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Archive for the ‘Online Payments’ Category

June 12th, 2008

Online Payment companies

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 […]

By moneypenny -- 4 comments

June 11th, 2008

Investment choices and ethics

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 […]

By moneypenny -- 0 comments

May 26th, 2008

Another virtual way to pay, or rather, to raise real capital.

A warm wish to all those on b5media, and of course our readers, remembering the fallen on this Memorial Day 2008. May all those who served and are serving, be remembered. Here’s the link to participate http://www.nationalmemorialdayparade.com   Last week I wrote on web money http://www.digitalmoneyworld.com/webmoney-online-payments/  and  it seems that every month, there’s a new way to pay on-line. Are these virtual […]

By moneypenny -- 2 comments

May 22nd, 2008

webmoney online payments

The April issue of  DGC mag featured an article on the growth of the online payment company web money, and since we have been focusing on paypal, moneybookers and others this month, I thought it would be interesting to see how moneyweb shapes up, and what features they offer compared to the others, I covered in my […]

By moneypenny -- 1 comment

May 21st, 2008

Paypal vs major banks

Paypal at present has over 120 million customers that use its services. Customers ranging from large companies who do thousands of transactions to individuals who just want to occasionally send and receive money on line. So how does paypal measure up to the banks we have been using for 100’s of years?
Well, at first glance, Paypal may seem to be […]

By moneypenny -- 0 comments

May 18th, 2008

Online secure payments and data sharing.

This link on Paypal customers and their payment preferences, ties in rather nicely with a theme we’ve had here on digitalmoneyworld in the last week. That of security, and in particular, data security with any online payment system.
Weve spoken about scams, both with traditional banks in my last post, and also companies like moneybookers and the spammers and […]

By moneypenny -- 0 comments

May 16th, 2008

Another bank scam mail for Uk banks to deal with.

According to the twitter and newspeak I hear, spammers and scammers are getting evermore present even after the biggest spammer of all time was arrested. One has to use firefox to try and weed some of them out. If you belong to google groups, yahoo, facebook or where-ever, and lets face it, most of us do, you’ll […]

By moneypenny -- 1 comment

May 10th, 2008

Fake moneybookers scam ?

You’ve got cash      

Greetings from moneybookers.com! We would like to inform you that you have received a payment from merchatrade3@merctrade.com.

Payment details

Amount: USD 320.00
ID: 95229846
Subject: withdraw complete
Note: Click here to accept this payment

 

Your money is waiting for you in your Moneybookers account.Use this link to accept payment- www.moneybookers.com.We hope you enjoy your cash.
This is what arrived in […]

By moneypenny -- 37 comments

May 10th, 2008

Paypal limits

Many people may not be aware, that in a bid to control tax avoidance, and do due dilligence for money laundering, Pay pal  have imposed a limit of E 2,500 annually that can be received or sent through an account, from 2008.
If the account is to be used for higher volume transactions, then an identity […]

By moneypenny -- 5 comments

May 9th, 2008

online payment companies who uses them?

 Well done Benson for setting up the donation  link for Burma. hopefully all you bullion traders will donate some of your returns to those who have lost everything, and let’s hope they open up the borders to help. 
 Today I’m including a post I made before about online payment companies. For those that think I’ve been after them, […]

By moneypenny -- 0 comments