Originally Posted by DavieVegas (Post 17463462)

Just as K0nrad said in the other thread below:

"The money is in someone's personal offshore account right now.

Lets take a look at the trail of events leading up to this.
- Porn industry takes a dive, sponsors disappear, less money loaded on epass. They can no longer be used for gambling too, so their income must have taken a hit on this. Every day a new program closes up shop, and that is one less that will load up money every month to pay affiliates. Over the past few months, I have noticed a very strong migration to clients using paypal and wires and away from epass.
- 1 or 2 days before this happens, many people's limits are lowered to $1k withdrawl
- Their visa accounts are "abruptly suspended" with no warning and with no explaination given. Conveniently at the start of the month just before a long weekend, when the most money is on the epass system as programs are loading up their accounts to pay affiliates. As it is a long weekend, no one can get in touch with visa or anyone to confirm anything.

Yeah...I can definately see this all ending well."

Originally Posted by quiet (Post 17463469)

your a fat stupid aussie socialpath. back to the topic at hand. lots of you guys are fucked, damn.

Originally Posted by cam_girls (Post 17463482)

QUIET!


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Originally Posted by Loki (Post 17463243)

Nathan, that's a pretty broad (and bold) statement to make, you can't possibly know what every big company uses when it comes to banks, I do know for a solid fact that in these current times, when a big company finds a new bank to handle them they keep their mouth shut about it, because of what some companies have done over the years.

I know plenty of big companies for example who did NOT use WMC, and that WMC had their assets frozen because of....... online gambling and one of their clients they were processing for, and that client was.....

The same things were said during the bank shutdowns, when banks had their accounts frozen and processing ability pulled due to..... Online Gambling and behind the scenes when some companies were given heads up days before shit went down one name was mentioned over and over, and that name was......

I'm not one to pass on rumors it's not my style but when you hear the same one over and over again while everything around you starts to collapse in my mind it becomes LESS of a rumor and more of a gospel.

months back there was a (failed) boycott here when your traffic leg skinned GFY, tons and tons of people got themselves banned because they did not agree with GFY taking money from a company that was single handedly ruining our biz, (I say failed cause most came back, and the skin stayed as most knew it would)

I don't do drama, no time for it, but this has effected me and my family personally, and this also directly effects my ability to pay my bills and take care of my family so I spoke up, and I pointed out the things I see (in this case a pattern, that everywhere your company is goes down for the same reasons) and like I said before If I'm wrong I'll admit it, without prob.

However, and this is not me being a dick or a weasel, but the ONLY way to know this was NOT caused by you is for Epass to SAY it wasn't due to your account/s and your biz practices, if they don't say it then there is no way for me or anyone else to know it really wasn't caused by you.

But if in fact it was a HUGE glitch by Visa, or some odd Hack thing that compromised all the cards and Epass says it was _________________________ and Nothing else then you got me 'dead to rights' and I will as I always am, be a man of my word.

-Loki-

Originally Posted by tinafaye (Post 17463366)

What if you are a service provider?

Hosting company, designer, copy writer, grunt worker, and the list goes on, you can't get personal checks from your clients!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Nathan (Post 17463502)

Loki, I do not honestly care a lot about rumors, its a very big thing in adult and lots of people love talking and lots of people love throwing in names without know ANYTHING about this industry in detail.

Let's just wait and see what happends with WMC, with ePassporte and all those other things where my name has been dragged through the mud...

Its VERY telling in my opinion already that all those people have said how I will be arrested in the US the second I show up there, how there is FBI at the Miami show to take me down and whatnot.. its all crap and bullshit.. Nothing happened, I was in the US 3 separate times in the past 4 weeks. SQUAT is happening to me, and why should it, I did absolutely nothing wrong.

This should show you directly how much truth is in all these comments about Mansef, Manwin, Brazzers and myself...

Anyway, enough said, we have plenty of money in ePassporte too since obviously lots of people to pay affiliate wise and such through there each month and it is the 3rd of September sadly.. horrible timing for everyone involved. I will be talking to my guys about payouts that usually go through ePassporte too, since I am sure plenty of them got stuck because of this although we our self hold very little in the virtual visa itself.

Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 17463200)

Good Q for Michael.

They should be able to load to their Wallets, pay as usual, affils will accept thru the Wallet. Basicly just the card is kaput.

Might as well void out the Virtual Visa setting in Wallet settings. I know I will be damned sure it is set to Wallet.

