Karamba - unauthorised transactions

Hi bluezaroo - welcome to ThePOGG.com!

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Your claim seems to comprise two different aspects.

Firstly as explained in our Complaints FAQs we do not pursue claims relating to unauthorised payments. You need to contact your payment provider and/or local law enforcement to review this type of claim.

Secondly - did you request that your self-exclusion be carried over to all properties on the license? If not self-exclusions at other properties on the MGA license would not apply to other properties on the license.

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Thanks,

ThePOGG

In regards to the self exclusion, I had previously self excluded from Slotanza which is operated by the same company as Karamba Aspire Global International LTD.

Now to my knowledge of I am self excluded from a site such as Slotanza I or nobody else should be able to deposit money to any casino under the same operater in this case Aspire Global International LTD.

Yet in this case an account under my email address and phone number and home address which was self excluded from Slotanza was able to deposit a huge sum of money to Karamba, afterwhich only then after the money was deposited I received a call to inform me that a large sum of money was deposited to Karamba and that they would not be refunding me but blocking my account as I am self excluded from Slotanza!

This is a scam as even if you win or lose they will not refund your money as you are self excluded.

So in this case the money should be refunded back to MY card as as self exclusion was in place and they are still keeping my money.

Hi bluezaroo,

As explained previously, self-exclusions on the MGA license only apply to the property they are requested at unless you explicitly ask that they be extended to all properties on the license. Did you make such a request?

Thanks,

ThePOGG

I did not make this request but here is extract from the email they sent to me after money was deposited to Karamba:

"Please note that as we have detected accounts within our network that you have closed under our Responsible Gaming policy, All accounts are now closed for the same period.

It is possible that you were able to register this account by using different details, which is in opposition to our terms and conditions.

During your self exclusion period all your accounts detected by us will be blocked and you will not be allowed to open a new account with us during the self exclusion period. Any new accounts you might attempt to open during your exclusion period will be blocked as soon as detected by us. In the event that you breach your self-exclusion by opening a new account with another brand operated by us, we shall close any such account, and may not be liable to refund you any funds which may have been wagered or won in association with this account".

So in their view accounts that have self exclusions under any of their brands apply to all of their gaming brands, so why would they allow money to be deposited to Karamba under my card and my details only to inform me afterwards that this should not have been allowed and even if a win did occur that I may be ineligible to get it and ineligible to retrieve any money's back at all, so therefore money is basically just being given to them with no chance of receiving it back at all due to the self exclusion.

This is unfair and to be frank it's robbery and criminal activity!

I will not rest until the matter is resolved in my favour.

Hi bluezaroo,

I'm afraid that's not what's being said here. The operator has reviewed your activity and decided that, when viewed alongside a previous self-exclusion on the network, that they need to impost a exclusion. Where the operator imposes an exclusion the license requires that the exclusion be license wide.

To be clear, your self-exclusion request would be brand specific. Their imposed self-exclusion has to be license wide.

All that has happened here is that they have informed you of the new conditions where they imposed the full exclusion.

Sorry we cannot be of more help.

ThePOGG