Alan"s Money Blog

May 3, 2007

PTRKingdom Pays!

I just did a test withdraw from a new PTR program that I was investigating/reviewing, and being a no-minimum payout PTR program I decided to see if they really pay. The answer is yes! Here is the proof:
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Congratulations!

Your payment request has been reviewed and money sent to your payment processor.

Payment Details:

Payment Method: e-Gold
Account ID: xxxxx (account # edited by me for security reasons)
Amount: $0.12
Request Date: 05 3rd, 2007
Payment Date: 05 3rd, 2007

Thank You Very Much,"

PTR Kingdom :-)

May 2, 2007

ClixSense pays!

Alright, it appears that ClixSense genuinely pays and is not a scam. I just made minimum payout of $10 (the reason I received only $7.31 is due to their $3 cheque processing fee). I just increased the minimum payout to $50, that way my bank won't laugh at me when I go there to cash a $7.31 cheque lol.

Here is proof:

Recent Payout Information
DateStatusAmount
02 May 2007Complete$7.31





Take care folks and if you haven't signed up this might encourage you to do so and earn some free money!

Click HERE to join!


Looking to buy e-gold or pecunix with paypal?





Greetings dear readers. I've been selling my e-gold in exchange for paypal to a select group of people, and it's been going pretty good so far, so I've decided to enlarge my "customer base" as they say in marketing lingo.

If you want e-gold or pecunix and have paypal to give, then let me know and we can arrange to do business.

Here are my business terms:

1) All business will be conducted via e-mail communication

2) You must have a verified paypal account

3) I only accept paypal payments funded via bank transfer or from other paypal accounts

4) NO credit card funded payments (only by special request, but my fees will be substantially higher - see below for details)

5) My fee for this service is 20% (paypal to e-gold involved substantial risk on my part!)

6) I accept payments in Canadian (CAD) & United States (USD) Dollars

7) Buyer pays first (no exceptions)

So for example let's say you want $30 USD worth of e-gold. You will have to send me a payment of $36 USD because 20% of $30 is equal to $6. If you need help figuring this out just go to http://www.google.com and type in the following "20% of ". So you would then send me a paypal payment for the amount you want PLUS 20% of that.

There really aren't many people who would be willing to do this, so I'm taking a substantial risk; hence the higher fees.

I CAN do credit card funded paypal payments, but only by special request. You will have to provide me with the following pieces of information before I will accept your business.

I will need the following (besides the obvious credit card info):

1) Your credit card company's toll free phone number
2) A scanned copy of a national ID card (ie. Driver's License, Passport) that matches the info on your credit card obviously - don't try any funny business! :)

No I will NOT steal your personal info! I only require this so as to make the transaction safe for both of us. You will find that I am an honest man who doesn't really need to rip you off to survive. There are almost no major exchangers that will accept paypal payments, and I don't blame them; PayPal is risky! I'm willing to bear this risk provided that I can trust you.

Trusted & frequent purchasers get a %5 discount!

I define a frequent purchaser as someone who performs more than 5 transactions per month. Thus, such a person would pay a transaction fee of only %15

Direct all business inquiries at: allinvain6@gmail.com

*stay tuned as eventually I will have a website where you can automatically purchase e-currencies via paypal - and the fees will be lower since I won't have to do as much work*

Life-Holdings update: no more referral commissions

Hello dear readers. Some of you may be invested in Life-Holdings (one of my recommended programs - see my high yield investment section on the right of this website), so this update is directed at you - pay attention! :)

Life-Holdings is no longer offering a 5% referral commission!!

Frankly, I don't much care if referral commission are no longer being offered as I never tried to promote this investment program just for the referrals. My attitude is that if you're fortunate enough to come across the program, good, if not, too bad :)

I just might get my $300 back :)) - ClubFX-Trader update

From the program's admin:

"Hi all,

Ok, this is the recovery plan. I have secured enough money to make a start, it will take a few days to get it to trade but that's not a problem.

