ALERT: And yet another e-gold phishing email

Some minutes ago, I received another phishing email with clear intention to steal my e-gold account username and password and other information needed to receive access to my account. There have been dozen of such alerts I announced in my blog so I assume a real number of such attacks is much higher. I just hope the no one of my readers ever clicked on such link. So, spread the word around to people who use online e-currencies. At the moment it looks like e-gold users are under attack but we can't know when those criminals will attack other currencies.

Here is a copy-paste of an email I received. Or links are of course removed.

**e-gold Transfer Notice ** Inbox

							Reply Reply to all Forward Print Add AccountRobot_donotreply@e-gold.com to Contacts list Delete this message Report phishing Show original Message text garbled?
	from		"AccountRobot_donotreply@e-gold.com"		hide details	15:22 (55 minutes ago)
	reply-to			AccountRobot_donotreply@e-gold.conn
	to			me
	date			7 Mar 2008 15:22
	subject			** e-gold Transfer Notice **

** e-gold Transfer Notice ** You have received a spend of 36,81 grams of gold from account #2102119 (AlertPay inc) - Memo: B8RFF-3Q2AW-T4Y6M. Your current e-gold account settings are blocking payments from this type of account. If you wish to claim this gold fund anyway, please follow the link provided with SecureKey to update your e-gold account settings. SecureKey e-gold url: https://www.e-gold.com/?SecureKey=JF27WBG9HR3YT Claim your gold fund within 48hours, or it will be refused and cancelled. Please do not reply to this automatically generated email message.

ALERT: e-gold users received phishing email

Several times phishing emails were sent to e-gold users and it looks that more is yet to come. Different scamers search for an oppurtunity to hijack your identity. Hint is simple: Don't click on any link directly from email.

e-gold Account User Agreement Modification

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		from		"AccountRobot_donotreply@e-gold.com"		hide details	07:55 (40 minutes ago)
	to			me
	date			24 Feb 2008 07:55
	subject			e-gold Account User Agreement Modification

Modifications have been made to the e-gold Account User Agreement.
New Version as of 23 February 2008 are displayed below for your review

e-gold Account User Agreement
Last modified: 2008-02-23

THIS AGREEMENT SETS FORTH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH E-GOLD LTD.
WILL PROVIDE ITS E-GOLD ACCOUNT SERVICES. THIS AGREEMENT DESCRIBES USERS
RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS WHEN USING THESE SERVICES. USER MUST READ IT
CAREFULLY AND BE SURE USER UNDERSTANDS THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

3.7.1. Issuer will produce and maintain a Privacy Policy, which will be
publicly available at the e-gold website. In the event of any conflict
between the Privacy Policy and this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement
will control.

3.7.2. Unless (1) otherwise approved by User or (2) ordered by a court or
arbitration body of acceptable jurisdiction, as determined by Issuer or (3)
necessary, as determined by Issuer, to investigate suspected illegal activity
or violations of the e-gold Account User Agreement to protect Issuer or Users,
Issuer shall not reveal User's contact or identifying information or transaction
history to any third party.

3.7.3. Issuer will not store Passphrase in plaintext. No employee of Issuer will
ever ask for Users Passphrase.

You must agree to New e-gold Account User Agreement, if you want countinue using
e-gold Account.

To do this click link below to login to your e-gold Account and
select the appropriate button to continue using e-gold Account.

Click here to agree to New e-gold Account User Agreement

Please do not reply to this automatically generated email message.

ALERT: e-gold users again hit by phishing emails

Again new form of phishing emails have been seen on e-gold.com users mailboxes. This time with slightly different content and maybe even more persuasive. There is nothing much to say about this hostile attempts to take over your account. DON'T CLICK ON LINKS FROM YOUR EMAIL. If you do so, you can lost your assets. recently we saw cyber mafia in case of RTA, we are getting phishing emails on weekly basis, there a damn hostile world out there in online investment community.

The question is, can such things can be stopped. I wish I had an answer on that, but I don't see too bright future on such activities. Looks that many people are to naive and such attempts are successful. Therefor we should all expect more phishing emails in year 2008. Here is copy paste of the lastest phishing sent to my gmail.com account (clickable links removed and marked with red).

