PROTECTING YOUR GOLD

Basic security measures
One important issue much on our minds these days is security of our assets. Particularly online.
With the advent of the internet came scammers, fraudsters and other morally deficient persons. It
is important therefore that you take steps to protect your hard earned gold!
Protecting your accounts can be summed up in the following basic measures.
1. Ensure you have at least one anti-virus software on your machine. There is a link
at the end of this book you can use to get free anti-virus software.
2. Ensure you have at least one firewall on your machine. There is a link at the end
of this book you can use to get a free firewall for the computer.
3. Do not give out your passphase’s to anyone. Including your family unless you trust
them totally.
4. Do not access your accounts from any other computer than the one to normally
use.It is absolute insanity to go to an internet shop and use the machines there.
They are invariably riddled with software that can capture your Passphase and
other information about you. Software such as viruses, Trojan, Key loggers and
the like (definitions of these are given under definitions after this section)
are designed to capture your account details..
5. Some people access their accounts from work and from university machines. Again
this is foolhardy when you consider that systems people and those that work for
them which may be contractors from other companies also can access your machine
account at Uni and work and possible capture the information you enter.
6. Never type in your Passphase or passwords. Use either the system given on the web
site, such as SRK with e-gold for example, or copy and paste from somewhere else.
Preferably NOT from your machine.
7. Do not keep your passwords or passphase’s on the same machine you log in from.
Some people keep their passwords on a floppy disc and copy and paste from that.
Using the MS password container is not particularly safe either. Best option is to
remember it. If you can’t, keep it in a safe place and separate from your login in
process. Much as you would with your pin number and credit or debit card.
8. Never Never Never access your account from an email. Even if it apparently comes
from the company which holds your account. In practice e-gold, GoldMoney and the
others will NOT send you an email in which they ask you to go to your account
from a link in that email. The same, incidentally, applies to banks and other
services in which you may have an account containing stored value. IF you get an
email and you are unsure and wish to check. Close the email down and access your
account from the usual link that you use in the browser. Usually in your
Bookmarks or Favorites or the browser equivalent.
9. When you have finished with your account always log off in the correct manner. Do
not just shut down the browser.
10.Lastly, apply common sense to the handling of your accounts. How do you treat the
security of your credit cards, cash you carry, your bank account? Your gold
account should be at least, if not more, secure. Your security depends utterly on
you. If you don’t take the above precautions then you cannot winge to someone
else about how

“All my gold has been stolen from my account”. Fully apply the above and you are
more likely to keep your golden nest egg!

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