Warnings from Compactsurfing

News regarding scammer from Compactsurfing:

Dear Compactsurfing Members,

A scammer sent out an email today to several members who reported receiving it as if written by the administration of CS. The text of that email is as follows:

Dear Compactsurfing Members,

Compact Surfing has changed its e-gold account number, due to some problems with e-gold. No, do not worry, there has been no hacker intrusion, and all of the members funds have already been transferred to our new account. However, the implementation of the new settings in the script for upgrades will take up to 72 hours because of our programmers team being busy with a scheduled maintenance of the database and an internal audit of the system.
Those of you who wish to upgrade, do NOT use your member area to, because the new e-gold account number has not been updated and you would be sending your money to our
old e-gold, which we no longer use. Use the following link to send your payment: http://325****.e-gold.com or send it directly from e-gold
instead, our new e-gold
account number is 325****. In the memo field make sure you put in your username and the amount you are upgrading for. Your account will be manually credited in a few
hours. This is just a temporary solution until our new e-gold account gets implemented in the script.

Regards,
Luuk, Olivia, Nicholas and Staff
Altus Financial Services Inc.

For those of you who received this email, do NOT upgrade your accounts using that egold account #. CS would never send out an email asking members to upgrade manually outside of their member areas, whoever sent this email is a scammer and has no dignity or sense of integrity and it is the same as the emails sent that claim to be from Egold asking you for your account information or to log in from a different link but truly wish to steal your funds. Altus Financial Services Inc. will never send
out an email to its memberbase requesting that they provide their account information or verify it by clicking a link, and we most certainly will not request that you send your upgrades to an alternate egold account after which they would be credited manually.

With that said, I have a few updates for all of you. Compactpay has officially surpassed 1300 sign ups since launch just 24 hours ago. I noted that the Shopping Cart Interface that would allow other program admins/site owners to begin accepting Compactpay as a payment method for their members would be available today. Please allow myself and the staff an additional day or two to implement this feature, along with the integration of Compactpay into Compactsurfing, to allow Compactsurfing members the ability to upgrade their CS accounts through Compactpay and request cashout to their Compactpay accounts. Thank you for your support and understanding, and in the mean time for those of you who haven't joined and are considering an alternative to egold, give Compactpay a second look and see for yourself: http://www.compactpay.com

Nvus has prepared a list of General Questions and Answers for Compactpay as noted by feedback from members, and Joanne has added to it. You can view the thread in the Compactforum here, and within a few days these questions and answers will be added to the FAQ for ease of reference:
http://compactforum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1530

Expect further updates from me as the week comes to a close,

Sincerely,
Luuk, Olivia, Nicholas and Staff
Altus Financial Services Inc.