Online secure payments and data sharing.
May 18, 2008 by moneypenny
Filed under Personal Finance
This link on Paypal customers and their payment preferences, ties in rather nicely with a theme we’ve had here on digitalmoneyworld in the last week. That of security, and in particular, data security with any online payment system.
Weve spoken about scams, both with traditional banks in my last post, and also companies like moneybookers and the spammers and scammers that try to steal your information.
The golden rule in protecting yourself here seems to be “think twice before you give out your personal information“. How safe is it? Where will it be used and stored, and most important, is the company/person asking for it actually who they say they …read more
Fake moneybookers scam ?
May 10, 2008 by moneypenny
Filed under Personal Finance
You’ve got cash
Greetings from moneybookers.com! We would like to inform you that you have received a payment from merchatrade3@merctrade.com.
Payment details
Amount: USD 320.00
ID: 95229846
Subject: withdraw complete
Note: Click here to accept this payment
Your money is waiting for you in your Moneybookers account.Use this link to accept payment- www.moneybookers.com.We hope you enjoy your cash.
This is what arrived in my mail box today. I went on-line because I thought it was from someone who was paying me today, and logged on. No cash!
So sooner or later everyone gets scamed, as Google tells you! The site is identical. Moneybookers should have a secure lock image like yahoo does.
Anyone else here …read more





