You cannot let your guard down at all. I guess that the Pay-Pal one was to obvious & they hopefully did not con anyone. Well now they have turned their attention to E-Gold. Here is one sample of a few that have arrived over the last day or so. --------------------------------------------- Notification of e-gold account From: AccountRobot_donotreply@e-gold. Add to Address Book, Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:04:10 +0300 ** e-gold Account Information Notice ** Information for e-gold members. We want to inform about problems with our database. Your account could be closed for unlimited time. You need log on to https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html with your account for more information. Please do not reply to this automatically generated email message. --------------------------------------------- As you can guess, E-Gold no nothing about this , but they do now.. Be careful out there people......