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lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:05:00 -0700

Open Letter To The GDCA Regarding e-Bullion

Dear Mr. GDCA President,

I have been writing and blogging lately about the possible or alleged recent issues regarding e-Bullion. I feel, as do many readers, it is important to determine whether these possible issues are rhetoric, a few unhappy agents or possibly big events that will effect the industry as a whole… I now see that the GDCA has posted a warning regarding e-bullion at: http://gdcaonline.org/content/news.html

In that warning it states that :

“….E-bullion.com closes and/or freezes accounts without any court order or reasonable justification, sometimes freezing customer funds forever.”

Please present proof of these events by showing the closed account documentation and any correspondence with e-bullion regarding that account and its closure.

Please comment on why e-bullion closed the account or accounts, any justification e-bullion presented or did not present.

Please provide your opinion as to why e-bullion has taken this action.

Please provide evidence of e-bullion seizing or freezing account holder funds and not returning them as stated in your comment/warning above. Who had their funds ’stolen’ or has stated they had funds seized?

Please show me the evidence of a rumored investigation by the USSS, because I heard a rumor they were going to be bought by Donald Trump. Rumors are not fact and have no place in an industry ‘warning’ without supporting information. Provide me these facts or the person openly commenting about an ongoing investigation being conducted by an agency of the US government.

Please provide me copies of any complaints from users that the GDCA may have received regarding e-bullion for the past two years.

Please include e-mail or other documentation so these can be verified by me.

Please provide me any exchanger opinions or complaints which you have documented regarding the policies and terms now in use by e-bullion.

You should know that I have already been in touch with Mr. Joseph Hamilton, CISSP Chief Technical Officer, e-Bullion.com, on several recent occasions regarding these stated rumors.

Its my firm belief that resolving any problem whether minor or serious can be accomplished by logical discussion and clarification of facts, not rumors and flaming.

I would appreciate it if you can comment here below this post at your earliest convenience, whether you can or will produce the above requested material to me via email. All other comments and questions are welcome. Feel free to remove any personal or financial information from these documents. After hearing from you, Mr. Hamilton of e-bullion will again be contacted for his comments, he is available and reaching me just fine.

Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

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lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:04:00 -0700

e-Bullion Beats The Hackers….If You Own A CRYPTOCard

If you use e-Bullion, you must get a CRYPTOCard for your account. The device will cost you an extra $99.50 but you will be protecting the future of your digital dollars. This is more important than you can imagine….

Its called the “Man in the Browser” attack* and some consider it the next generation of hacker fraud. That is just one of the ways a hacker can steal your e-bullion ‘log in’ information when you are not using a secure CRYPTOCard. If you have an e-bullion account, especially if you are using this digital gold currency for the first time, please get yourself one of these devices. You will use it each time you log onto to your account.

CRYPTOCard Secure Password Technology (SPT) positively authenticates anyone who tries to gain access to a secured network by coupling something the user has (a hardware, software or smart card token) with something only the user knows (a PIN). This 2-factor positive authentication solution ensures that “Bob is Bob”.

Yesterday I receive a letter from a reader. He was recommending to me that more people should use e-Bullion’s CRYPTOCard and questioning why e-Bullion does not perhaps require it for all account holders. This is a great question.

E-Bullion digital gold currency and e-Bullion ‘e-currency’ are both very popular. The digital gold currency has been around almost as long as e-gold. In the past few months, many DGC users having been trying e-Bullion for the first time and adding it to their online payment arsenal. Others are simply switching from e-gold to e-Bullion for obvious reasons.

E-bullion offers an excellent system and I’m happy to see it grow, however, I’m not the only one noticing the new users. The hackers are also watching! As the past few months have created a pool of new users its very noticeable that many of them are not yet using the small hardware device known as the CRYPTOCard.

When you first open an e-bullion account, the only items required for your online access are an account number and a simple password. Entering this data from the e-Bullion account page, you will be directly typing it in….they do not offer any type of on screen keyboard or drop down key selection. I assume that is because they would like you to use their optional hardware. At least that is my guess. It is a bit unusual not to see some type of on screen keyboard or safety system to thwart key loggers. With so many ‘known’ malware programs and viruses, most other digital currencies offer some type of creative secure log in which at least attempts to beat the hackers!

e-gold offers a small pop up on screen keyboard called the SRK. Summon this ’security widget’ and a small on screen keyboard window appears which combats key loggers and common viruses.

Pecunix offers a very effective entry system using on screen keys and passwords.

Even PayPal offers a small hardware security key, which is extremely helpful in preventing unauthorized entry to your PayPal account. That small hardware ‘fob’ is just $5 for PayPal account holders. Its important to note that e-Bullion transactions are not reversible. If your account is looted, unlike PayPal you cannot get a refund!

So what does e-Bullion do to protect its customers? They offer the CRYPTOCard, hardware device which makes your account hacker proof (I’m told). Once a new account is opened, its possible that all new users will learn about this great device and I know every new user would like one, but the cost of this small calculator like item is $99.50. At that price, many new users will not purchase the CRYPTOCard protection.

I strongly suggest, if you are ever going to have more than $100 in your e-bullion account - BUY THIS DEVICE - you will need the protection this small unit offers. At that price, it is understandable why e-Bullion does not make it mandatory, but an on screen keyboard would not hurt.

I have a CRYPTOCard, but only after my account was compromised to the tune of 6k USD some years back. A simple key logger picked up my access and the sneaky hacker tried to help himself to my e-Bullion funds. Lucky for me, e-Bullion also has some advanced software in place to catch irregularities with customr log ins and they froze my 6k before the hacker could steal it. They also would not let me access the funds until I had bought and was using a new CRYPTOCard. (Thank you e-bullion for saving my funds and enlightening me.)

Unfortunately, many new users have not been so lucky. The hackers seem to be getting a lot more sophisticated, so please spend the extra time and money to protect your digital currency. Spend the money and don’t look back, its really worth the small change.

* Also known as transaction generators, man in the browser (MITB) attacks are a newly discovered type of man in the middle (MITM) attack that waits until users log in to strike, defeating all previous types of user authentication. Hackers modify data sent during a legitimate session, without the user knowing until it’s too late; for example, users could unknowingly purchase the wrong stock or transfer a large sum of money directly into a hackers’ account. Earthtimes.org

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lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:03:00 -0700

Dark Clouds Gathering On The E-bullion Horizon

There is no better indicator of which digital gold currency is gaining in popularity than the new requested project listings on Scriptlance.

I watch the RSS feed with DGC keywords so each day I am now seeing more and more projects being requested for e-bullion. These are not retail shops or legit online businesses, these are ‘investment’ type set ups.

Project: HYIP script e-gold e-bullion

Project: e-gold / e-bullion clone

Project: E-bullion Masspayment Script

Project: daily interest HYIP script

Project: e\-gold type clone

A word of warning to e-Bullion - which is a fine digital gold operation, Pecunix discourages ‘investments’, Webmoney prosecutes them….if you become the darling new currency for ponzis you will end up allowing scammers to profit and your business will acquire thousands of new user complaints. Not to mention whatever Law Enforcement’s new twist is on these schemes.

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lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:01:00 -0700

e-gold® Founder Denies Criminal Charges - Public Statement

On April 24, 2007, a Federal Grand Jury handed down an indictment charging e-gold Ltd., Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc., and the Directors of both companies with money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitter business, and conspiracies to commit both offenses.

Dr. Douglas Jackson, Chairman and Founder of e-gold, speaking on behalf of his fellow Directors and both companies vigorously denies the charges, taking particular exception to the allegations that either company ever turned a blind eye to payments for child pornography or for the sale of stolen identity and credit card information.

Dr. Jackson states, “With regard to child pornography, the government knows full well that their allegations are false, yet they highlight these irresponsible and purposely damaging statements in order to demonize e-gold in the eyes of the public. During the Inquisition, accusations of witchcraft and heresy were used to sanctify torture and seizures of property. In post 9-11 America, child porn and terrorism serve as the denunciations of choice. e-gold, however, as a matter ofincontrovertible fact, is the most effective of all online payment systems in detecting and interdicting abuse of its system for child pornography related payments. e-gold Ltd. is a founding member of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Financial Coalition to Eliminate Child Pornography. e-gold is the only member institution to demonstrate with hard, auditable data a dramatic reduction of such payments to virtually zero, while billions of child porn dollars continue to flow through other (heavily regulated) payment systems. [Most members, that is, all the banks and credit card associations are utterly unable to even provide an estimate of the volume of such payments processed by their systems. eBay’s PayPal subsidiary, who may have the ability to make such a determination, has refused to do so and has indicated they destroy payment records after two years.] What is worse, until August 2005 when NCMEC courageouslybroke ranks with US law enforcement agencies and began directly notifying e-gold of criminal sites via the CyberTipline, component agencies of the US Department of Justice purposely concealed their knowledge of child pornography abuses from e-gold’s investigators, subordinating actual crime fighting to a policy agenda designed to dirty up e-gold.”

