I seem to remember, after the article in Wired in October 2001 : http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.01/egold.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=
"In Gold we Trust" There was a debate about the percentage of real e-gold business versus Ponzi and HYIP games. It seemed that no one really was able to find an answer. I just came across something interesting. As we all recall: ----------begin quote----------- For his part, Jackson vigorously denies HYIPs account for anything approaching a substantial portion of e-gold traffic. "These are piddly-ass little things," he says. "When you actually run one of these things down, they're pathetic." Still, he concedes, they're a PR liability, and he and his staff have been working hard to squeeze them out of the system. -----------end quote------------ Please see the following URL to see how many gold related " games" seem to be either under investigation or in trouble with certain authorities: http://www.victimsagainstscams2.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=17&topic=1 Can any of the exchange providers comment on this? Are you familiar with any of these? ----------begin quote-------- The below list are companies that either have litigations against them, will have litigations against them soon, have had complaints against them, or are suspect companies to be aware of. Most are pyramid and ponzi schemes.: Updated February 24th., 2002 C&D = Cease and Desist (Usually listed in litigation area, and/or in reply area below) Litigation = Case against them. (Usually listed in litigation area, and in reply area below) $2.00 Rally.virtualempire $20.00 Miracle 1.50 Matrix - McConnell Enterprises 100 Club Gifter 150 Dollar Bills 168.144.140.210 - gateway (the private investment group) 1einvest 2 Day Slim Down 2002StockReport 2dollarralley 2xmax 30 Days Of Gold 4oneupclub (C&D) 5 to 8 50% for 4 weeks 50-50-50.com 5Percent60Days 8 days of pure gold 916.150m Aciimoney Active Gold Add to Your Gold alevelforeveryone Allgold4us Amazing Gold Amegamatrix Americana Oil and Gas Corporation (C&D Issued) AMORTIZED CREDIT AND GOLD INVESTMENTS Angel Kisss Art Speculation - NEW ashlaws Atlas Financial Corp (C&D issued) ATLAS FINANCIAL CORPORATION Avalon2015 (C&D Issued) Back On Track (BEWARE!!! Ponzi) Back on Track (BOT - going down soon?) BatchGame2000 bestdealz2002 bewealthy Big Gold Machine BigMoneyMatrix Black Label BLIG (Big Line Investing Group) Blue Shark (Currently Under Investigation by USPIS - Postal Inspector) Blue Star Entertainment (C&D Order) Bottom Line Oil & Gas Company (C&D issued) Bradshaw Program Burchett Oilco Inc (C&D Issued) Candy Capital Building Club Capital Growth Investment Group Caruba International (litigation) Cash Blast Off Cash Flow Club Cash Flow Generator Cash Plan 11 CashBlast CGIGroup Champ Oil Co (C&D issued) Champion Partners and Associates, Inc. (C&D Issued) Che-ching Christmas Gold 2001 ChristmasPresents4U CKO clik.to/wealthfund (C&D) Club Pecunia coastalclub colonial-investment-trust Compound Magic Compounding Gold. CONCEPT-ONE coriolisgold Costa Gold COSTAGOLD Crazy 888 Creative Products 2000 (C&D Issued) Crystal Capstone crystalbreezegold CrystalBreezeInvestments cybergold cycle.at/tuc DailyGolds DaytraderGoldPlus DDS INDUSTRIES, LTD DebtZero DIGITAL STOCKS (newest one - remember the last crash? If you're a victim of this one, we would like to hear from you.) Direct Gold.net DOLLAR DAYS DOLLAR SIMULATION Double Dollar - NEW Double your Gold Doubledollarmatrix Doublin Doubler - NEW DPA Dream Maker Network Dreams of Quik Gold - NEW dreamteam E Gold Doctor Earn a Check Earnacheck ecoquestintl E-Currency Investment Group EDA Marketing (domesticdollars.com) EEBIZ VENTURES (Litigation) EGOLD BULLION E-gold pumping EgoldHaven E-GoldOpportunities Egoldpumping Now! El Dorado 2002 El Niņo 2002 Emeral Gold USD Emerald Gold