Online Casino Cautions: Giant Vegas Spam
Published: Friday, June 03, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
ONLINE CASINO CAUTIONS - GIANT VEGAS SPAMMING ?
Online casino privacy problems
Giant Vegas Casino will be familiar to many readers of Online-Casinos.com & Infopowa Gambling News after various player disputes took place last year, but there's a new concern now following a cautionary statement on the highly respected Wizard of Odds site - there's apparently a spamming problem.
"On March 26, 2005, Giant Vegas was added to the blacklist for selling me out to spammers. Whenever I sign up at an online casino I use a specially coded email address specific to that casino, and used only at that casino. Then if I ever get spam to that address I can tell which casino sold me out. That's what happened when I started getting spam trying to sell me Viagra and fake Rolexes sent to the special address I had used with Giant Vegas."
Has Golden Palace Casino gone too far this time?
That's a question frequently posed when Golden Palace Casino 'fans' disrupted Olympic and other major sporting events, but the latest guerilla marketing antics of the company may have gone too far in the opinion of many players.
In its current marketing moves the headline-grabbing casino spent $15,000 to name another child GoldenPalace.com. The baby boy's official name is GoldenPalaceDotCom Silverman, according to press reports, and he's the most recent in a series of eccentric advertising campaigns by the Internet casino.
Other babies also share the casino's name, together with a Tennessee resident who sold her naming rights on eBay for $15,199, and subsequently changed her name to GoldenPalace.com to help support her five children.
"We congratulate the new parents of GoldenPalaceDotCom Silverman," said GoldenPalace.com CEO Richard Rowe. "We wish them and their beautiful baby boy all the best. You can expect more baby-naming in the future as I am sure other people will follow suit and be looking to auction off the naming rights to their children."
Whilst it's easy to put all the blame for burdening an innocent child with such an outlandishly commercial name on the misguided parents, it doesn't reflect well on the casino for making the offer. But then, opinions differ - some players thought the matter amusing and clever. Others were sure it must have been a hoax.
Sequel
During the message board furore that erupted over the baby-naming incident, some interesting information came to light. Apparently the Athens incident involving GP resulted in complaints to its licensing jurisdiction, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission in Canada.
After investigating and meeting with representatives of Golden Palace, the KGC directed that Golden Palace should not "...use, promote, encourage or fund this type of 'marketing' ever again", and would make "...a substantial donation to Kahnawake organisations to be identified by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake."
There was no indication as to the size of the *donation* or whether it was paid and to whom.
Caribbean warning
Gamblers using the Sands of the Caribbean casino belonging to Peak Entertainment are advised to pay very careful attention to the bonusing rules. As we went to press there were disquieting reports of highly questionable bonus disqualifications without paying out monies due to players.
