I just got off the phone with St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank (epassporte)
 

They say they are working on turning the cards back on. Spoke with an actual account manager at St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank .

cross your fingers

p.s. you can call yourself to verify
(869) 465-2204

you will be the hero if this is true..lol

even though if its true i bet chris mallick hasn't slept more then an hour or so to solve this..lol

sig spot, good news, I came...

nice one, thanks for the update!

finally some good news on whole epass situation...
too bad ePass haven't made any official statements today on this issue...

:thumbsup:thumbsup hope they will fix this issue very soon

that's what they told me yesterday! I hope this will turn out positively for everyone!

Good news :thumbsup

Todays statement would be the same as the previous one. "They are working on it"

Was it like the other site where someone posted this:
"Epassporte is working with Visa to resolve the situation."

I had coffe earlier today with the manager over at St. Kitts and he told me some fucked up things....I hope for some people it aint true tho.

Can't really discuss it furthermore as their lawyer army will kill me if I do.

I would be shocked if they had said anything else tbh.

to be specefic i didnt ask about epassporte i just asked why my visa card had been shutoff, asked to speak to an account manager, he asked for the first digits of the card, heard typing, he asked if it was an epassporte card, i said yes, he said they are working to get the cards back on, i asked if i would need a new card or woud my old one work again , he said the old card would work fine, i asked how long, he said hopefully today.

Did you ask the bank to get your funds out directly from them?

added you to icq, need to ask you something about your tube designs

I love you, Smokey...

Sounds promising. Thanks for the update :thumbsup

I hope this works out positively for everyone who currently has funds frozen.

very good to hear

I am at a Wawa following multiple threads. This is the best so far....

fingers crossed

Appreciate the update, Thank you!!

oh the spectations

Smokey for President ;)

+1 :winkwink:

Thanks for the good news Smokey.

well i can think of a few other things.

"sorry we don't know what your talking about" or " we can't discuss this matter"

"we have shutdown that partner"

no reason for the bank to hide the fact someone has become a risk, i'm sure they are happy customers and want to keep it that way.

I woud suspect they ( epass ) were dipping a bit deep into the coffers, the bank asked for a larger amount to "hold" and epassporte came up short. Hopefully everything works out quickly. This was just a pressure move to say " either come up with the money or agree to a larger cut to cover whats missing from the deposit "

but hey im just guessing. If visa is anything like u.s. customs , maybe they just noticed a misspelled word.

this was just posted on askdx board:

Update, Sept. 7, 1:07 p.m. ET: Visa just issued the following statement:

“At the request of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank (SKNA), on September 2, 2010, Visa blocked network access for prepaid cards issued by SKNA and operated by ePassporte.com to address certain program deficiencies. ePassporte.com is a third-party agent that works with SKNA.

“It is important to note that impacted SKNA prepaid cardholders are still able to access their funds through SKNA or SKNA’s agent, ePassporte.com. For more information cardholders should contact SKNA or ePassporte.com.

“Visa is committed to maintaining the integrity of its global payment network and routinely conducts due diligence to ensure Visa prepaid programs adhere to the company’s stringent program requirements and controls.”

Here VISA Blocks ePassporte — Krebs on Security (http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/09/v...ks-epassporte/)

is the money in the accounts in any danger?

nice news, bump! :)

Question is... Will Epassporte release a statement today?

I didn't mean to sound negative smokey', if you were here i would pour you a glass of single malt for making that phone call and updating us. In fact, have the fucking bottle :thumbsup

:1orglaugh

Well that seems like some huge news that deserves it's own thread?

:1orglaugh

It is its own thread. :)

:1orglaugh People are out of it.

great news !

If you're around, can you hop onto ICQ?
WG

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yeah that some good news lets keep our fingers crossed they work it out and we can use ATMS again

thanks Smokey your post gave me wood :)

great news

I only have $204 tied up in Epass, so I don't really care - although not having the Virtual Visa would be a huge inconvenience to me - AND I really like using it. Its made my job easier (at least 'tll this month... )

Smokey is one of the few people here that I take at their word. If that is what he said, then that was what he was told.

I trust his posts more than I trust my own - because I get drunk and lie sometimes :)

Well, even if epassporte will get back to where it was, everybody who will still use it will be looking over the shoulder and will think twice before doing anything...

why would he care, he will walk out feeling as little pain as possible and placing it all on others. and you know this.

i just wonder how epass with KYC for cards with "batman" and "homer j simpson" and shit on them.... good luck with that!

So did I :1orglaugh

SmokeyTheBear - Posted Today, 05:28 PM , How is possible that you reach them , Im calling them now and their recorded system said their business hours is up to 2:00pm , so thats mean they has closed 5 hours ago.


St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank Ltd.
Central Street,
P.O. Box 343
Basseterre, St. Kitts, West Indies


Tel: (869) 465-2204 Mon - Thurs: 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Fri: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

So St. Kitts is 3 hours ahead of me.

STB posted at 12:28p my time + 3 hours = 3:28p. St. Kitts says they close at 2p (called and verified myself)

Open late today?