Epassporte Nightmare :mad: HELP ME
 

After a week of trouble for open a simple personal account my best client send me 23.000usd.
I was so happy, and also was the day of my birthday (Feb 2 2010). I added all the documents they ask me, and also the "wire form" for wire 18.000usd to my bank account. Same day after I payed the server through epassporte. Wow!
And also my new CMS. Wow!

So now (Feb 08 2010) I've around 20.000usd in my personal account and:
- They told me I can not wire to my bank account in St. Petersburg becouse:
""Raiffeisen Bank has chosen not to act as a beneficiary bank for processing ePassporte wire transfers. Please change your wire instruction request to use an alternate Beneficiary Bank..."

My bank told me that they don't have any problem to act as a beneficiary bank. Epassporte told me again that Raiffeisen will not act as a beneficiary bank also by email.

Also they told me:
"... You may need to contact your bank to find out what other bank they reco..."
So do I need to ask to by bank the name of another bank who can act as a beneficiary bank? I don't know message looks incomplete!


OK, I asked for the name of a russian bank where they can wire and they told me:
"I only know of Raiffeisen bank having problems with us everybody else
should be OK."

Just same minutes ago the status of my plastic credit card is changed from "pending" to "Active". So I tryed to withdrow 5000usd an I got a message like "you can withdrow not more of 300usd/day. OK, lets try with 300usd, and the new message was "your credit card is issued in Russian Federation, so we can not withdrow any money".

Looks like my 20.000usd are blocked there. I need my money, and I need accurate answers.
I've already called at the phone 10 times, and every time just for verify my identity, I lost 5 minutes every time.
Anyone knows the name of a Russian bank acting as a beneficiary bank with epassporte??
I'm italian, so I can not open account for example in "City Bank".
Thank you in advance!

MO is my first tip

So this is your first post on GFY? Welcome aboard.

Contact Micheal on ICQ: 95431302. He will help you out.

23 thousand dollars?

Why not ask Epass to reverse the transaction and have your client wire you the money directly?

Why would you make your very first transaction a $20k payment? You should have tried some smaller test transactions to make sure you could move the money around.

Thank you!
Michael was very helpful via email. But now I need the name of one russian bank.

If you are Italian you might try an Italian bank............... :winkwink:

These are the kind of transactions that are supposed be difficult. I am personally glad epass tries to make this kind of stuff hard to do through them. This kind of stuff taints them and makes it hard for the rest of us to use them for legitimate business purposes.

May be you right.
But at the first @phone call@ epassporte told me "NO PROBLEMS ABOUT THE WIRE".

I'm Italian and have an account on Citibank, so don't understand that part.

Other than that, try to contact MichaelO on ICQ 95431302 instead of any of the sub-normal monkeys known as Epass support. I don't know of anyone getting anything solved by them, so contact Michael. This being said, I remember Michael looking for something else and he doesn't have an Epass sig anymore, so maybe he left the company. If so, the only thing I can say is good luck, you'll really need it, believe me :(

Italian Bank?
:disgust
I can not, I'm resident in Russia!

City bank will not hopen accounts to foreign people.

dude, russia ia banned for that i guess. I heard you can only withdraw to US bank account actually.

They told me at the phone that is possible to wire in Russia Too, but after looks like they find any way for don't do it.
Also in the Overview of the personal account they write about limitations. But they don't explane the limitations.

please dont tell me you are talking about $23 ?

I would like.

$23k

Michael O is the man to talk to, 23K are no joke.

u could always transfer the money to an account that has access, just be carefull with who you pick, and you will likely have to do several transfers to get around the cap.

Michael is already helping me. But I need the name of the russian bank where epassporte can wire my money. This is what I need.

I am in the similar situation, but with ~3k.

First it took a month to respond to a first wire request and the transaction was declined because in my domicile bank number of account and last digits of IBAN didn't match.

Then I requested a transfer to Raiffeisen bank in Austria where I do have matching acct number and the last digits of IBAN but I received a same response as you - "Raiffeisen Bank has chosen not to act as a beneficiary bank for processing ePassporte wire transfers."

Now I am waiting for a response to wire transfer request where I used the bank account number in my domicile valute which matches the IBAN and if this transfer goes ok, I wont get USD but my local valute ...

Not to mention that this whole this process started in late Nov 2009 and all this waiting quite pisses me off ...

He sent you 23,000 USD? What is his first name, last name, address and other information? We need proof to know that you are not bullshiting.

We need invoices, too.

Joking...

Bump for me!

Wow... what a crazy story... an Italian in Russia just opened epassporte account then a week later on his birthday he receives $23.000 from his best client. I don't want to know more :party-smi

I know the person sending him money and that it is a legit transfer he received so that is not the problem.

The problem is that Raiffeisen Bank will not accept wires from us for reasons I am not aware off so the Original Poster is asking for information about other Russian banks where he will be able to wire the funds.
To the best of my knowledge its only Raiffeisen Bank that there is an issue with.

Dear sirs, you can have the money wired to me and i will in return wire you back $5,000 and i will keep the remainder. :)

We can help you with transfer for 6%. [email protected] can do it this week.

i smell russian money laundering based on that.

coff, german banks can be a bitch :2 cents: i am happy mine proceeds foreign currency checks faster than ? debits :thumbsup

I'll do it for 3% !!!!!!!!