Ian,
We bank wired to Goldfinger (& e-bullion) $1000 on Tuesday (yesterday) then could not get into the e-bullion site. Got worried and went to my bank and tried to cancel the wire. Since they are a credit union, they used Chase to make the wire. They tell me that Chase will put in a cancel request, but they can't force them to return my money. I am sooooo irritated and agravated! Did the Feds freeze this account? If they froze the account before my transfer, they should not have deposited my money. I hope we can get our f unds back. I wanted to invest in some HYIP's and the "exchange service" has taken my money. Please contact me. Thanks.

hi Ian, I seem to be in the same situation as Bea, my mother and sister both sent our wires over a week ago. my sister finally funded on Friday, however she is stuck in due diligence mode. My mother's wire, which was sent by Wells Fargo on Monday, the day of the murder, hasn't even funded yet. We are anxious and frustrated and literally don't know what to do. HELP!!!!!!!

Ebullion website will up 2 weeks more.

Everyone: Thanks for your responses. I am sorry to hear about the fact that you are unable to access your accounts, but I can't help you do anything about it. My mission here is to find out what's going on, and unfortunately the one source who can explain with any accuracy -- e-Bullion itself -- is not talking. No one answers the phones or emails, I did not get a call back from Fayed's attorney, and that "routine maintenance" message on the front page of the website is still there, nearly two days after it was first posted.

One thing to note: The claim relayed to me by Herpel about the feds copying files or installing back doors is unconfirmed speculation. The comment by keretelama, above, is also suspect, and ambiguous.

I will try to publish something later today about how e-Bullion's customers are coping with the outage, and may be able to get some information about the original DOJ court filings as well.

Ian Lamont
Managing Editor
The Industry Standard

keretalama, can you tell us the source of this information? Contact me at ian at thestandard dawt com if you would rather not say on the public forum.

Ian Lamont
Managing Editor
The Industry Standard

Looking forward to receive serious information later on today. Normal investors can not be blamed for this tragedy and illegal transactions from the company owner.

This sucks. Is there anyone who can offer the best and easiest way to fund liberty reserve through bank wire without alot of red tape? I too invested a bank wire on friday that never was received for $450 and I have $1500 tied up in e-bullion investments. I iked being able to bank wire without verification to e-bullion. Now I am thinking of LR.

A question for anyone who has e-Bullion debit cards: Are you able to use them, or reach the customer service phone number on the cards to check balances or complete any other transactions?

Thanks

Ian Lamont
Managing Editor
The Industry Standard

Thanks for this information and hopefully it will be resolved asap because I bank wired last Friday. I did not see it deposited yet since the website is down Tuesday. So I wonder what should I do about my account sitting there while the Feds are busy with the investigation??

i have always known that e-bullion had an F rating and some day they will be in trouble.
The US govt also is not helping issues.
For now liberty reserve looks more stable and since they are not based in the US it seem to be safe, at least for now.

Hello Ian. Do you have some news when the E-bullion site will be back again?

We need to think about, how to get our money back.
If you have any Idea's please send it to me at : researchedward@gmail.com
Please let us work together to get our money

Regards

That's a joke, e-bullion has like 6 employees not 600 and the FBI has not seized any accounts. Keep your eye on the ball man......this is a money transmitting violation and the bulk of funds are in overseas accounts.

Mark

A friend of mine wired money into e-Bullion's Bank of America inbound wire transfer account on Friday the 25th of July at 1:37PM EDT. When it had not been credited to his account by the close of business EDT on Monday the 28th, he spoke with Victoria at e-Bullion, who said that their wire department had an off-site meeting that day, and that they were backed up and it would most likely credit on Tuesday. (Pamela Fayed was murdered some three hours later.) The money has not been credited through to his account at this time. At some point after the murder, federal authorities froze the e-Bullion Bank of America inbound wire transfer account as the result of a criminal investigation into the business. My friend spoke with someone at the US Attorney General's LA Office on Thursday the 7th (yesterday), and was told that there will be some type of "announcement" on what is going on with the investigation and the frozen funds next week. They were not able to comment on what the topic or subject of the "announcement" would be. The DOJ attorney said that the Feds ARE aware that this investigation is causing a lot of people a lot of inconvenience.

thank you ( Ian Lamont ) for news

All the e-bullion account holders money is gone. I asked FBI and LAPD about this case, they said they have seized more than 3 million $ of EUSD, which is totally against US Law.

E-Bullion is closed permantetly...........................................

I had a wire transfer done on Saturday August 4th for $1,000 and now i don't know what to do? i called my bank and they said there's nothing they can do. I need my money back, what and where i have to go to recuperate my money that i work so hard for.
PLEASE HELP!!!

