- Joined
- Jan 20, 2004
- Location
- Saltirelandia
This issue came to our attention via a PAB against Playbet24.com: the player had been given a 50€ free chip, had won and requested the max payment of 100€. The casino gave a variety of excuses for denying payment and then shut down without notice. With the casino site gone and no response to emails there wasn't much we could do and the case pretty much died there.
Fast-forward about a year: I receive an email from the original PAB guy. He'd been sent the following email:
When I approached Lapalingo and asked "will you honour Playbet24 obligations to players?" they said:
When I mentioned the email the player had received:
When I mentioned the fact that playbet24.com redirects to lapalingo.com:
When I said I wasn't buying their "affiliate" story and are they sure they wanted to stick with that:
Needless to say the whole thing reeks of BS. So ...
WARNING: Lapalingo.com is almost certainly a re-brand of Playbet24.com which left players unpaid when they disappeared last year. Players are strongly advised to avoid Lapalingo.com unless they are willing to waste their time trying to get paid and kiss their casino balances goodbye when these rogues decide to do another disappearing act.
Fast-forward about a year: I receive an email from the original PAB guy. He'd been sent the following email:
From: Anna Donca (anna.donca@gmx.de)
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2016 1:47 PM
To: *snip*
Subject: Erinnerst du dich noch an playbet24?
Hi *snip*,
wie geht´s dir? Echt lange nichts mehr von dir gehört!
Wir sind endlich wieder da! Und zwar unter dem Namen lapalingo.com !
Deine Lieblingsspiele wie New Crazy Seven, Golden Fruits, Treasure Island, Lucky Unicorn und Rise of Napoleon warten auch hehe!
Extra für dich konnte ich mit meinen Chefs einen 20 Euro Gutschein für dich aushandeln!
Gehe jetzt einfach auf lapalingo.com und gebe diesen Code ein:
*snip*
Da du jetzt auch meine private E-Mail Adresse hast kannst du mich hier jederzeit kontaktieren und ich kann dir somit viel schneller weiterhelfen!
Deine Anna Donca
When I approached Lapalingo and asked "will you honour Playbet24 obligations to players?" they said:
lapalingo is not renamed from any other casino. So unfortunately we can´t do nothing in this case.
When I mentioned the email the player had received:
We know this kind of emails being send from an old affiliate of this casino. Lapalingo.com is a complete new casino ... we could give him a bonus for lapalingo.com as compensation.
When I mentioned the fact that playbet24.com redirects to lapalingo.com:
The domain playbet24 points to lapalingo because the old owner of playbet24 become an affiliate of lapalingo.
When I said I wasn't buying their "affiliate" story and are they sure they wanted to stick with that:
... do you have Skype so we could have a chat regarding this.
Needless to say the whole thing reeks of BS. So ...
WARNING: Lapalingo.com is almost certainly a re-brand of Playbet24.com which left players unpaid when they disappeared last year. Players are strongly advised to avoid Lapalingo.com unless they are willing to waste their time trying to get paid and kiss their casino balances goodbye when these rogues decide to do another disappearing act.