Days after sending my first message to [email protected], my user account is still open and I have been allowed to deposit money
Good afternoon. Last April 21 I requested through Betospin's online chat service the closure of my player account “forever” due to “gambling addiction problems”. From this service, I was instructed to send an email to [email protected] specifying the reason for the closure. And that is what I did. That same day I sent the following message to the indicated email:
"Hi, I am the user felmelvil and I would like to close my account forever on your website due to gambling addiction problems, thank you".
Within four hours I received a reply from Betospin:
"Thank you for confirming your account closure request by email."
"To proceed with the closure of your account, please download the attached file and complete it. Subsequently, return the signed copy in response to this email. Be sure not to reuse any forms already completed."
“We will process your closure request accordingly.”
In this email they send me a document that I have to print, fill in, sign, scan and send to them to close my account. What's more, as you will see in the document, they only give me the option to close my account for a maximum of 3 months.
This practice is, of course, an attempt to dissuade users from closing their accounts for whatever reasons. It is even more serious when those reasons have to do with gambling addiction.
Imagine for a moment that one of you is addicted to gambling, that you are losing hundreds - or thousands - of euros and that you have fallen into a spiral of depositing money to try to recover your debts (something that defines very well the thinking of a gambling addict). Now imagine that you want to end that descent into madness by closing your player account immediately and forever, and that this is the only way for you to stop gambling. Well, Betospin will tell you that you must print a document, fill it in, sign it, scan it and send it back to process the closure (a closure that can only be for a maximum of 3 months, even if what you want is to close the account for good). I hope that by reading it they realize the tremendous irresponsibility that this implies on the part of Betospin.
For all these reasons, I claim to Betospin the return of the deposits made on their website.
NOTE: Days after sending my first message to [email protected], my user account is still open and I have been allowed to deposit money.
"Hi, I am the user felmelvil and I would like to close my account forever on your website due to gambling addiction problems, thank you".
Within four hours I received a reply from Betospin:
"Thank you for confirming your account closure request by email."
"To proceed with the closure of your account, please download the attached file and complete it. Subsequently, return the signed copy in response to this email. Be sure not to reuse any forms already completed."
“We will process your closure request accordingly.”
In this email they send me a document that I have to print, fill in, sign, scan and send to them to close my account. What's more, as you will see in the document, they only give me the option to close my account for a maximum of 3 months.
This practice is, of course, an attempt to dissuade users from closing their accounts for whatever reasons. It is even more serious when those reasons have to do with gambling addiction.
Imagine for a moment that one of you is addicted to gambling, that you are losing hundreds - or thousands - of euros and that you have fallen into a spiral of depositing money to try to recover your debts (something that defines very well the thinking of a gambling addict). Now imagine that you want to end that descent into madness by closing your player account immediately and forever, and that this is the only way for you to stop gambling. Well, Betospin will tell you that you must print a document, fill it in, sign it, scan it and send it back to process the closure (a closure that can only be for a maximum of 3 months, even if what you want is to close the account for good). I hope that by reading it they realize the tremendous irresponsibility that this implies on the part of Betospin.
For all these reasons, I claim to Betospin the return of the deposits made on their website.
NOTE: Days after sending my first message to [email protected], my user account is still open and I have been allowed to deposit money.