How bout the guy who didnt log on to Epass or see this thread. I had mine set to Virtual Visa till I seen this thread. I mean there are dollars funneling into the great abyss as we speak for guys set to Virtual Visa.

I believe there has been no email on this from Epassporte. I may be wrong. I never got any tho.

Originally Posted by ilbb (Post 17463517)

I wonder why they didn't autoswitch all users to wallet today. I have to manually switch.

Originally Posted by Michael O (Post 17463520)

Transfers to the virtual card are rejected.
I have asked Tech to set all accounts to Wallet instead just waiting for them to do it.

Originally Posted by hairyman (Post 17463251)

Is it possible to do a wire from wallet to a non-US bank account?

Originally Posted by k0nr4d (Post 17463255)

Michael, can you do us a favor and when you find out any updates maybe start up a new thread about it? Many people are interested in what will come of this, and it will save everyone having to look through the 50 page thread this will be by the end of the day hoping for something new.

Originally Posted by paymeback (Post 17463271)

My bank/debit card statement doesn't have my visa card number on it anywhere which is required for ID. How do i get around this then? Dont really want to wait 7-10 working day and then get it denied..

Originally Posted by mcfester (Post 17463286)

And what about wire transfers? Do you wire to Thai or UK bank accounts?

Originally Posted by k0nr4d (Post 17463408)

Lets just hope they aren't paying him his salary via epass :thumbsup

Originally Posted by PersianKitty (Post 17463287)

No problems here. I keep all my funds in my virtual wallet and transfer to a checking account.

Seems I recall a message from Epassporte back in Feb of 2009 that stated

"ePassporte also highly recommends that you keep the majority of your funds on your ePassporte Wallet instead of your Visa Virtual Account. The ePassporte Wallet enables you to keep funds separate from your Visa Virtual Account and Visa Electron Card until you transfer the funds from the ePassporte Wallet to the Visa Virtual Account for use. By keeping your funds on the ePassporte Wallet, you ensure that your funds are protected in the event your Visa Virtual Account or Visa Electron Card is ever lost, stolen, or compromised through a stolen database, a merchant, or an ATM.

To initiate the transfer to your ePassporte Wallet, go to "My Account," select the "Transfer Money" option from the navigation bar, and click the "Wallet To/From Visa Virtual" button."


Btw Michael... you're doing a bang-up job putting out fires. Never seen someone so "on" an issue.

Originally Posted by boneless (Post 17463276)

Michael, you said you were confident that things will turn out on the ok side of things.

Do you have any timeframe in your mind which it should take to resolve this?

Originally Posted by Yahook (Post 17463280)

Hello Michael, please tell me what can happen with money that are currently on visa cards? Is there way to get them later or there is a chance that all these money will be blocked forever?

Originally Posted by Michael O (Post 17463557)

You will get them when this is solved.

Originally Posted by camchoice (Post 17463340)

Michael , we just transfered money to epass to pay our studios, models and affiliates. Is that money still coming through and is it going to be added to our wallet ? Our setting is to receive in wallet.

Originally Posted by V_RocKs (Post 17463561)

Isn't switching to wallet a moot point until this is resolved since the sponsors and users all cannot give you money?

Originally Posted by TeenCat (Post 17463568)

good bye michael, you have been a good guy and a great support! have luck in what you do in future! :thumbsup

Originally Posted by TeenCat (Post 17463568)

good bye michael, you have been a good guy and a great support! have luck in what you do in future! :thumbsup

Originally Posted by cam_girls (Post 17463564)

BANKS BOYCOTTING ADULT


Saw several posts about boycotting industries this morning - a sign!

Even I wrote just this morning - "now I own Camgirls.com the adult industry is boycotting me."

Originally Posted by Michael O (Post 17463520)

Transfers to the virtual card are rejected.
I have asked Tech to set all accounts to Wallet instead just waiting for them to do it.

Originally Posted by Yahook (Post 17463522)

I think it's the end of Epassporte. Now all webmasters will start using all possible ways to get their money from Epassporte and it will kill Epassporte. Even if this problem will be solved nobody will hold their money there anymore.

Epassporte was a very good agregator of money. Now this agregator will be closed and it will be a cause of a very big crisis in an entire adult business.

I hope I'm not right.

Originally Posted by Michael O (Post 17463540)

Upload statement and send utility bill with your name and address to me [email protected] and include your UserID and reason for this.