Dear Digitalmoneyworld readers,
The new news is that the subject of new money just doesn’t attract enough readers to compete with bigger sites here on b5media so it’s official retirement party will be here on the 31st of July which will be my last blogging day here as Moneypenny.
I know this may come as a surprise for those of you loyal readers who use this as a resource and have sent in your veiwpoints regularly since it’s inception when Mark wrote here. Our clicks, comments and links are all up, but the digital flag has flagged.
I have really enjoyed …read more

Having been in investment planning for a fair part of my working life, when I see something like this I find it really worth reading, so I share it with you.
On Friday we spoke about the legendry Warren Buffet one of the most sucessful investors of all time.
USA today reported what happened two years back,when shares in Berkshire Hathaway hit 100,000 a share, now …read more

I’ve lived in Europe for a decade, and visited it for much longer than that. My city, Rome, Florence and London were always packed with American tourists and in Britain, this lean year, foreign visitors spent about $7.5 billion in the first six months of the year, the British Tourist Authority said, but less Americans came.
In Italy, where the number of American visitors was down 11 percent this year in the art cities of Rome, Florence, Venice and Naples, tourism employs about two million Italians and accounts for about one-twelfth (or much more if the …read more

Ok anyone visiting digital money world recently would have noticed we have been discussing moneybookers scams Reading the comments on these posts is essential reading. So heres the latest to arrive in my box. Is it real or not?
Well here’s an email that seems to come from moneybookers advising me that someone has attempted to log in to my account. It’s an account, I’m about to close, as it has no funds and never will do. However, it would be more convincing if this was not a non-return email, but instead you got a person when you replied to this …read more

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Did Someone Send You Money?
If someone used Obopay to send you …read more

 A new application on facebook  from Moneybookers which is based in the U.K. was launched, Moneybookers is one of the largest money transfer services online with over 4.6 million worldwide customers.
While Moneybookers promotes it as a “social fundraising” application, all of the normal Moneybookers money transfer services will be available inside the application.
The application will expand Moneybookers’ ability to extend their reach by offering their services to the millions of Facebook users. It appears that the fee structure for the Facebook application will match the current Moneybookers fee structure
One drawback that I see is that  logging directly into Moneybookers or …read more

I blogged yesterday about the those that have written into me about a fake moneybookers scam.
http://www.bizzia.com/adding-value/
Adding value read this and comment on it if you have suggestions.
These people were scammed because they received an email identical to the moneybookers one and took it as the original, it was actually a faked page which looked identical.
Today I want to talk about online security with moneybookers, pay pal and others.
What should you expect to receive from them?
Rule number one
Any mail you get, first check the address it came from, that’s the first clue. …read more

This is a kind of unofficial poll to find out which online payment company is rated best.
These are the criteria:
1. ease of use, functionality and options.
2. service level, charges/cost and market share.
3. security, support and reliability.
4. ethical, regulated and financially sound company.
So which online payment company does these best for you.
Leave a comment and tell us your experience for the benefit of our readers.
Moneypenny

I remember as an investment broker not so long ago, my clients and peers talking about ethical investments. Exercising your ethical choice in investments was becoming mainstream and even clients were talking about it.
Contrast this with the Elliot Spitzer case recently. He didn’t seem to care that prostitution and the crimes always linked with it, where being funded by him. He possibly said – I’m O.k. I’m not hurting anyone.
The IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division then started a probe, initially fearing that Spitzer was the victim of either extortion or identity theft.
 

Screenshot of the website of Emperors Club VIP …read more

Should we be worried about the financial markets? Well I think so. When companies like Lehman Bros lose 50% of their share value for the first time in their very long history, and then start scrabling around trying to raise money on the stock exchange. When major banks are being bailed out by reserve banks. When many shares are in freefall due to the jittery markets, and when the price of oil is just on a drunken rampage full of its own importance and value. When world powers can’t find a workable alternative solution to the oil producing states …read more