Thanks for the update Michael :thumbsup

Thanks for the update as well. Keeping fingers crossed.....

Sounds promising. I really hope this has a happy ending!

an information blackout for a week.... I have to say hearing something, almost anything feels pretty good.

ePassporte, please continue this as some information, no matter how small is encouraging to some of your customers. I understand you won't be making announcements on the boards only in the account... but if those could be a little more frequent I think a lot of people would be a whole lot happier with you

are you ok ? lol

They probably won't send you a dime until you submit that info.

This sound more and more like the IRS trying to get their money from people that are using epass to hide their earnings.

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!! Very vague messages make this sound more and more like iBill all over again ....

I have been jumping through hoops with ePass ever since September 2nd -- to be able to withdraw what money I have in my wallet to my Mastercard ...

It seems they want me to mail in documents again .... the same documents I mailed in in 2008!

So in the hope of accessing my funds, I jumped through the hoops, and today my Mastercard is showing as ACTIVE .... so I tried to withdraw the funds to my Mastercard, and I got this message:

Your transaction has been declined by ePassporte.

Instructions on how to manually verify your credit card have been sent to your ePassporte Message Center Inbox. Please click on the Message Center button.



WTF?!?!?!?!?

And as expected ... there is no new message in my inbox how to manually verify my card.

I am losing more and more faith in epass as the hours go by ...

And the fact that this Mr. Gregory Elias has now entered the picture, and supposedly owns Epassporte NV and the bank that governs it ... but he had NO CLUE as to Chris Mallick's troubles with Visa International and the SKNANB?!? .... writes much more on the wall.

How the fuck can you own Epassporte NV - AND - it's governing bank, and not be aware of what is going on?

And then we get inbox messages telling us not to contact Gregory Elias ... kinda looked and smelt like a 'damage control - too little too late' once the cat was already let out of the bag type email ....

this whole thing smells like horseshit!

:Oh crap:Oh crap:Oh crap:Oh crap:Oh crap

at this stage I say thanks for the updates Chris and good luck trying to sort things out

I wouldn't discount epassporte just yet.

Thanks MO

if I were you guys I wouldn't even post on gfy...mostly trolls and drama. Messages in the message center of people who actually have accounts make sense.

I guess it going to take longer than anyone expected.

Hope it will be resolved soon :helpme

Exactly, at least they talk about the visa card in this last message, so they didn't give that up yet.

the damage has been done

everyone should call Gregory Elias

What damage? Look at the "Will you use epass again" thread and you will see most people said yes.

Here's the most important information I read in this:

Why would that be? We give our username out all the time for payments but maybe if the "wrong" person was to get this, then it might be different story.

Program deficiencies? perhaps there's nothing more sinister going on than suspending our VV until security vulnerabilities in their system have been fixed and verified by St Kitts/Visa

Thanks for the update Michael :)

btw.. still taking Epass for link sales

Links For Sale

i want my money.

thanks for the input Michael :pimp

his phone number was posted. people are probably threatening to kill him.

Hmm... When I am doing consulting work for a client I like to keep in constant communication with them. I am not one of those, "Hey, the dog ate my homework," kind of people and I feel like this loss of communication is giving me that sense for what they are doing.

It is really that simple!

Hello, we are working on several different ideas to get the VISA cards you currently have in your possession reinstated. Should those fail we are also already looking into how we can quickly get new cards re-issued with a different bank. The later of which will take considerably more time. We would like to let you know that we are solvent and we are NOT going anywhere. We have noticed that a lot of programs have removed us as a payout option and we would like to remind those programs and their affiliates that we are still a good option especially in the US to receive payments that you can quickly ACH into your bank account.

Now was it really that fucking hard? And it would reinstate the trust that is currently eroding with each passing day!

but that actually wasn't "news" it was a plea for people to leave Gregory elias, united international trust alone.

