WARNING Del Oro is confiscating player balances without justification

maxd

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We’ve had a tough time with Del Oro Casino since they joined Casinomeister late last year. Their rep at the time — later disavowed as someone who didn’t know what they were doing — ignored the Forum Rules, solicited players from restricted countries, handed out bonuses without any reference to the applicable Terms or Conditions, ignored the Casinomeister staff, pretended to not understand “this forum” when it suited them and sucked up more of our time and attention than any rep or casino in living memory. That’s not even mentioning their use of shills within hours of joining the forums and their repeated false denials of having done so until they finally saw they had little choice and admitted it.

In the middle of December we received a PAB wherein a player’s balance — including winnings of £12k+ — was confiscated on accusations of “fraud”. We tried to investigate, including gathering supporting evidence from the casino, which kicked off an exhausting month of chasing them time and time again for the necessary evidence to prove their accusations. Three or four times we had to go back to them asking for the same thing, and over and over they give something else, made excuses for “not understanding”, later claiming they thought it was “a discussion not a complaint investigation” — whatever that was supposed to mean — and so forth. Same old same ‘o with those guys: a million excuses for never following the rules and constantly trying to misdirect or hide from a straight question.

Later in the process the original rep was replaced by some unnamed person at the casino who obviously knew better what they were talking about … sort of. After repeating their claims against the player several times it turned out the charges of “fraud” were bogus too: the player had incorrectly received a double bonus deposit at a sister casino to Del Oro and after some game play withdrew it. The withdrawal proceeded without event and somehow that was the “fraud" the player had committed: the casino confiscated the £12000+ winnings instead of simply reclaiming a £250 over-payment on the bonus.

Warning: Del Oro is managed by staff that are truth-challenged and very creative with their excuses for doing what benefits themselves. In the end this amounts to a massive time suck of trying to deal honestly with people who will do anything but. Players are advised to take their casino action elsewhere.

UPDATE:
It has been suggested that perhaps Del Oro wasn’t given an opportunity to resolve the player’s issue once we had become involved. From the 17th of December until the 25th of January we worked on gathering evidence and input from the relevant parties. At that point it was clear that there was nothing more forthcoming and I proposed a settlement of 50/50: the player looses 50% of their winnings for taking money from the casino that wasn’t theirs to receive, and the casino pays the player 50% of the winnings because much of the problem created was their responsibility AND their justification for confiscation was unsupportable.

The player agreed to the 50% proposal, reluctantly, but the casino chose to not respond until about 40 minutes ago — long after the deadline to respond expired — when they proposed that the player was like a hacker who broke into their company and stole their money. “Is the hacker deserving of 50% of their stealings because the hack shouldn't have happened?” they asked. As ever they are somehow the innocent victim of dark forces at work against them. Utter nonsense, and if we felt we needed any further verification of our actions against Del Oro this would remove any such doubts.
 
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If something seems to good too be true then it usually is too good to be true,although a few members did benefit.

This may be an indication of the possible pitfalls Casinomeister could go down with the new model that the new owners envisage.
Opening itself up to dodgy casinos taking advantage of both the site and its members. Not to mention the endless hard work and headaches for the staff of the site.
I will stick to my limited casino's until any new site proves themselves
 
I could go on a rant, but ill narrow it down:

"avoid at all costs"
 
This may be an indication of the possible pitfalls Casinomeister could go down with the new model that the new owners envisage.
see it positive mate, the fun comes back from back in the days. With operators who have zero clue what they are doing. Operators who hate any player that wins and try to find a term to make it applicable to confiscate funds. Operators who are in it for "the money" - not with the aim to provide entertainment, proper service and fair terms.
 
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Photos taken seconds before disaster
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see it positive mate, the fun comes back from back in the days. With operators who have zero clue what they are doing. Operators who hate any player that wins and try to find a term to make it applicable to confiscate funds. Operators who are in it for "the money" - not with the aim to provide entertainment, proper service and fair terms.
Yours was a voice from the start trying to warn about the man from delmio and you seemed quite restrained.
I'm off to hammer one of your casinos so I will come back to ask you to flush my huge win later :P
 
bonjour a tous, je suis meme au début des poursuites contre ce casino pour escroquerie et abus de faiblesse.une seule chose a vous dire d'eviter ce casino et heats casino c'est la meme chose.
 
a lot of mystery around this fraudulent casino... Unfortunately, there will always be victims as long as this casino operates. the address mentioned corresponds to a hotel in Costa Rica🙈
 

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beaucoup de mystère autour de ce casino frauduleux...
Malheureusement, il y aura toujours des victimes tant que ce casino fonctionnera.
the address mentioned corresponds to a hotel in Costa Rica 🙈
It is expected that you post in this forum in English. Thanks for your rely and I hope that you get something back Damien
 
I would suggest that you contact your french version of the UKGC. Good luck

Funny sidenote: let's say I was scammed by one of these casinos and complained about that to the Belgian GC they would simply put that casino on the blacklist and they have the option to give me a fine for playing at a casino without Belgian license.

