Hi Monero community! Three months ago, we launched our service with automated virtual cards. It was a successful launch but we needed to close our VCC service for new orders after the first month due to issues with the provider. After 2 months of manual-only delivery, we’re happy to announce that prepaid cards are automated again.
⭐ VISA International Prepaid Card (3D secure, Google Pay, Apple Pay)
💳 MasterCard EU/US Prepaid Card (Google Pay, Apple Pay)
Currently maximum limit is $200 for automated cards, we plan to increase it to $1000 this week. For higher amounts you can use our manual services for now.
Also, if you need an anonymous virtual phone number, you may check our virtual number service too:
If this works, that’s very interesting and potentially very useful.
- International Prepaid Card: Supported Countries even include China, Turkey, Turkmenistan. Feels rather unlikely. Is this actually tested well? Or you just listed countries where in theory this might work?
- What if that 3-D Secure thing is required?
- To test this for a small amount like $5: “Total fees: $5.14 ($5.00 + 2.50%)” means I’d pay $10.14, i.e. fees are 102.8%, higher than the card value itself?
- It’s the allowance list provided by card issuer, it means transactions in those countries won’t be declined by card provider. For example Russia is not in the list, that means payments will be directly declined on Russian merchants. We haven’t tested on all countries yet. But I can confirm that our client was able to use the card on Turkish merchant.
- 3D secure is available on VISA International Prepaid, 3D challenge gets approved automatically (without in need of 2FA code).
- You are right about that, it’s because of $5 fixed fee. It’s reasonable for higher amounts but much on small amounts. I will see what can we do for small amounts.
What exactly does one need to do for “activation”? A phone number and/or GeoIP are involved?
This item in you FAQ page is also cool :)
The product I want to buy is not listed, can you help?
Yes, please contact us to create a special order. We can buy any digital & physical products for crypto.
I truly hope this will become a popular and convenient element for the Monero community and your business will be fruitful. You may want to consider talking to Kycnot.me; if recognized and listed there, that may mean a lot. Thanks for joining monero.town and sharing this interesting news. It’s still iffy, but it does sound great if it works 😊
On the other hand, your blog article, How to Buy a Domain 100% Anonymously?, suggests that you may not be very familiar with these privacy topics. The most obvious and easiest options (Njalla, Incognet) are not mentioned—both directly accept Monero. Also, your knowledge may not be up-to-date, unaware of the ramifications of “Thick Whois”, esp. NIS2, Article 28.
This is different for each product, it’s explained in the product descriptions. For activation of VISA International Prepaid, only a valid email address and cardholder name (any name is accepted) is required.
For MPC MasterCard, valid email and phone number is required. But as explained in product description only email address must be valid, all other data could be random.
The most obvious and easiest options (Njalla, Incognet) are not mentioned—both directly accept Monero.
We don’t suggest using Njalla, because of this reason we won’t promote them. Thanks for thoughts tho.
