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	      </image><item><title>PayToo Update 3</title><description><![CDATA[<P>We have received advice from PayToo concerning the status of their business activities:</P>
<OL>
<LI>the company is not under risk<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>funds have been blocked since November 15 and will be released Feb 28<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>we have reorganized our banking relation with the right bank accepting our activity<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>we will start to re do some payment next week<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>we will have few week with a limited relaunch then we will be back to normal<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>we have a financial VC coming into Paytoo, which will let us moving forward and re opening all activities , including the Credit card processing for our merchant<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>we will have our own Card available beginning February <BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>we are sorry for this situation ho is frustrating for every one<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>&nbsp;most important, you will not loose any money</LI></OL>
<P>These are direct quotes from the PayToo CEO.</P>
<P>Whilst we sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused you we believe that there may be some light at the end of the tunnel.&nbsp; In the meantime you can <a style="font-weight:bold;font-size:1em;target="_top" href="http://www.swingfree.co.uk/CreditsTransferRequests.asp">convert your PayToo transfer requests to bank transfers</a> or apply for a Payoneer account and ask us to convert your transfers between the two types, via the Help Centre.</P>
<P>We attempted action the PayToo transfer requests that have not been converted to another method today, (<STRONG>Thursday 26 January</STRONG>) and our loading attempt failed.&nbsp; It seems PayToo have suspended this facility.&nbsp; Therefore, until further notice (from PayToo), no PayToo transfer requests will be processed.&nbsp; We would advise all members with any outstanding requests to delete them or switch them to ESP.</P>]]></description></item><item><title>ClickandBuy Purchases</title><description><![CDATA[<P>Since their outage on Friday 13 January, ClickandBuy seem to be having an intermittent issue processing some credits purchase attempts.&nbsp; The payments are going through but are not being credited to your AdultWork.com account.</P>
<P>We are being notified as and when an erroneous transaction takes place and are crediting accounts manually as soon as is possible.</P>
<P>We apologise for the inconvenience being caused on behalf of ClickandBuy.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are in contact with them and pursuing a resolution.</P>]]></description></item><item><title>SMS Functionality</title><description><![CDATA[<P>Further to the issue below, it is now possible to perform the following keyword based interactions with the Site on our new short code <STRONG>89994</STRONG>.</P>
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<LI><STRONG>MV - </STRONG>Mobile Verification - inbound mobile verification attempts from numbers that have been verified as belonging to over 18s (by the owner and their&nbsp;network operator) will be processed normally.<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI><STRONG>ON / OFF</STRONG> - Available Now status updates are functioning as normal when sent to our new short code, as are the keywords <STRONG>ONPC, ONWC </STRONG>and<STRONG> OFFPC, OFFWC</STRONG>.<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI><STRONG>PC - </STRONG>Phone chat bookings can now be accepted or rejected as normal with the PC keyword and previously quoted code.</LI></UL>
<P>The keywords <STRONG>STOP</STRONG> and <STRONG>START </STRONG>and all <STRONG>SMS Angel</STRONG> functionality is still being evaluated for compliance with the regulators' guidelines.</P>
<P><STRONG>Members outside the UK</STRONG> can now interact with the Site via our new long number.&nbsp; This number will be included on messages sent to you that are valid for replies.</P>
<P>It is unlikely that paying for phone number display by SMS or Other Services display by SMS will ever be reactivated.&nbsp; If you wish to participate in these schemes you should ensure you have credits in your credits account at midnight each night.</P>
<P>We thank you for your continued support and patience while we get these matters ironed out.</P>]]></description></item><item><title>SMS (2-Way / Verification / Notifications)</title><description><![CDATA[<P>Without prior warning we were informed on Thursday 5 May 2011 that one of our SMS providers&nbsp;were no longer able to provide us with SMS services.&nbsp; They are upholding a complaint forwarded by the <A href="http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/">UK Phone Regulator</A> who believe that some premium rate messages sent via the Site have been <EM>"facilitating prostitution"</EM>.</P>
<P>We are working with two other SMS providers to get things back up and running as quickly as possible although it's unlikely that this will be completed before Monday 9 May.</P>
<P><STRONG>What's Affected?</STRONG></P>
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<LI>We are <STRONG>unable to receive</STRONG> any messages sent to any of our previously published short codes or long numbers.&nbsp; The impact being&nbsp;that:<BR>&nbsp; 
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<LI>we cannot process <STRONG>availability</STRONG> messages sent with the keywords&nbsp;<EM>on, off, onpc, onwc, offpc, offwc</EM> 
<LI>we cannot process mobile verification requests for messages sent with the <EM>mv</EM> keyword 
<LI>we cannot&nbsp;accept new payment subscriptions to the <STRONG>Phone Number Display</STRONG> scheme or <STRONG>Other Services</STRONG> payment, keywords <EM>start&nbsp;pnd, start os </EM>and <EM>stop&nbsp;pnd, stop os.</EM>&nbsp; Members wishing to participate in either of these schemes should ensure they have <a style="font-weight:bold;font-size:1em;target="_top" href="http://www.swingfree.co.uk/BuyCredits.asp">credits</a> in their account as these will be used instead. 
