i bet they can get the money back, they seem like they have their ducks in a row, if something bad happens to them, ill be very disappointed in this country. from their website, assuming its all true

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shit, double post

your right :) if they cant back up what they say on the site, its a problem

damn i hope you get your stuff resolved

1 person handling it who has 'gone on vacation'... bs, your handling enough money for someone else to get off their fat arse and get it resolved... you can't be bound by 1 person and their vacation, i dont buy it

This sucks! WTF is going on lately?

Gossipkings.com (and i assume amakings as its the same ppl )dump webmasterchecks, from there affiliate email they just sent

"Moving forward we will be handling all webmaster payments in-house to avoid something like this happening again"

First of many ?

Can you post the whole email here?

1 word
disaster

I think there's going to be a few more like that.

I know Webmaster Checks is a solid company but if you lay with dogs (Brazzers), you're gonna get fleas and possibly bitten. :2 cents:

Hope you guys can work it out soon. Good luck.

is this a tax audit?


Sabby:)

As predicted this is amakings email, which is the same as gossipkings

Wayne,

As you may have heard WebmasterChecks.com is reporting a problem with ?bank accounts being frozen by the Department of Justice? (http://www.gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/964711-webmasterchecks-statement.html). As we used their service to pay our webmasters via checks, ePassporte, and wire transfers this problem will cause a delay in your most recent earnings. DELAY, not LOSS. We had already sent full payment to WebmasterChecks.com so now we have to move money around from our cash reserves so that we can directly issue payments where necessary (details below). We plan to have all outstanding webmaster accounts settled by 4/30/2010. This will ONLY affect the most recent webmaster payments and we fully expect to be back on our regular schedule by the next pay period. Moving forward we will be handling all webmaster payments in-house to avoid something like this happening again.

For ePassporte payments: We?ve been told by WebmasterChecks.com that our money was already sent to ePassporte so those payments should be released in the next 48 hours. If this does not happen we will be issuing payments from our new Business ePassporte account as soon as they post the funds we have already sent to load the account which should be by 4/30/2010.

For wire transfers: As soon as we have moved funds to the appropriate accounts we will be issuing wires directly to webmasters. We expect to have all wires sent by 4/30/2010 but please do keep in mind some international wires do take more time to hit.

For checks: If you have ANY checks from us sent from WebmasterChecks.com DO NOT CASH THEM. Shortly we will be sending new checks ourselves for all payments for the latest pay period and we expect to have all those in the mail by 4/30/2010.

We apologize for this unforeseeable inconvenience but please understand we are personally covering double our normal webmaster payouts (since payment was already sent to WebmasterChecks.com) to be SURE you get paid! Fortunately you choose to work with a stable company that maintains necessary cash reserves for emergencies like this. We assure you this will not happen again as from today on we will be doing all webmaster payments ourselves! If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]!

Good luck Webmasterchecks :thumbsup

i already see some late payments, even via epass

:2 cents::thumbsup:)

How would an interested party find out which proggy's use WC for their payments?

Last webmaster check I deposited was around Easter...Thank God I got it in the nick of time...I can say that as of right now, I have never had a sponsor check bounce on me... **knocking on my wooden desk**

so does this affect ppl getting paid via epass and wires too or?

Hope this is over soon, good luck guys and thanks for getting in touch with me!
Webmasterchecks has always been professional and a great partner to work with.

Received an email from Saphic this morning. Appears to be effecting multiple adult BROgrams all at once. Not just Brazzzers.

A Hundie Sweet Deals.
:pimp

Sig.

An agent freezes your account and goes on vacation? Give me a break.

[QUOTE=alias;17061997]So is this a complete list?

Thank you Alias. That's what I was looking for I'll add it to my archiveys. LOL

Department of Justice has frozen your accounts?

Fuck you, pay me!

I'd like to know that as well.

so who would be the bigger fish? ccbill?

DOJ doesnt freeze bank accounts unless they are sure they have it all figured out. another bloody mess in the 2010 porno dead pool. more to follow im sure. get out while u can.

So anyone know of an alternate to webmaster checks?

