Ministering Angel Review

A few months ago, we received a request for a casino logo. A neat little project for which we developed a nifty little angel character, using our typical illustrative logo style. Then the ‘client’ submitted a second project for a more conventional casino mark. Couple of playing cards, some text. Nothing to raise alarms just yet – casino website owners tend to develop multiple portals, all featuring the same gambling software, in order to maximize their internet profile. Multiple, and simultaneous casino logo projects are not that uncommon. From my experience in designing logos for casinos, folks that run them, despite a sketchy rap, are pretty well like any other client. No reason to be suspicious – just another day at the shop.

Alas, unbenownst to us, this ‘client’ was actually from Serbia – filling out project briefs for the projects via a proxy in Columbus, Ohio – and then submitting retainer payments using stolen credit cards. By the time our credit card company had caught up with the fraud, we had completed one of the projects and sent the complete source files on their way. Another, the angel motif – partially revealed here – was halted just before we sent the ever-so-valuable Adobe Illustrator files.

Fact #3: One of their “associates” signed up in our forum and attempted to feed our members lip service when it came to pertinent specific questions, and was caught out by being a host to a Serbian website that condones and supports “hacking”. Further, there is a possible Trojan downloaded with the casino software, the website was designed by a twenty-year-old, they have no proof of a TST Certificate, even though they claim to have one. The casino rep called one of our Meister Members an “idiot”. And one player tried out the software, won $30, and has no way to cash out.

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