Hollywood Just Found out about Epass/Chris Mallick

[DEA - banned for life]

Well looks like the stink from the epassporte situation has finally drifted over to the hollywood movie industry

Chris Mallick...good luck getting any new movie deals in hollywood..you will need it


http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column...-squeeze-20733



'Middle Men' Producer Puts His Real-Life Porn Customers in a Squeeze
By Johnnie L. Roberts
Published: September 09, 2010 @ 7:53 pm




Paramount Pictures’ “Middle Men” was a flop last month despite positive buzz. But that was the least of the problems for producer Christopher Mallick, who based the film on his own ecommerce online porn business - which is now in trouble, a Wrap investigation shows.

As owner of the Visa-branded ePassporte, Mallick (pictured with "Middle Men" star Luke Wilson) is the middle man handling transactions in the tens of millions of dollars for an extensive network of online pornography sites.

In a rare move, Visa International has suspended transactions with the virtual payment system, an equivalent to Paypal.

And it's not the first time ePassporte has hit a roadblock. In 2008, Mallick was forced to stop processing its gambling transactions in the wake of a widespread federal investigation of the industry.

Visa’s action last week blocked online porn enthusiasts when they attempted to use what amounts to a prepaid cyber credit card.

According to frantic chat-room postings, ePassporte account holders worldwide also have been blocked from accessing untold sums of cash through ATMs using pre-loaded cards. One ePassporte customer purportedly has $248,758.38 in his account.

Some ePassporte account members fear he has absconded with their money. Oddly, others see the development as a publicity stunt to promote “Middle Men” -- an unlikely scenario with the movie movie having vanished from theaters after an opening box office of $325,641 last month.



"Maybe Mr. Mallick is doing a ... good trick to create [noise] around his name so more people...watch his movie," wrote "Firestarter9."

Mallick announced last week on ePassporte that Visa had pulled the plug. “[W]e were notified that effective immediately, Visa International has suspended our banking partner’s ePassporte Visa program,” Mallick wrote, calling development “drastic” and “unconscionable.”

His next appearance was a posting Thursday on the GoFuckYourself.com message board -- in which he sought to inspire confidence in the company.

“First, be assured that your funds are fully safe and protected,” he wrote. “You are owed that and it will be fulfilled. The funds are secure.”

ePassporte is consumed with complex preparations to return customers’ cash, not “hiding,” “avoiding” or “stringing you along,” he added. “We too have funds that are stuck in the system, as well as massive costs of operation without any income.”

He said he hadn’t seen the suspension coming “and as of today we still have received no good basis for it.”

In his initial statement, Mallick implied that Visa’s action involved unspecified issues between the credit-card company and the bank through which ePassporte operates -- St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank.

But in a statement to the web-security news blog KrebsonSecurity.com, Visa's technology company said it blocked ePassporte “at the request of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank … to address certain program deficiencies


A Visa spokesman declined to elaborate when contacted today by TheWrap. Officials of the Caribbean bank didn’t respond to messages.

As Mallick’s company comes under scrutiny, so, too, does his fresh Hollywood face.

Thanks to “Middle Man,” Hollywood’s familiarity with Mallick's background apparently extends no further than his central role in porn. But the filmed account omitted several colorful footnotes.

A Texas native, Mallick is the son of George A. Mallick, a Fort Worth oilman whose undisclosed financial ties factored into the downfall of Jim Wright, the former U.S. Speaker of the House.

In the mid-1990s, SAM Group, a health financing company which Mallick founded, filed for bankruptcy. A related lawsuit revealed a checkered history of personal tax liens, judgements and lawsuits involving Mallick.

Next, he helped found PayCom, one of the earliest porn-billing systems and a pioneer in online-purchasing technology. Several years ago, the company clashed in court with MasterCard and lost in a case involving the billing of porn sites.

He launched ePassporte after splitting from PayCom. But his new company drew the attention of the U.S. attorney for Manhattan during a sweeping investigation of internet gambling.

After the company was advised of the probe, two years ago ePassporte ended business with poker sites. “Although we do not believe we have done anything illegal, we do not wish to be associated with anything that might be considered illegal by the United States government,” ePassporte wrote to one off-shore operator of one site.

Finally, last year, the U.S. Tax Court ordered him to pay more than $280,000 in taxes, plus almost $40,000 in penalties, after concluding he under-reported income in 2005 by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Now his ePassporte customers are anxious to learn the naked truth from the middle man about their cash.

[Barefootsies]

You are on the warpath foo.

[Robocrop]

Here we go again! DEA....seriously did Epass take $100 from you or something? you seems to very upset with them....