People have looked and setup alternative payments method for the money making sponsors.
Contracts have been renegociated for longer periods so that wires are a feasible payment method (you used to pay monthly with epass, now paying for 6 months/12 with wire).
Even if epass will come back they will not see the same transaction volume for a long ass period.
I gave them plenty of time to come up with a message delivering something they chose not to and deliver some vague bullshit.
I will use them again for sure but not as I used to.

light at the end of a tunnel
 

I suppose this is good news. Thanks for update Michael!

said it would be resolved in 24 hours 2 weeks ago.

it is done. money is gone.

i am still waiting for my wire for 2 weeks now .. and not even received a confirmation or anything ... i get the feeling they are just stealing our money!!!

Happy Ending Cost Money;)

What's not clear here? They are asking everyone to stop talking shit. That's it. Now let's stop talking shit on boards. Epass rocks. Right?

All I can say this latest fiasco has been a wakeup call for me. Not only regarding epassporte, but a business as a whole. The coming months will see a lot of modifications on our networks.

People were sharing their usernames over the gfy like its a candy. And now this is a security risk after all this time. And this ID thing.......man this looks like some huge inside or outside security breach! :error:error:helpme:helpme:helpme

Thanks for the so called update.

Sounds like me that one of the Program deficiencies Epassporte might have is lack of documents on many accounts?
Seems like me that all requests now are asked for documents to verify account info etc, unless they have recent and updated documents that is.

I hope for sure they get things fixed and back on track, it's a great method for paying for design, content, and "employees" overseas.

and... now what... until when...?

so??

does this message help us at all?

No.. it doesn't not.

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That's exactly right I have given my Epass id to over 1k+ in the last 2 years and a lot of you guys have given yours out to a lot lot more.. so why is this not advised anymore?

the update was stop calling the dude who was in that blog post and threatining death.

That's exactly right I have given my Epass id to over 1k+ in the last 2 years and a lot of you guys havegiven yours out to a lot more.. so why is this not advised anymore?

This is all bullshit. Still nothing and this will keep happening until one day they vanish

I know someone who has that name in our FF league.. is that you :winkwink::1orglaugh

No news, but at least they finally admit the problem is with the bank and not with visa international as they claimed at the begining. that's a start...

Hopefully this is actually solved soon. Thanks for the update.

Thanks Epass! Applications for merchant accounts and approvals are up this month. You rock. Get your own merchant account. We have relationships with many banks. See Sig>>

Your money is long gone... At least whats in the VV account..

i hope cards will work soon

no......

Why is he saying this now? Is he preparing to activate the trap in the TOS, and not pay people because they are in breach with TOS?

I have always wondered why TOS forbids account holders to disclose either their User ID or password to anyone. Common sense tells that is should only be the password, which is considered confidential.

Epassporte support, incl. Michael O, has often asked people to send an e-mail with the username and "he will look into it".

Every account holder has broken this piece of the TOS. :2 cents: How can someone send a P2P transaction to you if they don't know your User ID? Impossible.

If this is not about activating the TOS trap to legally not owe people money, then this "security risk" could be that someone is trying to link account holder identities together with forum identities.

TOS trap, or someone investigating forum users?

No real update about anything, ppl would expect you to be having meetings with the bank thats holding ppls cash.

You've left this to long now......

Sure?
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/200...un_468x377.jpg

These are GOOD SIGNS.
The story becomes clear: the bank asked visa to stop working with epass. Now epass is solving the problem with the bank so VISA WILL BE WORKING AGAIN.
How many of you BELIEVED the cards will be working again? Almost nobody, according what they write there is a VERY GOOD CHANCE the cards will be working again.
SO THESE ARE GOOD NEWS.

Also the funds are safe and are not in motion anymore haha

this is news?

"one day"..."maybe"...:(

"We are encouraged and believe these meetings and ongoing discussions with the Bank will result in all card functions becoming operational shortly, although a date has not yet been determined."

bullshit :disgust:disgust:disgust