<LI>We cannot process incoming&nbsp;phone chat booking actions&nbsp;(accept/reject), normally used in&nbsp;conjunction with the <EM>pc</EM> keyword.<BR>&nbsp;</LI></UL>
<LI><STRONG>2-way SMS chat</STRONG> conversations are no longer functional.<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>Anyone who has <STRONG>not verified their mobile number</STRONG> will no longer be able to do so.<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>No <STRONG>new booking,</STRONG> <STRONG>new email</STRONG> or <STRONG>new voicemail </STRONG>notifications will be sent.&nbsp; These were reverse charged to your phone bill at £1.00 or £0.50.&nbsp; New email and voicemail notifications have been converted to debit your credits account, ({{Page:BuyCredits.asp:buy credits}}).&nbsp; The new booking notifications are currently under review by the UK Phone regulator for suitability.<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>No <STRONG>reverse booking bid notifications</STRONG> will be sent.<BR>&nbsp;</LI>
<LI><STRONG>SMS Angel </STRONG>sms functionality is offline.</LI></UL>
<P><STRONG>What's not affected?</STRONG></P>
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<P>Members who have already verified their mobile phone will be able to use many of the Site's SMS features and we're moving as much SMS functionality as possible to alternate providers, subject to what the regulator permits.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<UL>
<LI>The majority of free to receive notifications such as webcam and phone chat bookings, (although you can't reply to phone chat messages).<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>Buying credits by SMS<BR>&nbsp; 
<LI>New email and new voicemail notifications have been changed to use credits instead of reverse charged SMS messages. Now the SMS comes for free but your credits account is debited.&nbsp; ({{Page:MobileActivation.asp:Manage your alerts}} or {{Page:BuyCredits.asp:buy credits}}.)</LI></UL></UL>
<P><STRONG>When will things be back up and running?</STRONG></P>
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<P>We've been advised that it takes 4-6 weeks to get new short codes and new long numbers, for access from overseas.&nbsp; That having been said, we envisage being up and running on a shared short code within a matter of days (early week commencing 8/5/2011).&nbsp; Overseas members are going to be unable to verify their phone numbers or text in for at least two weeks whilst a new long number is provisioned.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>We understand the impact this will be having on your business activities and we would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused.&nbsp; At the same time we would like to thank you for your patience while we try to get things back to normal ASAP.&nbsp; Rest assured we are doing our utmost to get things back online but are at the mercy of suppliers, provisioing third-parties and regulators.</P>]]></description></item><item><title>Client Connections - Sending Proposals &amp; Flirts</title><description><![CDATA[<P>Due&nbsp;to the excessive number&nbsp;of members reporting New Flirt/Proposal Notifications as spam/junk, we have had to temporarily disable the sending of Flirts and Proposals.&nbsp; Unfortunately their actions are impacting the delivery of normal new email/booking notifications.</P>
<P>We are developing a mail management system so members can select exactly which emails they would like to receive.&nbsp; </P>
<P>Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused.</P>]]></description></item><item><title>Keyword Searching</title><description><![CDATA[<P>Keyword searching over profile details has been temporarily suspended.&nbsp; We are&nbsp;developing a more performant method of achieving the same results.</P>
<P>Any search keywords specified will now only look at profile summaries.</P>]]></description></item><item><title>Delivering email to Yahoo addresses</title><description><![CDATA[<P>We regret that due to new anti-spam techniques deployed by Yahoo, some people may not be receiving e-mail from us.</P>
<P>It is not only ourselves that you may not be receiving mail from, this problem is affecting many sites.</P>
<P><A href="http://www.ahfx.net/weblog.php?article=107">Here</A> is an interesting discussion of the situation.</P>
<P>Unfortunately despite our numerous attempts to contact Yahoo they are unable to comprehend the problem we're experiencing, despite it been due solely their own misguided rules.</P>
<P><A href="http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/postmaster-04.html">Here's</A> a help page at Yahoo.&nbsp; You will note that they make no mention of them deliberately refusing mail to make the server retry, (which they believe spammers will not do).</P>
<P>We would recommend you use the email account provided with your Internet connection provider.&nbsp; If this is not possible then Hotmail (.com) and Googlemail.com are the best free alternatives.</P>
<P>Change your email address <a style="font-weight:bold;font-size:1em;target="_top" href="http://www.swingfree.co.uk/RegistrationDetails.asp">here</a>.</P>
<P>To meet with the requirements of most email providers our servers have reverse DNS and SPF records configured.&nbsp; To specifically meet with the requiremets of Yahoo, all mail is also tagged with the proper DomainKeys and DKIM security keys.</P>]]></description></item>
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