I don't know how the French GC works tho.
 
It is our pleasure to defend ourselves to the public so people can make the decision on who is actually right. Seems there might be a personal vendetta since the accidental early mistake on the forum.

To start off, someone made a comment about being “too good to be true”. Let’s discuss this.

*snip* [pointless self-aggrandisement removed]

Now let’s discuss this baseless defamation:

*snip* [ranting against Casinomeister staff removed]

[maxd says: If you want to defend yourself stick to facts, make it brief and defend yourself. Don’t make it an advertising opportunity for your casino and a shameless attempt to defame Casinomeister staff on our own site. Perhaps like your employees you’ve forgotten to read the Forum Rules.

Also, that “accidental earlier mistake” was an endless exercise in chasing one of your employees around our site as they broke every rule in the book — repeatedly — lied through their teeth whenever it suited them and wasted a ginormous amount of the Casinomeister’s staff time and effort. We’re all relieved to see you tossed to the curb so don’t try and make this into some “Max the bad guy with a vendetta” nonsense.]
 
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So the player deposited a certain amount lets say $250 was supposed to get a $250 bonus but instead got a $500 bonus? Something like that?

Since the casino is a parchute casino. The only reason for confiscation would be if they dipped into the 2nd set of bonus funds that werent supposed to be issued.

Im going to assume thats not the case.... which means this is pretty scummy.

if a casino has an issue paying out a measily 12k...that casino should not be operating.
 
Funny sidenote: let's say I was scammed by one of these casinos and complained about that to the Belgian GC they would simply put that casino on the blacklist and they have the option to give me a fine for playing at a casino without Belgian license.

I don't know how the French GC works tho.
hello, I am also from Belgium and I have never heard that you could get a fine from the CJH.
So which casino are you playing at now? 🤔
 
Funny sidenote: let's say I was scammed by one of these casinos and complained about that to the Belgian GC they would simply put that casino on the blacklist and they have the option to give me a fine for playing at a casino without Belgian license.

I don't know how the French GC works tho.
As far as France is concerned, the Casino del Oro has been added to the black list. Online casinos banned in France The table below shows you the list of illegal gaming sites that do not have ANJ (National Online Gaming Authority) approval. These gaming sites are prohibited in France and you will therefore not be able to have any recourse to the ANJ in the event of a problem such as cheating, theft of personal and banking data, and non-payment of winnings. Furthermore, on illegal sites players do not benefit from the protections and voluntary ban mechanism provided by law.
The Casino del Oro continues to welcome
French people using a VPN, unfortunately in the event of a problem they will not be able to do anything 🤷‍♂️
 

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hello, I am also from Belgium and I have never heard that you could get a fine from the CJH.
So which casino are you playing at now? 🤔
Check Article 4 §2. All the legal stuff starts from Article 15.

I only play at Belgian licensed casinos, mainly Ladbrokes and Starcasino these days. But since most of the casinos started dropping RTP I've mostly been playing Evolution's (live) Videopoker and Ultimate Texas Hold'em.
 
hello, I am also from Belgium and I have never heard that you could get a fine from the CJH.
So which casino are you playing at now? 🤔

Yes, it's a punishable practice. They have strict player rules with a fine of up to €25K if you knowingly gamble on illegal sites.

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Just want to thank the CM staff for seeing this out for me and although the casino aren't co-operating, at least other members are now aware of the practises of DelOro and HeatsCasino.

I must point out they are both sister sites, despite, their own rep claiming they have nothing to do with each other. (Blatant lie)

So, in my view, a warning for one, is actually a warning for both.

Unfortunately, DelOro were unable to admit any responsibility for their failings throughout the case, but we move on.

UK players - My advice, stick to UKGC casinos. You'll always get your winnings.
 

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