Tell us how you really feel man.

[DEA - banned for life]

Originally Posted by Robocrop

Here we go again! DEA....seriously did Epass take $100 from you or something? you seems to very upset with them....

Tell us how you really feel man.

RoboCRAP...they got me for close to 5k for 1 bi-weekley affiliate payment from 1 program..and when it happend that very well known program dropped epassporte

know your gfy history or atleast use the search function

[CyberHustler]

I may be losing out on over 10k if they can't get their shit together. Fuck it. Lesson learned... the hard way.

[Jdoughs]

Originally Posted by DEA

RoboCRAP...they got me for close to 5k for 1 bi-weekley affiliate payment from 1 program..and when it happend that very well known program dropped epassporte

know your gfy history or atleast use the search function

You got ripped off, Epassporte did not rip you off.

At least that's what I saw.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by DEA

RoboCRAP...they got me for close to 5k for 1 bi-weekley affiliate payment from 1 program..and when it happend that very well known program dropped epassporte

know your gfy history or atleast use the search function

when epass drop the betting sites right?

[Inter-Sex]

Why DEA is green with 6k posts?

[Randy West]

Originally Posted by DEA

Well looks like the stink from the epassporte situation has finally drifted over to the hollywood movie industry

Chris Mallick...good luck getting any new movie deals in hollywood..you will need it


http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column...-squeeze-20733



'Middle Men' Producer Puts His Real-Life Porn Customers in a Squeeze
By Johnnie L. Roberts
Published: September 09, 2010 @ 7:53 pm




Paramount Pictures? ?Middle Men? was a flop last month despite positive buzz. But that was the least of the problems for producer Christopher Mallick, who based the film on his own ecommerce online porn business - which is now in trouble, a Wrap investigation shows.

As owner of the Visa-branded ePassporte, Mallick (pictured with "Middle Men" star Luke Wilson) is the middle man handling transactions in the tens of millions of dollars for an extensive network of online pornography sites.

In a rare move, Visa International has suspended transactions with the virtual payment system, an equivalent to Paypal.

And it's not the first time ePassporte has hit a roadblock. In 2008, Mallick was forced to stop processing its gambling transactions in the wake of a widespread federal investigation of the industry.

Visa?s action last week blocked online porn enthusiasts when they attempted to use what amounts to a prepaid cyber credit card.

According to frantic chat-room postings, ePassporte account holders worldwide also have been blocked from accessing untold sums of cash through ATMs using pre-loaded cards. One ePassporte customer purportedly has $248,758.38 in his account.

Some ePassporte account members fear he has absconded with their money. Oddly, others see the development as a publicity stunt to promote ?Middle Men? -- an unlikely scenario with the movie movie having vanished from theaters after an opening box office of $325,641 last month.



"Maybe Mr. Mallick is doing a ... good trick to create [noise] around his name so more people...watch his movie," wrote "Firestarter9."

Mallick announced last week on ePassporte that Visa had pulled the plug. ?[W]e were notified that effective immediately, Visa International has suspended our banking partner?s ePassporte Visa program,? Mallick wrote, calling development ?drastic? and ?unconscionable.?

His next appearance was a posting Thursday on the GoFuckYourself.com message board -- in which he sought to inspire confidence in the company.

?First, be assured that your funds are fully safe and protected,? he wrote. ?You are owed that and it will be fulfilled. The funds are secure.?

ePassporte is consumed with complex preparations to return customers? cash, not ?hiding,? ?avoiding? or ?stringing you along,? he added. ?We too have funds that are stuck in the system, as well as massive costs of operation without any income.?

He said he hadn?t seen the suspension coming ?and as of today we still have received no good basis for it.?

In his initial statement, Mallick implied that Visa?s action involved unspecified issues between the credit-card company and the bank through which ePassporte operates -- St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank.

But in a statement to the web-security news blog KrebsonSecurity.com, Visa's technology company said it blocked ePassporte ?at the request of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank ? to address certain program deficiencies


A Visa spokesman declined to elaborate when contacted today by TheWrap. Officials of the Caribbean bank didn?t respond to messages.

As Mallick?s company comes under scrutiny, so, too, does his fresh Hollywood face.

Thanks to ?Middle Man,? Hollywood?s familiarity with Mallick's background apparently extends no further than his central role in porn. But the filmed account omitted several colorful footnotes.

A Texas native, Mallick is the son of George A. Mallick, a Fort Worth oilman whose undisclosed financial ties factored into the downfall of Jim Wright, the former U.S. Speaker of the House.

In the mid-1990s, SAM Group, a health financing company which Mallick founded, filed for bankruptcy. A related lawsuit revealed a checkered history of personal tax liens, judgements and lawsuits involving Mallick.

