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

I have really enjoyed my short sojourn here as your Moneypenny on DMW 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. Fear not I ‘ll be covering more of the same about all kinds of money on www.wisequeen.com
with more un-common sense, money issues, business, startups and life advice
along with my new wineblog which beat Dr Vino this week in ratings!!! We are on our way people! hang …read more

As well as accessing the information held by credit agencies on you, banks also store a lot of their own info and recently the safety of this info has come under the spotlight.

Last year a large UK bank was fined £1 million for carelessly failing to safeguard customer info when a member of staff’s laptop was stolen. The theft was pretty routine what angered the officials however, was the fact that the info held on the computer was not even encrypted to prevent Joe Soap in the street accessing it.
A few months later the banking commisioner named and shamed …read more

(Digital Money World) I remembered when the Monetary Authority of Singapore has given a time-line to the local banks (and even global banks that operates within the MAS frame like Standard Chartered, Citibank) to implement 2FA security feature, not many people know what 2FA really was, and how useful it is as a second level of deterrent to hacking or even identity thefts such as social engineering.

2FA Devices. Singaporeans should find them really familiar – Taken with my HTC Diamond

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

 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

Well, following on the successful blog off where I and many other b5media bloggers from the business channel and entertainment channel blogged for 24 hours straight, it came to me that, one golden rule of blogging, is to add value.
In other words, to give our readers something that they need to manage their money better, some timely advice that’s hard to find. On this note, I thought back to my recent post on the moneybookers scam, that caught people in its sticky trap, real people who unfortunately lost real money. Here are some of the comments received:
michael …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