Sky Vegas Confiscates big wins on their new slot???

[Surasanji]

It was Batgirl .

Time to break that girl's back and send her to a chair. >:| Then we'll see who's got information!

(The above is a Comic book joke! I will give you many hugs if you get it! Or, at least some applause. :P )



I still want to hear from Sky here. I want to see what they have to say to this community- CM is one of the most active, if not the most active 'Industry' board on the net.

Every casino property has something to learn here....

...In Sky's case? They're learning what /not/ to do.

[Seventh777]

Time to break that girl's back and send her to a chair. >:| Then we'll see who's got information!

(The above is a Comic book joke! I will give you many hugs if you get it! Or, at least some applause. :P )



I still want to hear from Sky here. I want to see what they have to say to this community- CM is one of the most active, if not the most active 'Industry' board on the net.

Every casino property has something to learn here....

...In Sky's case? They're learning what /not/ to do.

I`m gonna go for when the Joker shot her in the spine and the chair being a wheel-chair, can I claim my hug now?

Damn, my derails are getting more bizarre by the day, here I am talking about comic book heroes, asking a guy for a hug, in a thread related to a possible hack.

Sorry.

Damn, I gotta stop smoking this shit .

[vinylweatherman]

Rupert has far more powerful friends than politicians .

He does, but these friends are pretty safe in their positions, politicians are not, and fear that the "wrong associations" will cost them their jobs, their pensions, and their high earning potential after leaving office. Politicians will bow to powerful influences if they believe they will never be found out, but Murdock is the proverbial "poison chalice", and no-one wants to be seen drinking from it. Even his friends may be reluctant to act on his behalf in case they are seen to be connected to him, and thus by implication to the scandals. They all have their own agendas to pursue, and won't want to risk these by acting for Murdoch.

I suspect Murdoch will slip away quietly keeping his large fortune intact, and let his successors run the empire, and build new connections with lords and politicians. One result of the scandal that any hopes of the Murdoch empire taking full control of SKY have been dashed, as the move involved lobbying for relaxation of some of the competition rules, and he WAS making progress on this.

[Nicla]

how disgusting. Its already hard enough to hit a score in a casino, now this? Its not the players fault, its theirs. Pay them their winnings and hopefully we see some lawsuits out of this!

I wonder how many times this happened when players went on extreme losing streaks and the ever so honest casinos contacted their customers saying "we found out you shouldnt be losing so much there is a malfunction here is a refund"!

I do think so

[CasinoBeacon]

A partial quote from the affiliate manager at GPWA forum: "We are NOT closing any player accounts as a result of people complaining on Facebook about this.Thinking logistically, this would not be feasible. If "James Robson" comments on a thread on Facebook, the likelihood is we have have several people of the same name in our database and so would not even be able to simply locate the account and close it. Not to mention that a business/brand the size of Sky would not resort to such tactics. If any accounts have been closed there MUST have been direct communications between the player and customer services."

Full thread linked to earlier in this thread.

Sky are claiming a different version of events than has been reported by players in this thread which I assume, means someone is not telling the truth.

[jenniferfrench]

As has been stated previously in this thread:

It wasn't regarding player's accounts being closed it was players comments being removed from Facebook and then being blocked from posting. This happened to me and numerous other players.

The Sky Affiliate Manager seems to be denying something was never claimed to be happening in the first place.

This is all pointless now anyway.

[PaaskeDKnowUK]

As has been stated previously in this thread:

It wasn't regarding player's accounts being closed it was players comments being removed from Facebook and then being blocked from posting. This happened to me and numerous other players.

The Sky Affiliate Manager seems to be denying something was never claimed to be happening in the first place.

This is all pointless now anyway.

Hi yes lets keep this one up. Will be interesting if we soon get an official statement from Sky Vegas. But I guess they will try let this so called "investigation" running for several months/year and then wipe it under the carpet.....And they hope it will be forgotten. But it wont Sky Vegas will now deserved, forever be in discredit. Unlesss they prove us opposite.

