E-gold has been categorized as a ‘heaven’ for money launderers, terrorists, child pornographers, credit card thieves and other cyber crimes by the government. The criminal affidavit accused e-gold for allowing the terrorists and child pornographers to send and receive funds worldwide. But later it was replaced with a civil complaint charging e-gold operating as an unlicensed money transmitting business. The law enforcement agency also always condemn e-gold publicly as an anonymous, untraceable criminal heaven and inaccessible to police scrutiny. According to Douglas Jackson, the President of e-gold, about 1,000 new e-gold accounts are opened daily and the system processes between 50,000 and 100,000 transactions a day. Desperately to clear the e-gold’s name and image, Jackson urged the Justice Officials and the Secret Service to work with him instead of attacking him. Therefore, Jackson has had taken his initiative that could help to find criminal in e-gold system. Jackson made some searches for the criminals by looking at ‘memo’ field, where the sender can note the reason for the transaction. Jackson found out that one appeared to be a high school kid in Louisville, Ohio, by judging from information gleaned from his transactions. Jackson also identified a core group of accounts that seem suspicious, made lists of accounts that exchanged e-gold with them and the patterns emerged. Still Jackson had trouble finding someone to work with him. One agency wanted his company to sign an agreement stating he wouldn’t be immune from prosecution if authorities, in the process of obtaining information from him, found something that could incriminate e-gold. Jackson refused to sign but began helping postal inspectors and other agents voluntarily. Once e-gold discovered evidence of possible wrongdoing, it had no choice but to hand over information to the government because Jackson could even have been charged with helping and abetting money launderers under federal statutes if he didn’t report the suspicious activity. However, decision to give information to the government without legal process is violating its privacy policy. In November, Jackson began running an automated script to blacklist accounts which he identified as suspicious. But his aggressiveness is pissing off some account users, who did nothing wrong and were improperly banned.

the recent e-gold actions to block accounts and banning Iran accounts proved something is going on.. but not up to the point of threatening e-gold's life ...so don't worry be steady