Thread: E-Gold Phish

I'm putting this here because I received it in my email and by its badly written English I am guessing it's a hoax/Phishing email.

If any one has any knowledge that it isn't please PM me.


** e-gold Account Security Recomendation Notice **

This automatic email notice is to inform that to
to reduce risk while working with your e-gold
account online install e-gold Secured 1.0 on your
PC before you login to e-gold account. Download and
run the following software.

e-gold Secured 1.0
Reduces risk of losing cash to minimum
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Link to executable
https://www.e-gold.com/secure/setup.exe

Link to view Security Recommendations
https://www.e-gold.com/unsecure/alert.html



Brief description:
- determines phishing websites (Internet Explorer 4.0+,
Opera 8.32, Firefox 2.01)

- determines and then blocks phishing emails (Outlook,
Outlook Express, TheBat, Thunderbird) by verious
criteria such as spoofed address, spoofed link, geo IP,
etc.

- monitors and prevents all kinds of system hooks and
Internet Explorer hooks while working with e-gold
account

- automatically updates threats, phishing methods,
e-gold viruses/trojans databases

Please do not reply to this automatically generated
email message

I have had an e-gold for several years and never received an email of any sort like this. Most of their alerts are on there site. So it probably is PHISHNG!