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- Jan 20, 2004
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We’re sorry to have to announce that there is a major scam in progress on the iGaming scene and players are being caught up in like little fishies in big, bad net.
The problem is that good casinos — or at least legitimate casinos — are being spoofed all over the place and there is not much being done to stop it.
Imagine that you are a player well familiar with MyBestCasino. That’s just a name I’ve made up but it will serve our purpose. Let’s say you receive an attractive Ad or promo or whatever for MyBest and it looks good! About time eh? Anyway you click on the link in the Ad and are taken to MyBest123.casino.
Hang on, “MyBest123.casino”? What’s this “123” stuff? These days we’ve become accustomed to redirects like this so most people wouldn’t give it a second thought and would proceed to login. Let’s call your login First Trap.
Ok, so you’ve logged in, maybe a few things look a little different at the casino but hey, sites get updated all the time so whatever, right?
You proceed with a deposit — Second Trap — and presumably all goes well enough and let’s say you are even lucky enough to score some winnings (Third Trap). Of course when you go to withdraw suddenly things start going wrong in a bad way: delays, excessive demands, maybe even “verification deposit” requests (Fourth Trap), and so on.
The bottom line is things are going off the rails here and you’re not happy. So let’s say you file a complaint at your favourite affiliate site
and the answer you get back is that MyBest has no knowledge of your winnings and in fact you account has been cleaned out (Fifth Trap) so what are you even talking about?
The point we are making is that MyBest123 is a spoof site: they are stealing the good name of MyBest and using it to rip players off bigtime! MyBest123 is a pirate operation set up for the sole purpose of cheating existing players out of their login details (First Trap), their deposits (Second Trap), “winnings” (Third Trap), “verification deposits” (Fourth Trap), and maybe even clean out your account (Fifth Trap).
Some of these pirate sites go no further than harvesting login details, they don’t even attempt to act and behave like a functioning casino. They just throw up error pages, give BS excuses on Telegram, etc. All the while more players are trying to login in and they are hoovering those up too.
But maybe the pirates are in it for the big score and they do pretend to be a real casino, for a time. They might take those deposits but somehow the games are broken so no playing. Or they do have pirated games running and are happy to rake in as much cash as they can, but withdrawals? “Ooo, very difficult, no can do just now, so sorry”. Or, to get another stab in, maybe they ask for a nice fat “verification deposit” to help move things along.
The bottom line is that is Scam City from start to finish, they’ve laid out the bait and if the player falls for it it’s all gravy for the fraudsters.
There’s one last wrinkle here that is worth mentioning, it may sound a little far-fetched but in these days of anonymous everything on the internet you’re going to need some serious skills to find even a thread to follow on skullduggery like this: what if a low-level operator buys up MyBest and has the notion of running MyBest123 in parallel, but secretly of course. MyBest operates normally, MyBest123 is there to do the nasty to players, and MyBest denies any connection between them and their doppelgänger, MyBest123.
Do we have proof of this last bit of rogueness? Well, yes and no. First, it’s got to be said that if MyBest is actually up to this level of trickery then it’s not like they’re going to admit it, are they? What we have seen is a MyBest123 victim getting a response from a known MyBest executive regarding their account balance. Is that a smoking gun? Damn near, at least we think so. The excuse was “they must have an account both places” and utter silence on any further inquiries. Player said the account balance mentioned by the MyBest guy was very close to what was in their now inaccessible MyBest123 account but that’s where things went from murky to opaque as all casino interactions quickly dried up entirely. So you make your own call on this one, we know we have.
Regards, Max Drayman
Forum & Complaints (PAB) Team Lead
sussexmskpartnershipeast.com
PS. After all that you may have asked yourself “so what do I do?” Simples: never, Never, NEVER follow random links that you’ve received off email, Telegram, Facebook, wherever unless you know and trust the source. Remember, you can always get the name of the offer, go directly to the legitimate site, get on chat and say “hey, what about this bonus?” and they’ll be able to set you right. If they insist that you follow the link you were given then screenshot that part of the chat and proceed, if you feel you must. That way you’ll at least have some proof that the legit site sent you off to wherever and you may — MAY — have what you need to shame them into doing the right thing if it comes to that.
