First of all, sorry to hear this happening (again) Jules...
You've not been the first in this account circle-jerk-scam scheme, as we've read numerous time on here and other boards now... just to add an extra cherry on top they've gotten you at a show, which means it 100% is someone from within our own rows!
A quite easy solution to fuck up this scammers world:
ePass sends out a letter with a set of TAN's (Transaction-Numbers) for each customer - it needs some work on their end of course, but it's worth it. This way you have to maintain a real address on file as well, as you need these TAN's every once in a while, as each TAN list has only around 100 to 200 TAN's which are used up every X months.
Then for each transaction you make, you have to enter a specified TAN from your very own list, if it matches - the payment goes thru, if it doesnt match, the payment doesnt go thru and you'll get a warning - 3 wrong TAN's = ePass Account locked down, you have to contact ePass.
Would work with the same generator PayPal uses as well, but that means buying these generators and send them out, where paper obviously is cheaper...
Just a thought to add a layer of security that prevents all of this crime.
It's an old standard with the banks over here and it works like a charme.
Personally, I would'nt mind paying a few cents more per transaction to cover the cost of this added layer of security - if they raise it from .25 to .35 on all of the accounts - which doesnt hurt anyone directly that bad, in essence it would very well make up for the cost I hope - epass would have to calculate that though...
