E-Gold Hacking Prevention Tips from E-Gold - HYIPs Talk

d4tacom · #1 (**permalink**) 06-27-2007, 04:17 PM

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I received a message from some spammer yesterday asking me if I wanted to buy some E-Gold hacking tools. I reported this to e-gold and they responded with a very informative email on protecting your e-gold account from hackers. I thought I’d share it with all you Hyip and autosurf enthusiasts.

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Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. We have investigated acct #3191270 and have placed a block on their account which will prevent them from receiving any further spends into their account. There is no such thing a e-gold hacking software. It is a scam in which they will send you a Trojan virus that will capture your passphrase and then they will in turn steal your e-gold without providing you any software.
There are three security recommendations we would like to make to you in case you are not currently doing them.
1. You may want to consider book marking the e-gold IP address versus the URL as your e-gold bookmark and only access it via your bookmark. The IP to bookmark is https://209.200.169.10. The reason for doing this is there are viruses such as this one: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/defau...&virus_k=99469 that plant fake entries in the host file which windows then uses instead of the correct IP address for the site. Using the e-gold IP address versus the URL will bypass this type of Trojan. Also, never access your e-gold account via an email message even if the message appears to come from e-gold.
2. Always use the SRK feature to access your e-gold account never type it in! You should first change your passphrase using the SRK feature. If your passphrase is changed using the “SRK” feature and the account is only accessed using the “SRK” feature, then your passphrase will be protected even if there is a Trojan virus on your computer. However, this is true only if you are at the correct e-gold site. To ensure you are always at the e-gold site, you may want to click the box next to your account number on the login page that says, “Store my account number on my computer”. In the future when you attempt to log into your account and if the account number is not displayed, you should be wary of entering your passphrase because you may be at a fake e-gold site. a. Log into your account using your current passphrase. b. Click on the button that says, “account info” c. Scroll down to passphrase box and click in the box. d. Click on the button that says SRK e. A small window will pop up on your screen f. Enter your new passphrase by clicking on the numbers, letters or symbols in the pop-up window. You will see *** being added to the passphrase box as you use your mouse to click on the numbers, letters or symbols. *See note g. When ready to confirm your passphrase click on the arrow on the bottom right hand corner of the pop-up window. h. Confirm new passphrase using the same procedure you followed in item #f. i. Click update passphrase. *Note: For upper case letter click on the upper case “ABC”, for lower case letters click on the lower case “abc”, for numbers click on the “123″, for symbols click on the “sym”
3. If you are making a spend via the e-gold shopping cart interface (SCI) always confirm you at the actual e-gold site. To verify you are at the actual e-gold site when using the SCI spend page, double click on the gold security lock and verify that the certificate was issued to www.e-gold.com and that the certificate was issued by verisign and is valid from 11/22/2004 - 12/1/2006. You can also review the certificate details and make sure the certificate serial number is: 58:7C:C8:8D:BA:AB: DF:C3:FD:81:BB:2E:5B:93:69:31. SHA1 Fingerprint: F8:4F:52:2C:E9:58:A4:43:5A:37:89:34:6D:77:2D:70:09 :6C:6A:82 (also known as Thumbprint for Internet Explorer Users) MD5 Fingerprint: 5D:AC:00:B8:11: D4:06:22:5B:CC:83:EE:7D:1E:7C
Regards,
e-gold Abuse

primecrimson · #2 (**permalink**) 06-28-2007, 08:14 AM

Thank you for this informative article. So that's what hackers do in our e-gold account. They don't use softwares but they use virus that will get your passphrase.

About the e-gold SRK, its my number one choice to keep my e-golsd a little more safe from intruders.

visavavit · #3 (**permalink**) 06-28-2007, 04:31 PM

This one is some good tips
and more tips here
https://www.e-gold.com/securitynotes.html

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Verify website identity before entering passphrase

Fraudulent "phishing" websites designed to trick you into divulging your passphrase or other sensitive information are common. Spoofed e-mail (see above) is commonly used to lure victims to phishing websites. Never assume that a website is the website you intended to be at based on its appearance. Before entering your e-gold passphrase, ensure you are at the real e-gold website by:

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Checking for an active padlock in the browser status bar.
* Checking the browser location bar for a site name beginning with (exact spelling is critical): https://www.e-gold.com/
* Checking the SSL certificate being using for for appropriate "Issued To", "Issued By", and Thumbprint fields. At the e-gold web site, these values are:
Issued to: www.e-gold.com
Issued by: VeriSign
Valid from: 11/20/2006 to 12/1/2009
Thumbprint: FFA3 FDFE 7271 7872 B9E1 48B7 5C7D E7EC CFF6 ACF4

forumer · #4 (**permalink**) 06-30-2007, 06:59 AM

That's all a great info guys!! Well done, and for sure we must not do an illegal or weird job about e-gold, and whatever email, promotion that want us to give passwd about e-gold or similar we must avoid.

Topic starter done a great job there, keep it up my fren!!!

d4tacom · #5 (**permalink**) 06-30-2007, 07:30 AM

^^
Ok Dokie, beware of phising & scam email

titaniumhijau · #6 (**permalink**) 06-30-2007, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by d4tacom

^^
Ok Dokie, beware of phising & scam email

So, just be more careful today especially for phishing email. I already got too many phishing mail at my inbox everyday. At least must be have 5 email and its make me tired to delete all that kind mail..

honkuz · #7 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 10:51 AM

really good info, thanks. e-gold rarely feedkack, so i think spammers softwares is really dengerous so that e-gold have to care.

cheer · #8 (**permalink**) 07-07-2007, 03:08 PM

Actually a simple principle for you to remmber, E-Gold will not issue any email unless you have asked thme something before. It will then be the reply email.

silverhawk145 · #9 (**permalink**) 07-20-2007, 08:12 PM

i think its very hard to any hacker to do any harm for very big site as E-gold and i think also those hackers want to hack the passward of users and i hope to donn't know to do that

sammaster · #10 (**permalink**) 07-31-2007, 02:41 AM

how i can protect my account in e-gold?