Alertpay has quietly integrated a bank wire withdrawal option, for its customers worldwide. Withdrawal had hitherto been limited to cheque, Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) in select countries and e-gold which was later removed. Much of the world still had difficulties since most are not in these EFT countries and cheques are slow, risky and expensive [...]

At the risk of sounding controversial, I am making public a view I have long held before now: e-gold has a magnet for attracting criminals. I would proceed to explain. e-gold’s anonymity feature, which e-gold Ltd sees as one of its most important features is indeed a dream come true for all sorts of criminal-minded [...]

In the first part of this blog post, I discussed Making Money Online: Getting paid by cheque and explained why you should avoid getting paid by cheque where and when possible. In this blog post, I will be highlighting another means of getting paid online: Paypal. There are several forms of e-currencies. There are digital [...]

Nathan Vardi, writing for Forbes.com, discusses means by which one could move money anonymously. Digital currencies, particularly e-gold, was mentioned as one of the means: cash is king  4. Digital currency. According to the Justice Department, between 1999 and 2005 child pornographers, hackers and identity thieves made use of E-gold, an online payment system in [...]

Fund your alertpay, paypal, Liberty Reserve or Moneybookers account in Ghana or Nigeria. Pay with Ghana cedis or Nigerian Naira. Usually same day funding.

The following message came on the screen following an attempt I made this evening, to withdraw funds to e-gold from Alertpay. We regret to inform you that we will no longer be supporting withdrawal by e-gold. We have other great alternatives for withdrawing money for North American and International users. You can withdraw by check [...]

The last place I expect to read anything anti-Paypal is CNN Money’s website. 5 PayPal alternatives Sick of PayPal? Check out these e-commerce solutions for business owners. The article then goes on to suggest DigitalRiver, 2Checkout, Alertpay, TrialPay and e-Junkie. Interestingly, I had blogged about some other Paypal alternatives in the past whilst I was [...]

Alertpay has now extended localized payment services to Australia, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa and Slovakia. Alertpay is working on adding Bulgaria, Denmark & Faeroe Islands, Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Norway, Romania, Sweden and Switzerland on February 20th 2008. Though Alertpay is open to users in virtually every country in the [...]

So you want to exchange Alertpay for Paypal? Well, even though Paypal frowns at exchanging money from their payment system directly for another, what you can do is simple. Withdraw your money to your bank account and then pull the money to your paypal account from your bank account. Your bank account serves as a [...]

Two days ago, I did a blog post titled “Woes of a Nigerian Internet Banking Customer” with a promise to do a follow-up post, offering suggestions. Well, this is it. First, it is defeatist for a bank to cancel online funds transfer when it is possible to minimize the effect of fraud. I would start [...]

I was researching this evening, try to gather some material for my next blog post when I came across this screaming headline: AGLOCO Dead: May Your soul rest in pieces! I couldn’t help chuckling. The same Agloco that was heralded as been a potential gold mine for the army of wanna get-rich-quick Internet users? Geez. [...]

Scam emails have been circulating the Internet for sometime now, attempting to trick people into entering their bank account login details into a fake version of their financial institution’s website. This criminal activity is known in Internet security circles as Phishing. To drive-home the point, I am quoting Wikipedia‘s accurate description of Phishing: In computing, [...]

This blog post is a direct response to Erik Hersman’s blog post: The problem with e-commerce and online payments in Africa. Erik Hersman, a fellow African blogger, shared his thoughts about the need for an African e-payment system. He starts with a lamentation that is indeed true: A lack of true online payment options is [...]

Alertpay has announced that it would soon be launching debit mastercards for its users, very soon. In a recent newsletter sent out on 11th Jult 2007, Alertpay wrote: Keep an eye out for: More purchasing flexibility online and offline when we release in the next few weeks the AlertPay Debit MasterCards. (stay tuned for more) [...]

Alertpay is fast becoming the e-currency of choice amongst many users around the world. Its accepts e-gold, allows withdrawal to e-gold, it verifies the identity of its users, offers lower fees than Paypal, it has a great and responsive customer support, it is based in Canada, I cant list all the positive attributes here and [...]