In December 2005, the Secret Service (USSS) deceived a Federal Magistrate judge with bogus testimony in order to obtain search and seizure warrants authorizing the government to seize the US bank accounts of Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc. The seizure, which netted the government about $ 0.8 million, was designed to put e-gold out of business without due process, since G&SR serves as the contractual Operator of the e-gold system. At a subsequent emergency hearing, thegovernment made no effort to defend their (sealed) allegations of lurid criminality, falling back to a position that their action was warranted because of a licensure issue. At the hearing, G&SR described its ongoing dialog with the Department of Treasury, initiated by formal request of the company in Spring 2005, to determine a possible basis for regulating the company’s activities, since it was patently clear to competent authorities that G&SR’s exchange service was not encompassed within any existing regulatory rubric [subsequently re-confirmed by experts at the Federal Reserve]. The US Attorney for the District of Columbia, responsible for the prosecution, was completely unaware of this orderly proceeding, as well as Treasury reports issued the same week that acknowledged e-gold as an innovation not meeting definitions of a money services business or a money

transmitter.

Since this time, the government has been confronted with overwhelming evidence that the USSS had made a horrible mistake in its attack on the e-gold system and its repeated defamatory claims in the media that e-gold is anonymous, untraceable, and inaccessible to US law enforcement. They have concealed the fact that Dr. Jackson had personally arranged to come to USSS headquarters to train the USSS cybercrime squad in December 2004 (along with agents of the UK’s National High Tech Crime Unit, and the Australian Federal Police) on advanced techniques, particularly in the area of efficient interaction with e-gold’s in-house investigative staff, but was prevented when senior USSS management learned of the initiative and forbade the training on the grounds of a policy declaring e-gold as their designated boogey man.

The Department of Justice has had to determine whether to continue to stand behind their component agency. Their decision to close ranks has directly resulted in a gross misallocation of resources, with the result that vicious criminals who might have been brought to justice remain at large. An example of this is the Shadowcrew investigation, hyped by the USSS as a major success in disrupting international credit card thieves. The USSS did not subpoena records from e-gold atany time in their investigation, or engage with e-gold’s superb in-house investigative staff, with the result that the sophisticated hierarchy of the ring was unmolested and probably strengthened while the USSS hauled in the low hanging fruit, “a dime a dozen and relatively easy to track down and pop”.

Similarly, there is compelling evidence that the international cartel of commercial vendors of child pornography continues to operate because the FBI Innocent Images Unit and Special Agents within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency have been forbidden to follow investigative protocols developed by Dr. Jackson, apparently for fear of further belying the party line that e-gold is itself a nefarious operation.

With regard to allegations of money laundering, Dr. Jackson notes “G&SR’s online exchange service, OmniPay, has for years followed stringent customer identification procedures and an absolute policy of only accepting money payments by bank wire. If bank wires aren’t already “clean” then what is? Furthermore, e-gold Ltd. can scarcely be construed as a money launderer since it does not accept money payments from anyone in any form and has never owned a single dollar, yen, euro or any other brand of legacy money. As far as the possibility of a criminal successfully obfuscating a money trail, e-gold is a closed system. The only way to obtain e-gold is by receiving a transfer from someone who already has some. e-gold is also the only payment system accessible by the public that maintains a permanent record of all transfers.”

On April 27, 2007, the government served seizure warrants on G&SR ordering it to freeze, liquidate and turn over to the government the operating e-gold accounts of G&SR and e-gold Ltd. The value seized, about $762 thousand worth of e-gold from e-gold Ltd. and about $736 thousand worth of e-gold from G&SR [on top of the $0.8 million seized from G&SR in 2005, and the approximately $1 million spent by G&SR so far in its defense] constitutes the bulk of the liquid assets of bothcompanies. Perplexingly, a post-indictment restraining order states “Nothing in the provisions of this restraining order shall be construed as limiting the e-gold operation’s ability to use its existing funds to satisfy requests from its customers to exchange e-gold into national currency, or its ability to sell precious metals to accomplish the same once approval has been obtained.” Having taken virtually the entire operating funds of G&SR and e-gold Ltd., that is, the e-gold in both companies’ own e-gold accounts, it is unclear if the government has even a basic grasp of the operations it has been investigating for three years at a taxpayer expense in the millions.

The most remarkable element of the restraining order is that the US government deputizes e-gold with plenipotentiary powers to act as judge, jury and executioner against any account user e-gold itself has deemed to be a criminal: “It is further ordered that upon receipt of this order the defendants are required to freeze, that is, not conduct or allow any further transactions in e-gold accounts that the e-gold operation itself has identified as being used for criminal activity”. Although not accompanied by an outright letter of marque, this commission (the financial equivalent to double ought status?) would appear to be an acknowledgement that e-gold’s ‘Know Your Customer’ prowess far exceeds that of any regulated financial institution, who would be obliged to rely on court orders or other legal writs to determine if freezing an account is warranted.

Concurrent with this latest attempt to knock e-gold Ltd. and G&SR out of business and thereby effectively deny them due process, the government also attacked other prominent exchange services that deal in e-gold; IceGold, The Bullion Exchange, Gitgold, Denver Gold Exchange, AnyGoldNow, and Gold Pouch Express, plus a sophisticated and secure alternative payment system called “1MDC”. All of the listed exchange services also follow stringent Customer IdentificationPrograms congruent with what would be required of a currency exchange business, if the law supported such a classification. Two of the services, IceGold and AnyGoldNow, are located in Europe and deal primarily with non-US customers. As a direct and immediate result of the seizures, these companies, all of who had built a reputation for honoring their obligations to customers in a timely fashion, have been disrupted, and, at least in the case of Gitgold, checks to customers issued in fulfillment of exchanges have bounced. This is a repeat of what happened to G&SR as a direct result of the 2005 seizure, when over 200 checks to customers bounced and refunds had to be sorted out with severely crippled liquidity and without a US bank account.

It must not be overlooked that the search warrant obtained by misrepresentations before a magistrate judge in 2005 resulted in the government helping themselves to the financial records of hundreds of thousands of American citizens [plus citizens of virtually every other country] who had not been accused of any wrongdoing. Since the initial raid, the prosecutor has caused the Grand Jury to order complete dumps of the e-gold data base on three additional occasions.

This case has nothing to do with criminal activity, at least not on the part of e-gold Ltd., G&SR, the named individuals or these other exchange services of high reputation. It is about a Department of Justice that is out of control, cognizant of having made a horrible mistake but determined at all costs to preserve its turf. In a meeting at the US Attorney’s office in Washington on December 29, 2006, a Chief Assistant US Attorney told us that the United States knew we weren’t “bad guys” and that the United States had no interest in sending any of us to prison or causing e-gold to go out of business. This was in virtually the same breath as proposing that the current defendants plead guilty to Federal felony charges.

The plain fact is that the repeated statements and actions of the government since 2001, especially the USSS, are directly responsible for crippling e-gold’s ability to market its service to mainstream businesses and consumers, slowing [but fortunately not stopping] e-gold’s continuous development of advanced anti-crime capabilities, subordinating US law enforcement’s cybercrime fighting efforts to the forlorn hope of destroying e-gold, driving market share to non-US based alternative payment systems and making the US law enforcement community the laughingstock of competent cybercrime fighting agencies worldwide because of its obstinate inability to back down from the USSS’s longstanding e-gold vendetta.

All inquiries should be directed to the law offices of:

http://www.fuerstlaw.com/

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lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:57:00 -0700

An Industry Of Modern Day Gunslingers

Back in the days of the wild west, the United States was brand new, small town business was fresh and un regulated. A person could claim their fortune and leave their mark on just about any industry they desired, granted they had the savvy, smarts and cash to conquer the competition.

Flash forward 180 years to the .com era. Today the Internet is still very fresh and new. With no shortage of creative thinkers or venture capital, the world of private digital currency is certainly still brand new and unregulated by government. Sure the ‘Pinkerton boys’ are trying to shut down online gambling by prohibiting US payment processing but everyone knows, despite some very public ‘arrests’, trains are still being robbed and Pinkerton has a lot to learn.

The Internet currency or digital currency industry is no exception. Its brand new and as of yet just about totally unregulated.

So new and similar to the wild west that independent third party agents which transact between digital currency and fiat currency might even be considered the gunslingers of the ‘electronic wild west’ (the Internet). Literally billions of dollars, yen and euro move back and forth between fiat government issued money and private digital currency without so much as a request by government to keep track of the funds. Not a peep! Its not only the greatest area of the Internet, just like the wild west, its also super profitable (if you are good at your business). Like opening a saloon in Tombstone, an inexperienced operator could lose his shirt in a short time if they were not careful. Beware, the wild west also had its share of scammers, crooks and thieves and they did not use proxies! ‘Bad Men’ they called them back in that time. I think that same title might still ring true today but in a much more watered down characterization.