E-moneyPartner? (Litigation) Encore Gold Enduring Gold enduringgold2u Enterra Marketing Service (litigation) EscapeAlcatraz EUROGOLD PROGRAM 2 Evening Gold x2 Ever-Lasting Gold Prelude (EG Prelude) everlasting-gold Excalibur Assett Management EZ Way Gold EzAuction Plus ez-gold.com ezzebiz Fantasy Stock Game (If you've lost money in this one, please contact us. Currently under investigation, C&D.) fantasygoldus Fast Gold Game 2002 Financial Marketing Service (litigation) fivetonine Forex Inc formortg Fortune Maker Foundations of Wealth Free Cars 4 u Free Gold Is Fabulous FSI FXTGroup gamebookers Gateway to Gold GDS (Gold dust Storm) GDS2001 Genesis GenuineWages gerolav Giftclubusa (Gifting club - pyramid) Gifting Magic (Gifting club - pyramid) Glimmering Gold GlittersGang Global 2 You, Inc. (litigation) Global Investment Group (GIG) Globe Street Globe Street Virtual Stock Market (C&D coming?) Go 4 Gold Go4GoldIn2002 Going Platinum (Currently under investigation by the S.E.C. and other various agencies. C&D may be due to be issued soon?) If you're a victim of this one, we would like to hear from you. Gold 4 All Gold Addiction Gold Back At You - NEW Gold Blaster Gold Canyon 2001 Gold Capsule (C&D) Gold Cascades Gold Cascades (1) (C&D) Gold Cascades (2) (C&D) Gold Chronicals Gold Club 5 Gold Express Gold Fever Gold for You 2002 Gold Fortune Investments Organization Gold Game Challenge Gold Go Round Gold High Rollers Gold Holdings.i8 Gold Host 4 U (wealth group) Gold Increase Gold Investment Group Gold Low Rollers Gold Madness Gold Matrix Gold Mid Rollers Gold Motivation Gold Motivation (planetx.mail.com) Gold -N- Eight Gold Oasis Gold Portfolio Gold Pylon Limited (C&D coming?) Gold Returns Gold Rocket 2002 Gold Solutions Gold Special 2 (no longer active - had them shut down.) Gold Spotlight Gold Spotlight - The Original Gold Stock Gold Tails Gold Treasure gold_in_days gold_pleasure Gold1848 Gold4Uin2002 GoldAddiction goldaholicsanonymous Goldbreak 2 Goldcafe GoldCascades Goldclub 5 Golden Candy Golden Candy Group Golden Chance Golden Jubilee Golden Key Golden Seed Golden Seed - NEW Golden Shares GoldenEggs.20fr goldenjubilee4u Golden Ladders (had removed) goldenmadness goldennights2002 Goldenpleasure Goldfix goldgifts GoldGiveAway goldinvstment GoldLoader Goldmadness goldmarathon Goldmasters Goldmasters1 goldmatrix (new one) GOLDNEIGHT/goldneight.msnw Gold-O-Matic GoldPitch gold-resource (loaded with the schemes.) goldshaker Goldspill Goldstrike Goldstrike2 goldtails grabthatgold2002 GramsofGold Group-Invest Guaranteed Loans hard-cold-cash HG10 Game and HG10Game2 High Five Egold High Mid Rollers High Yield Pool High-Yields.com HolidayGold.Tripod Honest Gold hyo-club. Iamthedreamer IFAMD /IFA (Cease & Desist issued via PA. SEC.) Income Ventures (C&D Issued) Inda Gold independentstockportal independentstockportal.com2 Inklink Innovative Gold Equity instant_cash_2002 Intermediation Financičre Africaine (C&D ordered) International Forex Investment and Trading Co. (C&D Issued) International Vacations Ltd.(IVL), (IVH) (C&D Issued) International Wealth Connection InternetBank inthemoneygame/ investbetter2001 (Gone, currently in court) Investmentmakers2001 Investor Pro IPO Gold.com J&K Investments (Litigation - Co. defaulted) JustaBuck Kanyo Investment Club Kensington Investments KM.NET & ( PowerCard International & ECB4U.COM (litigation/settlement) lastingtreasure.msnw Lets Get Gold letsprospertogether Liberty Marketing Service (Litigation, C&D) Life Settlement Network (C&D) Little Bit At a Time LittleBigGame loads of gold 02 Loans-2-You Gold Game lockstock2smokingtrades Lodepay lortechfinance Lucky 07 Lucky1 luckygold.tv/The_Big_Game Lymans_Game Magic Money Game (If you were a victim of this one, we would like to hear from you - C&D coming?) Main Gold 2002 Manic Gold matchinggold MatrixDeluxe Maximum Gold 2002 McGowen Private Investments Metal Movers