I have not read this entire thread but was speaking to Simmo this am and just wanted to toss in here that I received 2 cd's today and 1 of them was to my deceased husband(pure tasteless!) anyway the thing is this is a brand new address and he never resided here! More the point is I have narrowed down on the groups that he had an account at and who would in the past send out cd's to him and the answer is ....Grand Prive!!! I smell a rat here folks.
Well, since your sad loss, had you continued playing at Grand Prive, and of course updated them as to YOUR new address.
IF a marketing company was doing the usual, getting legitimate mailing lists, they could only ever find out who has lived at the new address, they CANNOT link new back to old, and resurrect a resident of only the old.
This looks like your details were sold on as "leads", and when you moved, and told casinos this, the link between your accounts, and those of your dearly departed husband would have been preserved. If they then sold this data, they could easily have sold your new address data as the couple you were, hence the tasteless receipt of the CD in your husband's name.
You should consider how many casino groups have been in a position to link you through both your old and new addresses.
It is VERY odd also that a casino would even THINK of sending a CD to TWO occupants of the same household, IP address, computer....... etc..... since this would invariably be against the rules.
The fact that Mandarin Palace has "unknown" software, and ONLY accepts players from the USA, where the authorities consider it illegal. The US authorities would surely consider this as Mandarin Palace KNOWINGLY attempting to circumvent the US laws, and this would be money laundering.
I looked at their site, and by reading what they CLAIM can be used as a deposit method, such as AMEX, AND the admission that they ONLY cater for the US market, as well as the way they tell you how to check your statements because they are going to make your deposits look "clean", this IS "money laundering" by definition.
If they later screw over US players, there will be little that can be done. Once the US authorities catch sight of what they are up to, they may simply disappear rather than stick around and have the DoJ sign up and place specimen deposits through AMEX, and get evidence of misrepresenting the nature of the transaction - they would not need to go any further than this for money laundering offenses, but they would need to place an illegal bet, and get paid if they wanted to go after them on illegal betting charges.
The reputable RTG casinos that accept US players are a far better bet, as they should at least stick around long enough for an orderly exit should the worst happen, and they are forced to stop taking US bets, which seems less and less likely now, with regulation possibly on the way.