1stDigIBank.com
Title
FIRST DIGITAL INTERNATIONAL BANK ::. YOUR PRIVATE BANK
Description
Excerpted from the website description:
- First Digital International Bank - Private internet offshore banking solution offering the finest in high-interest paying offshore banking, also exchange provider for gold backed digital currencies, anonymous cash cards.
Languages
English
Address
- , Republic of Yugoslavia
Contact
- First Digital International Bank
Additional Information
Discussion
This bank has been suspected of being fraudulant, and the website is currently down as of Novemebr 1, 2006. First Digital International Bank was an internet bank offering anonymous accounts to clients, run by an unknown group, possibly based in Eastern Europe (this is a guess based on their handling of the English language and a few other factors), from 2000 to late 2006. The bank originally had a banking license from the government of Montenegro, which (illegally) canceled all licenses of their offshore banks in 2002. First Digital International Bank, however, carried on their business with a new twist; they decided to offer anonymous accounts requiring no ID and use "trustee" accounts instead of bank correspondent accounts. In September or October of 2006, the bank claimed, in a message to clients through their online banking console, that a large deposit had been made into their "trustee account" (under the company name "DrebaForexManagement") at a Lithuanian bank, which was exchanged for e-gold and sent to their client's e-gold account from whom the deposit was made. Apperantly, the deposit was from money obtained by fraud, and 1st Digi Bank's "trustee" account was closed by the Lithuanian bank (which presumably kept the deposits) after 1st Digi Bank had already sent the e-gold to their client, thus 1st Digi Bank lost a large amount of money in the transaction. 1st Digi Bank claimed that they did not know if the bank would be able to carry on, but they would soon (by the end of 2006) have new "trustee" accounts in the likes of Dubai in the UAE, or another middle eastern country to which clients could then send bank wire transfers. After a few weeks, the site was taken offline and never came back. Up until mid-2007, however, a mirror of the site could be found at https://www.privategoldtrader.com (notice the https, not http), but the mirror lacked the ability to log into an account or open a new one. At least some people who had money in their accounts at 1st Digi Bank never saw their money again or heard from the bank representatives again, ie. 1st Digi Bank stole their depositors' money when the site went offline.
The people at PrivateGoldTrader, who accepted paper payment instruments (cash, cheques, money orders, etc) on behalf of 1st Digi Bank starting in late 2005, claimed that the people behind 1st Digi Bank were fed up with problems with their accounts due to criminals using their bank to accept the proceeds of fraudulent transactions, and could not find a workable solution to the problem yet. They mentioned that perhaps 1st Digi Bank reps could still be found on FreeNet.
- posted by Anonymous on November 2, 2007
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