This is throwing more fuel to the fire, but some posts make me wonder if they are not also picking the cards with more money:
Here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254533.msg8526281#msg8526281 a member says only his card with about 500 euros was blocked, not the others with very low quantities.
Since Mbank has his website in several languages and, if I recall correctly, there is nothing in the its agreement saying anything against foreigners buying its cards, I also can't see any ground for them to screw the foreigners and ask them to come to Poland.
It's not very different from a situation where a Bank closes all his branches in the USA, except on Florida, freezes all cards, and says to its customers: if you want your money you all have to come to Florida.
Nah, I have 5 mbank cards. One of them had about 500 on it and and four were basically empty. They all still got blocked.
Good information.
It would be important to know if this mass blocking is over because it was due to particular cases or sellers and people that still have working cards can take the risk to keep using them (with very low volume transfers, of course) or if there are members that got their cards blocked recently and we are going to see currently working cards also blocked.
To someone that has 5 or 10 (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254533.msg8741240#msg8741240) working cards, risking to send 100 euros to one is risking more or less the amount he paid for the cards. And he will avoid the hassle and risks of buying new ones from another bank (yes, I know, all sellers will write this is a very dangerous move). On the other hand, he will be working with (to say the least) a bank with very condemnable practices.
It's outrageous that they block the use of the cards, but still allow new transfers. If there is something suspicious about a card or its owner, they should bounce back all transfers! They seem to be hunting suckers: "Your money is very welcome (mostly, because we are going to keep it)".
Anyway, better wait one month or two and see how things go.