Interesting Way to hack egold accounts

April 30, 2006

I think there is a glitch on egold system I have been reading in the forums and someone stated that his account has been hacked. Check how the “hacker” did it:

—–Original Message—–
From: adsbuyer@gmail.com [mailto:xxxxx@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 6:49 AM
To: 55m60E6X_abuse@e-gold.com
Subject: [e-gold-abuse] Hi admin I want to report you a … [PR: PDPWWZTS]

Submitter IP: 222.252.xx.xx
CATEGORY: ABUSE
Customer Name: Nguyen van duc
Email: adsbuyer@gmail.com
Phone: 084048271279
Fax:
e-gold Batch: 60056148
e-gold Account: 2782998
Question: Hi admin
I want to report you a error of egold
It ’s trust
I have 2 Egold account: 2782998( not PIN) and 2571634 ( High security, have
PIN) Today, My egold has been hacked by 3118667 First, he/she send me 0.01c
to 2782998 And after 1′, he/she log to 2782998 and send 354.84 USD to
3118667 -Also, he/she log to 2571634, but he/she can’t pass PIN —> My
computer doesn’t has trojan, keylog, or spyware ( i check e-mail everyday )
Plz note: My computer doesn’t has trojan, keylog, or spyware ( I scan my
computer everyday, and i use deepfreeze for security) Also, i never click to
frauld link So I think it is one important error of egold,and you need to
fix it I come from VietNam I am not rich and cannot afford to lose this
money.
If there is a problem of Egold, then tell me and send me back 354$ with password,i have got call to you but somebody say “you busy” to egold 2782998
because it is mistake from Egold Thank you again for your assistance

Thanks
Wait your reply

So what I understood here that the attacker sent $0.01 and then he were able to login to the victims egold account and stole that money.

If that is true, that is really scared for egold members. Egold answers with a most common trojan that can be hacked your egold.

Please check your computer for the following Trojans Win32/Goldun.ia;
GDIWXP.DLL and pwsteal.trojan. We have had a couple of customers who
reported being infected with these viruses. One customer said he did not
find anything when he ran Norton and McAfee anti-virus software, but he
found the Win32/Goldun.ia Trojan when he used a software called ‘Kaspersky’.

I will put a note here, I’m a fan of Kaspersky, the best antivirus around and now egold said it too! Updates are so often with Kaspersky.

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