Third party agents accepting incoming funds are NOT banks. Additionally, since they do not actually issue the ‘digital money’ they are NOT money transmitters and since digital currency is not defined at a ‘currency’ like the Yen or the Euro, agents are NOT required to be money service businesses (MSB). Its the digital wild west and the independent third party agents, as one heavy e-gold user once told me, could be considered the ‘gunslingers’ of the electronic wild west. Their businesses and profits deterred only by the competition and their ability to keep up with the growing demand for their products.

Controlled by few laws, spread out over many jurisdictions and limited only by their ever present online savvy and imagination, third party exchange agents are truly masters of their own domain. Free to crank out as much profit as the market will deliver and almost no where for customers to complain if the business sours. Competition, is all they worry about and market share rules. Sometimes even partnering or buying out another rancher (agent) makes fine business sense. The cattle barons of the wild west would be proud of their continuing tradition across the Internet.

The wild west….what a great time to be alive. Claim your land, pan for gold or open that casino/bar in town and stake your claim to a fast fortune. Potential profits and new ventures were everywhere. The private digital currency Internet today seems no different. In just minutes, anyone can put up a web site, copy some catchy text, paste some affiliate ads and open a online shop with little restrictions. Digital currency agents/vendors experience little or no restrictions on licensing along with thousands of banks around the globe and still dozens of methods for accepting payment transacting. The thrill of the wild west is alive again.

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lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:56:00 -0700

Part2 - Xgold.ca: Interview With Independent E-gold Exchange Agent

Continuing interview with Sylvain Falardeau a Canadian Independent exchange provider for e-gold and Pecunix. Pt.1

(Q) What other services do you think digital gold users would use if you could offer them? Reoccurring billing such as subscriptions? Gold transfers to a Visa or MasterCard debit card? Sending a Western Union using gold currency? etc.

We may offer other way of transferring from fiat money to gold in the future but the thing that is important for us is automation (at the programming level). We are not staffed and do not plan to offer a service like other exchangers (multiple payment options) because most of them are difficult to automate (like bank drafts). It only takes 5 to 10 minutes in the morning to process all the transactions and have to stay in this range to think one day to be profitable.

(Q) I’m not that familiar with banking in Canada. When you accept digital gold and make a payment to a client’s Canadian bank account…is this faster than other methods such as wire transfer? How long does it take, if a client sells today, when would that balance appear in an RBC account? Is the fee for this operation more or less than a domestic wire transfer?

Direct deposit and withdrawal in Canadian bank accounts is slower than a wire transfer but much cheaper. Depending on banks, a wire in Canada can cost from 10$ to 20$ to send and 5$ to 15$ to receive. We cannot allow 10$ transactions at 0.35$ with these bank fees. Direct deposit is the same as your electronic paycheck, there is no fee to receive it (not counting the number of transactions per month you can do in your account).

(Q) Do you have any new products on the horizon from xgold.ca?

We may accept e-bullion in the future and allow “redeem” (digital gold to bullion). No date is planned for these two features.

(Q) Do you have a stated Anti Money Laundering Policy? Are you required to have one in Canada?

We have a service agreement which prohibit using xgold.ca for criminal activities. We do not deal with really big transactions and all deposits and withdrawals appear as XGOLD.CA in your bank account. So if you want to launder 1M$, you will have to deposit it in your bank account first and do Bank to Gold transactions (with limits from 300$ to 5000$ per month). Not very interesting for criminals.

(Q) What sort of requirements do you have before a client can transfer funds from his Canadian bank account? Would they fill out a form or provide ID? What is needed for a new client to get started today?

To activate the Bank to Gold option, we ask for a signed form with a void check for every source bank accounts. The form identify the e-gold and Pecunix destination accounts. You are only allowed to transfer FROM these bank accounts TO these gold accounts. You are then limited to 300$/month for the first three transfers. After this, you can ask for an increase in your limit but we may ask for other IDs (passeport, utility bill, driver license). Our system is designed for regular buyers who like the simplicity to buy gold at a specific rate that will not change the time the money get to us.

(Q) Do you have a personal preference, e-gold or Pecunix? What percentage of your business is Pecunix and what percentage is e-gold?

I personally prefer Pecunix because of their security perspective. We have more than 90% of our business with e-gold. That may change with the current events with the US government.

(Q) If the e-gold operation, by some fluke, is soon closed, will your business continue to operate?

We will continue to operate with Pecunix and may add another gold currency to replace e-gold.

(Q) The digital gold currency industry, do you feel as an ‘industry’ it could use improvement in any area? If so…where?

I think more merchants accepting gold and silver currencies is the key to success. The problem is always how to get merchants to accept many currencies. If a merchant accepts a gold currency, it is generally e-gold. If you have Pecunix, you should exchange it to e-gold first to be able to use it with the merchant which is irritating to new users. And even if you can convince a merchant to accept one gold currency, trying to setup five can be a great challenge.

This is the reason we launch moneyproxy.com, the complement to xgold.ca. It allows merchants to accept three different currencies on their website: e-gold, Pecunix and Phoenix Dollar (and 1mdc, but will not be accepted in the future). We plan to add more payment systems but not necessarily metal backed. Our goal is to implement Money Proxy on high profile sites with different business lines. It will leverage the use of gold and silver currencies and allows users to use it more like money instead of long term investment.

The Money Proxy merchant account is gold denominated. It is transferred to e-gold or Pecunix merchant’s account every day. It can also be exchanged by xgold.ca and deposited in a Canadian bank account every week automatically. So even if a merchant do not want to maintain a gold balance, it can use our service to get more customers.

We are currently in beta test with soscontribuables.ca (a Quebec version of the Canadian Taxpayer Federation, taxpayer.com) and telecopie.com, a fax to e-mail service. We plan to implement other new merchants this summer before officially promoting the service.

(Q) Is xgold.ca a member of the GDCA (Global Digital Currency Association)? Has membership to that industry association helped your business? If so…how?

Yes, we are a proud member of the GDCA and a Pecunix PREO. The GDCA offers us visibility and credibility. Some new users contacted us to have some reference and we sent them to the site.

(Q) How much gold do you have in your pocket right now?

I carry one once of gold when I know I will meet new people during the day. It is always interesting to see their reaction when they see it for the first time.

– I’d like to thank Sylvain for taking time to answer my questions.

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lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:53:00 -0700

Ponzi Scams….Digital Currency’s Dirty (not so little) Secret

Part 1 of 2

It is widely discussed in my Internet circles and suggested in many others that ‘online porn’ helped to fuel the Internet’s growth during it’s early years. Not something that makes us all proud, but you can’t argue with the facts no matter how ugly they are….

It is also very well documented that Ponzi scams, online Pyramid schemes and other ‘high yield investment’ fraud has not only helped to expand the use of digital gold currency but for years now Ponzi scams have been the life blood of some big industry players. E-gold is a particular favorite of these online schemes. No article or post by me could identify this problem better than the recent government indictment. It offers this statement about the ‘E-gold Operation’,

“Because of the lack of controls as compared to those present with other payment systems, E-GOLD has been a highly-favored method of payment by operators of investment scams, which generally refers to pyramids, ponzis, HYIPs (i.e., high-yield investment programs) and other “get-rich-quick”schemes. These scams typically promise abnormally high short-term returns on investments, but rather than paying investors any actual returns on real investments, the scams pay investors with new, incoming investment money from other investors in the scam. Eventually, the operators of the scam either disappear with all the investment money or the scam collapses because investment naturally slows as the scam grows and the operators are unable to continue paying out the promised returns. E-GOLD has been favored in this area….”

*Please note that while I don’t agree with the government’s pending charges, those are for a court and jury to decide, this above statement regarding Ponzi scams seems pretty accurate.

The most recent e-gold/government problem was back in April-May and its now already August. During this time period, have there been any obvious changes in the Ponzi - e-gold ‘cash flow’ operations? Or is it still a plain fact that Ponzi scams contribute a majority of the daily fees received by the e-gold operation?

On the e-gold web site statistics page, you will find analysis showing the “Distribution of e-gold Spends over Past 24 Hours”. That shows - out of roughly 35k spend transactions, 21k of them had a value of less than 100 mg which is less than $2.16 cents (0.1 grams = 2.16 USD)*DGCSC.

In easy to understand terms, 60% of all e-gold spends which took place on August 13th, were below $2.16. HYIP Ponzi ‘interest’ payments are all very small values and fall into this range. These twenty one thousand August 13th e-gold spends were not micro payments for digital downloads, ebook content or subscriptions - these are HYIP Ponzi payments.

I haven’t just solved one of the most puzzling questions in the Internet Universe, everyone already knows a majority of online HYIP Ponzi scams use e-gold. I’m supremely confident that the operators of e-gold are also aware of this fact and have been for years….yet e-gold, especially lately, has not undertaken any broad campaign to stop or prevent this almost decade long activity. Why not….isn’t it considered illegal, unethical, immoral perhaps even gambling? That all depends on who you ask!

