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Castle Casino closed my account down for "potential" fraudulent activity


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By kap888
11 years ago
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I joined Castle Casino on the 1st of October 2014 and played on their site for exactly one day. I deposited a total of £630 and wanted to withdraw approximately £770. I initially did ask for their bonus but when I realized the fold over amount I forfeited all bonuses to my account and played with my own money instead. After requesting for a withdrawal, I received an email congratulating me and asking me to verify my documents. Five hours later before having the chance to respond, I received a second email which was

Please be informed that our credit card processor has warned us and flagged your account for potential fraudulent activity.
For this reason, we decided to refund your deposits and voided all activity in your account. Please note that you have been permanently excluded from Castle Casino, you will not be allowed to play here again. We wish you good luck at another casino.

If we can help you with anything else, please feel free to let us know.

Thanks and best regards,


I tried to log onto my account and they have wiped all my information, my username does not exist. I spoke to one of their workers on live chat and she informed me I should be hearing from the payment team in 24 hours, two days now and still not a word.

Firstly, it states "potential" fraudulent activity, I have no idea what I did wrong for them to think this and they did not elaborate what they meant. I find it hard to believe that they can get away with this without even communicating with their customers and closing down an account without any hard proof. I do not know how to cheat and with a winning of £140 minus my deposit, that is hardly fraudulent.

They only offered to give back my deposits which still I have heard nothing of and out of principle despite how little or large the winning is, I want what I won fair and square.

This Casino has great customer service when you are a customer but once they throw you out, or deactivate your account and wipe all your details then good luck getting any response from them. I have never experienced anything remotely as bad as this from casinos and I am very insulted and disappointed that castle casino did this to me. I just want my money back and my winnings and for someone to actually contact me to tell me what the situation is. I do question if I had lost, would they have offered my deposits back?
Disputed Casino Castle Casino
Amount £770

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User name loyalty-level-2
Yes I can confirm my funds was re credited back to my account. Thank you.
User name
Dear @kap888,
Can you confirm that you received your funds.
User name
I can confirm that this players winnings have been re credited yesterday on the 19/10/2014.

Subject to the usual KYC checks these will be available for full withdrawal via any of the e-wallet features available.

Best Regards,
Robert Dunn
User name loyalty-level-2
Robert Dunn offered me a refund of my winnings through a different payment method and asked if I was happy to accept his offer. I have said yes because that was the whole point of this dispute however, two days now after my response and not a word..

Castle Casino Complaint Stats

Resolved 2 / 4
Avg. Amount $301
Avg. Complaint Duration 21 days
Avg. Response Time 3 days

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Castle casino uses different excuses not to pay & took my winnings

I won at Castle Casino and them they removed my winnings, saying that I did not withdraw in a timely manner and they sent me the following email :
"Dear Peter,

I hope you are well.

Unfortunately due to the winnings you’ve accrued from a bonus provided at Castle Casino not being withdrawn the full balance will now be reverted back to the original deposit. You can view information on this in our terms and conditions which I’ve listed below for convenience:

11.8. Unless otherwise stated, all bonus money needs to be either used or the complete balance withdrawn within 21 days after being credited to the customer’s account. If these credits are not used, the full balance, including any winnings accrued, may be removed from the players account. No claim shall lie against the CastleCasino.com in the event the balance is forfeited in these circumstances.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in contact.

Thanks and best regards,
Alex Robinson"

I notified the casino that the system would not let me withdraw until they received my documents. And they sent the following email:
"Hi Peter,

Apologies for my slow response in this case.

I see your point here and in this case agree that the KYC delay was the reason for overstepping this timeframe which is fairly new, we need to refine our terms to ensure cases like this are taken into consideration. Given this circumstance, your account will be reinstated with its previous balance shortly and you should be able to withdraw without issues.

Enjoy the winnings and I hope to see you back at Castle Casino soon, we owe you a bonus on the house for the misunderstanding!

Kind Regards,
Robert Dunn"

After a few days my money was not returned to my account, I sent an email "Hi Robert
When can I expect my winnings placed back into my account? You said I would not have any issues with my withdrawal and yet the money has not been put back."

A few days later Robert Dunn emailed me with another excuse not to pay me. This was his email:
Dear Peter,

Thanks for your patience with my response.

The reason for the delay was that I noted your account was under investigation from our software team in a completely different scenario, therefore I had to delay this until it was concluded.

The investigation, which was to identify a group of players who have a set strategy to take advantage of special bonuses in order to cash out large amounts, has identified your account as that of a bonus abuser and therefore under term 11.1 all winnings will be voided and your deposit returned. You can see this term below:

11.1. All our promotions are designed for genuine players who may be interested in continuing membership and play at the casino and are happy to wager with and risk their own money. Promotions may be deemed void at any time to individuals or groups who are suspected to abuse or have a record of promotional abuse or fraud (charge backs) at CastleCasino.com or any of our affiliate merchants. Any winnings accrued by such individual or groups will be deemed void and withheld.

As you’ve previously mentioned complaining to the websites we partner with to provide these bonuses I’ve provided them with an outline of the game strategy used across yours and several similar accounts in advance. I’m happy to provide you directly with further information on our case if you’d like this.

Kind Regards,
Robert Dunn

They closed my account. This is a mistake and completely unfair!
Regards

Status unsolved Unresolved