E-gold hacker - beware

On June 1 I purchased =A3140 of e-gold from LondonGoldExchange which was
deposited in my e-gold account. I paid out a bit; the next afternoon my
account had been cleaned out, about $170. The criminal who did this
calls himself zhou and he is/was using e-gold 2914702; I got onto
E-gold who have put a block on his account so that he can't receive
anymore funds but that doesn't stop him paying out. E-Gold say they
can't give out any information about this crook or chargeback and seem
to regard this as a civil rather than a criminal matter.

If you use a public computer beware, if your E-Gold settings change,
beware. There are a number of things you can do to restrict access to
your account.

Anyone comes across this character, please let me know:
a_baron[AT]ntlworld.com

Re: E-gold hacker - beware

> E-Gold say they can't give out any information about this crook
> or chargeback and seem to regard this as a civil rather than a
> criminal matter.

IANAL

Theft is theft is theft - report it to the police, get back onto e-gold
and tell them you are initiating a criminal investigation, and that you
will require all their server logs (i.e. don`t destroy them).

Their own audit systems should enable them to point down the time of the
transaction, and the originating IP address - this information is not
"sensitive" IMO as it doesn`t identify anyone directly, it just tells
you who their ISP is.

You don`t know at this stage how your account was compromised - it may
have simply been someone managing to retrieve your login details from
that machine (keylogger etc) but that might also raise questions about
the security procedures of the internet cafe you were in. It may also be
something more pernicious such as a member of their staff accessing
accounts...

Just because the site don`t wish to treat this as a criminal matter
doesn`t make it one.

Re: E-gold hacker - beware

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 09:50:07 +0100, Colin Wilson <>
wrote:

>Theft is theft is theft - report it to the police, get back onto e-gold
>and tell them you are initiating a criminal investigation, and that you
>will require all their server logs (i.e. don`t destroy them).

Do it in writing and get a certificate of posting from the post
office. Telephone calls are too easy to deny.

As for e-gold - as far too many spammers use them I'd assumed that
they were dodgy. They're also on the Financial Services Authority list
of unregulated internet banks. Their behaviour confirms my view.

Daytona