WHAT IS EGOLD

E-gold is 100% gold backed currency. It serves the same purpose as the money in your purse or bank account. Once you have bought some, it is available for you to use on the internet, like electronic money.

E-gold was the first digital (electronic) currency. It has been online since 1996. e-gold is accounted by weight of metal, not US$ or any other national currency unit.

E-gold is 100% backed by gold bullion, which is stored in secure vaults in Canada and Dubai. e-gold also operates and issues other e-metals: e-silver is 100% backed by silver, e-platinum is 100% backed by platinum, and e-palladium is 100% backed by palladium. However, the most popular e-metal (by an overwhelming margin) is e-gold.

E-gold isn’t banking, so you won’t be paid interest on the gold in your account.


How does e-gold work?

You transfer some yen, euros, pounds or dollars etc. to an ‘independent exchanger’, who buys some gold for your account and deposits it in a super-safe vault. You then spend your now electronic gold (in specified weights of gold, or its currency equivalent) over the Internet or via specialised debit cards, just as you would any other currency. The real gold, meanwhile, stays in the vault; its ownership simply moves from one e-gold account to another.





How to fund your e-gold account?

There are two ways.

One, receive e-gold from another account holder.

Two, you exchange your national currency for e-gold (or e-silver or e-platinum or e-palladium) using an independent exchanger. The exchanger will deposit the e-gold into your e-gold account, on your instruction.

Here is a list of Independent Exchangers:


www.buynetgold.com
www.canadiangold.ws
www.davis-company.com
www.eurogoldline.com
www.gitgold.com
www.goldchanger.com
www.goldcurrencies.ca
www.icegold.ca
www.incrementalgold.com
www.londongoldexchange.com
www.millenium-exchange.com
www.offshoremetals.com
www.omnipay.com
www.ozzigold.com
www.tampaexchange.net
www.goldex.net


How to sell e-gold?

You can exchange your egold to your national currencies, using independent exchangers. Account holders with more than 400oz gold (equivalent to a small bar of gold bullion and worth about US$120,000) in e-gold may redeem their e-gold as a bar of gold bullion.


What can you do with e-gold?

Pay money (gold) to other e-gold account holders.

Purchase goods from vendors who have e-gold accounts. Click here for a list of merchants accepting e-gold.

Through a process called Outexchange, pay your bills or make pre-arranged payments to merchants.



What are the advantages of using e-gold?

Opening an e-gold account is totally free. There is no minimum balance requirement, no credit clearance and no identity proof required.

E-gold is borderless. People all over the world can open and operate an e-gold account.

E-gold is quick. E-gold payments clear instantaneously (with no chargeback risk), no matter how large the payment, no matter how far apart the spender and recipient.



How to protect your e-gold account?

Because of E-Gold popularity and no chargeback policy, many hackers and cheaters try to get your egold password and steal your money.

E-Gold web site is secure and can not be hacked.

The only way that people can get into your e-gold account, and steal your money is by getting your password.



To avoid your e-gold account of being "hacked":

Your password must be a random combination of alphabets and numbers, atleast 10 charecters long. For example - W6hJS99iqT. Do not use a single word as your password.

Store your password in a safe place. Preferably in a notebook.

Do not use your e-gold password, as password for any other site.

Always use the security keyboard to enter your password, and also to change your password. This way, even if you have keyloggers or trojans on your computer, they will not be able to detect your password.

Activate the Account Sentinel in your e-gold account to detect any changes in your IP address or browser. And block automation.

Do not trust any emails claiming to be sent from e-gold. Do not click on any links to the e-gold site in emails.

Use a good firewall (ZoneAlarm is free) and antivirus program (AVG is free) to prevent keyloggers from stealing your password.

Double check if you are at real e-gold web site before entering your password

- Check for active padlock in the browser status bar.
- URL must start with https://e-gold.com/.
- Use e-gold IP address to go to the site. https://63.240.230.10/acct/login.html
- If you are using e-gold spend form, check if you are on real egold page by viewing page source code - various methods (browser bugs or International Domain Names) can be used to make you see spoofed page which looks exactly the same as real e-gold page.
- Refresh the page, and check to see if the turing number changes
- Check the SSL certificate. At the e-gold web site, these values are:

Issued to: www.e-gold.com
Issued by: VeriSign
Valid from: 11/22/2004 to 12/1/2006
Thumbprint: F84F 522C E958 A443 5A37 8934 6D77 2D70 096C 6A82


To reduce risk of being attacked by trojans and keyloggers, avoid using Internet Explorer or any other IE based web browser (such as MyIE, CrazyBrowser, AvantBrowser). Better use Mozilla FireFox or Opera.