How To Use E-Gold?
What is e-gold?
E-gold is one of internet money currency that commonly use today, e-gold is backed up by real gold, so your money saving is same as gold saving, e-gold account is free and no need to deposit some money like conventional bank.
Why e-gold?
E-gold is the most famous internet payment processor, used by lot of business website for many years, and there are much e-gold changer on many country, you can exchanger e-gold to your money currency, please find e-gold changer on your country by searching it using Goggle search.
E-gold is safe
There are much security protection on e-gold website, e-gold will detected the IP Address and Internet Browser and will verify the change by sending AcctSent PIN on your e-mail, even if somebody know your passphrase it will not access your account before inputting the PIN from e-mail.
E-gold website is protected by World Class DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Protection by Prolexic.
How to open e-gold account
Click this link to open e-gold registration website :
On first page click on CREATE AN ACCOUNT. Then click on I AGREE button.
The "New e-gold™ Account Creation Form" page will be appearing, fill in your data here :
1. Account Name
Specify a name for your account. The account name will be displayed when someone is spending or receiving e-metal to this account. An optional description may be entered.Example :
*Robert Barry (For Marketiva, you must put your real name)
You may leave the Description and Additional Description empty.
2. User Name
Specify a user name for yourself. The user name will be displayed in the account history, to clarify one account user from another. Currently a single user is supported per account. You may also enter a description of the user if desired.
Example :
*Robert Barry
You may leave the Description and Additional Description empty.
3. Point of Contact
Specify the account point of contact information, this must be the name and address of a real person, fill in with your real data and complete mailing address.
Name : fill in with your real name
Address : fill in with your full address
City : fill in with your City
State/Province : fill in with your State or Province
Country/ZIP/Postal Code : fill in with your Country and ZIP/Postal Code
E-mail : fill in with your e-mail address that still active and the inbox is not full.
Tips : You can create new e-mail for your internet business, different from your private e-mail (get free e-mail such as from.
Phone : fill in with your Phone Number, you can use home phone or cellular phone that still active, fill it with complete country and area code (example : +6221XXXXXXX).
This is important if you lost your passphrase or can not access your e-mail to login, the e-gold staff will contact you via this telephone number.
Fax : You can empty it if don't have fax machine.Alternate Passphrase : Fill in with alternate passphrase, this is for Payment verification use, you can use different passphrase than the main passphrase.
Attention : You must remember your passphrase, don't use usual word that can be guest by other, use combination of letter, number and special character/symbol, and with combination of big and small letter. Make passphrase as long as you can, make it difficult to crack. Don't give your passphrase to other in any reason; don't believe the e-mail that asks your passphrase, e-gold is never send e-mail like this.
4. Passphrase
New e-gold Account Passphrase : Fill in with your desired passphrase, 6 letter minimum and must be combined with letter and number (example : mY1ph2A3sS4Wor5D). Don't use same password from other website.
New e-gold Account Passphrase again : Fill in with your passphrase again.
Tips : To protect your passphrase from other bad guy, that maybe use keylogger or spyware on your computer, please always use this SRK facility, your keyboard keystroke will not recorded and can be read by other person. Click on SRK logo here and the virtual keypad will appear :
5. Turing Number Entry
Enter the sequence of random numbers displayed in the above grid :
This is for more protection of your login and to avoid automatic login by software, enter the number on image (example : 564677).
Attention : This is not your e-gold account number, your new account number will be emailed to you. Enter the sequence of random numbers displayed in the above grid:
Click on Open button and will displayed this page :
Account Created
Your new e-gold Account Number has been sent to : your-email@xxxxxxx.com
Your new e-gold Account Number has been sent to : your-email@xxxxxxx.com
You will accept e-mail from e-gold, your e-gold account number is in this e-mail and now you ready to use e-gold for your internet money transaction.
Attention : For Hotmail, Yahoo and some of other e-mail provider user please check your Bulk or Junk e-mail folder, maybe your e-gold letter is there.
How to use e-gold account
Open e-gold website and click "Access Your Account"
In login page please enter :
Account Number : Enter your e-gold account number (that accepted from e-mail).
Passphrase : enter your Passphrase, please always using SRK keypad (click on SRK logo).
Turing Number : Enter the number from image.
Tips : If you can't see the image, or you waiting to long for entering the number, please click refresh on your browser to change with the new image number.
Click on Login button, and you will enter the Member Area Page.
Member Area
There are six buttons for your e-gold activity :
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Logout : To logout your e-gold account
Attention : You must click Logout after finished your e-gold activity, don't leave it open, don't close your browser or turn off your computer before logout from e-gold website.
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E-metal : It is the type of your saving, you can choose from e-gold, e-silver, e-platinum or e-palladium, but usually we use e-gold, the price of these e-metals is difference.
Weight : It is the weight of your saving (oz. troy), your e-gold saving is based on weight of your e-metal and your money value will be change if the price of the e-metal is changing.
Equiv. grams : It is the weight in gram, because some country use gram rather than oz. troy.(1 oz. troy equal to 31.1 grams).
Current Value in (USD - US$) : It is your saving in US Dollar price, you can use other money currency here.
Your Money value in US Dollar will be changing every time, depend on the price of e-metal you use, if you use e-gold and the gold price is up then your US Dollar value will be up too, vice versa.
Spend : To transfer money to other e-gold account.
Pay : Fill in with e-gold account that you want to spend.
Amount : Enter the amount of money you want spend, choose "US Dollars worth" of "Gold"
Memo : Enter your message to the receiver.
Then click Preview.
The Preview page will appear, check the data and click on Confirm.
If the transaction is success will you will see this page :
Please write and save the Batch number for confirm to the receiver.
History : To see the detail transaction you're made in e-gold.
Choose the Starting Date and Ending Date, you can see the transaction with these categories included :
Payment Received : Your received money.
Payment Made : Your spend money
And other options you can choose.
Click on View Detailed History to see in detail, or View Summary to see in total only.
Account Info : To see your account detail, and to change your data.
If you use different computer to open your e-gold account
If you use different computer, such as from home and office, you need to enter the AccSent PIN.
You must open your e-mail to accept the AccSent PIN, if you can't find it on inbox please search in Bulk or Junk folder. Please open your e-mail website on different windows, don't close the window that e-gold website opened.
Example of the e-mail :
PIN : 262-904 ◄ the PIN number
Acct: xxxxxxx ◄ your e-gold account number
Expires : 8/20/2005 2:58:00 AM GMT ◄ the expired date of the PIN (GMT time)
IP : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ◄ your IP Address
Enter the PIN number (example : 262-904) and you can continue to login your e-gold account. Please to understand that PIN expired in 15 minutes, after 15 minutes you didn't enter it then you must refresh your e-gold login page to accept new PIN.
Funding your E-gold
Now when you have your account set up, you have to fund your account with gold in order to be able to make payments. To do this you need to use an Exchange Service which will convert your money into E-gold. We recommend the following Exchange Services :
GoldEx - Buy e-gold with Credit Card/Wire Transfer/Local Bank
Mynetgold.com
Wannagold.com
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