Dear Webmaster,
we wanted inform you about the latest problems with Epassporte, here is an official statement from their website after you login to your Epassporte account:
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From: Christopher Mallick, Owner, ePassporte.com http://ePassporte.com
Dear ePassporte Account Holders,
Please be advised that, at 12:00 PM PDT today, September 2, 2010, we were notified that effective immediately, Visa International has suspended our banking partner’s (St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank) ePassporte Visa program. The ePassporte e-Wallet program continues to be up and running, except funds cannot be transferred between your Visa Account and your e-Wallet. At this time ePassporte can no longer issue Visa Cards, and the ability for our Account Holders to make point of sale purchases and withdraw funds from ATMs has also been suspended.
At this time we do not know why this drastic action was taken by Visa. To us, it is unconscionable that such action would be taken without the opportunity for ePassporte to fully understand Visa’s reasons and to be able to take all steps necessary to keep our program running the way it has so successfully done for over 7 years. But that is what Visa has done.
As soon as we have more information we will be in contact with you.
In the meantime please be assured that your funds are safe.
We are very sorry for the short notice and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. The ePassporte team is working diligently to rectify this situation.
We kindly ask you to bear with us while we work through this issue.
Please feel free to contact us via the message center or at our call center, should you have any questions, comments or concerns.
Thank You,
Christopher Mallick
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Also here is a link to a thread on GFY.com about this situation:
http://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=985088
We are still waiting on fresh developments on the current situation but for now nobody can withdraw any money at an ATM or transfer funds in any way if the money is not in the "wallet". Also you can't transfer money from the "Visa Virtual Account" to the "Wallet".
We are suggesting that everybody should update their Epassporte settings to deposit incoming funds in the wallet, you can do that by going to:
https://www.epassporte.com -> Edit my Profile -> Wallet Settings -> Automate where your funds are stored -> Check wallet -> Continue.
Important: If you don't want to receive payments through Epassporte anymore we are suggesting changing your payment method to check or wire transfer during the next day’s 2 days as we will perform a closeout on Monday for the last period.
Fetish Hits is not affiliated with Epassporte and is not responsible for any money lost because of the current situation and we hope that they will be able to solve this very soon and that won't be any money lost.
Sincerely,
Your Fetish Hits Team