Casino Cautions: A Russian Casino On Net?
Published: Friday, March 11, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
CASINO CAUTIONS
A Russian con on CON
Last year's conundrum on the allegedly Luxembourg-based turnkey provider Gaming Mastery and it's licensee Lucky Chance.com was solved this week when we received a translation from a major Russian portal, where one of the managers writes that the owner of LuckyChance is the Russian company GamblingBits, and confirms that LuckyChance and Shans.Ru is one and the same casino. By the way "Shans" is the Russian word for "Chance". The report has some unflattering things to say about GamblingBits, pointing out that their latest *masterpiece* is Casino-on-net.ru! They allege that they are the Russian version of casino-on-net.com. But casino-on-net.com apparently is not involved.
Player asks Royal Dutch "...just where did you get my address?"
Royal Dutch Casino was this week accused by a player of using misleading promotional tactics...and asked how the beleaguered casino obtained her address.
The player found promotional material in her spam folder, allegedly from a site named "Astrology-Info 1" The 'pull' in the spam was the statement;
"You are the draw winner - check below" which she found suspicious because she had never entered a draw.
All was revealed when she scrolled down, however - it was another "HUGE" promotion from Royal Dutch Casino. And of course she was not a winner.
This sort of misleading advertising joins the list of other misconduct by the casino management and certainly does little for what is left of the RDC reputation.
And the player is asking awkward questions - like how Royal Dutch Casino obtained her email address when she has never downloaded their casino or been in contact with it.
Coming at a time when there have been suggestions that a former employee of Gambling Federation had joined Royal Dutch and was suspected of taking a player database this does not sound good....because the player in this case has in the past played and given her details to Gambling Federation operations!
As we went to press this week Royal Dutch assured the player that it abhorred spamming and suggested that this example may have emanated from an affiliate (an ancient excuse for marketing misdeamenours) Unfortunately, an expert examination of the promo email showed that it had actually come from Royal Dutch itself!!
And a player remains unpaid eight months on...
Adding to the criticisms of Royal Dutch Casino came the news that a week after promising to pay a player who has been trying to get his money out of them for eight long months, nothing has appeared. After some unpleasant wrangling over the $ 2 700 payment, Royal Dutch finally agreed last week to pay up, and asked for the player's banking details which were promptly supplied. As we went to press nothing had been received.
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