Midnight Run Midwest Investment Group (C&D) Mighty Matrix Millennium Fund. (litigation) MILLENNIUM GOLD Millinum Gold Funds MINE4GOLD MIP Miracle Mail Inc. (C&D) Mistyplay01 MMG Money Gate MoneyAllDays MoneyMakersUnited More For Your Gold Mseekers msn.com/compoundmagic MultilevelMatrixclub Mutual Benefit Club MyCashCow Nauticalhinc Net Exchange S.A. (C&D Issued) New Virtual Stock Game New Year Gold New Years' Cash newwealthnow newyearscash Nightly Speed nightlygoldgame Nirobe International Inc. (1/2/02 C&D) No More Lost Gold Nobullegold nodelaypay notmissinggold Offshore Financial Dreams OffshoreMax (C&D Issued) One Gram of Gold One Up Club (C&D) On-Golden Wings OnlineMoney Oppdigest oppforyou OSinvestorstrust OSOPPS Ourstocksaregoingup Ourstocksrup outsmart Paid Land paidonfriday partial_refund_egold_game Partners Investment Network (C&D Issued) Pegasus lotto Perfect Gold Game Perpetual Motion Matrix pgbtusa · Please God Bless The USA Game Pick Up 52 piggybankgold pinnaclepl.com Playmisty Poundcom Power of Gold II power-team Powertrade Investment Club (C&D) prelaunchUSA Premiere International Cash Card PRESENT4EVERYONE Privacy Gold Private Investment Club Private opportunity Private_Gold Profit Haven ProInvest Prosper Club Proven Gold Provision21 (C&D?) PRSI - Professional Resource Systems Inc. (Jail time) Quick Gold Investments Quick Returns Quick with keys quickgoldreturns Quickie14us Rainbow of Gold Rainbow Seven Oil & Gas, Inc. (C&D Issued) rate_gold RealVM.com recoverygold.fabpage.com/ Investm Recycle Matrix ReferrersGold2U REIGHNING GOLD Revolution Gold RGRinternational Rhinestone Cowboy Matrix Rivers of Gold Robin Hood Rockwell Petroleum Corporation (1/2/02 C&D) rofg (River of gold) Rolling Gold rwald-egold s_o_m_e Sanford Club SantasGoldenSack saturdaygold Sea Of Gold 2002 Seasongreetingsgold secoio securedhyip SG Ltd. (litigation, in court, believed to be operating as MMG) Share the Gold Shining Gold silverdollarjames SimpleGold SJ Gabel (litigation) Skybiz (litigation) Slow Gold smartgroups Smokingtrade Society Southern Cross Investment Group (SCIG) Southwest Family Trust (litigation) Spectrum Fund Group (Litigation) Speedy Matrix spring fever gold Spun Gold Starcash, Inc. (C&D issued) Steady Gold Plus Steady Income Step in2 Money Sterling (C&D) Sterling Idea (1/11/02 C&D) Grenada Firm stockingstuffer successcycle Super Gold 4U Super Starz Gold - NEW Super Stocks Synergy Alliance Group, LLC (C&D Issued) takeitinvestments2001 takeititsyours talkamericainc. tendollargold thanksfg1 The American Gift (Gifting club - pyramid) The Cardinal Club (litigation) The Cookie Game 2002 The FastReturns.com The Garden of Gold Investment club The Gold Game Room The Gold Reserve The Golden Dream Project The Golden Goose The Green Tornado (Back again) The Money Tree The Nest's Egg The New $20.00 Miracle The People's Advantage Club The Trader Group (Investigation) the vikings thecookiegame2002 thegoldgame themagicmoneymachine.com (Beware, C&D) Thenextinlinegetspaid ThePlayersClub2002 theproblemadjuster TheRhinestoneCowboy threefor12001 threen up timeone TPGG 30 Day Game TRADERS UNION traders-union.com (C&D) Treble 21 tri-miracle TriMiracle Team Triple Pop Tri-West Investments (Litigation) True Gold truegold_game TWO 20 PLUS 10 Ulti-Matrix Universal Gold Upmatrix Vdownline Venture Freedom Club vimonet.cc virtualstock.cjb.net (C&D?) Warehouse Gold Warp Gold wealth group Wealth-club (C&D) wealthspreader Wealthy & Wise Wealthy Club (C&D issued) Web Money Manager Webinvestor E-Gold Program Weclub.f2s weeklypick2 WESTSIDE HOLDINGS Westside Holdings Whatīs Your Lucky Number Window of Wealth wizardsgold World Crossing Worldwide Investor's Growth Group Loans WW Secure Investments Yield500 More to come Daily. Dana ----- Victims Against Scams - Fight Back ----------end quote------------------ Dagny __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
