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Meenie

Can anyone help me figure out how i can fund an inmates commissary from the UK... every platform is proving difficult beacuse im from UK

 
The_Affable_Wombat

Hi all I am an Aussie and so can't use the usual way to put funds on my penpals canteen either.   Here is how I did my work around:

  1. I got a friend to buy me a digital visa card when in the states with funds I wired them. 
  2. They ordered a rechargeable digital e-visa card.  Directly from the Visa website. 
  3. You cannot buy them if outside the USA with a foreign card.  American cards can purchase them outside the USA, and foreign cards can only purchase them when in the USA - and no you cannot use a VPN to get around it.
  4. You can then use the digital e-card to top up your penpals commissary. 
  5. You CAN recharge the e-visa with a foreign card.  It is only the INITIAL PURCHASE that gets blocked.
  6. So once you have topped up the commissary you can top the e-visa back up ready for next time.
  7. The foreign currency block is to stop money laundering and "terrorism" apparently. 
  8. You don't break any rules or regulations buying the card in this way.
  9. There may even be someone in these forums that might be able to help people out if they live in the USA.  Or if you have an American friend where you live now, they can purchase the e-visa with their US info and just give you the card to use.

Hopefully this helps.  It works for me. There are 3 different accounts for my penpal, which seems silly - but theres one for music games and tablet related things, then one for stamps and then another one for commissary - and each one has to be done a different way. So I am very happy I have the work around because I can use the US card for all 3 of the accounts and it works.  

 
williamwill009

Yes, this is a really important question for me. Is it possible to do this if I use cryptocurrency? Who has experience with this?