At 11:33 PM +0400 6/11/03, Mariman Center wrote: >S> 1) No way. No how! There was no POSSIBLE way that OSGold was >S> anything but a scam, because they were running OSOpps, which paid >S> 45% return on principle every 3 months. Any and EVERY business >S> which makes a claim like this is a SCAM -- period. > > >You are right. So, WHY does e-gold let dozens (or maybe HUNDREDS) of >e-gold accounts used for such scams ?
There are full time employees who repeatedly balance-limit such accounts. Criminals are persistent. It's easy to demand zero crime, but hard to cause it. So WHAT exactly should e-gold do about this, besides what they're already doing? >Moreover, when I see such "services" like e-told, that kindly promote Here's another issue, should they censor such people. A disagreement with their economic ideas shouldn't affect a minority's ability to use e-gold, IMO. Many people I know have minority views on a variety of economic issues. >such "programs" that are of course scams, knowing that they of course >use some e-gold accounts, WHY does e-gold shut their eyes ? > They have none, all they have is a user agreement with the ability to do certain things, like value-limit accounts to stop obvious frauds. The characteristics of better money make it attractive to a wide variety of individuals, including a few greedy & bad ones. e-gold, as I've repeatedly said, is not a legal system or a cop, it's just a currency. Expecting these diverse functions (such as extensive investigation) from a currency isn't logical (or even desirable, IMO). > >S> E-Gold does not run the scams. Big difference. Honest people do not >S> steal your money, and scams do. E-Gold is trustworthy. Those >S> running scams are not. > > >Yes, e-gold *is* trustworthy, no doubt, I think (and I hope :-) > >But e-gold also allows the scams, in the same way that those who >helped OSGold to withdraw their money by supplying debit cards, for >example. Not more, not less. >In other words... NO e-gold, NO scam. What, exactly, would you do to a "scam" like The Gold Casino? They take all sorts of money from idiots, after all (I include Jim Ray among the idiots here). How should/can e-gold repel such crooks (or real crooks, and how does one tell the difference? I happen to think TGC is as honest as any casino) besides what they're already doing right now?? Remember, many of these couch themselves in the terminology of games, not investing. I may not like them, but perhaps they don't like TGC, either! We are free to boycott eachother! >So, IMO, if Graham or anybody else should be crucified, e-gold should >be too. > > >BTW, those people that believe they can get 40% by month (I even saw >once 1,000% in one month LOL) just doing nothing, NEED to learn what >life is ! As I keep saying, the relatively-small returns offered by Ponzi- himself function as proof of a worrying trend toward economic illiteracy these days. JMR -- http://www.mark-knutson.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