This might also be a very good question for Dr. Jackson’s new e-gold blog.

Does this information clearly signal that digital gold currency[e-gold] is widely being used for scam Ponzi payments or online e-commerce? You tell me?

Additionally, is it safe to assume that if 60% of one day’s e-gold spends are Ponzi payments that the other 40% are actual legit online commerce transactions? I’m sad to say it, but I really doubt if e-commerce payments contribute as much as 40%. One thing is for certain…judging from last weeks folder of “hate email’ in my box, I going to get a lot more industry comments regarding this topic. As its been said before, no matter how ugly the situation, you can’t argue with the facts.

This information is very public widely discussed knowledge, Ponzi payments and the fees they generate have fueled the e-gold operation for many years and a good bit of other digital currencies, some still alive and other not so lucky. Most industry people are not offended by online Ponzi scams…obviously, I am.

Was this payment fact always true for e-gold? Since digital gold currency and e-gold have been popular for a number of years now, let’s take a quick trip back via the Internet Archive and look at February of this year. Before the government’s most recent endeavor.

On February 4 of this year, out of 1.57 million funded account, 1.44 million had less than 1 gram in them which was a total value of less than $21 USD per account. That is just over 90% of all active funded e-gold accounts showing a value of under $21 bucks.

In the ‘Distribution of e-gold Spends over Past 24 Hours’ for February 4th, roughly 37k e-gold spends out of a total 43k were less than (1) twenty one dollar gram. That’s about 86% and leaves just 14% of one day’s business in the possible non-ponzi area. Its a gloomy interpretation of the numbers but pretty accurate.

27k spends or approximately 62% of the total daily spends were in amounts less than $2.21 USD (one tenth of one gram or 100mgs). This signals Ponzi ‘interest’ payments. HYIP interest payments to ‘investors’ are very small and generally under $1.

e-gold spends account for a majority of the online ponzi scheme transactions also known as HYIPs. This was true last year and the year before that one!

Here is the copy of an HYIP scam email I received less than one hour ago:

EGold Profit Pro

130% - 180% After 1 Day ( Full Automatic Withdrawals )

Plan 1 $1 - $50 130.00%

Plan 2 $51 - $100 150.00%

Plan 3 $101 - $500 170.00%

Plan 4 $501 - and more 180.00%

230% - 280% After 3 Day ( Full Automatic Withdrawals )

Plan 1 $1 - $50 230.00%

Plan 2 $51 - $100 250.00%

Plan 3 $101 - $500 270.00%

Plan 4 $501 - and more 280.00%

Register NOW And Profit More Money With EGoldProfitPro.com The first 100 members today who deposite 20$ or more will get 10% of thier deposites as bonus directly to your E-Gold account Viry Good HYIP Program & Paying Every Day !!! http://www.egoldprofitpro.com/

I doubt if this one will last till the end of the month, its a poor example of a Ponzi scam. They will take the funds and disappear claiming some large phony problem.

…continued Part 2

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Forex HYIP

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:50:00 -0700

WebMoney and cashU Form A New Strategic Partnership

In a July 25th press release cashU, one of the largest Internet payment systems in the Middle East and Africa, announced they have now partnered with Webmoney Transfer.

From this partnership, it is now possible for anyone with a cashU card and fund their Webmoney account simply by visiting the Webmoney online interface. Webmoney is a giant in the digital currency world and popular with many local customers in Russia and the CIS countries. I often write about Webmoney (1,2,3,4,5) They recently started offering a Gold purse (WMG).

This new cashU partnership is evolving in two stages. Their recent press release explains the deal,

“In the first stage of this partnership, cashU prepaid cards, which are available in over 20 countries in the Middle East can now be used to top up WebMoney accounts. In the coming months, cashU will allow WebMoney’s user base to top up their cashU accounts, which they can then use to access cashU’s international merchant base.”

Webmoney is considered a powerful consumer tool that facilitates online global commerce. CashU is known as one of the largest Internet payment solutions in the Middle East. Their payment cards allow users to shop and transfer money online without the risk of theft or fraud. CashU transactions do not reveal any personal information about the card user.

With the addition of cashU, Webmoney users who previously lacked access to online credit and banking now have a greater selection of funding options. This is especially true for users in Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Nigeria, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, UAE, even Iran and Iraq.

This new partnership between cashU and WebMoney is just one link in a long series of mutual commerce partnerships for both companies. Privately issued ‘e-currency’ is extremely flexible and now popular on a very wide global scale. Consumers wishing to shop and transfer funds online have more options today than ever before.

Yesterday, I was chatting online with Peter Darakhvelidze Director of corporate affairs from WebMoney Transfer and he shared this insight,

“From my point of view, all payment systems with irreversible transactions can be linked by gateways pretty easily, because complicated reconciliation procedures are not necessary. Gateways can be both direct or indirect (through exchangers).”

Both Webmoney and cashU offer non reversible transactions as do all digital gold currencies. Two other established Webmoney funding partnerships, paysafecard and UKash, also offer this same important feature. Commenting on the partnership, Martin Waldenström, General Manager, cashU said,

“E-currencies have a great potential in emerging markets, and it’s exciting to share with vision with other online payment systems, who believe in facilitating cross functionality and flexible exchange of funds. In time, we would like to partner with other leading e-currencies in markets that are outside of our geographical expertise.”

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Forex HYIP

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:47:00 -0700
Live! Webmoney Gold Currency-1 WMG equals 1 gram of Gold

Some very exciting news from the Webmoney team…. Their new digital GOLD currency, WMGold, is now live. (WMG purse) .

All funds located in a WMG purse are 100% backed by gold bullion. The main agent I’m directed to is Metdeal.com and the price per gram (bid-ask) is posted on their web site. Or if your Russian is good, visit WebMoney exchanger wm.exchanger.ru. It will also soon be possible to buy gold using other authorized e-currency exchange services and the usual variety of payment methods.

Currency rates inside the Webmoney system will remain on the same exchange mode as they have always been. However, since the price of gold moves each day, the price of a WMGold unit will fluctuate. Transacting an exchange between existing Webmoney currency- WMZ, WME, WMR and others will also be on a floating rate, as the value national currency remains constant in their system and gold fluctuates.

To open a WMG purse, you will have to download the awesome new version of the Webmoney Keeper software which includes WMG. I’m setting it up now and should have some grams later today so we will definitely have more news and information later this week.

Webmoney registration is free and you can use the account immediately - so get started today. For existing WM-users: Download Keeper Classic Current version: 3.5.0.1 Sign in to Keeper Light

Exchange agents desiring to buy WMG need to become a MetDeal Partner, which requires some of the usual WM Passport verification paperwork and a new style contract. All Webmoney agents and business affiliates must complete some paperwork in order to transact business in WMG. Its always good to see a financial company clearly identifying who is offering their products.

Luckily for WMG agents Metdeal.com has only a $1,000 USD minimum purchase so a lot of both large and smaller agents will be participating.

For all of you readers wondering if delivery of your WMG can be arranged, Yes…from their web:

To get Gold , you need to to send a request to WM Metals FZE with a subject “Requesting Gold Delivery” and stipulate the following:

Gold net weight you wish to obtain.

WMID and G-Purse number.

Preferable date of getting gold bullions.

Delivery Instructions together with the Invoice will be sent to you. Gold is issued in the United Arab Emirates in a form of gold bullions available to WM Metals FZE.

Metdeal FZE is a registered United Arab Emirates Company and licensed accordingly for the purchase and sale of precious metals (primarily gold). Metdeal FZE undertakes a required annual financial audit. Gold storage and transportation is carried out by licensed depositories as per international rules and standards. All operations are performed with gold bullion as per worldwide quality standards and purity of not less than 995.0 ( nine hundred ninety-five point zero).

Just in case you are wondering, the web site is available in English and Russian.

This is a remarkable product the Webmoney team has created. Using cash from hundreds of thousands of walk in locations worldwide you will be able to purchase digital gold.

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Forex HYIP

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:45:00 -0700
Forex Trading: Who Accepts Webmoney?

It seems e-gold might be losing some market share these days and only time will tell if that trend can be reversed. However, the online payment system Webmoney Transfer, seems to be gaining new customers and merchants. So who accepts Webmoney?

Here is a few Forex trading webs that not only accept it Webmoney but often, customers can also make account withdraws directly to a WM-purse.

Occasionally, I read the EarnForex web site. If you are looking to learn more about trading, this is a good place to get up to speed on one BIG exciting market. Here’s what they had to say about Webmoney and Forex:

Forex traders that prefer on-line payment systems, but don’t want to deal with e-gold or other browser-security system might like WebMoney e-currency system for its hi-end security and good level of service. Here is the list of all brokers that accept WebMoney:

LiteForex Trading technology for beginner traders. Also lets you start trading with as little as one dollar!

