jambutty

I have just registered and made a deposit of $10 in the Starton Global Growth Fund of Financial Active Investments HYIP.

This what happened and what I wrote to FIA.

I used the Spend link on the http://www.fiactive.com/?a=deposit page which led to http://3893783-e-gold.com/sci_asp/payments.php
Pay 3893783 (FIActive) Transaction 68745108
When I completed the required details I discovered that my deposit did not appear in my fiactive account and to make matters worse I also discovered that my E-Gold account had been robbed of $109.42 (0.174208 ozs). It turns out that 3893783 belongs to Donald Dakk and not to fiactive.

However according to my E-Gold stats the money (0.174208 ozs) went to 3927631 (e-gold) with the Memo: DeposittoFinancialActiveInvestmentsUserjambutty Transaction 73613104.

As the link on your web site took me to what was a false E-Gold account and I had no way of knowing that it was false I hold you responsible for my loss. Thus I would be obliged if you would credit my account at fiactive with $109.42.

Needless to say I have changed my E-Gold password.

Now dear reader, hold up your right hand and repeat after me,
“Before depositing money with an HYIP or any other site I will send them a contact message to ask what is the E-Gold account number and name.”

ollys123

sorry to hear that jambutty, theres some theiving swine about, but thanks for posting the warning.

jambutty

With the Xmas period and unattended web sites you must expect that those **!!** torags etc will be having a go at them and doing what they did to FIA.

But this hack is slightly different to what used to happen. Before you just lost your deposit because the money went to someone else and not the site but now you lose your E-Gold balance in total.

Of course it could be a deliberate ploy on the part of admin to rob potential members of their E-Gold.

If they respond to my contact message and accept responsibility then it will have been a hack. If they don’t respond or disclaim any liability then it has to be deliberate on their part.

stockjedi

Sorry to hear Jambutty, and thanks for the heads up. I hope it wasn't a deliberate plot from the admin!

jambutty

Thanks for the sympathy guys but I don’t mind bread and dripping for the New Year.

I will find out soon enough if the site admin is the culprit. They claim to respond within 24 hours.

I don’t think that admin did it on purpose. No reason to really. I mean they could just hop off with the cash any time they choose so why the charade?

However what bothers me most is that now that someone has done it which site will be next? These scams get sold around. What if we contact them for the E-Gold account number and something like that still happens.

Without actually making a spend I went through the process again. The URL http://3893783-e-gold.com/sci_asp/payments.php of the E-Gold paying page should have given me a clue because the URL of the real E-Gold paying in page is https://www.e-gold.com/sci_asp/payments.asp and the page shows the padlock. No padlock on the fake page. My first hint that all was not well was when I saw the Transaction number of 68745108 but by then it was too late. My most recent transaction was numbered 73588450 and I knew that 68745108 could not be right.

For the time being I’m going to use my secondary E-Gold account and transfer into it the amount I intend to spend (except I don’t have anything to transfer yet), then that is all that they will get.

kyteflyer

Damn. so sorry to see yet another way of ripping people off, and that you got caught by it

This last remark is most timely, I think. I set up a secondary account some time ago and I am thinking its about time to start using it for storage, so to speak. Just in case.

peterg

That's sound advice.

For a long time I have had a second E-Gold account which is 'private', in that the number never goes out to anyone or to any hyip site. All payments to or from hyips are made in and out of my 'primary' account, and I try to keep the balance in that account at a minimum.

BUT I keep forgetting to make the transfers back to the 'secondary' account and if I'm not careful then the same thing will happen to me as has happened to Jambutty.

A good reminder that you must never let your guard down for a minute in the hyip arena. If you do then someone will take advantage of it.
We don't call this the silly season for nothing!

jambutty

The 24 hours are nearly up and still no reply from admin.

Not looking good.

I’ll send them a pointed reminder later this afternoon.

gaby

http://3893783-e-gold.com/sci_asp/payments.php
Firefox currently reports this page as phishing, fraud page.