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AlterGold.com is back online after huge DDOS attack

Reez — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:02:57 +0000

I just received about 2 hours ago regarding AlterGold, newly payment processor around, that they are now back online after their site was getting huge DDOS attack since the past 6 days. Here is the official newsletter from AlterGold.com

AlterGold faced a worst DDoS attack. It was a very Powerful attack, and for about 6 Days, AlterGold was un-accessible. Therefore, Now we are proud to announce that Now, you can access AlterGold as you do normally. This means both Web site and WAP site are available once again. We have reinforced security on site. Once again, We are proud to announce that AlterGold is now back online! You may now access your Accounts and Enjoy our services. Meanwhile, We are working on even strong Protection to ensure this not to happen again. Please feel free to contact Support for any kind of Inquiries related to AlterGold.

Regards,

Rufi A.
AlterGold Project Manager.

Important Update from SolidTrustPay

Reez — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:33:03 +0000

Here is the recent update received from SolidTrustPay (STPay), a Canada based payment processors.

This is a personal email from Marc and Stella, to you, our valued members. It has serious implications for a small percentage of you. It is, however, going out to our main membership to ensure it reaches all appropriate parties.

As many of you know, we have been harassed and attacked by individuals in Indonesia, Hungary and elsewhere. DDoS attackes and phishing emails leveled at us, lies, slander and accusations thrown around in forums. Yesterday we received a blackmail letter demanding $10,000 in EGold. (see partial copy below). We have NO intention whatsoever of giving in to this individual’s demands. He has even used our personal names in phishing e-mail attempts from a fake gmail account supposedly from SolidTrust. We reported this to Gmail weeks ago, but received no response. He has had his gold currency accounts blocked, only to create new ones.
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LibertyReserve’s Security PIN has been renamed to Master Key

Reez — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:28:02 +0000

Effective immediately, growing payment processor Liberty Reserve had renamed their 3 digit Security PIN to Master Key. The function will remain the same just the name has been changed.

GoldenPurse and Minvestment Gone For Good?

Reez — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:17:54 +0000

At the time I wrote this. both online investment program sites, Minvestment (www.minvestment.com) and GoldenPurse (www.goldenpurse.com) are still down and probably is gone for good. I posted several days ago about the problem facing by these two programs. It seems that there are no clues whatsoever to see them coming back. There are no such information from their Officials either.

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Ddos on MoneyMakerGroup, A3union - some got paid some are not

Reez — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:45:55 +0000

Previously, I stated here that some site are down, probably because of DDOS attack. Some site, including famous TalkGold.com forum has been up and running very smooth now, probably because of high ddos protection used to protect the site from the attact. MoneyMakerGroup.com (MMG) however, is still suffering from the attack and by the time I write wrote this, their forum has not been work yet. (more…)

Goldcoders Script fully support V-Money & Liberty Reserve

Reez — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:57:58 +0000

If you notice, previously Goldcoders.com had updated their HYIP Manager Pro script with Liberty Reserve but as for today, their HYIP Manager Pro script is fully support for both Liberty Reserve and V-Money payment systems. If you are program admin and using their script, you can download their latest script for free and start using both payment system. Note that they new additions support auto payment. (more…)

Phishing e-gold email

Reez — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:02:37 +0000

Since last few days, many people reported that their e-gold account was blocked. Since then, I received a lot of phishing email from e-gold.

The latest email I received was around 4 hours ago. Here some of the text in the email: (more…)