Marketiva A financial services corporation specialized in providing traders with high quality online trading services.

FXEgypt Professional services that have been specifically designed to meet your trading needs. Learning courses and demo accounts.

FXcast The range and capabilities of FXcast software fits everyone’s needs and even auto-trade capabilities

Alpari Professional Internet trading services for both individuals and corporate clients.

Ava FX Provides a new breed of service to the retail online trader.

Real Trade Offers clients free “RealTrader” software.

IFC MarketsFutures, securities, and foreign exchange as a FOREX broker and primary market.

Source: WebMoney Forex Brokers

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Forex HYIP

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:44:00 -0700
Webmoney Prepaid Solutions: A Case Study In Success

WebMoney Transfer has grown into much more than a local Russian payment solution. In the years they have been online, Webmoney has expanded into a global payment system transacting billions of Dollars, Euros & Rubles each year. Soon, it appears they may also offer a gold based Webmoney currency type, but no there is official comment on this yet. That is really exiting.

The technology and software (WM Keeper) behind Webmoney is so refined and tested that by accepting Webmoney Transfer payments, any account holder can create an almost seamless ‘automated’ Internet business. Buying, selling, paying suppliers and building long term relationships can all be accomplished through the Webmoney Transfer network. There is even a WM credit network for borrowing and lending.

I used to joke that if computers were like vending machines and had dollar bill slots on the front of each PC…funding a digital currency account would be painless! The movement of national currency into digital units is sometimes costly and time consuming. However, Webmoney Transfer, seems to have corrected this issue and brought their account funding mainstream.

At an estimated 120,000 locations across Russia, you will find electronic kiosks which allow anyone to pay cash and fund a Webmoney Transfer account. About half of these locations have people working in them and the rest are automated kiosks. Located in malls, cinemas, shops and even subway stations these machines only require cash & your WM-purse number. You can feed in your currency and instantly fund your Webmoney purse. This is an amazing operation. More than 25% of the total Webmoney account funding comes from these ‘cash-in’ kiosks. I’m also told that the largest kiosk operators have already started to expand into other ex-USSR republics, the Ukraine and even China. Kiosk funding is also less expensive than other methods.

Another popular way to fund a WM-purse, is by Webmoney prepaid card. There are three types of Webmoney prepaid funding cards. Each different type will add money to a separate WM currency purse. The different currencies now available on prepaid cards are WMZ (equivalent to USD) , WMR (equivalent to RUR) and WMU (equivalent to UAH).

In a recent interview with Peter Darakhvelidze of Webmoney Transfer, he credits some of their success to prepaid card sales,

“…we have grown so fast mainly due to the easy availability of the cards all over our territories.” *DigitalMoneyWorld

One of the more interesting financial features of the WM prepaid cards is that they can also be used offline for direct payments at many participating merchants. In this case, Internet access is not even required to access the value on a WM prepaid card. Mr. Darakhvelidze tells me,

“By the way the cards can be used independently, without opening an account with WM - many merchants and services accept WM-cards pin-codes via phone IVR systems, thus people without any access to Internet at all can use WM as a payment means.” *DigitalMoneyWorld

The cards also work as a digital check for the Paymer service. Peter says, “Every prepaid card as well serves as a Paymer.com check , that is it can be split, merged or forwarded to other customers. Here we go - pure electronic money” *DigitalMoneyWorld

Paymers can be used by anyone in place of checks to pay bills, expenses or send money, once again this product takes the place of a regular checking account or bank draft.

Over the years, Webmoney Transfer has become somewhat integrated into Russian life. Locally, its not always necessary to use a bank for the payment of reoccurring monthly bills. Webmoney is widely accepted as payment by cell phone providers, all recognizable internet providers, pay TV and even satellite phones. With the recent Ukash ‘European’ partnership, Webmoney’s ‘integration’ may now also be spreading on a more global scale The ability to convert cash directly into digital money is certainly one of the major positive features of Webmoney Transfer.

I’m very impressed with Webmoney Transfer…..can you imagine how convenient PayPal would be if you could load accounts through a local ‘cash-in’ kiosk?

Unfortunately, that will never happen. After reading this information, the drastic differences between US financial products and the rest of the world should be rather obvious.

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Egold news

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:42:00 -0700
Webmoney Gold…On The Way Soon?

This item was received today from Shareholder.ru and appears to be some finalization plans on a Webmoney Gold Currency. Its not completed yet, but in about two weeks, we may have a definitive answer. Awesome.

” According to clause 2.3.2 of the WebMoney Transfer Code, a voting has been announced at https://www.shareholder.ru as to signing the agreement, introducing of WMG, a special type of WebMoney title units equivalent of one gram of Gold, between WM Transfer Ltd, the owner of the WebMoney Transfer system, and ‘WM Metals FZE’ and on granting ‘WM Metals FZE’ a status of System’s Underwriter for these units.

The voting will be held from 2007-06-25 15:00 till 2007-07-05 15:00. All WebMoney members with Personal (and higher) WebMoney Passports and positive balance at their purses as of 2007-06-22 (20:00:00 Moscow Time) can take part in the voting. According to clause 2.3.2 of the WebMoney Transfer Code, the decision on conclusion of the agreement with an underwriter is considered approved if more than 50 percent of participants will cast an affirmative vote. The participation threshold is 10 percent.”

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lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:38:00 -0700
What Does It Take To Be An Exchange Provider?

Do you have what it takes to become a digital currency exchange provider? (agent) Perhaps you have considered being an agent?

Take a look at this interview with a newer EU exchange agent and see what they offer to global clients.

With no industry ’standards’ required to be an exchange provider, no background or credit checks, multiple jurisdictional banking issues and no minimum capital requirements…can you tell what separates a good exchange agent from a bad one? Could you avoid the risks associated with fraud and banking?

This interview was originally published over on the NOBS Network by Makila and we have reprinted it with their permission with a few opening comments.

Goldexchange.eu : A short introducing interview

(Q) Hello, please introduce yourself.

Hello, I am Roman Valihrach and my partner is Daniel Houska. We are graduates of University of Economics in Prague and we run exchanger GoldExchange.eu.

(Q) With how many people are you running the site? What services do you deliver?

We are managing our company, the site and administration ourselves, and we have a technician, who is helping out. Our vision was to become the cheapest and fastest european e-gold ~~& 1MDC~~ exchanger. We have achieved this through constant improvements of our know-how.

It’s not only a wise choice of banks we use, their electronic services and lowest fees. We have built a good relationship with our bankers, so that we can rely on the services and cooperate on uncovering wire frauds. Our webpages are top of the class and our customer support is renowned.

(Q) So why did you launch an e-currency exchanger?

It’s simply because we like this business. We have decided some years ago to start our own business, and as the opportunity came along with the boom of e-gold, we were in. It’s a risky business, a big challenge but we have achieved some much in a year’s time, you can look forward to our next enterprises

(Q) Are you accepting Pecunix? E-bullion? Liberty Reserve?

There was no need so far. As I have said before, our goal was to become the most efficient e-gold exchanger for our customers. I am proud to say that we have achieved our goal in such a short time but just at a time that e-gold started having problems. Our efficiency consisted in concentrating our resources onto just the top one currency. e-gold is unbeatable and will stay unbeated for a long time.

As the situation requires, we have started implementing all three of the other systems you mentioned. Only our customers may decide which system will become most successful. But personally and for specific reasons, I do not see Pecunix, nor e-bullion as the successors of e-gold. We’ll see how Liberty reserve can grab onto the situation. So far we have mixed feelings.

Note: E-bullion outexchanges are available since the start of this week. E-bullion inexchanger becomes available within 2 weeks. Liberty reserve has been added but grayed out, and will become available when LR’s new website have been installed. (see www.libertyreserve.com)

(Q) What are the fees for inexchanges? outexchanges? E-currency exchanges?

Currently, we are inexchanging e-gold at 1,9%, and we charge no bank fees upon receipt. Our European customers use their internet banking for sending wires to inexchange, and they pay no bank fees thanks to our service (the price for receiving e-gold is virtually just 1,9%). We are cheapest and fastest for the rest of the world as well. We honestly think we are the cheapest reputable e-gold exchanger in the world.

Our outexchange fee right now is 3,5% because of the fact that e-gold outexchange highly exceeds e-gold inexchange at the moment (this is still the lowest price compared to our competitors). We charge no bank fees wihin Europe, and we have the lowest bank fee (just $20 - lower than any other exchanger) for international wires.

Note: E-bullion outexchange fees are 1.9% + 20$/Eu Bankwire fee. If you accept bankwire in Euro, the 20$/Eu Bankwire fee is dropped however because e-bullion itself only support $ and not Eu, the actual Euro’s you recieve in your bank account varies depending on the current exchange rate US dollar/Euro.

(Q) Are you a registered company? Do you have a license to operate as a business?

Yes.

(Q) Are you paying taxes?

Yes, we are.

