their website, they were back on Friday, with explanation of being bombed by ddos attacks. Everything fair and cool, but from yesterday site is down again. All signs shows that their domain name has expired a week ago.

To be honest, if this site goes down, I really have NO trust in either HYIP. Sooner or later they all die or better, escape with our money. In a way it sounds very pessimistic and also against HYIP of any kind, but yes, it looks that there is scam everywhere. And those, who try to be honest, are disqualified (case of RTA, where e-Gold deliberately tried to destroy reputation of honest admin) or they are too small to be seen in a huge box of scam junk.

I will continue to monitor the HYIP playground, where I've been over a year now. But my opinion on HYIP and other Internet money making has been very crystal by now:
It is better to lose your money yourself, then to leave some unknown scammers to take it away from you - just because their site looks nice!

Alert: Bet-funds website is not available

We can only hope that Bet Funds - Arb bets mutual fund website is down from some technical reason, ddos attack or something else. Such down times are never good signs, especially when not explained to users why it happened. Sooner it come up better, if there will be honest explanation, than BF is solid service. After all, I haven't made a preview of this investment opportunity.

My HYIP portfolio in August

My profit on August was similar to that one from July. All profit was made exclusively in RTA Online Investment program, and I made 2.75% of profit from all invested money in 2007. There were better times, I agree fully. But my scepticism has been so strong, that I can not trust any program for which I am sure, it is not scam. Not much choice then, huh? And apparently there is also not much help in my blog for investors in HYIP.

Additionally also RTA has problems with e-Gold, which was quite common problem lately, as many accounts were frozen by e-Gold administration. Admin of RTA showed against great care and responsibilities for his investors and there is no doubt RTA will be back paying and accepting news deposits soon (if not already). All those problems influenced profit rate on RTA, so I hope there are much better times ahead.

Scepticism and low profits of my investments makes me rather desperate. I am searching for more stable and controllable ways of getting more profit out of Internet investment business. Something must be done in here, why there is so much scammers, I don't know. There is a good news about Privatefin scam - their page is finally dead.

As soon as I found something positive, I'll share it with you my reader.

Alert: Is Roninvest.com connected with Blue People?

Some may remember one of biggest scams this year, Blue People, the HYIP in which I invested significant value, but my feeling was right and I escaped soon enough to get away with profit. Today I received an email from Roinvest.com - the site I never opened nor clicked on the link.

Since I do strongly believe, that this site is connected with Blue People. Similar as their database linked once (or they sell it), this author is using similar writing style, similar spelling errors and email domain name country origin is same as Blue People had and most likely GHip too..

I suggest to stay away from this HYIP.

The email contents:

	from		join@investor.de		hide details	14:21 (9 hours ago)
	date			16-Aug-2007 14:21
	subject			New HYIP! Whant to join private investment group?

Hello,

Join New private investment group!
And earn profits from your e-gold!
http://roninvest.com/?ref=Farn

Program stats at this time:
Accepts: e-gold
Started: Jul 17, 2007
Online days: 29
Members: 328
Invested: 54,276.00 USD

RON INVEST is an offshore company in Panama with a financial
license to manage 3. parts money. That means that we have legal
right to invest money on behalf of our members. RON INVEST is
owned by a Foundation in Panama for safety reason.

They invest the funds that receive from investors. The funds are
invested into high growth securities on all major stock markets
of the world. They also trade actively on the Forex market. They
do not limit theys operations only to online trading, they are
also involved in a number of offline investment sources that even
thought they are not as profitful as securities and currencies
trading, are worth investing in.

Investment group url is:
http://roninvest.com/?ref=Farn

______________________________

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This is not spam
You have received this email because you visited our site or one of
our partnered sites and commenced registration to receive our newsletter.

ALERT: Privatefin - can it recover?

Today I received an email (Received: from planet.blacklotus.net (planet.blacklotus.net [72.20.3.74]) from Privatefin admin with this context:


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Hello ***** *******,

We just repair withdraw system, please withdraw again , sorry about that.

Regards
Privatefin.com
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I thought it just happened - a miracle - and they will return my frozen deposits. But on the account same situation as in early June. I replayed with explanation, that my account is still not OK. We'll see what will happen. It could be just another trick to make people believe everything is OK. From my point of view, it will never be OK.

As soon as something new from them, I will blog about it.