						Reply Reply to all Forward Print Add AccountRobot_donotreply@e-gold.com to Contacts list Delete this message Report phishing Show original Message text garbled?
		"AccountRobot_donotreply@e-gold.com"	to me	show details	22:47 (1 hour ago)

** Your e-gold Account Blocked from Incoming Spends. **

Items updated: Blocked from Incoming Spends
Time of update: 2/9/2008 5:30:32 AM GMT

A Block has been applied to your e-gold Account.
No payment can be made to this account while a block is in place.
If you have any questions regarding this block, please direct them
to your intended counterparty rather than to e-gold.com.

To remove Block from your e-gold Account, you must verify your ID
by clicking this link:
Remove Block from e-gold Account

This automatic email notice lets you know that modifications have been
made to the Account Information settings for your e-gold account. The
current settings for your account can be viewed at the e-gold website by
choosing the Account Info menu selection while accessing your account.

Please do not reply to this automatically generated email message.

ALERT: e-gold phishing continues

After last email when hackers try to stole my e-gold identity, I received at least two more emails. It is really essential, that every single user of e-gold account (and other account, like Liberty Reserve and so on), understand this dangerous activity of hackers. They send emails and want to make you believe, you have to update something on account. When you click on link, you recieve a hacked copy of e-gold site and if you start entering your account information, they stole it.

DON'T click on links in emails.

If you use webmail service like Gmail, use special option: Report phishing, when you receive an email like I did minutes ago - copy paste here:

AccountRobot_donotreply@e-gold.com"

to me

show details

10:58 (3 minutes ago)

Images are not displayed. Display images below - Always display images from AccountRobot_donotreply@e-gold.com

Dear e-gold customer, We regret to inform you that your E-gold account could be suspended if you don't update your account information. To resolve this problems please click here and enter your account information. If your problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a period of 24 hours, after this period your account will be terminated. For the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us. Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using E-gold in any way. This includes the registering of a new account. Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to E-gold. Regards, Safeharbor Department e-gold, Inc. The E-gold team. * This is an automatic message. Please do not reply. *

ALERT: Another e-gold phishing email

Some minutes ago I received another try to catch my e-gold information. NEVER click on such links. Here is an email I received (clickable links removed), if you got something like that, delete it. And inform your friends, referrals and downline on e-gold with all means possible.

"AccountRobot_donotreply@e-gold.com"

to me

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16:49 (2 hours ago)

** Necessary examination of your e-gold account address ** This automatic email notice lets you know that your Account Information for your e-gold account is incorrect and examination of your e-gold account address required. You must as quickly as possible verify your address. To verify your Account Information address please click on this link: Examination of e-gold account This email was sent from e-gold Ltd ( www.e-gold.com ). ABOUT e-gold e-gold is an electronic currency, 100% backed by physical gold in allocated storage, that empowers people to use gold as money. e-gold is integrated into a secure account-based payment system, operating globally 24/7, featuring instantaneous payment settlement with no charge back risk, at lower cost. Shopping cart, automation, and mobile phone interfaces are available. Operational since 1996, e-gold has settled over 79M transactions, serves customers in 165 countries, and has a circulation of more than 2.4 metric tonnes of e-gold. ------------------------------ --------------- Thank you for using e-gold! --------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated email message.

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.

My July portfolio

After negative experience from two months, now monthly profit from my signal is really small. Since my total investment (all time) is rather high - over $2000 and majority was lost in Privatefin, relatively small ($60) profit from only one HYIP RTA online investment is giving this the worst figure so far from April up to today. I must say a huge thank you to Max, admin of stable and genius RTA online investment who is keeping me alive in this rather hazardous online profit making activity called HYIP.

My suggestion at this time is, hold you money if you have some for a month or two. You can invest some in RTA of course, if you haven't any yet. Either way I am in contact with my good Internet friend from Indonesia, who has proven to be great Forex market expert. He promised to start managed Forex accounts at that time.

One more thing, as some are interested what happened with my "fight" against Privatefin Scam. After I sent e-mail to e-gold with details on my deposited batches to Privatefin, I received reply in less than an hour (they have really good support), the content of their reply I am pasting in here:

Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. We have investigated
acct #4465029 and have placed a block on their account which will prevent
them from receiving any further spends into their account. Unfortunately we
will not be able to refund your money because an e-gold spend is not
reversible as stated in the e-gold account user at
http://www.e-gold.com/unsecure/e-g-agree.htm.