(Q) How can we be sure you are a reliable company? I don’t see you listed on any e-currency site as an official exchanger.

We have applied with e-gold but have been waiting for more than 2 months now. e-gold’s administration is terrible, it is one of their weaknesses and one of the the major reasons they have run into problems. As the situation has changed, we no longer insist on being listed with e-gold. We will be listed with Liberty reserve in a few weeks, and we are working on a deal with e-bullion and pecunix right now.

We are ICOMMU approved, we are rated on GDCA and we will become their member shortly, we are listed on the gold-pages.net as a top EU IBAN exchanger, we have a long history on moneymakergroup forum and talkgold forum and czemoney forum, we are registered as a legal company. We have established many good partnerships. The design and functionality of our web pages are one of the best. We have put incredible amounts of effort into building our business, no one would go this far to scam. But most of all, our satisfied customers speak for us.

(Q) Is it possible for people to meet you in person?

Yes.

(Q) Can we have your address and real life data? (held private, it wont be posted on this blog or anywhere else) If not, please explain us why we cant have it?

This is the address of our company: eCardOne Ltd. MAHE, P.O. BOX 1313 VICTORIA, Seychelles. We are physically located in Europe. I don’t understand the real life data term, what does it mean? I don’t see this as much of a professional question. We are no hyip that needs due diligence. We are a regular business just like Microsoft for example. Would Bill Gates make his private address and “real life data” public? No, he wouldn’t. Why? Because it would only give him problems and no merits. Companies build their reputation with their brand and satisfied customers, not with managers making their private life public.

(Q) Anything else you want us to know?

We’re here for our customers. Even though we’re still not the size of top three exchangers, we are continually improving our services and our turnover is growing steadily. This business is facing big challanges at the moment. But we know what our customers want, and we’ll bring it to them.

Egold news

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:36:00 -0700
cashU Partners With Ukash For European Expansion

This has got to be one of the greatest online partnerships in history for my unbankable crowd (online users who still spend cash money).

Just announced, cashU, which is the largest Internet payment system in the Middle East and Africa has shaken hands and partnered with Ukash which is Europe’s leading cash-based online pre-payment company. I’ve written about cashU just recently and Ukash has also been making digital currency headlines in a beneficial partnership with Webmoney.

The great news here is that Ukash has tens of thousands of locations (120k+) across Europe including the UK, Ireland, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. At any of these locations a person can walk in with cash and purchase one of their vouchers which will spend online or fund an online product account. In this case, cashU would be the convenient online product which is receiving the cash funding.

cashU has a massive reseller network that stretches across North Africa and the Middle East from Morocco to Iran. This merging of business products and brand synergy should offer new expanded options and additional online shopping for a few million new customers.

In a brief statement, Martin Waldenström, General Manager for cashU had this to say, “I’m very excited about the new partnership between cashU and Ukash. With over 120,000 payment/purchase terminals, Ukash has a high density retail penetration in Europe, and is of great advantage to cashU account holders.”

Ukash is already accepted by Webmoney making this digital currency accessible to millions of cash users across Europe.

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C-gold Announces New Features

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:21:00 -0700
This week, the management at c-gold.com announced they have added an IP challenge to their system. Here is a quick explanation of how the feature works from that release,

The strongest - and recommended - security settings are limiting access to a specific IP address, and an email challenge is sent when users enter correct login data from any other connection. The system allows users to disable this security measure, or to weaken it by picking multiple IP locations and machines.

Its also worth noting they have a Merchant Index featuring agents and retail webs which accept c-gold. Today they are showing 13 exchange agents which handle their digital gold currency.

Communication with the company has been excellent and they are quick to respond to publicly posted questions and direct email. Planned future expansions for c-gold include franchise networks, a newsgroup, shopping mall and even a daily rates table for agents.

For more information just click any of the icons below.

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PayPal Gets An Official Blog

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:19:00 -0700
How do you communicate with 150 million customers? Get a blog. PayPal has a new official blog, The PayPal Blog. Here is the feed.

CEO Rajiv Dutta says the new blog is a place “to have a conversation with the millions of customers and partners that use PayPal every day.”

Only a few categories are open so far and I don’t see one marked “complaints” yet!

Executive Commentary

Online Safety

Stuff for Developers

Stuff for Merchants

Blogs are a great way for companies to communicate with customers. E-gold even has a new blog.

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Europe’s Most Respected Money Laundering Conference Nov.7-9

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:18:00 -0700
The ACAMS European Money Laundering Conference and Exhibition offers a distinguished AML training and networking experience unmatched in the industry.

Bringing together top international AML leaders from different sectors like large and small banks, insurance companies, money services businesses, and investigators to cover the most current topics in the AML field such as:

The interpretation and implementation of the Third EU Directive.

Case studies involving the latest money laundering methods.

Implementing risk-based AML processes throughout your organization.

Capturing the right information to succeed in transaction monitoring.

Striking the right balance between AML compliance and data protection.

Best practices to uncover beneficial owners, and more.

The Conference offers four distinct learning formats to allow for optimal learning and networking.

General Sessions: Learn from top AML experts in a lecture setting as they share advice and best practices on the most critical, timely issues affecting the AML profession. You will have the opportunity to explore these issues and ask questions directly to the experts.

Seminars: Address specific AML issues in smaller groups with fewer speakers. Ask individual questions in a focused environment.

Workshops: In a laboratory-style format with top international authorities in the field, you will have the chance to work in groups with other colleagues, share ideas and exercise problem-solving skills to gain real-world knowledge that you can use in your job.

Roundtables: These focused discussions, including no more than 15 participants, offer you the opportunity to freely exchange ideas with your peers and share tips and practical solutions on how to improve your AML practices.

ACAMS European Conference & Exhibition Nov. 7-9, NH Grand Hotel Kransnapolsky, Amsterdam

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Ukash Now Offers The £499 Voucher

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:16:00 -0700
Good news for UK based Webmoney users. Ukash, has increased the maximum value of a single voucher purchased at all PayPoint terminals in the UK from £100 to £499. Ukash can be used to conveniently load funds into any Webmoney purse. The new vouchers can be purchased at any of the more than 16,000 PayPoint locations across the UK. Millions of online shoppers are now embracing the use of cash to pay for their online purchases. Like any Ukash voucher, the new higher limit vouchers do not have to be used all at once.

Ukash CEO Mark Chirnside said,

“The launch of the new £499 voucher is another important milestone for Ukash, extending choice whilst remaining free of charge to the consumer”.

Ukash voucher can also be exchanged online for Entropia’s PED currency. Right now they even have a Ukash special - Deposit £10 or more of Ukash and receive a FREE IW36 limited edition pistol with ammunition.

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HYIP Scams: Charles Ponzi Would Be Proud

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:14:00 -0700
A week or so back I did a story about how online scams, pyramid schemes and Ponzi frauds were alive and well swindling Internet money from people around the globe. I tried to illustrate how digital gold currency is the preferred method of payment for most scam operators. Millions…no TENS of millions in dollars and euros from strangers around the globe are channeled directly into the pockets of online thieves using digital currency.

Everyone I know is aware of these operations but pretty much echoes the same responses, some of which ring like this, “its not my responsibility or my job to police the Internet” or “…if people want to play and throw their money away, that is their business” and finally the mother of all excuses, “…its legal in their jurisdiction so shut up and mind your business.”

I would just like to say regarding that last excuse, no, its not and never has been legal or ethical to lie, cheat and steal money from strangers. It was not acceptable in the 1920 when Charles Ponzi did it and it is by no means acceptable in today’s business world. The invention of the Internet and the introduction of digital currency has made it possible to scam from 9,000 miles away behind a wall of proxies…but that still does not make it legal or proper.

Ponzi and Pyramid scams which con people out of their money were not invented by the Internet. Everyone knows that Ponzi scams get the name from Charles Ponzi and his illustrious career as a swindler in the early days of the 20 century. But Charles Ponzi was arrested and went to prison for his crime. That’s right, it was a crime and still is..

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that involves paying abnormally high returns (”profits”) to investors out of the money paid in by subsequent investors, rather than from net revenues generated by any real business. *wikipedia

In one of Charles Ponzi’s early scams around 1920 he offered investors a 50% return on their money in 45 days, or a doubling of their money in 90 days. Sound familiar?

By February 1920, Ponzi’s best known scam had taken in $5,000 USD, by March, he was up to $30,000. At that time Ponzi began hiring agents to expand his swindle. By pushing his impressive high rate of return, he could often persuade would-be investors to send money. In May 1920, he was up to $420,000 and by July 1920, he was up to millions. Widows were mortgaging their homes, people were taking their life savings to invest with the clever Ponzi. Most did not collect their interest, but reinvested. As long as money kept flowing in, Ponzi would stay ahead of the eventual collapse. Ponzi even had hired a publicity agent.

