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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 14, 2008
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: [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 2, 2008
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.
Continue reading...Sunday, April 13, 2008
GoldKobo has announced it is going out of business due to fraud and the fact that e-gold has blocked its main business account.
Continue reading...Thursday, April 3, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 13, 2008
Fund your alertpay, paypal, Liberty Reserve or Moneybookers account in Ghana or Nigeria. Pay with Ghana cedis or Nigerian Naira. Usually same day funding.
Continue reading...Monday, February 25, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 9, 2008
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, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 22, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 13, 2007
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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Friday, October 24, 2008
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