Next, he helped found PayCom, one of the earliest porn-billing systems and a pioneer in online-purchasing technology. Several years ago, the company clashed in court with MasterCard and lost in a case involving the billing of porn sites.

He launched ePassporte after splitting from PayCom. But his new company drew the attention of the U.S. attorney for Manhattan during a sweeping investigation of internet gambling.

After the company was advised of the probe, two years ago ePassporte ended business with poker sites. ?Although we do not believe we have done anything illegal, we do not wish to be associated with anything that might be considered illegal by the United States government,? ePassporte wrote to one off-shore operator of one site.

Finally, last year, the U.S. Tax Court ordered him to pay more than $280,000 in taxes, plus almost $40,000 in penalties, after concluding he under-reported income in 2005 by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Now his ePassporte customers are anxious to learn the naked truth from the middle man about their cash.

This was posted yesterday retard

[PornMD]

Originally Posted by DEA

That's Luke's "where's my check so I can get out of here?" face.

[Randy West]

Originally Posted by PornMD

That's Luke's "where's my check so I can get out of here?" face.

Yeah, Luke's salary was paid out via Epass... dude is fucked! That's why he resorted to doing AT&T commercials

[Alprazolam]

jesus you are an idiot.

[DEA - banned for life]

Originally Posted by Randy West

This was posted yesterday retard

sorry i dont sit on gfy and read every post in every thread...next time i will consult you since..its pretty obvious you do



More news...from TV.com

http://www.tv.com/its-another-end-of...ws/146678.html


It's oh so tempting to slack off with more trailers and videos, but a few items too interesting to ignore…

* Regular readers, both of you, may remember a number of interview pieces here and elsewhere by me dealing with a film called "Middle Men." Well, my interview with the film's producer and presumed model for the lead character, Christopher Mallick, has become a lot more interesting over the last few days. It has drawn some unusually strong comments from netizens, and not for no reason. The Wrap's Johnnie L. Roberts sums up how funds deposited by Mallick's current company, ePassporte, have been effectively frozen — leaving some people truly in the lurch — and also that this isn't the first arguably suspicious crisis that Mallick has weathered.


I will say that if you have over $240,000 pre-loaded on a card which I gather is mainly for use on porn sites these days (not online poker as I once assumed) — I'm no one to judge on this matter, but I think you've got a bit of a problem.



see sig ---v

[Davy]

Good marketing for the movie...

[facialfreak]

Originally Posted by Davy

Good marketing for the movie...

keep telling yourself that ... it eases the pain!

[2intense]

Originally Posted by Alprazolam

jesus you are an idiot.

[2intense]

Originally Posted by Inter-Sex

Why DEA is green with 6k posts?

yes,why?

[DEA - banned for life]

Originally Posted by Inter-Sex

Why DEA is green with 6k posts?

if you have to ask you dont deserve to know

[facialfreak]

Originally Posted by Inter-Sex

Why DEA is green with 6k posts?

A fugitive scientist has the curse of becoming a powerful green monster under extreme emotional stress.

[DaddyHalbucks]

Sounds like some very bad timing.

[Shoplifter]

This media attention is not going to go well for the industry.

[DWB]

Originally Posted by Shoplifter

This media attention is not going to go well for the industry.

[CaptainHowdy]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

[Supz]

Atleast it looks like they dont really know how it is associated with porn. It looks like they think people are paying for memberships with it. They dont really mention the webmaster side of it.

[Jarmusch]

LOL ok who made the comment under the name Shap?

shap 4 hours ago
mallick = scum!

[Si]

so you mean if this forum wasn't only for registered user's they would know everyone thinks you're a cock?

Consider yourself lucky!

[Ayla_SquareTurtle]

Originally Posted by Supz

Atleast it looks like they dont really know how it is associated with porn. It looks like they think people are paying for memberships with it. They dont really mention the webmaster side of it.

I noticed that as well. They think it's for surfers, which is actually kind of funny.

[Shap]

Originally Posted by Shoplifter

This media attention is not going to go well for the industry.

Agreed. We have enough problems as it is

[Jason Voorhees]

I like how they referenced that one guy who was avoiding taxes' account.

[RogerV]

Originally Posted by Davy

Good marketing for the movie...

yep bad press is all good press for movie.its all free press.
I think its bad for the industry since now people will be worried to fill out info to join

[gooddomains]

it's all about marketing

[Paul Markham]

Originally Posted by Shoplifter

This media attention is not going to go well for the industry.

Agreed. It won't help at all.

[seeandsee]

money is safe