By August, Ponzi was under arrest, with a Federal indictment citing 86 counts of fraud. 17 thousand people had invested millions, maybe tens of millions, with Ponzi. He was eventually convicted of mail fraud, which is almost identical to wire fraud….government investigators tried to trace Ponzi’s convoluted accounts to figure out how much money he had taken and where it had gone. They never managed to untangle it, and could only conclude that millions had gone through his hands. *wikipedia

In 2007…today…what would prevent these HYIP scams from operating online? (I’m not a lawyer or prosecutor and just because I have access to Wikipedia, this does not allow me to play a lawyer on the Internet)

I don’t know, but here is one possible accurate sounding representation of what is occuring.

Wire Fraud?

Wire Fraud is a crime that takes place when a person, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

If I go on the Internet and sell a phony cancer cure for 1000$ a bottle and accept digital currency as my preferred method of payment, have I committed wire fraud or some other sort of fraud? If I set up a web site that advertises I can pay a 600% return on ‘invested’ funds each year then simply steal $4 million of client funds…have I committed wire fraud? I’m no legal eagle, I’m not even a novice, but it seems the ’spirit’ of that law may still be applicable here.

How is it possible that HYIPs are allowed to clog the Internet with Ponzis and their operators always keep the money and run?

In July of this year, William Richard Vorburger, Jr., of Oxnard, please guilty in US District Court to one count of mail fraud and one count of money laundering related to a fraud scheme where he solicited and received investments of approximately $1 million to his fraudulent investment companies. In his plea agreement, Vorburger admitted to fraudulently soliciting investments by telling his ‘victims’ that they would receive a high rate of return. He also admitted that none of his businesses were operating or ever made one dollar of profit. Does that sound familiar? Vorburger now faces a statutory maximum 40 years in federal prison. Sentencing is later this year. *lawfuel

HYIPs each week steal millions from people via the Internet. Why is Richard Vorburger now facing 40 years in prison while HYIP operators are out enjoying the good life without fear of legal or civil action?

That could be their new industry slogan, “HYIP…no fear!” What brilliant legal concept says, HYIPs are OK but what Vorberger did was wrong ?

The actions of Charles Ponzi were illegal and if that had occurred in the 1960’s, 1970’s or 1980’s it would have still been illegal and wrong.

Why, since the invention of the Internet, is it acceptable to fleece people in High Yield Fraud Schemes? If it was wrong back in the 1920’s and its still illegal, why does an entire industry turn a blind eye to the fraud?

Ah, what is the real question here? “Why do some scam operators get stopped or caught and others slide by?”, “Who gets nabbed and who walks?”

It seems in today’s world since some of the digital currency operators are not going to work towards preventing the activity, there is a ‘fly below radar workaround’ which allows operators to avoid legal problems. As I have said before, if you get too big ($10-$12million) you will get nabbed. (SEC v. CEP Holdings, 5000 investors, $12million Auto Surf Ponzi) Keep it under a million and no one gets upset, its shameful.

If the digital currency operators, agents and industry won’t bother with stopping, blocking or preventing Ponzi scams, who will?

You don’t have to be psychic to know what government agency will do it for you.

In a reported self regulated industry, isn’t ignoring a big problem like this just screaming for government and law enforcement intervention?

Please move now to block and prevent these frauds and any further large scale complaints, the sooner the better for us all.

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Zurich National -The Worlds’ Best Internet Bank or $50 Template?

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:06:00 -0700
“Zurich International looks like a template online payment system vamped up by the Dosware Team, a Ukrainian outsourcing software company.”

There is a popular software package which has been widely available on the Internet for years now. Well…I say ‘popular’, but what I really mean is cheap and easy to get. This software package allows anyone to set up their very own payment processor. In reality, this is a simple PayPal clone.

With this package and a domain name (URL) you can process incoming and outgoing customer payments (wires, checks, Western Union, e-currency etc.) and issue your own private digital currency. This kind of payment processing is the conversion of national currency (USD, EURO, YEN) into digital currency units.

The new software and domain will allow anyone to accept client accounts, take their deposits and issue them digital units. This kind of system is essential to any online scam. Also you don’t have to be running a scam to operate the payment processor, you can outsource it. However the super sized combo of payment processor / HYIP has become very popular the past few years. The process of accepting victims national currency and issuing them digital currency is precisely how any online scam gets their funds (takes in money).

Do you want your own online payment system, just like Zurich National, right now…do you have $50?

These ‘turn key payment processor’ software packages are cheap and easy to find. Set one up and you to can process payments without any license, make up your own rules as you go and block out any notion of jurisdictional regulations. Ah, don’t forget it can be run from any server in any country around the globe. The chances are very good that that your new financial business would be considered illegal in most jurisdictions, but who’s watching? Right? Certainly not the folks in Zurich, Switzerland. (insert sarcasm here)

There are probably a few dozen places you can buy this software online but here is the fine selection I found searching Google in just 5 minutes. Keyword, “paypal clone”.

DoswarePAY The better software solution to start your own PayPal, StormPay, SolarPay or e-gold type of online business.

PaySite The ultimate software solution for those who wish to run their own Paypal, Stormpay, or e-gold type of online business. $199

cuSell IPS The ONLY TRUE Paypal clone around $350

Software-Discount-Sale.com Payment Processor Script Like Paypal & Stormpay $47

plx Pay v4.0 Own your very own payment processing website $490

DeskPay start their own digital credit website $150

This month, August, I have been taking a look at online payment scams and unlicensed financial business. The following text is from a July 30th post entitled Unlicensed Internet Financial Services?

In my travels its seems the digital currency ‘industry’ offers the world’s finest selection of ‘grey area’ businesses. Online business that uses digital currency also seems to be permanently linked to:

Unlicensed and unregulated ‘investment’ companies soliciting [stealing] funds across multiple jurisdictions

Businesses labeled ‘banks’ that are not directly affiliated with ANY part of the banking industry and not licensed anywhere except in some delusional world of ‘cyberspace’

Online payment systems cash flowing national currencies from civilians for the investment scams

CASE STUDY

From my July 30th post let’s take a closer look at Zurich National.

We’ll start with false claims found on the web site.

(1) Is it really an Internet Bank? NO, of course not. Zurich National is not a licensed bank anywhere.

(2) …all funds are held securely in our in-house bank? What does that mean?

(3) …we are headquartered in the world financial center of Zurich, Switzerland? Turns out that the ‘bank’ has only been registered online since October of last year and that the operators used a proxy service to register it. Hmmm wonder why they did not use their Zurich office address? Of course there is no operation in Switzerland, that is not true but very funny/entertaining to read.

Registrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc.

Registered through: EpicDomains.com

Domain Name: ZURICHNATIONAL.COM

Created on: 19-Oct-06

(4) …© 2004-2006 - Zurich National? See above date. They should have changed the original Dosware template which was dated back to ‘04.

(5) …allowing us to offer full service internet banking to anyone in the world? Again with the ‘banking’ statements?

Moving on…..at least the owner prepares victims for their eventual financial loss. This question is from the FAQ section, “I made a deposit, but I don’t see it in my account. What happened?”. I can answer that one, its GONE. Suckers.

Dig a little deeper and you will find that a Google search reveals this post from a Internet forum,

E-Wallet Money Transfer/Eschrow Company

Posted by xander

I am looking for a business partner for www.zurichnational.com and www.znpay.com— open to all offers –do not want to sell but would perfer a company that offers employment overseas–with money transfers back to Great Britian. I live in Fort Stockton Texas USA– but I live in Woodbridge East Anglia for three years while my dad was in the Air Force– I loved it there. I am a teacher and a Vietnam Airborne Infantry Vet. Y ou can contact me at davidneyland@go.com or admin@zurichnational.com

What’s really funny about Zurich National ‘Internet Bank’, is that when you look back to the Internet Archive you can only find one page of their web, from October 23, 2006. If you scan down to the middle of the page you can still see the original ‘Latin looking’ template text that appears on generic web site templates.

Here is a side by side screenshot, of the finished web and the generic template from Dosware still containing the filler text. These shots came directly from the Internet and the Internet Archive. Kind a funny how a big Bank headquartered in Zurich Switzerland would leave their Dosware template online.

Dig a bit deeper and you will finally arrive at this web site - DealASite.com which is a business market where web sites are bought and sold. Surprise!! There you will find Zurich National Internet Bank listed for sale.

Yes! That massive Internet Bank operation headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland is up for sale. The current bid is about $800 bucks :-) Here is the listing.

Completely operational payment gateway, similar to paypal. Comes with two primary domains:

ZNPAY.COM

ZURICHNATIONAL.COM

Hosting, SSL, etc all paid up until Oct 2007. Not an off-the-shelf package. A great deal of custom programming has gone into the functionality and security of this product. Extended management contract can be arranged, if desired.

Just for the record, the good folks at Dosware will also sell you a turnkey software web for your very own HYIP to go along with the payment processor. In case you have been making a 600% return each month on stock trading and want to help others less fortunate, wow, Dosware has already made an investment web site created specifically for you!

