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Where to find a e-gold exchange agent

These web pages list e-gold exchange agents;

Global Digital Currency Association (verified & rated) Electronic Currency Merchants Association - Members e-gold.com - e-gold directory (verified) a861.com - e-gold exchange agents (rated) gold-pages.net - exchange agents (rated)

(With above list; verified means identification of exchange agent operators are known and rated means exchange agent reputation has been rated)

Your first e-gold purchase - getting verified!

When making your first purchase of e-gold new user can expect that exchange agent will check their identity or be "verified". Verification procedures vary between different exchange agents but at least you should expect a phone call. This verification requirement has come about due to massive amount of credit card fraud, bank account hacking and phishing scams currently on internet. Responsible e-gold exchange agents try to protect people who have meet unfortunately with a scammer / hacker by not letting theft move there ill gotten gains into e-gold. Your personal information is always protected using 128 bit SSL website, secure web servers, strict privacy policies and all client information is kept confidential. The verification requirements are higher for credit card use due to fact credit card fraud is massive on internet and online retailers / shops ... including e-gold exchange agents.

Secure your gold!

With e-gold security is users responsibility, remember all e-gold transactions are irrevocable - even if your account is hacked! e-gold helps protect your account by giving you security feature called Account Sentinel (AccSent), leave this feature on (it is on by default for all new accounts). AccSent will email you every time someone tries to log into your e-gold account with a different IP address - careful, if you lose your email address you will not be able to log into your e-gold account.

A tip is to use two email addresses like this; email1@email1.com, email2@email2.com (that is "email1 comma space email2") on your e-gold account - using this tip means both emails will be notified upon login or account profile changes.

Making sure your computer is protected also protects your e-gold account from unauthorized transfers, it is highly recommended that you have adequate computer security. Computer security at least includes up-to-date firewall software, antivirus software and all operating system updates are installed on your computer.

Using a long passphrase (sentence) on your e-gold account and not saving that passphrase (password) on your computer helps greatly as well.

All too easy

e-gold offers easy transfers between accounts for purchase of a multitude of products and services at a faction of cost of other worldwide money transfer systems. e-gold offers users easiest way to pay anyone around world without providing personal information (no risk of identity theft or profiling). e-gold offers merchants a worldwide client base and irrevocable transactions safe from chargeback's. e-gold also caters for both large and same transfers and account balances, for example maximum transfer fee is only 50 cents and all funds (large and small) are securely backed by gold held in third party gold depositories around world.

About author

The operators of TheGoldShop.biz are verified members of GDCA and ECMA and have operated e-gold exchange businesses since 2001. Article reprint permission granted as long as article remains intact and not edited in anyway, including this "about author" and all hyperlinked URLs remain unaltered.