Or perhaps attorneys advised to him not to publicly post on here due to litigation / court orders? Don't know, but often when vocal people suddenly go so quiet it's a sign there are very bad things happening; much more to the story.

Ron

yeah only statement will be crafter by a lawyer. too much liability.

It needs a few more thousand replies to even get on the first page.

It's getting near the top in terms of views, another 156000 to go :)

It'll get there I think.

perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, ... Just Shut The Fuck Up Ron.

All those conspiracy theories starting to work on my nurves. Give them a fucking break.
One businessday, thats exactly what they've got so far.

ONE FUCKING BUSINESSDAY .... AND YOU GUYS FREAK OUT ALREADY.

Jesus Fucking Christ

Not yet, but it's getting close.

Excluding promos, contests, and post anything nonsense threads, the one with the most replies regarding a business related topic that I could find (due to search system limitations) is "Affiliates beware, another non paying program - HowIGotRich" http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=941614 with 2360 replies.

At the current rate, within a week, this thread will be the longest business related discussion thread in GFY history. :winkwink: Amazing! :1orglaugh

Ron

I business day for the bank...but not one business day for Visa officials as today is a national holiday in the states.

Hmm that remind me bill will hit by 20 there,hope visa will be restored by then.

just woke up and breakfast, any news?, can I get my fucking money?

Negative.

yea visa called, they said they made a mistake and they are switching epassporte back on soon


realy

explain pls

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

well...it started the same way with paymonde/funds2go/myvirtualcard few years ago, remember? :mad:

If magic existed your ePassporte account would suddenly become active today. But it doesn't. So you are just going to have to continue to be ungrateful to those people that are actually working hard to restore your services. Ain't life grand?

i remember very well....

Am I the first one who was setup this for my home page? :D

Nope but you are indeed the first webmaster on GFY who cannot speak proper english :2 cents:

You must really be hurting by this...

like 7 years ago I met a dude who told me "paymonde is the best of the world, is not goin anywhere, they are the best"....

I think he was wrong

btw madbutcher do you like the german band destruction?

I went to the shop to get bread and milk and tea bags and cat food and toilet roll earlier..

I stopped at the ATM outside the shop to withdraw a couple of sheets from my epass card and it said sorry so I tried again and I said to the machine.. come on please!!! I'll even take soiled sheets!! but still the computer said no!! At this point I fell on the ground sobbing in the pouring rain.. one guy even stepped over me on his way into the shop.

What the fuck am I supposed to tell my cats???

facebook rules eh

Miauw. :1orglaugh

this has all the earmarks of sypro, wts, ibill, and all the rest...what was the name of the one...shit....something gold? or goldbill....can't remember...guy's name was andrew.....

they all start out this way....usually on a thursday....and then the weekend speculations...hope, despair...and then fuckin'a...just lost any money in the account...

i've read nothing so far, that makes it seem like epassporte is in any different situation than the others i mentioned, other than it's not a billing company, as these others were....the commonality is that accounts were frozen and no one got paid.

ePassporte has two main consumer services, an internet payment facility and a physical Visa-branded debit card that can be used in ATMs and physical shops. The facility is used by a large number of people in the US, as well as around the world.

Businesses, meanwhile, use ePassporte as a low-cost method of accepting debit and credit card transactions via their online retail websites. Funds are typically wired to bank accounts anyhere in the world 15 days after the transaction is processed, or can be withdrawn from a Visa-branded ATM using a Visa Electron card supplied by the firm.

Visa isn't saying why the ePassporte Visa facility has been suspended, or for how long the suspension will last, but it effectively leaves customers unable to spend money online, or via ATMs/shops using the Visa-branded service.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that the suspension is due to security concerns, including card transactions that breach the Visa member bank processing rules, which Infosecurity notes prohibit gambling and money laundering where local country rules apply.

ePassporte is a member of Visa via St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla Bank and it seems that Visa has suspended the company's services via the bank with effect from late on Thursday evening UK time.

Reporting on the saga, security reporter Brian Krebs – of the Krebs on Security newswire – says that the news caught his attention because he "recently encountered ePassporte accounts tied to several shady affiliate programmes, such as those used to reward people who promote rogue anti-virus products and online pharmacy sites."

