Electrafy Yourself! Carmen Electra Announces Winner of the Carmen Electra Prepaid MasterCard® and the Carmen Electra Gift MasterCard® Sweepstakes

Electrafy Yourself! Carmen Electra Announces Winner of the Carmen Electra Prepaid MasterCard® and the Carmen Electra Gift MasterCard® Sweepstakes

Winner to Shop at L.A. boutique, Intuition, on October 9th with Carmen Electra

Payment Data Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:PYDS), along with Carmen Electra, announced today the winner of the Carmen Electra Prepaid MasterCard “Electrafy Yourself” Sweepstakes. The lucky winner will go on a shopping spree with Carmen at the Los Angeles boutique, Intuition, on October 9th from noon until 2pm. The winner receives $2,000 worth of Carmen Electra Gift MasterCard Cards to shop for the hottest looks from Intuition. A limited amount of $100 gift cards are available for purchase by the general public at Intuition now which will allow entry to the event to meet Carmen and shop!

Payment Data Systems, Inc., is an integrated electronic payments solutions provider, and has the Carmen Electra Prepaid MasterCard card available for purchase at www.carmencard.com and the Carmen Electra Gift MasterCard card available for purchase at www.electragift.com.

Launched one year ago, the Carmen Electra Prepaid MasterCard card and the Carmen Electra Gift MasterCard card are the first series in the company’s celebrity prepaid card portfolio. Throughout the year, sweepstakes winners were chosen quarterly and have received prizes such as Carmen Electra Gift MasterCard Cards, autographed pictures and merchandise!

In August, Payment Data Systems unveiled their second celebrity prepaid card, the Natalie Gulbis Gift MasterCard card, launched with 24-year-old female pro-golfer, Natalie Gulbis. Currently, these cards can be purchased online at http://www.nataliecard.com.

About Payment Data Systems, Inc.

Payment Data Systems, Inc. is an integrated provider of world class electronic payment solutions to merchants, billers, banks, service bureaus, and credit and stored-value card issuers. PDS specifically tailored solutions manage critical points along the full spectrum of the transactional chain, ranging from card issuance to payment acceptance to electronic bill payment.

Payment Data is the owner of the electronic bill payment portal, http://www.billx.com, which has the ability to transmit payments to thousands of national billers.

Payment Data holds the exclusive license to market the Natalie Gulbis Gift MasterCard (www.nataliegulbismastercard.com), the Carmen Electra Gift MasterCard (www.electragift.com) and the Carmen Electra Prepaid MasterCard (www.carmencard.com).

Payment Data Systems Inc. (OTCBB:PYDS) is a registered ISO/MSP of MetaBank and a registered ISO/MSP and TPS/TPP of Merrick Bank Corp., South Jordan, UT.

Payment Data is a Level One PCI compliant Third Party Servicer.

Payment Data’s intellectual property includes U.S. Patent Number 7,021,530 that relates to bill payments made with debit and stored value cards.

For additional information, visit www.paymentdata.com. Contact Michael Long for Investor Relations information at 210-249-4040 or email at ir {at} paymentdata(.)com.

Website: http://www.paymentdata.com

The Carmen Electra Prepaid MasterCard and the Carmen Electra Gift MasterCard are issued by MetaBank pursuant to license by MasterCard International Incorporated.

About MetaBank

MetaBank is a federally-chartered savings bank headquartered in Storm Lake, Iowa. Meta Financial Group, Inc.® is the bank holding company for MetaBank, MetaBank West Central, Meta Payment Systems®, and Meta Trust Company®. The Meta Payment Systems division of MetaBank based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, serves banks, processors, and third party marketers by providing prepaid cards, credit cards, ACH origination, merchant acquiring, ATM sponsorship, and money transfer. Meta Financial Group is traded on the NASDAQ – Global Market: CASH. For more information call 605-275-8052 or visit http://www.metacash.com.

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Payment Data Systems, Inc., San Antonio
Michael Long, 210-249-4040
ir {at} paymentdata(.)com
www.paymentdata.com