I got the exact same e-mail to my work e-mail too!
What is more disturbing than just the fact that spammers somehow got my e-mail address, is that once again it is from the otherwise reputable Palace group of casinos.
This is getting out of hand now. Earlier, someone spammed this forum, and Casinomeister informed the affiliate scheme, and had their account closed the same day. This was so easy, so why is it such a big deal for other casinos to have the accounts of rogue affiliates closed as fast (if at all!).
Are these spammers doing something blindingly clever to enable their affiliate tag to be untraceable, yet still credit them for the acquired players?
Does the link ACTUALLY produce "Spin Palace" or is this another "Jupiter Club" download?
Soon, this indiscriminate spamming will begin to seem to be targeting children*, and this will be seen as worse than spamming work E-mail addresses.
What is unique about this as opposed to the general "Viagra" spam, is that the sponsoring company is very clearly identified, and very easily traced, so if someone in high authority wanted to make something of it they would levy the penalties on the spammed company rather than trying to track the spammers. They would argue that as the spammers receive payment for introductions, they are agents of the casino company, and legal responsibility for policing the agents rests with that company.
It has already happened here. Our energy companies contracted out selling to firms of sales advisors, but didn't vet them too carefully, and mis-selling was rife. It was the energy companies that had to pay the massive fines, not the individual sales firms who mis-sold, as the energy companies were deemed responsible for they sales force, whether directly employed or subcontracted to another company.
Casinos are only getting away with this because they are in cyberspace, and they have to be proscecuted in a country other than where the offence has been committed. the UK whitelist is the only way the UK has of taking sanctions, and in the current form it is licencing juristictions, not individual casinos, that are admitted.
* not by any means the worst spam hitting children's accounts, they get all these offers for Viagra, Hoodia, "Patches", and even free porn - but surely the online casino industry does not want to be lumped in with this lot, as they already are in the view of most anti-spam product providers.
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