Krebs quotes the administrator of the online forum italkcash.com as suggesting that the move by Visa is in response to new anti-money laundering requirements mandated by the Credit Card Act of 2009, which affects prepaid cards and other payment card instruments that can be reloaded with funds at places other than financial institutions.

"Whilst the founder of the ePassporte service cannot be happy about these developments, the situation may provide a nice bump for his new movie: Mallick helped produce the Paramount film Middle Men, a movie released Aug. 6, 2010 that is based on his personal experiences in the porn website billing industry", he said.

The synopsis, he adds, from the film's Wikipedia entry seems oddly prescient:

'In 1995, straight-and-narrow businessman Jack Harris (Luke Wilson) who builds the first online billing company dealing exclusively with adult entertainment, finds himself in the middle of a whirlwind filled with starlets, con men, Russian mobsters, federal agents, and international terrorists. Caught between a porn star and the FBI, Harris learns that even becoming one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs of his generation may not be enough to keep him out of trouble.'

Whilst the effects of the ePassporte service suspension has clearly left tens of thousands of cardholders cash effective locked down, it also begs the question whether the same thing could happen to other Visa-branded prepaid card services.

Technically, Infosecurity notes, this could happen to any Visa-issuing member financial institution, but Visa would normally be expected to give notice of such a move.

Given the large number of international prepaid debit cards – branded by Visa and MasterCard – it remains to be seen whether this is the start of a purge of prepaid card services that the card groups are less than happy with.

http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com...money-service/

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:1orglaugh joke?

Those fuckers still owe me a few thousand!!! :mad:

only bad things :(:(

:1orglaugh ...

... :Oh crap

i hope everyone gets paid.

epassporte.pissedconsumer.com/epassporte-rep-andi-s-says-we-will-keep-your-money-20100418178868.html

Last post =\

:1orglaugh good one!

Well, i see tubes have now killed epass, cause you just have to know epass prob made most of its money from us.

Im waiting for the world trade center or NYSE to crash now too again to lack of porn sales.


lol

Snap, we all got owned

Cat's drink milk right? So go fuck yourself and feed your damn cats!

Very nice and also get some sleep and be prepared for tomorrow .... :)

http://tinyurl.com/2a65nr5

:Oh crap

They pushed it too far and now everybody who used them has to pay the bill. It's sad for many people who'll probably lose alot of money, but neither a surprise, nor unexpected. Anyone really expects this to resolve in a few days? Reality check?

A company not located in the US, whois privacy for it's domain, former business adress a maildrop in Curacao, pseudo office in a California port...and everybody expected this to be solid?

Posted On: 2010-04-18....

I hope to hear officially from ePass, either today or tomorrow the latest!

Let's give them a little bit more time

I haven't seen anybody else post this yet, but I can confirm completion (ie receipt of funds into my bank) of a withdrawal to debit card requested on 3rd.

Not a big one, and not my full balance as I still have faith they will resolve this issue but encouraging that the process works.

how the hell is that possible. usually it takes 5 business days...

I don't know which is more entertaining:

Following this thread or listening to Obama speaking.

The "Account Verification Dept" is calling the shots. Coupled with the fact that they sent out numerous ID requests prior to being suspended, the only conclusion to be reached at this point is that Epass is not up to par with the new "know your customer" standards.

At best, they are probably negotiating an extension to their now past due deadline with the possibility of keeping out of compliance accounts suspended so they can resume service.

Another scenario is that they are trying to switch their system to the bank's Dinero card (Mastercard).

Worst scenario is that they are being scrutinized under "anti money laundering" policies.

The money is still there, just the mechanism is not.

This is only speculation on my part.

They say "UP TO" 5 business days, but it depends on the banks. This is a UK bank account.

The money actually appears on my statement as dated 4 September but I only looked today so don't know if the value was just backdated or whether it was showing and available on the 4th.

Pretty efficient.

can you make a screenshot? :)

Why would I need to post a screenshot of my bank on gfy?

You either believe me or you don't. It doesn't bother me either way.