Saturday, January 5, 2008

Poker scam : Everest poker confiscates the money of "illegal players"

A "smart" scam in order to steal all your money in your everest poker account if you are registered with an address in a country where it's forbidden to play money.
How Everest poker proceeds to steal this money ? Easy : they let you play until you win a high amount of money, and, at the moment you decide to transfer this money to your bank account they close your account keeping the money for them ! They give you the reason that you can't play money from your location... This is maybe true, but they can't proceed like this !! Several points show that this method is totally illegal :

- If you read carefully the legal information in the website, you can see that only the player is responsible to check the law for playing in his country. If they take the responsability to check the law in your country, they should take the responsability for everything, and they should do it when you registered before you use your credit card !

- "Cancel the bets" (text from legal information in the webiste), this don't mean confiscate the money ! If they want to cancel the bet, they should find the owner of each cents and dollars won, this is almost impossible, so if they can't do it, they should not decide to cancel any bets some month after. In place of that they found an easy way : they just keep all your money !

- We are speaking about money, sometimes several thousands of dollars, they can't close you account without proof ! your are maybe playing from a country where playing money is authorized, even if it's not authorized in your country of residency. They act as if it's no law, as mafia.

Warning, this system of scam is used very often by Everest poker, so if you don;t want any bad suprises, just don't play online poker with Everest poker !!

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