Please don't jump to conclusions. You are not in contact with the administrators at KGC nor the Rewards group. The 15 accounts still stands -
but the guy spotted a flaw in the way the terms and conditions were written - so he got paid via a technicality.
You are also flaming a fellow member. Don't do it. Especially when you don't know what happened.
The only one lying here was the player. Don't jump to conclusions when you don't have all the facts before you. That's a bad way to start a day.
Further to state - as Nifty implied a sarcastic "thanks" to this guy, this is the type of activity that ruins the fun for most of you. CR has to rewrite their terms, and more dolphins will be caught in the tuna net.
This is "advantage play", rather than fraud. This kind of ruling should ensure that sloppy terms are not allowed to get one over on players. What isn't clear is whether this flaw allowed the OP to have 15 ZODIAC accounts, or whether he simply signed up at 15 different casinos.
CR are not the innocent party they make out, because they "spam" so HEAVILY to players with one account in order to get them to sign up at every damn CR casino. The ONLY restriction on this is "new players only", and other than the rule about making a second deposit in your account BEFORE opening another, there is nothing else in the terms to prevent players from doing this.
Some suggestions for CR.
1) Cut the aggressive "cross marketing". It isn't even a couple a week, I have seen several different mailers for the same CR casino in a single DAY! This is the same issue that got 888.com into trouble.
2) Rather than the "blunderbus" approach, send players true PERSONAL invites, and ONLY when they have show some loyalty. Cap the number of non-invite new player offers to something sensible as many other casinos do, and protect the "dolphins" from getting caught by cross checking their registration details to ensure that the new account does not exceed their quota. If it does, LOCK the new account automatically as Playtech software does before they even get to see the free chip, let alone play it. Advantage players will have to trick the system by entering different details for each account, thus would most likely be guilty of fraud in any case.
When the account is locked automatically, leave it open to the player to contact CS to see if he will be allowed the account and welcome bonus.
32Red have 4 casinos, but the welcome bonus is only allowed on any ONE casino, and others may only be taken if invited prior to claiming. I did sign up at Dash, and discovered a loophole that allows players to get the bonus automatically on their first deposit, even if they are not logged as eligible. I contacted Pat about this to tell him this loophole existed so that he could look at shutting it down. The loophole would have placed the group in the position of having to confiscate or make WR 100x when a player had the bonus credited automatically, and may not have realised this meant anything other than that they were eligible.
Apart from this, CR have got it right for the loyalty bonuses and promotions. These have to be claimed prior to depositing, and if they are not sent out or loaded into the lobby, an ineligible player cannot claim. It may be worth moving the welcome bonuses onto this system, with players having to claim it from the lobby first. Given the time taken for a new MGS casino to download the games, this should allow enough time for a check on the registration details to ensure the new player bonus quota has not been exceeded. Only once this is done should the lobby be loaded with the claim form.