I get no warnings trying to send money from Virtual Visa from me to another epass account holder. But I havent clicked the final button. So maybe i should see what happens.

Send it to someone who BETTER have VV turned off.

What a mess.

Just wow!
I was working offline and the first I knew was when I logged into my email to find a message from a sponsor (Shemale Profit) telling me about this.
At least they acted quickly to make sure affiliates changed from VV to Wallet.
Wonder how many more sponsors will do the same.

Oh no :( My ramen budget is frozen. How will I get my ramen now?

For a lot of people, it was. As has been stated 50 times in this thread already, ePass gives you a choice. Go change your settings now if you have it set to receive money on the VV and not your wallet.

I always w/d the moment I get paid, though that was just to get it in the bank where I'd make more use of it since I never pay for anything with ePass. I had a sale a couple days ago where I took ePass and thankfully got it out.

I can't imagine how much some of you have stuck in there. :(

oh my man ... my weekend and vacation plans, my domain renewalls, my daily needs ... everything is now gone, oh crap, not a good friday morning to wake up to ... :Oh crap any chances to get the things back on track, or can we put our epass cards on the wall? oh man ... what a bad day in history ...

Times like this it would be nice if the owner of the company posted the announcement. His silence makes me think this isn't going to end well.

Any Swankdollars.com affiliates that are short on funds b/c of epass holding your cash hit me up, I have an idea that can help us both out...Can have a wire to your account by Monday morning.

hosting, domains... how to pay now :(

Yeah this sucks big time for me as I don't have a regular bank account and use epassporte for pretty much everything. Please keep us updated as you find out more information.

This is retarded!!! Way to fucking destroy businesses!!! The most important thing is that the epass owner made a fucking movie and you spammed the fuck out of your clients about it!!!

They probably don't have internet on his flight to <insert name of non extradition treaty country here> :1orglaugh

Wow... Epass is the next iBILL

I love how Michael's handling of the situation but...

If there were no safeguards in place for a situation like this, what makes anyone think there will be a new solution that makes them bounce back "stronger". Clearly there were no alternatives, why would this change all of the sudden?

Michael , we just transfered money to epass to pay our studios, models and affiliates. Is that money still coming through and is it going to be added to our wallet ? Our setting is to receive in wallet.

First thing I seen too. :thumbsup Shemale Profit.

Sponsors, do not send epass payments until you alert your epass affils to switch to Wallet.

Those outside the US still do not know if they can wire or transfer from Wallet to bank acct. This is real important to this new method working properly.

Bump this Q for Michael: Can people outside the US wire or transfer from their Wallet to their bank account?

I couldn't agree more.

This marks the day of a new era, since PAYPAL doesn't accept adult what now!!!!

Quick question:

Has this been sent to Epassporte users via email?

Often I get emails from Epassporte, but I do not seem to about this.

To be honest no sponser has at yet seemed to have sent any emails out.

Hi Michael, is somebody talking to VISA about this? In this thread i read that visa operates from mon to thu only so does it mean that we shouldn't expect an update before Monday-Tuesday?

checks????

http://www.xbiznewswire.com/view.php?id=124842

Shit..
I just withdrawn some money yesterday but now all the rest is locked...
This fucking sucks, I hope it gets resolved pretty soon (but I don't think so, I'm pretty sure ePassporte is fucked for good now)

what happened with WMC ? did they bounced back ?

SOBV aquires Epass
 

Now they have all your money. :1orglaugh


Just kidding. That would be some shit though.

Don't forget this is a holiday weekend for us in the states, Monday is the 'holiday' so that might effect the 'timely manner' we are all hoping and crossing body parts for :(

And no, at least for me there has been NO emails from Epass about this, HOWEVER when you go to login to your account there is a HUGE letter sitting right there, I figure emails will go out in the morning, or shortly though

-Loki-

is this going to be resolve at all... or not...?
and when can we expect it...?

What if you are a service provider?

Hosting company, designer, copy writer, grunt worker, and the list goes on, you can't get personal checks from your clients!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://img198.imageshack.us/i/koticksucks2.jpg/

I hope this will be done in week :disgust

Interesting that this happens on a Thur/Fri before a long holiday weekend.

wtf are you talking about. How do you think people did it before epass came along ???

Checks and wire transfers for large amounts. I still pay for all my hosting accounts with checks. I pay designers or other smaller things with paypal.

Isn't that always the way...

I brought this up as I also received no email.

Guys who got paid lately may be in for a sad awakening the more time that goes by before they login. Not everyone reads GFY.

Email should be sent to alert everyone with Epassporte to switch to Wallet settings.

Whats up with that?

Damn.....i was using Epass to pay for my hostings.....now what?

DAMN, that sucks!!:Oh crap

all the above you can still do paypal.

i bet most people (i do) pay for there hosting via paypal.

QFT

We don't do much on Epass, but as luck would have it did $800 last week. Spent $400 on "back to school" expenses and was going to use the rest this weekend. Guess that's not going to happen.

A lot of people used Epass and this even if it is cleared up will take months. It will send a few more to the wall. :(

Hmm curious how ATM limits were decreased to $1,000 24 hours earlier. Only one person in this thread mentioned it. Seems not so "sudden and drastic" no?

Two of my biggest epass sponsors paid me yesterday too! I try and keep as little as possible in there but you can;t take it out quick enough with low limits.

To the people who keep saying stick to wires and checks for sponsor payments. It's very expensive in some countries. A wire can cost me over $40 a pop and checks are $15 each and means me standing at the teller while they do the shitload of paperwork for each one. I use wire for big sponsors like CCBill but it's just not cost effective for the tonnes of smaller programs I use.

paypal, vredit card, debit card, checks, cash.

same here :disgust

fabian - EVERY big company in adult is not being investigated by the Department of Justice. Big DIFFERENCE :321GFY

I have what may be a dumb question regarding what happened (I haven't read all 11 pages)

The statement says "Visa International put on hold transactions involving St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank"

Now does that mean Visa is taking action against the bank or against Epassporte's account(s) with the bank?

Asking because I know that St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank along with National Bank of Dominica Ltd. are/were part of a bailout plan for TCI Bank (Turks and Caicos) which involved them depositing $18.5 million.