Definition of an a-hole

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Admin note: this thread was my response to the "old" Plexgaming. Not to be confused with the new. :D

Besides several ways in which an a-hole can be described, an a-hole is someone who uses your brand or personification knowingly in order to profit.

I was notified by one of our members that there is a member at Twitter.com who is using "Casinomeister" as his handle:
xhttp://twitter.com/Casinomeister

and he even has the gall to post a link to his website:
xhttp://casinoplex.blogspot.com/
Where he is posting as "Casinomeister"

What a dick.

Anyway, I'll be contacting Twitter to have his account shut down. And I'll be contacting the affiliate managers of the casinos he's promoting to have his accounts shut down as well.

What a bloody waste of time. :mad:
 
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It's actually a form of theft, exploiting the years that you have put in developing the reputation and content of the Casinomeister website, so this cretin deserves everything he gets.
 
He's offerin ' casino Tropez...

Sigh -- Meister - thought youse knew better...

*giggle - runs away fast*
:lolup:
 
It's actually a form of theft, exploiting the years that you have put in developing the reputation and content of the Casinomeister website, so this cretin deserves everything he gets.
Casinomeister is also a registered trademark, and this a-hole is knowingly violating this.

And this is the typical "evil webmaster" shit that keeps popping up. Stupid a-holes who are too damn lazy to do any work themselves and try to exploit the work of others. They fill the Internet with deceptive garbage just to make a couple of bucks. :rolleyes:

They have no business ethics whatsoever, and yeah, they deserve everything they get.
 
What I'm getting tired of is Blackhat crap.

I work hard for my placement - and dangit - when some scum site that is just ads manages to pop up way ahead of me - it's like AGGGGGGGGG not freaking fair.

And it seems like the Rogues are the worst at it.
 
I just can't understand why people try to be sneaky and non-transparent when trying do business in this industry. There is no need, people need to understand there is plenty of "cake" for all.

Did the guy actually think this would not go unseen??? I mean, what was going through his head? Apparently nothing.

This is a true definition of an A-Hole (with a capital A!), another nice definition would be a - Shmuck.

:eek:
 
I can't believe somebody would be that stupid, to try it with the Casinomeister "brand". Did the guy actually think you wouldn't find out? These "things" really do deserve what they get.....
 
What is odd is that most of the casinos and links all point to Flexgaming properties.

I've emailed the casino rep to see what's up about that.
 
As of a few minutes ago I am now on Twitter too, Link Removed ( Old/Invalid) , and have tweeted about the fake 'Casinomeister' person with links back to this. Also looking into how to report the fraudster.

...

Ok, 'impersonation' complaint filed at Twitter regarding the fake account. This person is in direct violation of Twitter Terms in that they are using the fake account to promote their own business interests (see 'Help Resources / Terms of Service and Rules policies / Impersonation Policy' at
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).
 
As of a few minutes ago I am now on Twitter too, Link Removed ( Old/Invalid) , and have tweeted about the fake 'Casinomeister' person with links back to this. Also looking into how to report the fraudster.

You looked so poor with 0 follower that I felt it was my duty to be your first, and for the moment, your only follower.
Don't worry, this situation will change, you'll grow and soon you'll be a Big Twitter Boy.
Any other Twitter on CasinoMeister ?

PS
At the moment I was writting this post, I noticed I had a new follower....life is so big !
 
Thanks for the follow man, much appreciated. :thumbsup:

For the other readers info Alexandre can be found on Twitter as Link Removed ( Old/Invalid) .
 
As of a few minutes ago I am now on Twitter too, Link Removed ( Old/Invalid) , and have tweeted about the fake 'Casinomeister' person with links back to this. Also looking into how to report the fraudster.

...

Ok, 'impersonation' complaint filed at Twitter regarding the fake account. This person is in direct violation of Twitter Terms in that they are using the fake account to promote their own business interests (see 'Help Resources / Terms of Service and Rules policies / Impersonation Policy' at
You do not have permission to view link Log in or register now.
).
It's a pretty sorry situation when there are "rip-off" scumbags that will take advantage at every possible aspect of marketing regardless whether it's ethical or not.

I've already complained to both Twitter and Plexgaming. Anticipating a response...
 
Sorry BT, what is 'Thing'?

I think T is referring to the a-hole and whether or not he/she has an account on the forum.

I think T raised a good point. If it were me in Bryan's shoes, I'd ping Twitter and find out if they can/would release the IP addresses that this a-hole was posting from, and then compare those against the forum....maybe you'd get a hit, unless they were using AOL or something, then it'd be virtually untraceable.

Or, maybe they were dumb enough to use the same e-mail address to signup for Twitter and here...

I have a funny feeling that it is quite possibly a member of the forum pulling this stunt..maybe a lurker, maybe not.
 
Needless to say there is no useful info available via the fraudster's profile on Twitter. Official channels are probably the only hope for that kind of info.
 
Needless to say there is no useful info available via the fraudster's profile on Twitter. Official channels are probably the only hope for that kind of info.