The Department of Justice works hand in hand with the IRS. Many reasons for closing down an account, Money Laundering is the biggest reason especially with what has happened in Georgia with the DOJ seizing 6.7 million of a big programs money. Second , they issue 1099 to people and if they continued to issue checks to the same people after receiving a statement from the IRS that those clients are delinquent in paying their taxes they will also intervene. I know from the amount of 1099 misc employment statements that I get back that many talent do not pay taxes or even report them. This year I sent out 160 of them and received back approximately 50% of them back. Many of these talents are connected to their own websites that get paid thru Webmaster checks and probably ignore the nice letter from the IRS. Amazingly enough this year not one talent have called to find out where there 1099 is. This year I received the nicest one from the IRS that a talent owes $151,950 in taxes for the years 2007 and 2008. I can no longer issue a check to that person. Maybe they want to work free but when have you ever heard of talent working free.

well hope they get it fixed...for their sake...and the sake of affiliates who need payments from them

i dont see it as being a huge deal to most companies...they already prepare their payouts in a format...they can just as easily pass it on direct to epasporte..and just hire someone to cut checks

bump in the road...not the end of the road.

as far as the govt agent going on vacation

well..i have been in a similar situation....while waiting for my wifes PR card, we were at 2.5 years into the process...and i had started calling daily....then finally i got hold of a person...he told me he would handle it and not to worry...but he was going on vacation the next day....but he said someone else was going to handle this...and indeed it was.

so i suspect there is another agent available to discuss this with webmaster checks

hope they get it solved quickly

This type of thing used to happen from time to time in the early days of adult.

I remember a scarey time back in like 99 or 2000 when Epoch actually wasnt able to cut checks for awhile- it eventually got resolved, but it was a nail biter for sure.

The thing to remember here is not to jump to any conclusions- it might be an IRS thing, it might be some big nasty DOJ/laundering/gambling fiasco, or it might just be some kind of fuckup that will get resolved.

I've always found it odd that a large company would want to rely on some 3rd party to do their checks when something like this could happen and turn everything upside down on them overnight... but thats me. You can hire one or two people to cut checks on a frikkin laser printer every 2 weeks.. why take a risk?

In the long run, the guys really on the hook here are the sponsors- they sent their money to webmaster checks (which may very well not have done anything wrong to their knowledge) and here comes the DOJ and everything is in the abyss.

The sponsors now have to claw their way out of the mess, and the poor guys at webmaster checks (giving them the benefit of the doubt here, as we should until we know more) have just had their business relationships jeopardized.

I hate to see things like this happen, but I've seen it go both ways- so its not necessarily a stick in the eye, but its too early to tell. I guess this will be a test of the sponsors to see who can come through. But do keep in mind they didnt see it coming either, and its a total pain in their ass as well.

This kind of thing has been in the business since day one- sucks to hear its still happening, but honestly it happens alot less often these days than it did back in the beginning.

Somebody did something wrong somewhere for this to happen, but its too early yet to find out what and why for sure- nothing much to do except hope your sponsor can take care of you in the short term until the dust settles.

Assuming we buy this for a minute, when does Fox Mulder get back from vacation? Did they give any indication?

I always wanted to bone Scully. :winkwink:

lol ya a wire transfer of the balance out to an offshore account would produce the same result as a DOJ "seizure" - hundreds of bounced checks.

guess we'll know the story if/when people get paid. its not like this shitty little industry has investigative reporters.

I was referring to Mulder conveniently going on vacation.

I have no doubt in my mind that they have had all their funds seized due to one of their clients being investigated :)

If the money passes through WMC's accounts which I assume It does? That would be a problem.

I'll get Darrah right on it. :1orglaugh

I think this whole thing is just the another attack from the Gov to disrupt studios. Do you see them going after the tubes running CP? Have you seen them try to enforce any rules on the people trying to put all of you out of work?

The whole thing is a joke, and IMO just the gov trying to kill of what few of you remain in anyway they can

how could you have no doubt unless u have inside info? if one of their clients is being investigated then its some biller's client too. i didnt see a post about ccbill's or epoch's accounts being frozen.

i dont see the logic. everybody in this business is intertwined.

I don't think it has anything to do with brazzers.

Sigh I got two returned Webmaster checks today :( I thought I was in the clear because I had deposited them a week prior to the shit hitting the fan. Sent the sponsors in question an email and I am awaiting their reply.