You might have received such email before, purportedly from Moneybookers. I receive such regularly, and even got one just this early morning. The mails look real, asking you to accept a payment or update your account information. Of course, the mail is fraudulent and will only lead you to a fake website that will keep [...]

Paypal has expanded even further in more countries in Africa, and other parts of the world. I have highlighted the African countries below: The new markets that can now use PayPal to send money online include: Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Belize, Benin Republic, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burkina [...]

According to DomainToolsBlog: Reports are flying in about RegisterFly’s implosion. Registerfly’s web site went dark for most of the Monday after the CEO Kevin Medina changed the root password and locked everyone out. It started earlier in the month, on February 12th, vice president John Naruszewicz threw the first major punch by suing the CEO [...]

As recent as the 3rd quarter of 2006, Graphcard users could transfer funds from their Graphcard to Paypal – but not any more. Though it was very handy, for whatever reason, Graphcard has removed the ability of its users to transfer funds to Paypal. Customary to Graphcard, no notice was given before and after. Before [...]

One of the most popular searches on the leading search engines like Google, Yahoo Search and Windows Live Search when it comes to e-currency searches is “paypal to e-gold” or “paypal e-gold”. This betrays a deep drive amongst e-gold users to convert their paypal funds to e-gold, or that some scammers/hackers who have managed to [...]

I found out (to my pleasant surprise), while browsing through the Paypal website yesterday that the service is now accessible in more African countries. The recent expansion of Paypal is not limited to African countries but my focus is on Africa. Hitherto, South Africa had been the only African country supported by Paypal. The popular [...]

There is no denying the fact that the Western world is far ahead with technology, nonetheless, web technologies. So many web tools/applications are out there that are irrelevant to African countries. Services like Paypal, Ebay, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Free SMS websites, readily comes to mind. It is important therefore that Africans can themselves build such [...]

BusinessWeek recently published an article putting e-gold in the spotlight, after its offices was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, in the USA. Read on…