I can see lots people still not happy at their facebook profile. We are not just talking about the winnings which was taken. But also lot of promotions issues. Where players don't get paid.

Also can see that their "likes" has dropped around 1000. That is massive, and shows how powerful media is

I just wish these people would fire off PAB against them. To get what they are owned. But I will not start encouraging them to make a PAB. Will just pile you loads of work for you good guys here at Casinomeister

Oh well Thanks for this great community. Great we can all help each other. I also helped a gambling forum which were advertising for them. And told them about this. They removed them straight away and posted warnings against them

[A Passer By]

These 4 players must have had substantial wins for them to take this to lawyers, and for Sky Vegas to push ahead and void only 4 players' winnings for what was an issue down to the software provider, not the players.

With such a small number affected, it is not surprising that none have come forward.

It also makes me wonder how 4 players made such a fortune on a game that many Euro players must have been playing, yet these others never saw this malfunction. It again suggests these 4 players had some kind of inside knowledge, or shared a common "hack" that was needed to trigger this malfunction. This is how many Fruit Machine emptiers work. Most players never see the benefit since they don't know the exact sequence of plays needed to trigger the machine to "empty". It is usually a very specific, often complex, playing strategy that must be rigidly adhered to, even to the point of deliberately turning down large wins that come from the "wrong" feature.

The players all had large wins. One player had a win of over 500k in total for the evening of play. Another player had over 300k in total (from the fb page) Two players were Irish it appears. Not sure about the other two. The players don't know eachother and there was no corrupt behaviour going on from these people. They were just everyday players. They didn't even know about eachother until they approached the FB page after their accounts were suspended. This was after one player had already had winnings confirmed by SkyVegas Live Chat (and had taken screen shot and record of conversation) As far as I can gather all players have now contacted a solicitor and issued proceedings. SKY actually was able to withdraw winnings that had already gone into one players bank account!

[Surasanji]

The players all had large wins. One player had a win of over 500k in total for the evening of play. Another player had over 300k in total (from the fb page) Two players were Irish it appears. Not sure about the other two. The players don't know eachother and there was no corrupt behaviour going on from these people. They were just everyday players. They didn't even know about eachother until they approached the FB page after their accounts were suspended. This was after one player had already had winnings confirmed by SkyVegas Live Chat (and had taken screen shot and record of conversation) As far as I can gather all players have now contacted a solicitor and issued proceedings. SKY actually was able to withdraw winnings that had already gone into one players bank account!

Some of that information seems awfully specific for 'a passer by'.

Forgive me for my curiosity- but who just passes by with that kind of information, no proof, and that being their first post and people not be curious....

Do you have proof? I mean- where is the screen shot? How do you know these dudes are Irish? I mean- you know where two specific players who were effected by this live?

[Traceyfitz10]

Some of that information seems awfully specific for 'a passer by'.

Forgive me for my curiosity- but who just passes by with that kind of information, no proof, and that being their first post and people not be curious....

Do you have proof? I mean- where is the screen shot? How do you know these dudes are Irish? I mean- you know where two specific players who were effected by this live?

I live in Ireland and I have the screen shot which I have given to a solicitor, I do not know any of the other people involved either. I went on to do a few spins and won over 568k, i started at 4 euros a spin and as i was winnning i gradually upped my stake to the maximum level. A sky rep confirmed my winnings when I went online chat to get it confirmed, yet 5 hours later i was told it was a game malfunction and basically TOUGH but we are sorry. They then went in and withdrew the money after me withdrawing it to my bank account, didnt think they could access peoples accounts when it suited them I am a mum and that money would have changed our lives.I have been playing sky vegas for about 2 years and won small amounts but never anything like this. As far as i have been told it was only euro payments affected and there is five or six players involved, I just want whats rightfully mine after all they could claim game malfunction on any win then couldnt they? Why was it only euros affected as well? The solicitor is dealing with the matter now, i just wanted to clarify a few things