Casino News: Canadian online gambling facing restriction from FirePay

A sudden notification from the FirePay e-wallet has kept Canadian online gamblers in great confusion. Canadian online gamblers who use this payment processor are not allowed to mobiles their funds. This report published just before the weekend.

An on-site notice reveals that FirePay e-wallet has now extended its ban to Canadian online gamblers too. It has been applied to US gamblers earlier

"Effective February 21, 2007, FirePay www.firepay.com will no longer allow Canadian consumer payments to online gambling merchants. Effective February 28, 2007, FirePay www.firepay.com will no longer allow Canadian consumers to receive payments from online gambling merchants" the notice tells.

US counterparts could not get any spare time to get accustomed with any alternative payment processor following the imposed ban on online gamble. It was really a tough job for them to get back the money from the payment processors. But, Canadian Firepay account holders they are getting some time to release their deposited money using alternative channels balances.

The notice also features some useful instructions on non-gambling exit options which are given below:

"All Canadian FirePay account holders will continue to be able to make purchases and receive payments from non-gambling online merchants, as well as to "Deposit From" and "Withdraw To" their Canadian bank account. Click here for a listing of non-gambling merchants that accept FirePay: http://www.firepay.com/_stores/default.asp. For any questions regarding these deadlines or this policy, please email info@firepay.com".

Several online poker sites stopped accepting US player deposits from FirePay sicne October 13,2006. Canadian member will also facer same fate like their US counterparts. will issue further bulletins as More details will be published by InfoPowa once available.

FirePay is a subsidiary of Optimal Group Inc.Optimal Group Inc is a NASDAQ-listed company that process around $6.5 billion yearly.