muyongshi Posted April 17, 2008 at 05:40 AM Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 at 05:40 AM Okay so I haven't been able to directly access my bank (www.wamu.com) Washington Mutual for about 2 weeks now except through VPN. However my credit card (www.wamucards.com) has been fine. Just curious if anyone else has had problems from the great firewall with there financial institution of WAMU specifically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek_frappa Posted April 21, 2008 at 05:18 AM Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 at 05:18 AM had similar problems in China. if your are behind the GFW, you may be looking at a mirror of your site the latest improvements to GFW allow an exceptional amount of control over individual access to the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcintri69 Posted April 28, 2008 at 02:15 AM Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 at 02:15 AM Hi I have the same issue also and so does my wife. We can't access wamu.com We can only access wamucards.com. Now I have figure out a way to access it by using http://www.proxy4china.com/ I can view my account but there is some transactions I can't comeplte, and I have not figre out the way how to. For example I can't make payemnts or trnafer funds. Curently I can access and coemplte all trasactions only whne I am using my BlackBerry which is a pain since the scree is so small. Does anybody ales have a way to access the site without using http://www.proxy4china.com/ ? cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muyongshi Posted April 28, 2008 at 05:16 AM Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 at 05:16 AM I would recommend you to get a VPN and NOT use a proxy for accessing and doing bank stuff. Especially the transfers and other things as it seems to be that proxys are not able to handle effectively (and I doubt safely as well) those type of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted April 28, 2008 at 05:56 AM Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 at 05:56 AM I second what muyongshi said. Never use public proxies for doing personal banking! If you don't have the technical know-how to set up your own private proxy, then there are companies like Witopia that provide VPN services that allow you to bypass all the website blocks. Considering you have already logged into your bank using a public proxy service, I would also recommend changing your online banking password. *Disclosure: Chinese-forums is a Witopia affiliate. If you use that link to make a purchase, then for less than 1 RMB a day you not only get a fully-functional VPN which will solve all blocking issues within China, you also drop a few coins in the forums' coffers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcintri69 Posted May 6, 2008 at 03:03 AM Report Share Posted May 6, 2008 at 03:03 AM I got the VPN all set up. And it works with no problems. I should have done that in the 1st place, just did not think about it using outside of work... Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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