Anyone who gave money that they can’t get returned ion these outfits should contact the FBI. You need to also inform them of the ongoing prosecution by the US Attorney in Los Angeles.
When the US Attorney called this a Ponzi Scheme, on the record and in open court that’s pretty solid evidence the guy running it is a crook. In 1997 James Fayed filed Chapter 7 Bankruptcy in California.
I could help you retain a California collection/bankruptcy lawyer to go after the seized assets of the companies. The idea is that he would go after them on a percentage basis. It helps to have enough real claims to get the lawyer moving.

A lawyer representing a bilked investor/s could force a receivership or an involuntary bankruptcy of the companies. Because there some are assets to seize I think they will do it for a percentage of money recovered. There has to be enough investors to make this worthwhile for a lawyer.

The alternative is to hire a lawyer at his hourly rate with a hefty retainer up front.

If anyone wants my help in getting a competent California lawyer retained e-mail at: housedick@gmail.com me with:
Name
Address
Phone Number
e-mail address
The amount you have invested
The dates you invested the money.

Im aneh,new customer of e-bullion. hello to anyone. i just wanted to know,where can i withdraw my money through if e-bullion site is close? LR is too complicated and also not all countries have xcess(available).Thank you.
p/s:- my country is in Borneo island.

Hi Paul,

I think you are jumping the gun a little. No one with the possible exception of the US Attorney and the LA Police know what is going on (and I am not sure that they know). We all need to be a little bit patient and wait and see what Ian can find out. Just because a US Attorney says that E-Bullion is a Ponzi does not make it true. If this same US Attorney said that you killed Pamela Fayed are we to take it as truth? I am sure when the smoke clears, we will be told how we can retrieve our money or just maybe E-Bullion will be back in business.

I don't believe that James ran ANY ponzi at any time. Read the charges and the data, a Ponzi was using the GoldFinger accounts to accept money as a third party. Fricken Ponzi's run money through DGC every day of the year they are called HYIPs (Google "e-bullion HYIP" and fine a hundred of them) , their claim that he ran a Ponzi I believe to be incorrect and not based on the proper knowledge of the business. If e-bullion was a Ponzi, where is ANY solicitation for investments? Where is even a small description of the return on investment? Show me one email that says "e-bullion will accept your money and return you more?" You can't! What is the ponzi URL? That is bullsh** and you know it.

However, the problem comes in here that even though everyone including the judge sees the operation of this business without a license as a minor charge, they may have seized the bank accounts. If so, e/b cannot outexchange anyone thus the reasoning the web is gone. Same thing happened the first raid on e-gold, bank accounts seized. The judge said,"Wright disagreed with the defense attorney. "I could (sic) care less he was operating a business without a license," the judge sternly said. "He'd be home by now."
But without bank accounts for outexchange, its dead in the water, gold or no gold.

The goldfingercoin.com web is still live? Anyone write them?

I don't believe e-bullion can come back online until he gets out of jail, and that may be never so while I DO NOT agree he was running any ponzi, I do agree that if you had money in there you are screwed if you think you may quickly get it back.
NO OTHER information is yet available from the company, we've been trying to reach anyone there with no success.
Mark
DGCmagazine

Please wait for serious information from the LAPDand the attorney. Speculation is not good for anyone.
Money not transferred toE-account must be returned to the owners.

My father (due to my recommendation) wired $$ on Monday, August 4th over 10K to e-bullion, so as you might can guess he is having a breakdown with everything going down right after he wired it, & I feel so horrible b/c I recommened the co. to my dad to try out.
We are at a loss, & pray our money is brought back to us as well!!

You think we'll be able to safely get our funds wired back to us, even if the site comes back up? Since you know people will be flooding the site to pull ALL their money out as soon as they can. I doubt anyone stays with them.

Also, we never even saw it deposited since the site went down the day after our wire.

Thanks for all these updates. Please help us all figure all this out to safely get our rightfully owned $$ money back!!

I don't see what Fayed's 1997 bankruptcy necessarily has to do with anything. Abraham Lincoln filed bankruptcy, several times in fact, before going on to become one of the USA's greatest presidents. I'm not saying bankruptcy is desirable; it's just that people can overcome and turn things around. Whether Fayed did or not remains to be seen.

I find it interesting that he named one of his companies Goldfinger Coin & Bullion, after the master criminal in Ian Fleming's "Goldfinger" who tried to corrupt the world's gold supply. I thought Fayed was just trying to hype the company by giving it the flavor of international espionage. But here is something that I just discovered: The website GoldfingerCoin.com is still up! When I looked at the menu and clicked on "Newsletter," the article "Gold Conquers Fear" came up, written by Hugo Drax! Hugo Drax is the name of another criminal mastermind in Ian Fleming's "Moonraker." What is this, the League of Extraordinary Criminals? As Arte Johnson's Nazi spy from "Laugh In" would say, "Veddy eenteresting....."

Well i put my money there because it was the only way thru transfer to Forex, unfortunately i did my research late...