For more information on High Yield Investments you may want to visit
http://members.impulse.net/~thebob/Pyramid.html.

Regards,
e-gold Abuse~

GoldEX website under ddos attack

Cyberterrorists had attacked GoldEX web, what makes it to go down. That's why some of the pictures are not shown on my blog too. Anonymous visitor also posted a comment, that something is not ok with payment, but it seems that this attack is the issue.

There is no doubt they will fix the servers, so if you have a pending order with GoldEX I think you have nothing to worry, just be patient.

Where to buy e-gold?

After I've tried different approaches how to load my e-gold account with this eCurrency, I found the right one. Fast proceding orders and top class support.

GoldEx worldwide eCurrency exchange - buy e-gold with credit card, bank wire, cash deposit, and Western Union. Full ecurrency exchange service includes e-gold, V-Money, E-Bullion, GoldMoney, Pecunix. Superior customer service and many easy contact options. GoldEx for all your online gold needs: http://www.GoldEx.Net


I just bought there more e-gold to boost my profit. Intially June profit % will go down, due to increased total investment, but I expected higher payout in a week.

GoldEx - e-gold funding by credit card

Structure of my April's portfolio

My profit in April was based only on two HYIP programs - RTA and Blue People. More than 70% of my portfolio was in RTA. The structure for May has not changed significantly.

The 19% profit was calculated as total withdrawal or reinvested profit in April divided by total investment in those two HYIP (all time).

Review of Blue People HYIP

Philosophy behind HYIP is basicly identical for all programs. If you follow some simple rules, it really doesn't matter if the program is ponzi (scam) or not. You must enter soon enough and get out before they run away with your money.

I am not saying at this time, that Blue People (BP) is ponzi scam neither that it is not a ponzi, but it is stable and relaviely safe to invest at this time.

What we have to know about BP?
- they are connected with GHPi Group which is running stable and online for relatively long time and that implies the fact, that BP can stay alive over 6 months from now;
- 1.6% daily profit (every day), minimum investment $50;
- my experience is, that they are paying ontime and fast, generally in less then 20 hours;
- they come from German spoken territory, so don't get upset if you see news in German;
- there is no compounding available, so you have to manage your reinvestments manually, your deposits are locked for 110 days;
- even tough site is using relatively primitive design, don't be afraid, as their investment plan is much better (GHPi background);
- finally, a wide variety of deposit options offers posibilities to invest from: e-gold, Bank Wire, e-Bullion, IOP-Payment.com.pa and World-Pay.org, that is definetly a good sign.

My plan with BP
Since I've entered into BP very early (that's very important and I'll keep you posted on hourly base, if promising HYIP and other possibilities of earning appear) in February 2007, I will keep on adding new deposits and reinvestments since my first deposit will expire or if I will receieve $50 daily profit. When one of this condition will happen, I'll start withdrawing all profits, except my initial deposits, which will be invested back. My strategy may of course change, but generally the clue to success in HYIP (to receive profits of the size I am quoting on my site) is to have a clear idea of your plan and discipline.

Good luck in BP.

Forex danger - trading with gold

Say no to gold.
For more then half year in the forex business I lost nearly $1000 of investment. What I learned from this lessons is, whatever you do, don't trade with gold. It is to risky and it can go up and down uncontrolled. Only trade currencies. But most of all, be sure to try demo with virtually money first!!!

Online broker is the key!
If you go for real money, don't spend in on bad forex online broker, which offers small minimal deposit, like $5 or something. Why? Most like it doesn't use meta trader client. And it have spread which will kill your profit.

Example of bad broker: Marketiva.
Examples of good brokers: NorthFinance - min. deposit $100 and Neuimex min deposit $250.

Egeneration HYIP

If you are experienced in this buisiness than you know: you should get into invest program fast and when it becomes hot, exit it. Egeneration served me good. From November 2006 up to today I've made clear profit of nearly 2000$ including intial deposits. This site gives you 45% of interest each month. First interest is in 5 days and it is 5% of your deposit. With some smart caluclating, you can reinvest from balance.

Nevertheless, my feeling is, that this site will go soon down. How soon, who knows. But it may be online for month or two.

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