Yep, and I think that copyright/trademark infringement is enough of a reason for them to cough it up. :)
 
I can

I can't believe somebody would be that stupid, to try it with the Casinomeister "brand". Did the guy actually think you wouldn't find out? These "things" really do deserve what they get.....

I think he did know that he would eventually get caught. Dude was just trying to ride it out with lots of tweets until then. That sucks. Hope he is shut down really quick:mad: If any cm members are on twitter, send out tweets about fake CM all over the place.
 
After searching around, I can say that the guy behind this is working for PlexGaming in order to promote CasinoPlex.com.
I'm almost sure of it because the Twitter account is linking pages (blogs, article directories, etc...) which link CasinoPlex.com without affiliate tracking.
As Twitter doesn't transfer PR (nofllowed links when they aren't also shortened TinyURLS wihout R301 linkjuice love), it's useless in terms of SEO. But it works fine in terms of social media especially when you see that this guy has almost 200 followers which he clearly fooled as the ID thief he is.
These people follow him because they think they are following the real CasinoMeister.
You can see there members of this forum, big names of the egaming industry, etc...
I don't know how Twitter handles this kind of problems but I know Facebook doesn't give a shit.
I hope you can get it back and if I was you I will open a Facebook account before the same happens there (CasinoMeister is not taken in FaceBook).
 
After searching around, I can say that the guy behind this is working for PlexGaming in order to promote CasinoPlex.com.
I'm almost sure of it because the Twitter account is linking pages (blogs, article directories, etc...) which link CasinoPlex.com without affiliate tracking.
As Twitter doesn't transfer PR (nofllowed links when they aren't also shortened TinyURLS wihout R301 linkjuice love), it's useless in terms of SEO. But it works fine in terms of social media especially when you see that this guy has almost 200 followers which he clearly fooled as the ID thief he is.
These people follow him because they think they are following the real CasinoMeister.
You can see there members of this forum, big names of the egaming industry, etc...
I don't know how Twitter handles this kind of problems but I know Facebook doesn't give a shit.
I hope you can get it back and if I was you I will open a Facebook account before the same happens there (CasinoMeister is not taken in FaceBook).

Thanks for this! By the way, you have to use a real (or a pseudo) first and last name at Facebook. You can dreate special pages for businesses and such though. I tried Casino Meister, and they rejected it :p
 
LATER: please note that this thing has been resolved, so contacting Twitter as requested below is no longer necessary. I'm leaving this here for the record.


For those of you who are following this Twitter issue you might be interested to note that the following was their reply to my 'Impersonation' complaint regarding the fake 'Casinomeister' guy on Twitter (my bolding):

Hey,

Thanks for your writing to us.

We investigated the account. If the username is available
and an user creates an account with that name there is no way that Twitter
can stop.
This user looks like he is inactive for more than a month or so
with no updates and profile image. So, it does not look like an
issue with impersonation.

We appreciate your cooperation

Thanks,
Keerthi
Twitter Support

If you know Twitter at all you'll know that this is blatantly untrue. Twitter can and does close accounts that are fakes: a recent fairly famous example is the 'cwalken' imposter account where the guy was pretending to be Christopher Walken. That and other 'celebrity' fakes get shut down PDQ. Note the following section from
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:

The following problems fall under Terms of Service violations:

* Copyright Infringement (To file a complaint, see our copyright infringement procedure here.)
* Impersonation
* Violence and/or specific threats
* Unlawful use
* Privacy infringement
* Trademark Infringement

Send all non-copyright Terms of Service complaints to terms@twitter.com.

As I read it all the bolded items apply in this case.

So, it looks like they might need a little convincing to do the right thing here.

If you're on Twitter and you have a few moments please consider filing an 'Impersonation' complaint:
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. In particular under 'Regarding' you want to select 'Terms of Service (Impersonation, Trademark, Copyright)'.

If you're having trouble thinking of what to say, this is what I used as the body of my complaint:
I have recently discovered an impersonation account here at twitter, namely 'Casinomeister'. This person is using this fake account to promote their own affiliate business interests without permission or approval from Casinomeister.com Casinomeister is a registered trademark and this twitter account is a direct violation of that. Please suspend this account since it is in violation of Twitter's Terms of Service.

Of course I'll be pursuing this with them but I think more voices would help things along nicely.

Let's help Twitter do the right thing! :thumbsup:
 
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Hmmm, looks like I've come up with another definition of an "a-hole". :rolleyes:

I sent them a notice over 24 hours ago, but since I don't have a "Twitter" account, they haven't responded.

If the username is available
and an user creates an account with that name there is no way that Twitter
can stop. This user looks like he is inactive for more than a month or so
with no updates and profile image. So, it does not look like an
issue with impersonation.

So who's been smoking the wacko weed?

Seriously, this is one of the things that is wrong with the Internet: behemoth companies that can easily be abused, and they disregard the rights of others (Hotmail, Twitter, Facebook, etc.,).

And their customer support consists of either automated responders or people with cornflakes for brains.
 

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