ollys123

sorry to hear that duyduy, it seems theres a new trend developing here (new to me) we shall all have to be very careful, this appears to be an easy trap to fall into.

jambutty

That’s what I was a feared of olly. A developing trend. Some unscrupulous admins, not content with just taking off with our deposits now want to help themselves to our E-Gold accounts as well.

As I stated before my counter is going to be contact admin for the name and number of the E-Gold account first.
Transfer just enough funds for depositing to a separate E-Gold account.
Scrutinise very, very carefully the E-Gold paying in page.
If in ANY doubt don’t deposit.

ollys123

just had a thought duyduy,jambutty, How did you come across these sites? i tend to delete any e-mail i have not requested,and usually only join something that somebody whose been around the block a bit is promoting, i know thats not foolproof but i think it lessens the odds a bit.

duyduy

Well I find it in a banner in TalkGold
They have forum too.
I read the forum first..

There is a person who is not paid. He write angryly.
but the admin fix it

So I believe it, and try to invest $100
Now the site is gone, maybe they change the site. Who knows???

Schminner

I've been through the same experience ... everything was completely wiped out ...

jambutty

I came across FIA in the GoldPoll.

FIA is still up but I notice that the spend button takes you to the real and genuine E-Gold paying in page, so something is happening.

I still haven’t had a reply to my two contact messages. Time for a third.

kyteflyer

Dear heavens, I do hope you are wrong, Jim. That would be just tragic.

In the meantime I have put my plan into action and transferred the bulk of my funds to a secondary account for storage purposes. This account will never be used for anything except to guard against the thieves.

jambutty

I hope that I am wrong too kyteflyer but the rogues out there are forever looking at ways to divest us of our funds. We cannot be too careful.

We all know about spoof emails and not to click in any link in them. We all know about keyloggers and use some other means to log in somewhere rather than using the keyboard. We all know about clipboard readers. We all know about an URL hijacker that places a Trojan on your computer and that alters your E-Gold Sentinel settings next time you log into E-Gold. We know what has become the next account stripper. What will it be after that one?

duyduy

Here is the email from egold to me, I can share with u all, maybe it'll be usefull

There are some very good security recommendations off our website under the security tab. You should review this information and put each suggestion
into practice. Also you should make sure that your e-gold passphrase is
completely different from any user names or passwords you use anywhere else on the internet **the same goes for your e-mail password**.

You can protect yourself by:

* Using another browser instead of Internet Explorer (IE). Firefox by
Mozilla is an excellent choice. You can visit www.mozilla.org for more
information.
* Do Not auto-preview incoming e-mail.
* Do Not open obvious spam.
* Do run a full virus scan regularly.

In addition there are three security recommendations we would like to make
to you in case you are not currently doing them.

1. You may want to consider book marking the e-gold IP address versus the
URL as your e-gold bookmark and only access it via your bookmark. The IP to
bookmark is https://209.200.169.10. The reason for doing this is there are
viruses such as this one:
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/defa...n&virus_k=99469 that plant fake entries in the host file which windows then uses instead of the correct IP address for the site. Using the e-gold IP address versus the URL will bypass this type of Trojan. Also, never access your e-gold account via an email message even if the message appears to come from e-gold.

2. Always use the SRK feature to access your e-gold account never type it
in! You should first change your passphrase using the SRK feature. If your
passphrase is changed using the "SRK" feature and the account is only
accessed using the "SRK" feature, then your passphrase will be protected
even if there is a Trojan virus on your computer. However, this is true
only if you are at the correct e-gold site. To ensure you are always at the
e-gold site, you may want to click the box next to your account number on
the login page that says, "Store my account number on my computer". In the
future when you attempt to log into your account and if the account number
is not displayed, you should be wary of entering your passphrase because you
may be at a fake e-gold site.

a. Log into your account using your current passphrase.
b. Click on the button that says, "account info"
c. Scroll down to passphrase box and click in the box.
d. Click on the button that says SRK
e. A small window will pop up on your screen
f. Enter your new passphrase by clicking on the numbers, letters or symbols in the pop-up window. You will see *** being added to the passphrase box as you use your mouse to click on the numbers, letters or symbols. *See note
g. When ready to confirm your passphrase click on the arrow on the bottom right hand corner of the pop-up window.
h. Confirm new passphrase using the same procedure you followed in item #6.
i. Click update passphrase.

*Note: For upper case letter click on the upper case "ABC", for lower case
letters click on the lower case "abc", for numbers click on the "123", for
symbols click on the "sym"

3. If you are making a spend via the e-gold shopping cart interface (SCI)
always confirm you at the actual e-gold site. To verify you are at the
actual e-gold site when using the SCI spend page, double click on the gold
security lock and verify that the certificate was issued to www.e-gold.com
and that the certificate was issued by verisign and is valid from 11/20/2006
to 12/1/2009. You can also review the certificate details and make sure the
certificate serial number is: 7872 5754 6288 71BC 999A 7DB1 466E 9313.

Regards,
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