Last evening several of our clients called us, stating that they were unable to access the e-gold site. Our webmaster, and I immmediately went to investigate. When we were able to get into the e-gold site, we discovered that an attempt had been made to access our account. IT FAILED. E-gold's security system WORKS, ours did too. However, though pleased, we are and will continue all efforts to make sure that it stays that way. We notified our clients, even though there was no cause for alarm, as this is the type of relationship we want with our clients. We cannot overemphasize our confidence in the security that e-gold has put in place for the protection of their account holders. We subsequently received emails, purporting to come from e-gold, stating our account had been closed due to fraud and for us to submit our number and passphrase (put in bad english). We also recognized them to be phony and contacted e-gold. All of the information that we have gathered in connection with this attempt has been forwarded to e-gold, which again was very concerned and supportive. Further, we are arranging to forward all of this information to the Dutch unit, of the authorities, that investigates internet crime. This is in keeping with our stated policy. Do not store your passphrase in your computer Delete pages, particularily after accessing critical accounts Windows users, use the Microsoft utility to delete temporary files and pages from your disk See the first posting for additional links to aid you in protecting yourself from hackers, scammers and frauds. NEVER, NEVER respond to an email that asks for your passphrase. E-gold does not do this, if you look carefully at the email address that they are asking you to respond to, you will see e-qold rather than e-gold. This is difficult to see, particularily with the underlining, as long as you remember that any request for your passphrase is phony you won't get caught with your guard down. Remember it is your responsibility to safeguard your passphrase --- Ben Legume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or maybe someone entered their password to your > account number (I've > made this mistake occasionally). That doesn't > therefore follow that > it was an attempt to hack the password. > > #1 Did you lose any funds? > > #2 How many times did they try your password? Once = > someone made a > mistake. Twice = ?coincidence 3+ maybe someone is > trying to break in. > As long as your password is reasonably complicated, > you don't have > much to worry about. > > If you're really worried, keep most of your gold in > a 'private' e- > gold account you don't tell anyone the number to, > and use your normal > account to pay out and take payments to the public? > > > New Books at Discount Prices > --- Send the right message --- > > + Today freemail + > > Get your free, private email address at > http://www.today.com.au > > --- > You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== What, you don't have an e-gold account? Get it here, FREE http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=139538 Need to manage your e-gold account? Compare our rates. Serving Europe, but available WORLDWIDE! http://www.eurogoldline.nl Want a debit card tied to your e-gold? http://www.cashcards.net/rep/23239 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
