BS handled the situation very quickly and efficiently.

Yeah, happened to me too a few months back. The hacker changed my payout address to a Yandex email address. As soon as I would change my password and account info, he'd break in and change it back to his. BS was on it quickly, sealed up the broken entryway I guess, and I haven't had a problem since, but I still check in every day to see if all is still well. (Helps that I've got nothing worth stealing there!)
  Anyway, odd that in 10 years that's never happened to me on SS, IS, DT, FT, 123, and other sites that are no longer with us.  Only BS and only this year. Seems to have happened to a lot of other contribs on BS, too.  Hmm.
 Hope this gets resolved for you.

I understand that they have security concerns, but earnings on BS are not worth making international calls for.

It's 2017, ~1 cent per minute Skype-to-phone is hardly an exorbitant amount of money. Unless you charge your clients $400/hour and your time is too valuable, I don't see a problem with calling internationally.

you may as well just send your new password to your new Russian friend so he can have the money after all.

...there goes the RUSSIAN bias
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Quote from: imagesbykenny on December 12, 2017, 21:31

BS handled the situation very quickly and efficiently.

That's great, did you use the support email or did you contact them in a more direct way for such a fast response?

I used the support e-mail. They replied pretty promptly and cancelled the payout. Now we are arranging re-instating the account. Which a call wouldn't make go any faster.