Hey, Just thought you Canadians out there would want to hear about this one!
Published: Saturday, February 17, 2007 Online-Casinos.com
WHY IS FIREPAY BANNING CANADIAN ONLINE GAMBLING TRANSACTIONS?
Another payment option closes its doors to online gambling. Canadian online gamblers who use the FirePay e-wallet will be scrambling to mobilise their funds following a surprise notification from the company just before the weekend.
The online payments processor has now extended its ban on US online gambling transactions to Canadian consumers, according to an on-site notice this week. The notice reads: “Effective February 21, 2007, FirePay http://www.firepay.com/ will no longer allow Canadian consumer payments to online gambling merchants. “Effective February 28, 2007, FirePay http://www.firepay.com/ will no longer allow Canadian consumers to receive payments from online gambling merchants.” Unlike their US counterparts, who are having serious difficulties in retrieving monies from e-wallets as a result of US Department of Justice activities, Canadian Firepay account holders will at least have time and alternative channels to withdraw their account balances.
The article goes on but you get the point! The article doesn’t say why they are no longer allowing Canadian customers for Gaming merchant accounts!