DOSWARE HYIP - THE ULTIMATE HIGH YIELD INVESTMENT PROGRAM

Dosware HYIP (High Yield Investment Program) script allows you to manage members and E-gold/IntGold/StromPay/E-Bullion deposits. Dosware HYIP script supports unlimited payout plans, flexible template system. Features include full integration with E-gold/IntGold/StromPay/E-Bullion payment gateway, advanced statistics, internal transfers and many more.

The Internet is a place where all of your International Offshore Banking and High Yield Income dreams can come true…if you have $50-$100 to get started.

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Bigger and Better Group

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:05:00 -0700
Good news, Custom Search Engine fans! We've redesigned the discussion group just for you; in particular, we've added categories to make information easier to find, including several sections dedicated to CSE features and options.

We invite you to join the Google Custom Search Help Group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-custom-search to ask questions, find answers, and lend your expertise to other Google Custom Search Engine users. Our own Custom Search Guides will also be posting to this group from time to time to help facilitate the discussion with tips and clarifications.

As for the original Co-op group, we've moved it into a subcategory of the new Custom Search group and archived the posts. You can still search for topics and read posts, but you won't be able to post new messages to the group. We hope you'll find the right category for your questions in the new Custom Search group.

Before posting to the group, try searching for the answer to your question in the FAQ or in the group archives. Also, please review the Custom Search Help Charter for more details about the group, including posting tips and etiquette. We hope to have you as an active group member soon!

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STAR POWER

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:03:00 -0700
If you've created a Custom Search Engine you've likely encountered the term 'URL patterns': the method for specifying sites and pages to include in a search engine. You can create a Custom Search Engine without ever giving URL patterns much thought, but there's added control that comes with understanding how they work and how best to use them. To that end, here are a few tips on creating useful URL patterns.

The simplest type of pattern is the URL of a specific page. You can use an asterisk (or star, in techie vernacular) as a wild card in your pattern to specify a swath of URLs by identifying their common characters. Here's how it works: rather than add each page of www.site.com to your search engine, you can merely add www.site.com/* and we will include every URL that begins with www.site.com. Similarly, rather than individually adding each subdomain of site.com, you can use the star to include them all: *.site.com will apply to www.site.com, server.site.com, etc.

Because most users adding sites to their search engines expect the subpages to be included, we've made the addition of the star the default behavior. This is what we mean in the Sites tab of the control panel when we say 'Include all pages whose address contains this URL.' If you leave that option selected, we will add a star to the end of whatever URL you provide. Additionally, if your URL is just a domain (like site.com/), not including a sub-domain (like www.site.com/ or server.site.com/), we will add a star at the beginning. This means:

site.com/ becomes *.site.com/*
server.foo.com/ becomes server.foo.com/*
othersite.co.uk/ becomes *.othersite.co.uk/* (yep, we handle two level top-level domains correctly)

If you'd like to control exactly where stars get added, you can select 'Include just the specific page or URL pattern I have entered.'

Another way to use patterns is to identify and distill common characters among a set of pages you'd like to include in your index. For example, if I know that all car review pages on my favorite consumer reviews site contain the words 'car' and 'reviews' in the URL, I can create the pattern www.reviewsite.com/*reviews*cars and include these pages. (I just need to be careful that only the pages I want contain these terms, or I may include more than I bargained for.) These types of patterns are especially useful when creating search refinements.

There is also one more application of the star, which is before a top-level domain like .edu or .ca. One use of this pattern is for when you'd like to refine a search by country: for example, you can create a pattern like *.ca and refine your search to Canadian web sites only. That said, you cannot otherwise insert a star into the second-level domain, such as www.*.com or www.dogs*.com. For a few more concrete examples of URL patterns check out our documentation.

The careful creation of URL patterns allows you greater control over the content of your Custom Search Engines, and can be particularly helpful when breaking up a site's content for refinements. Patterns may also help reduce the overall number of sites in your Custom Search Engine account, so look for redundant URLs that can be included more economically by the use of, shall we say, a little star power.

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Custom Search Engine APIs

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:59:00 -0700
A couple of weeks ago we blogged about a new feature and a new kind of Custom Search Engine (CSE) that you could create on the fly. Today, we thought we'd dig a bit deeper and describe the underlying infrastructure that powers this. With our new Linked CSEs, we are exposing the API to create and control CSEs.

Until now, you created a CSE either by using the wizard or by writing an XML file and uploading it to Google (via the "Advanced" tab on the control panel). To change any aspect of the CSE, you had to either use the control panel or upload the new XML specification. This imposed several limitations:

Creating and maintaining a CSE was a manual process.

It was difficult to create a large number of CSEs.

It was difficult to use other data sources such as iCal, RSS, Google Base, etc. to programmatically create CSEs.

The search box code for these CSEs (found on the "Code" tab in the control panel) includes a "cx" parameter with every search request (for example, ), which specifies an internal identifier for the CSE.

Linked CSEs overcome these limitations. In short, you can now specify your CSE using a "cref" parameter that points to a URL, anywhere on the web. You update this URL at your end and don't have to upload it or edit your CSE using our tools. The URL can take arguments to produce dynamic CSEs, based on the current page, the current user visiting your site, etc. You can see this in action on our "on the fly" demo page: when you type "http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/ai.html" in the form text field, the javascript on that page constructs a "cref" parameter that contains http://www.google.com/cse/tools/makecse?url=http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/ai.html. This URL (visit it!) contains an XML specification for a CSE. You can use any script you want, or reference a static file, when creating your CSE. And there's nothing special about our makecse example script: we're hoping that our developers and the developer community will build many other such CSE-generating tools.

How does this work? With Linked CSEs, you designate a CSE specification URL with each search request (as a hidden form field in your search box HTML code). Google retrieves the CSE specification from the URL when your user searches in the CSE. We cache and refresh the results so that only the first search to your CSE incurs any delay. The flexibility to specify how your search engine should behave, just when your user is doing the query, using whatever data sources you want, opens up many possibilities:

You can use our makecse tool to generate CSEs from different sources of links: HTML: http://www.cs.berkeley/~russell/ai.html

RSS: http://reddit.com/.rss

ATOM: http://lipstadt.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

OPML: http://medicalconnectivity.com/gems/blogroll.opml

You can combine multiple sources of links using our makeannotations tool and the tag. For example, its easy to create a search engine from the links on the front pages of techmeme, slashdot and digg.

You can write your own tools to produce XML from other data sources such as Google Calendar or iCal feeds, Google Base or any other structured source of information.

You can automatically generate any number of CSEs, each possibly tuned to a particular user. For example, we've created a sample that builds a CSE from a user's digg.com friend network and submissions using the Digg API. Try it out and view the source. This makes use of two simple python CGI scripts: diggannos.py generates from the specified user's submitted stories

diggcse.py generates from the specified user's friend network. For each friend, it generates an element pointing to the appropriate diggannos.py URL

You can test any Custom Search Engine XML by going to http://www.google.com/coop/cse/cref and entering the URL. Putting a search box on your site is as easy as copying a small bit of HTML code and modifying the "cref" parameter.

Linked CSEs are a very big step for Google Custom Search. We hope you will find them as cool as we do. As always, thank you for your support and keep the feedback coming.
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Search your blog world

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:52:00 -0700
With our launch of Linked Custom Search Engines (CSEs) we made it possible for developers to construct CSEs on the fly.
Using the Custom Search APIs, you can now dynamically construct CSEs, and Google will automatically update and maintain them for you.

You may already know how you can use our APIs to create innovative search-enabled applications. Today, we're delivering a Google Search widget for Blogger built using the AJAX Search API. Configure this widget on your Blogger blog to immediately search not just your blog posts, but across all the link lists/blogrolls you've set up on your blog and the links you've made from your posts -- in other words, the world around your blog!

Try out the Search Box widget at Blogger's experimental site, draft.blogger.com. Once you've logged in and configured the widget, visitors to your blog will see a search box there. The search experience inherits your blog's look and feel, and is uniquely flavored around pages you've linked to from your blog.

To add the widget:
Edit your blog's layout.
Click on "Add a page element", and configure the "Search Box" widget.

Your link lists will automatically show up as optional tabs for your search; you can decide which ones you want to configure.
Preview the search experience and save your changes. Your blog is instantly custom-search-enabled.

If you're not using Blogger, you can still use our AJAX Search API to put Linked CSEs on your website.

Let us know what you think, and what CSE-enabled applications you're working on.

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V11 Release Delayed

lowell.hagan@gmail.com (lowell.hagan@gmail.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:48:00 -0700

Due to some technical issues, we’ve decided to delay the release of v11 (originally planned for this week) for a few more weeks. While we could release some components of v11 now, we feel it is better to delay the entire release in order to minimize the number of versions we launch in a year.

However, please note that v9 will still be sunset on September 10, 2007. Therefore, please make sure you have upgraded your applications to v10 by this date.

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