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, [...]

Oui, e-gold now offers a French version their popular e-currency website. This would bring more folks from francophone countries on-board though some were using it even when it was in English only. This is long overdue if you asked me. All the same, c’est tout bien.

Graphcard sounded promising when it was first launched. It was poised to meet the needs of users in Africa as well as other “third world countries” where credit cards are not widely available to the general populace. Graphcard has been doing fine somewhat all this while but something that is really putting me off these [...]

This round-up first appeared at Global Voices. The past week turned out to be one that came with an interesting debate about the prospects of e-commerce in Africa. Oluniyi David Ajao started with throwing an insight into the popularity of e-gold (a digital gold currency) in Nigeria. Other online payment systems might indeed follow the [...]

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 [...]

A list of reasons why e-gold digital currency is popular in Nigeria: forex, hyip, mlm, web hosting, domain names and more.

So you decided to get into forex trading but wants one that accepts e-gold or e-bullion because those are the only means of online payment available to you? Well, there are many forex broker websites out there that accept deposits via e-gold, e-bullion, along with credit/debit cards, Paypal, EFT/ACH, cheque, wire transfer, as well as [...]

I have been using e-gold for about 5 years now and the journey has been quite good until recent times. These days, using e-gold has become more of a nightmare than anything else. e-gold is quite popular among regular Internet users in some African countries. I am sure of Nigeria, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. Why? [...]

Many Nigerians today dream of hitting a fabulous fortune from working on the Internet. While there is absolutely no harm in dreaming big, for some, it is sheer greed. Greed that makes them ready to believe just about anything they read or hear about making money online. A case in point is forex trading in [...]

Perhaps, you were a RegisterFly customer, and were paying for your domains and web hosting via e-gold. Perhaps not. Whatever the case is, I am selling GoDaddy Gift Cards for e-gold. With the e-Gift Cards, you can pay for any service at GoDaddy’s website if you’re their customer. ICANN has withdrawn Registerfly‘s accreditation as a [...]

In case you missed the news just like I did, be informed that e-gold Ltd, operators of the e-gold digital currency, now have an official blog at http://blog.e-gold.com and its blogger so far is their Chairman/Founder: Dr. Douglas Jackson. The closing text of the very first blog entry, read: Anyone remotely familiar with e-gold knows [...]

Commerce gold (c-gold), a new digital gold currency has debuted, but despite the features and potential, I have some resentment about the shameless copying of e-gold’s web site look-and-feel. They could also have been more creative with the name. c-gold is just too similar to e-gold. Aside the increased usage amongst other digital gold currencies, [...]

Other digital gold currencies have been gaining popularity and patronage over the past weeks, following e-gold’s legal woes with the United States Justice department. e-bullion and webmoney especially, have been seeing more patronage with online investment schemes and digital gold currency exchangers alike. The most recent move was made by CashCards Int. In a recent [...]

e-gold’s woes are not getting any better. The US government is constantly harassing them and so OmniPay, the exchange service of G&SR, is moving to Africa. Read below, a press release by Omnipay: OmniPay temporarily suspends exchange to transition to OmniPay Africa Effective immediately, G&SR will be leasing the OmniPay business to OmniPay Africa. All [...]