Well today’s the last day I’m blogging here as moneypenny, come to think of it, today’s Digitalmoneyworlds last post too.

From tomorrow I’ll be blogging on business, startups, money, online scams and a whole lot else. So come to the launch party and let me know what you think.

Its been great to monefy you and I look forward to your comments and debates on www.wisequeen.com

see you soon

Moneypenny

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 my short sojourn here as your Moneypenny and thankyou to those who wrote in with your appreciation and comments, and humour and especially big thanks to those that I helped to avoid money scams. Usefulness is a personal goal of mine that many bloggers share. Some have suggested that most people don’ t understand digital money but the stats say that 70 - 80,000 people who visit Digalmoneyworld regularly do and Millions of people use paypal moneybookers and other online payment forms. What do you think?

I’m not retiring though, I have too many articles on money to write on while touring startups in Europe, plus my books to edit and sell, and nor are you yet, you can find more of me here.

http://www.wineloversworld.blogspot.com

My un-common sense blog on biz advice, finance, money of all kinds, and the rules of life, launches on August 1st and you can find me there at www.wisequeen.com so come to the launch party, you’re invited.

As they say in Italy, Arrive derci!

Please leave a comment, or donations to my paypal account for my new startup. I’ll be entertaining you here till then.

Moneypenny.

We’d like to know how useful our readers think this blog is when making decisions about their digital investing, gold investing, online payments, webmoney and investing in general.

online payments

Judging by the response we’ve had to investing online, fake moneybookers scams,

online security and gold related scams, we think pretty useful, but we’d like to hear it from you.

What’s the future of gold currencies?

Please write in and tell us what you read on here or participated in, and why.

Take a short tour of our posts over the last month and send us your viewpoint, digital money world readers.

Moneypenny.

Last week I asked you to design the online payment system called edream you wanted as Here on www.digitalmoneyworld we regularly hear readers complaining about the services ( or lack of them) offered by e payments companies like moneybookers, paypal, e gold, loom, and the rest. In response, Sean over at franchise pick; a blog I never tire of reading, responded with a killah post not to be missed, with his usual wit and humour.

http://www.franchisepick.com/franchisepickcom-announces-esean-payment-processing-system/

So here’s the question, if you were to design the e payments system that you want and need, what would it look like?

What services would it offer that you are missing now?

How would you improve on existing options offered to customers?

What limitations that you presently have to endure would you do away with and what would you replace them with?

Lets call it e dream

The prize? a deposit of seed money into your a paypal account in your name to start your new business. Yes you heard right! seed money into your own account.

Now rumour has it that Sean is pretty confident of winning this are you going to let him? So send yours in today guys, your best ideas for a payment system.

The prize will be awarded at the end of July. get yours in!

So write to Moneypenny under comments below and let’s have your e dream e payments blueprint. The best one will be voted on and will win a prize of seed money into a paypal account!

Moneypenny

Last week I asked you to design the online payment system called edream you wanted as I regularly hear readers complaining about the services ( or lack of them) offered by e payments companies like moneybookers, paypal, e gold, loom, and the rest. In response, Sean over at franchise pick; a blog I never tire of reading, responded with a killah post not to be missed, with his usual wit and humour.

http://www.franchisepick.com/franchisepickcom-announces-esean-payment-processing-system/

So here’s the question, if you were to design the e payments system that you want and need, what would it look like?

What services would it offer that you are missing now?

How would you improve on existing options offered to customers?

What limitations that you presently have to endure would you do away with and what would you replace them with?

Lets call it e dream

The prize? a deposit of seed money into your a paypal account in your name to start your new business. Yes you heard right! seed money into your own account.

Now rumour has it that Sean is pretty confident of winning this and are you going to let him?

So send yours in today guys your best ideas for a payment system.

The prize will be awarded at the end of July. get yours in!

So write to Moneypenny under comments below, or to my soon to launch blog www.wisequeen.com and let’s have your e dream e payments blueprint. The best one will be voted on and will win a prize of seed money into a paypal account!

