On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 11:42, Steve Schear wrote: > Retain the services of virtual hosting firm which accepts e-gold for > payment. Prevailing costs about US$10.00/month.
E-gold spammed me the other day, with a bogus HTML "about your account" type message.
Why exactly should I consider doing business with them?
Are you certain that the email originated with E-gold? Their policy is not to email ads nor contact their clients via email. Check the links and headers.
Unlike credit cards and banking institutions E-gold transactions are non-repudiatable. As a result, they have been a target of many fraudsters who attempt to impersonate E-gold in email ads and bogus web sites in order to trick E-gold customers into disclosing their account numbers and passwords. Once armed with this info they can proceed to quickly loot the person's account with little chance of discovery.
This is a downside of pseudo-anonymity. Many people are unprepared to protect their authentication data. The have come to depend on regulators to protect them from themselves. In the case of E-gold their pleas almost always fall on deaf ears, and law enforcement has also been of little help.
steve
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