Posts Tagged with "e-gold"

Forex brokers that accept Liberty Reserve

Friday, October 24, 2008

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So much has happened to e-gold and e-bullion since I blogged about Forex trading platforms that accept e-gold or e-bullion. Both digital gold currencies have since experienced a sharp decline in popularity with e-bullion being completed “dead”. It is only natural that I provide a new list of online forex trading platforms that accept deposits [...]

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e-bullion going down?

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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Another digital gold currency seems to be going down for good. The eurrency community was shocked about the reported death of one of the e-bullion co-founders just last week but things seem to be taking a worse turn entirely. A paragraph on Wikipedia summarizes the trouble: 2008 Murder of E-Bullion principal and Federal Felony charges On Monday [...]

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How e-gold was brought down

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

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I had noticed that the GDCA (Global Digital Currency Association) website has been inaccessible for several weeks now. I was searching for blog posts about GDCA that might give me an insight into why it is down when  I came across a blog post by Pelle Braendgaard, titled: “How the Man finally brought e-gold down“. A [...]

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Cashcards.net is the new primary dealer for e-gold

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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Following the demise of OMNIPAY, CashCards.net is the new primary dealer for e-gold payment system. The following is an excerpt of a publication earlier this month, announcing the new move by e-gold: Since 2006, OmniPay the original primary dealer for e-gold, has been out of business. With the loss of OmniPay, e-gold® independent agent exchange rates [...]

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Norum Yobo Released

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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I thought I should highlight the fact that Norum Yobo, brother of Nigerian football star Joseph Yobo has been released by his kidnappers who had hitherto demanded for a $10,000 ransom to be paid via e-gold. According to Goal.com: Yobo’s Brother Set Free By Kidnappers Joseph Yobo’s brother Norum has been released, Everton have confirmed on their [...]

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e-gold’s privacy feature its nemesis?

Monday, July 14, 2008

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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 entities: [...]

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Are Digital Gold Currencies still viable?

Friday, May 2, 2008

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A critical look at the viability of e-gold, liberty reserve, e-bullion, c-gold, Crowne Gold, e-dinar, GoldMoney, Pecunix among other digital gold currencies.

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GoldKobo.com’s obituary

Sunday, April 13, 2008

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GoldKobo has announced it is going out of business due to fraud and the fact that e-gold has blocked its main business account.

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Making Money Online: Getting Paid via Paypal

Thursday, April 3, 2008

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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 gold [...]

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Is Cash Still King?

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

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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 the [...]

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Liberty Reserve & Alertpay account funding

Thursday, March 13, 2008

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

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Alertpay no longer supports e-gold withdrawal

Monday, February 25, 2008

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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 or bank [...]

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Alertpay now in South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries

Saturday, February 9, 2008

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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 world, [...]

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Dealing Spammers/Scammers a deadly blow

Saturday, December 22, 2007

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I have a friend over at “Yomi Says“.  We have a few things in common that I am aware of. Some are: we both blog, we both run web hosting operations, we both hate spammers/scammers! He even has a category on his personal blog called “Hall of Shame“, where he exposes some of the scammers [...]

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How to reduce Internet Banking Fraud

Thursday, December 13, 2007

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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 with [...]

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