Topic: OKPay. Be careful! (Read 4633 times)

Hi. I've started to work with OKPAY few months ago. First thing I faced to is verification. I know many people complain about this procedure but how they can not understand that this is just for money security. I'have passed verification in few days after providing with extra document type. And you know that did not annoy me at all. I like that they have mane depositing methods, that's very convenient for me, also they have mane exchangers and through this I send money to another systems I have accounts with. I had the following story. I ordered their OKPAY card, got it and went to another country for travelling. And my card was stoled with almost all my funds there! I was desparate. I have contacted their support service and they instantly blocked the card. After that they helped me to return funds back from my stolen card to my wallet after I sent them a kind of notice with some details ( don't remember now exactly). I liked that they really were acting very fast in my situation.

yes, we'd better use the big exchange website.

thanks. no more okpay for me.

i'm a victim 31 days now my $2000 i wired to okpay is not credited to my okpay wallet, i'm now ignored by their support ticket system, any LOUD ANGRY NOISE i make they delete in their support ticket and forum of okpay

i picked okpay because i was lured by the low commission cost for funding my btc-e.com account

after having read the coindesk article about btc-e below, i consider myself scammed, $2000 is lost

http://www.coindesk.com/btc-e-exchange-banking-issues/

okpay is quick to answer inquiries but once you wire your money - your scammed

other info i observed:

okpay is unreachable, their phone no. is an answering machine, their address a po box in british virgin island

some people are lucky - people okpay don't scam - i see in reddit.com that okpay is a selective scammer, this strategy works for okpay because some people will defend okpay in the forums they have legitimately funded their accounts lucky them, okpay is still a scammer

mywot.com is not working for okpay.com - they have an army of dedicated spammers making okpay look good

mywot.com is flawed

forum.okpay.com is cleaned up every 1-12 hours of negative post like "WHERE IS MY MONEY OKPAY?"  "GIVE ME MY MONEY OKPAY"  "IT'S BEEN X NUMBER OF DAYS ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

i will not be surprise if okpay suddenly disappears and changes to another company name

with that be careful with unknown money processors, there are so many of them.... they will always be here

in fact i think only in bitcointalk.org is where okpay's army can't do anything... but give that selective oh i'm lucky okpay sent my money there were no issues

$2000 lesson folks hope this gets to as many people as possible

 Can't agree more.

It has been15 days since i made a wire,but i haven't receive my money untill now.

What can i do? I tried to call them but no one answers.

Pretty upset

thanks for the info!

thanks for the info!

 Be careful!

For BTC / Mt. Gox users, this thread doesn't matter much any more as OKpay is useless for buying BTC from Mt.Gox now.

To see Mt. Gox's position on OKpay from May 28, 2013:
https://mtgox.com/pdf/20130528_okpay_statement.pdf

FYI, i've used OKpay successfully in the past but do not use them any more because of the above.  I don't think they're criminals, but others think differently - be safe and be smart.  Make your own choice.

I have finally had a further reply:

We will update the withdrawal form and introduce a withdrawal limit (limited to the amount of available reserves), once again we apologize for the inconvenience

Still no meaningful explanation.

As i said, i have either been treated with contempt or exploited to provide risk-free profit for them. I guess i will never know as they seem incapable or unwilling to provide a response of more than 25 words.

A friend suggested that if they are no longer dealing with Mt Gox, maybe they are restricting themselves to using `clean` mined ie freshly minted bitcoins, and therefore have a very modest  and limited supply. Or that is just an excuse to rip off customers.

Good luck if you continue to use them!

LAK

I use them for small amounts and because it's the only easy way to get Bitcoins.
Load money in your wallet send said money to my bitcoin address 

OKPay also seems inconsistent on their pay through to BTC exchanges, such as BTCe. They are also prone to changing policies, like whether you can or cannot send money to BTCe, without any advance notice.

Caution is the boat!

Hard to be OKPay, without the OK Pay part.... 

I've been using BitInstant and have had instant success with them...  Highly recommended thus far.

Be careful!

They are OK. THe problem is with the `pay` bit.

OKpay is not OK ?

Be careful!

感谢您的信息。

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