1. I will be trading with the money I borrowed and paying members back on a monthly basis.

2. Nothing is guaranteed, I am doing this because I value my good name more than your e-gold and The risk is all on me.

3. I am using my own assets to secure the funds. I don't have to do this, we were genuinly hacked and I have an e-gold account to prove it, and letters to and from e-gold etc.

4. Once I start re-paying everyone I will not tollerate this kind of abuse. Conciliator, that especially includes you.

5. Any decisions that I make are mine to make since I am using my own assets to help you get your e-gold back.

6. I have closed the site e-mail, I don't appreciate hate mail at a time like this. Those that sent hate mail can forget about getting anything back.

7. I will be aiming to give everyone a portion of the amount they deposited each month till the whole amount has been settled, I do not guarantee any profits but if things go well... well, we'll see.

8. If I recover any of the stolen funds it becomes mine, including (if there is enough recovered) any profits associated. However I do not believe at this time that there is any hope of recovering anything.

I will restore an email for the members to use to contact me once everyone has calmed down a little.

When the e-gold situation first broke out I had a flury of e-mails saying that we should look for an alternative, since I trade on more than one platform it is not too difficult for me to move funds from one to the other, however one is e-gold and the other is not, (and there is very little in that account. So to move the money from the e-gold platform i needed to first put it in e-gold then send it by wire through Omnipay. That's not too hard to see, I did it before without any problems if you can remember when we moved from Marketiva. also I told everyone after the fact, even a little common sense says don't tell anyone you're moving money, before we got hacked members were saying get out of e-gold, now that we have been hacked members are saying why did you do it...!!! Well I did it because of the situation with e-gold. It was a prudent thing to do at the time.

Why did I do it all at once? well if you think back and try to remember, there was a sense of urgency at the time with the e-gold situation, You probably would have done the same thing under the same circumstances.

Why haven't I posted any more proof af what happened? well I was giving anyone who asked all the proof that I had, including letters to and from e-gold, screenshots of the e-gold account etc and still I was getting shot down, if the correspondence from e-gold and screen shots were not enough then nothing will be, The dogs were out to get me and nothing was going to stop them. So why bother.

The way I am working it now everyone will get their money back and I'll be able to sleep at night, even tho' I know I could still have a clear concience even if I don't do this... we were hacked, I never stole anyones money.

I'm sticking my neck out here, I'm not asking for gratitud, but a little acknowlegment and less tearing my heart out will be helpfull. I've already lost enough and now I'm committing to try make sure that you dont lose also. So to all the winers, wind your neck in, dry your eyes and lets get on with it.

Regards
PeterB"

Well, this might take a while, but at least I (and many others) can get my money back - slowly. After this, I don't know if I will ever trust the admin again. Most likely I will be more cautious and make sure I ask the program admin whether he uses windows to make his e-gold transfers, if he does I will refuse to invest!

just a quick update on Take the Internet Back

Well, I am almost close to reaching payout from "Take the Internet Back" :)

Here is proof:

Statistics


Points number : 435
Mail(s) read : 417

Available money : $15.27
Total amount requested : $0
Amount payed : $0

I know $20 is not a lot but as advertisers bring in more ads and we earn more points, our balances should be growing much quicker.

If you're not yet a member of Take the Internet Back (aka TIB) then just click HERE

May 1, 2007

How to protect yourself when accesing your e-currency accounts

Good :) I know some of you are victims of e-gold theft. Getting your account hacked is not cool at all. I know some people who have lost thousands! My account was hacked a while back (year or so), but thanks fully I did not leave much idle gold in the account (like $20) so I did not lose a lot, but still, a loss is a loss. Since there I have learned my lesson, and now I'd like to give you all some advice on how to keep hackers out of your e-gold account (or e-bullion and other such currencies too).