The problem is that good casinos — or at least legitimate casinos — are being spoofed all over the place and there is not much being done to stop it.
Imagine that you are a player well familiar with MyBestCasino. That’s just a name I’ve made up but it will serve our purpose. Let’s say you receive an attractive Ad or promo or whatever for MyBest and it looks good! About time eh? Anyway you click on the link in the Ad and are taken to MyBest123.casino.
Hang on, “MyBest123.casino”? What’s this “123” stuff? These days we’ve become accustomed to redirects like this so most people wouldn’t give it a second thought and would proceed to login. Let’s call your login First Trap.
Ok, so you’ve logged in, maybe a few things look a little different at the casino but hey, sites get updated all the time so whatever, right?
You proceed with a deposit — Second Trap — and presumably all goes well enough and let’s say you are even lucky enough to score some winnings (Third Trap). Of course when you go to withdraw suddenly things start going wrong in a bad way: delays, excessive demands, maybe even “verification deposit” requests (Fourth Trap), and so on.
The bottom line is things are going off the rails here and you’re not happy. So let’s say you file a complaint at your favourite affiliate site
and the answer you get back is that MyBest has no knowledge of your winnings and in fact you account has been cleaned out (Fifth Trap) so what are you even talking about?The point we are making is that MyBest123 is a spoof site: they are stealing the good name of MyBest and using it to rip players off bigtime! MyBest123 is a pirate operation set up for the sole purpose of cheating existing players out of their login details (First Trap), their deposits (Second Trap), “winnings” (Third Trap), “verification deposits” (Fourth Trap), and maybe even clean out your account (Fifth Trap).
Some of these pirate sites go no further than harvesting login details, they don’t even attempt to act and behave like a functioning casino. They just throw up error pages, give BS excuses on Telegram, etc. All the while more players are trying to login in and they are hoovering those up too.
But maybe the pirates are in it for the big score and they do pretend to be a real casino, for a time. They might take those deposits but somehow the games are broken so no playing. Or they do have pirated games running and are happy to rake in as much cash as they can, but withdrawals? “Ooo, very difficult, no can do just now, so sorry”. Or, to get another stab in, maybe they ask for a nice fat “verification deposit” to help move things along.
The bottom line is that is Scam City from start to finish, they’ve laid out the bait and if the player falls for it it’s all gravy for the fraudsters.
There’s one last wrinkle here that is worth mentioning, it may sound a little far-fetched but in these days of anonymous everything on the internet you’re going to need some serious skills to find even a thread to follow on skullduggery like this: what if a low-level operator buys up MyBest and has the notion of running MyBest123 in parallel, but secretly of course. MyBest operates normally, MyBest123 is there to do the nasty to players, and MyBest denies any connection between them and their doppelgänger, MyBest123.
Do we have proof of this last bit of rogueness? Well, yes and no. First, it’s got to be said that if MyBest is actually up to this level of trickery then it’s not like they’re going to admit it, are they? What we have seen is a MyBest123 victim getting a response from a known MyBest executive regarding their account balance. Is that a smoking gun? Damn near, at least we think so. The excuse was “they must have an account both places” and utter silence on any further inquiries. Player said the account balance mentioned by the MyBest guy was very close to what was in their now inaccessible MyBest123 account but that’s where things went from murky to opaque as all casino interactions quickly dried up entirely. So you make your own call on this one, we know we have.
Regards, Max Drayman
Forum & Complaints (PAB) Team Lead
sussexmskpartnershipeast.com
PS. After all that you may have asked yourself “so what do I do?” Simples: never, Never, NEVER follow random links that you’ve received off email, Telegram, Facebook, wherever unless you know and trust the source. Remember, you can always get the name of the offer, go directly to the legitimate site, get on chat and say “hey, what about this bonus?” and they’ll be able to set you right. If they insist that you follow the link you were given then screenshot that part of the chat and proceed, if you feel you must. That way you’ll at least have some proof that the legit site sent you off to wherever and you may — MAY — have what you need to shame them into doing the right thing if it comes to that.
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