Moneypenny

Since I started writing about and following gold currencies, e currencies and e shares, I’m always amazed at how badly these companies maintain communication with their shareholders, and how anything that is said or questioned about a  particular company is always interpreted as sabotage by their competitors.

DIGITAL CURRENCY BUSINESS E-GOLD INDICTED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING AND …

Given the nature of the e currencies business, unpredictible as it is, regular updates from e gold, should be forthcoming. Especially in the light of their  recent indictment, one would think they had a duty to their many clients with collective millions invested to address their concerns. Apparently not, in the unregulated area they operate in anything goes, and “when the -you know what- hits the fan”, they claim it is a smear campaign and just a false PR release. How could anyone outside the inner circle really know?

Are you invested in e gold? What do you think? Are they bankrupt?

send us your comments

Moneypenny

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 security update.

My advice that you should never click on a link, but rather, type moneybookers straight into your browser window, still stands.

Read this 

Fake moneybookers scam ?

Security update

Monday, 30 June, 2008 10:21 PM

From:

“MoneyBookers” <security@moneybookers.com>

Add sender to Contacts

To:

d@b5media.com

Attention!   Dear Member Moneybookers,We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your moneybookers account from a foreign IP address.. If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you. However, if you did not initiate the log ins, please visit moneybookers as soon as possible to verify your identity:   https://www.moneybookers.com/app/login.plVerify your identity is a security measure that will ensure that you are the only person with access to the account. Thanks for your patience as we work together to protect your account. Sincerely, Moneybookers 2008 Moneybookers Security Reminders Protect Your Password Moneybookers and its representatives will NEVER ask you to reveal your password. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this policy. If anyone asks for your password by phone moneybookers.com, refuse and immediately report this to security@moneybookers.com.Please do not reply to this email.This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response.For assistance, log in to your moneybookers account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any moneybookers page. The capitals matter Let us remind you that the capitalized letters matter for the password, it has to have at least 6 characters and contain at least one number or a special character like ‘-’.     Registered in England and Wales under Company No 4260907. Registered office: C3 Cairngorm House, Meridian Gate, 203 Marsh Wall, London E14 9YT. None of the information contained in this website constitutes, nor should be construed as Financial Advice.

What do you think,Is this real? Comments please. We reached 120 comments on digital money world for the month of June so thanks to all who commented on my posts and by so doing, helped others to be safer online. yours in money, Moneypenny

 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 PayPal when  sending and/or receiving money is more secure than within Facebook so many may not feel comfortable logging in via another application. Im sure this will open up a whole can of worms as far as the scammers go, as we have already seen on the Fake moneybookers scam ?   which has numerous comments worth reading. What do you think  good or bad, would you use it?

Yours in money,

Moneypenny

Miranda at www.yieldingwealth.com asked for a guest post while she was out of town, and I took the chance to write on something different. I include my tips for surviving the slump. I write on digitalmoney here at digitalmoneyworld

and also have two other blogs: one on relocating to Italy, and one reviewing wine.

So that keeps me busy. Take a trip and visit.

Italy expat, living and working

A World of Wine

Read the post on yielding wealth

yieldingwealth.com titled stealth-leading-to-wealth

and give your comments or some tips of your own. How are you survivng the tough times?

Remember, tough times don’t last, but tough people do.

Moneypenny

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. Mark spam as spam and delete it out of your spam folder daily.

Rule number 2

Never click on a link, but rather type the address www.paypal.com or moneybookers.com straight into your browser window. Then you can’t be misdirected. Check the page you are logging into it should look right, dont rush. Never update your details on a form you’re not certain about. These scams continue because people fail to to do this, they know they will catch someone.

Rule number 3

If you don’t have a bank account with that bank or payment company, don’t open the mail. You don’t get an account by accident.

Follow these simple rules everytime and scams will suffer, not you.

Care to comment? share this with everyone you know.

Be safe online, Moneypenny