What I am going to recommend is going to go beyond the standard "have an anti-virus program and anti-spyware software". Simply having an anti-virus program is good, but still it doesn't provide the ultimate in protection. The problem is this: Windows is insecure! Once you realize that you might appreciate what I'm about to suggest.

So here it goes, I am going to show you folks a very good method of securely accessing your e-currency accounts. It involves ditching Windows and using a more secure platform.

1: Go to http://www.ubuntu.com and download a copy of Ubuntu's Desktop Linux Distribution

2: Once you've downloaded a copy of the ISO (cd image file) use your favorite CD burning application to burn a copy of the image to a blank CD.

3: Pop the CD in the drive and make sure boot from the CD-ROM drive (some of you may have to change a setting in the BIOS to do this - if you don't know what a BIOS is then don't worry about this step, just pop the CD in and hope it will ask you to "press any key to boot from the CD-ROM drive")

4: At this point the Ubuntu Linux CD will start to load and it will display a progress bar. Once the loading process is complete you will be presented with a beautiful desktop.

5: Congratulations, you now have a fully functional Linux operating system running off the CD-ROM drive! You can open up firefox and other applications from the friendly "start menu" at the top left-side of the screen

6: Use Firefox to log into your e-currency account and do your usual business

7: Once you are done with your business simply restart the computer and eject the CD

8: That's it!

Wasn't that easy? Now this is a great method, but I would suggest actually installing Ubuntu to the hard drive of spare machine and use that computer as your "secure transactions" workstation.

To install Ubuntu all you have to do is when the CD is done loading and you're at the desktop, just click on the "Install" icon located on the desktop at the center left side, and then follow the instructions and you should be all set.

Also, please, please, for your own safety, SET A SECURE PASSWORD - ONE THAT IS OF SUFFICIENT COMPLEXITY AND LENGTH AS TO NOT BE EASILY GUESSED! AND ALWAYS USE THE E-GOLD SRK feature (read more about it on e-gold's website)

That's all, I hope this has been an informative post for you and I'll see you next time.

Alan out!

ClubFX-Trader got hacked! e-gold account emptied by hacker!

This is *bleep*'ing unbelievable! I just lost $300 from this! I am no longer recommending this program due to serious incompetence on the part of the admin (maybe outright theft!).


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Very very bad news
Hi all,

I have some very very bad news…

because of what is happening with e-gold i decided to take the advice of some of the members and move the trading from an e-gold based platform to a dollar one and start to accept deposits by bank wire (in spite of the delays etc).

Well I moved the funds to e-gold and was in the process of transferring them to another trading platform when we got severely hacked. I have personaly lost about one and a half times the members funds all put together. I feel sick, I don’t know how they accessed the e-gold account, It should have at least sent me a pin number but it never did.

I am stunned… I don’t know what to say to you, or what to do. I can’t believe that someone can be so evil and do something like that.

I never told anyone yet that I was moving platforms and transfering the funds (for obvious security reasons). I cant believe it… why cant they leave us alone to do something good. Why take it all, They emptied the whole account, my God, is this world so evil.

I am terribly sorry for all the pain this is going to cause the members. No one lost any money with my trading, i even paid members who’s account was hacked the first time, so why must they steal it.

I don’t understand it, we are doing a good thing, why steal it from us. My heart is heavy and I don’t know what to say.

I will e-mail copies of the transactions from e-gold so that every one can see I’m telling the truth, I am deeply deeply sorry, for all of us.

I am still here if anyone would like to talk to me, i am not going anywhere, you can e-mail me or talk to me at goldentalk. I’ll leave the site up so that you can contact me from there if you wish.

I will send screenshots of the e-gold account to anyone who wants to see them, for you to see the transactions. I have written to e-gold and told them, but i’m not very hopefull because of their one way policy.

I am very very sorry, for you and my own loss which right now is too much for me to comprehend. This is the last straw. I am going to sit on the beach now and try to make some sence of this. I’m sorry.

Regards
PeterB


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