Platin Casino - Closed account with €5k balance with ridiculous reason
I first signed up to Platin Casino in April 2014. In August 2014 they had a 100% to €200 promotional offer. I accepted this offer a couple of times and lost my deposit and bonus. On the third deposit I managed to get my balance up to €5018. I still had some of the wagering requirement to get through, but then I found that my account was temporarily locked.
After waiting some time for Platin to unlock my account, I went onto live chat at the start of September 2014 to chase them up. I was told that my account was banned "because of suspicion of fraud". They told me they would "send you a list where you can see that you and a couple of other players played roulette at the same time, so you were able to trick our RNG". I asked them what the RNG was, and they clarified that it means Random Number Generator, which I understand to be the way that the casino generates the result when you spin the roulette wheel or a slot machine etc.
They went ahead and sent me a list of usernames and times when we played roulette at the same time.
This is clearly ridiculous, as I'm sure that Platin Casino have many players playing at the same time as each other at any given moment. They have suggested that playing roulette at the same time somehow "tricks" their random number generator - this is impossible. The roulette game at Platin Casino isn't a live game or multiplayer game, so any spin of the wheel is complete independent of anything else going on. This behaviour is indicative of the sort of shady operator that Platin Casino is.
For your information, I did successfully verify my account at Platin Casino as they asked me for documents around the time that I was playing at the casino in August 2014.
I will be satisfied from this complaint if I could have my account and balance reinstated. I would also consider settling with the casino if they are open to this.
After waiting some time for Platin to unlock my account, I went onto live chat at the start of September 2014 to chase them up. I was told that my account was banned "because of suspicion of fraud". They told me they would "send you a list where you can see that you and a couple of other players played roulette at the same time, so you were able to trick our RNG". I asked them what the RNG was, and they clarified that it means Random Number Generator, which I understand to be the way that the casino generates the result when you spin the roulette wheel or a slot machine etc.
They went ahead and sent me a list of usernames and times when we played roulette at the same time.
This is clearly ridiculous, as I'm sure that Platin Casino have many players playing at the same time as each other at any given moment. They have suggested that playing roulette at the same time somehow "tricks" their random number generator - this is impossible. The roulette game at Platin Casino isn't a live game or multiplayer game, so any spin of the wheel is complete independent of anything else going on. This behaviour is indicative of the sort of shady operator that Platin Casino is.
For your information, I did successfully verify my account at Platin Casino as they asked me for documents around the time that I was playing at the casino in August 2014.
I will be satisfied from this complaint if I could have my account and balance reinstated. I would also consider settling with the casino if they are open to this.