Really
Both Luckyace sites have recently been granted the eCogra seal!!!
Surely if there was a connection between them and some dark Serbian group of "hackers", this would never have happened.
These revelations do make sense. Ministering Angel - a new casino with shoddy software, yet claiming to be passed by having a TST certificate. First set up under Royal Flamingo Corp, but just before launch re-registered to hide the underlying ownership through "domains by proxy".
Spam starts, and gets comments here at Casinomeister. "rep" appears, named "flamingo", purely chance eh! (Royal
Flamingo Corp)
Casino finally gets a CM member to try out the free chip, and when it is beaten they pay damn fast!! (Initial Kudos - known as "putting us off the scent"). Didn't work too well, as soon discovered that "payment" really meant funds went into a wallet without an exit
Now, the Serbia - Panama connection gets revealed, and carelessness (the internet keeps hold of it's history) reveals all the connections between the Serbian hacker group, their level of knowledge, connections to Panama, and indeed an explanation as to why the "rep" chose to call himself "flamingo".
This seems to be a rogue casino of a different sort. It is not about attracting deposits and confiscating winnings. Clearly, they would be paying players (at least while their "operation" was active), but what they WOULD be harvesting would be all those personal details that we players EXPECT to be asked to provide in order to receive our winnings. If players were getting paid, they would continue to play, and even refer friends, but all the while a database of personal information would be accumulating.
Once the group had attracted enough personal information, they would let it lie for a while, and Ministering Angel casino would run into "Technical Difficulties", and would eventually have to shut down. Players would get their money (to allay suspicions), and in a while the Angel would be forgotten as just another promising new casino that never made it.
After a period of time, all this personal information gathered for registration and payments would be converted into cash. This could take many forms, but all would involve some kind of ID fraud. Partial information, through research, could be converted into complete sets of personal details, enough to get services, and fake documents such as driving licences, in the name of the original person. The details can then be used to generate fake EU passports, or even those for other countries (depending on how far each country has gone in terms of biometrics). To fund this, some of these details will be used to plunder bank accounts, credit cards, and even to apply for new credit with the false ID.
Anyone who has supplied any information to Angel casino should consider it likely that it will fall into the hands of well educated, but criminally minded, experts in electronic commerce. Even the Email addresses can be sold to spammers, as they are known to be genuine.
Any "winnings" the casino has lost to the "players" will be well worth the investment after all the personal details have been sold on, or used to generate cash.
The cash made will then finance their next venture, maybe an RTG casino, which would be rogue in the conventional sense
