Dear E David, Hello to all my friends at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
No, I don't think it very likely that golden-escrow.com is legitimately an escrow company. For example, their domain registration, which I obtained from whois.opensrs.net or thereabouts, says the domain is registered to an entity based in Puerto Rico. But the web site says the company is based in Shaker Heights, Ohio. I don't know of any legitimate escrow service which claims to have close ties to e-gold. I do think the Davis Companies has an escrow service, though. The Davis Companies is an exchange provider of e-gold, but that doesn't create "close ties." The close ties claim is suspicious, at best. Did the seller of the product you are seeking nominate golden-escrow.com as escrow agent? That would be another strong indication you are being scammed. The buyer is the one to nominate escrow, not the seller. Escrow is designed to protect the buyer. Then we have dates to consider. The web site says it was created in 1998 and updated since. But the domain was created 10 June 2002. Very recently. This strongly suggests to me that golden-escrow is just the latest in a series of names, and that we've seen this web site under some other URL, such as g1-escrow or gold-escrow or whatever. The iCop log is notably not an active link. As I recall, iCop sites are supposed to link to a certificate page on teh iCop site. An even more disturbing development is the use of e-Bullion's logo. I wonder if e-Bullion knows about this site's use of their trademarked and copyright logo text and URL. Oh, curious. On the fees.html page, the iCop logo links to the e-Bullion site. Well, I can't prove that these people are scammers. But, it looks and smells a lot like all the other escrow fraud we've encountered in the last few months. I would not recommend that you do business with these people. What are you buying, anyway? The patter is typically that someone is selling a laptop or a plasma hi-def TV, and has a really great offer, only takes e-gold or GoldMoney (or, now, e-Bullion?) and insists on one of these escrow fraud sites. Then you buy the gold, from a perfectly legitimate cambist, and you spend it to the escrow site, in excess of the amount you were expecting to pay for the item you want. Instead, I suggest that if you really want to experience commerce with the gold economy, go to http://goldbarter.com/ or http://bananagold.com/ and see what they have for sale. Bananagold will let you buy anything on the Amazon.com site with e-gold or GoldMoney. GoldBarter will let you buy or sell anything with e-gold or GoldMoney. Be careful out there. Caveat emptor, caveat vendor. Regards, Jim http://cambist.net/ --- 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.
