story behind i-account
it's not that they took your money and left. it's not even a scam.
i-account is an e-wallet service and not a bank account to begin with. Having said, i-account/payedge is not a bank, they're registered as a money remittance platform only.
the reason why it's taking way too long for people to withdraw their money is because of some factors :
1) some partner banks who used to work as an intermediary bank for i-account in order for them to move the money (because again, i-account is not a bank so they have to use real banks in order to move funds from and to a real bank account), took most of the company's money and left. In short, i-account was actually robbed (in a way).
with that in mind, i-account doesn't have that much funds to cover for all the money of their customers. so what happens is that when a new client deposits money, that's the money that they use for the others to withdraw their money. and the cycle goes on... until the number of on-boarded clients decreased and eventually due to all the delays, no one opened an account with them anymore. Which of course affected everyone who were trying to withdraw their funds. There were no more deposits, so there were no more money to use in the cycle.
2. i-account has been flagged numerous times as an entity who supports money laundering. this is mainly because around 60-70% of their clients are really money launderers. it became an avenue for sketchy companies/individuals to wash their money. deposit the dirty money, then withdraw it as clean and washed money. simple and no trace.
being flagged by most banks globally, they can then only partner with banks who are small and who operates in the remote areas such as Kenya. (these are the same banks who took their money and left). There are actually pending legal cases against these banks but of course, being very remote, it's very hard to take back the money.
i'm sharing this to give you a better picture of what really happened with i-account, and why they are struggling to give the funds back to their clients. their company in Manila even closed and had to lay off everyone, because of the same issue --- there is no money left.
here are the key people you might want to look into, hope this helps.
top management (china & japan) :
ewan kato
george ito
oren rose
nicholson nishiyama
executives (philippines) :
harbin sze (peso forward)
rey cruz (ingenium bpo phils) - this is the one that closed down
jonas martinez (iwallet)
hattye asuncion (i-payments)
manila address : 23rd floor, fort legend tower, bonifacio global city, taguig, philippines
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20 december 2019
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