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joeduffy72

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    Recovering Gambling Addict - trying hard to escape the clutches of online slots.

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  1. On another note Spin and Win called me to offer £50 back as I had £25 in their account when they closed it. I had self excluded from Kitty Bingo sometime back apparently and deposited £320 before they noticed the self exclusion breach. Something is better than nothing!
  2. slots 500 Casino are part of the AffPower Affiliates/Game Tech they don't hold a UKGC license so can't legally accept UK players. According to The Pogg...plus they got caught using pirate software!!
  3. Thanks, it's a slow process but I'm erasing the thought of all the money I threw away so it won't haunt me as that's one of the worse things anyone can do, live with regret!
  4. Thanks Afi! First step - Admitting to the problem Second Step - exclusion Third Step - pay back debts and sort out finances Fourth Step - fix the damn sofa!!
  5. Hi, I'm in the process of sorting my life out and exclusing from all casinos and going back to check casino's that allowed me to carry on gambling while self excluded. I gambled a significant amount of money with Slots500 a casino and was contacted by them a number of times by phone and offered bonuses which I rejected and told them to stop contacting me and to close my account. I asked them to self exclude me which they didn't do for some time and I never received any withdrawals from them after requesting. Apparently they are blacklisted for a number of reasons and cited as a scam/fraud casino and have a reputation for avoiding paying out. Has anyone here had experience with Slots500? Thanks
  6. Thanks folks, I've been gamble free since that day and it feels good already. I still have Paypal chasing me but I'm waiting for a loan to get approved to pay them off. I also had some money refunded from Rank (£680) due to them allowing me to gamble while self excluded. This has gone straight to Paypal so it keeps me from going to a debt collector while waiting for funds. I've got complaints against Entertainment Play as I requested to close an account some time back but they refused to acknowledge it as self exclusion even though the response back included self-exclusion so I've taken it up with their senior management, I'm going through all casinos to self exclude and making sure I cannot gamble again. I've been on a tight budget and have got a schedule of repayments so I can save for my family and pay my debts and actually start fixing things around me (including the sofa and chairs that are propped up by books as I had no money to repair the broken legs - I bought it with a big win less than 3 years ago and it's already falling apart! So I've finally had the time to actually research my consumer rights and contact the company to ask for them to repair it under the Limitations act and Sale Goods Act 1979). Taking up Yoga with a friend and installed a meditation software (10 minute sessions) on my phone to help me get focused! Thanks for all your advice and help, it's not going to be easy but I'm taking it day by day!
  7. Thanks everyone, I've told my partner of how serious this is - and how lucky I am to have her in my life, I was in a situation where I was out of control and had hurt her with my reckless behaviour, she knew I was gambling but not to this extent. I am now left with 20k in debt in total with most of it covered by cards/loans/overdraft except for the paypal amount which I really don't know how to pay back yet unless I can extend my credit cards. I am looking to start repaying everything step by step and to be gamble free - casino.com have had a series of emails with me and even though the betting pattern was so extreme and constant they accept no responsibility for stepping in at any point. It's my own fault so I need to accept responsibility I just don't know where to find another £6k to pay this debt. I am lucky to have a loving family and a job and lucky enough to have woken up from this with such a serious shock. I don't ever want to gamble, ever again so I will fight hard to stop this addiction. It almost destroyed everything I have so I need to give my family what they need, my love and attention, and not let my children see their father as a pathetic addict.
  8. Thanks for all your support and advice everyone, it's tough, really tough - and today made me realise how lucky I am to have such fantastic children and a supportive partner but also how I've been hiding this for a long time - dealing with so many issues, including the meltdowns and tensions my eldest son suffers from due to his Asperger's - my gambling was a way to escape the stress, of the pressure and extreme workloads but also an escape at extreme situations of trauma and pain such as the past few days have been (the past 6 months have been *****!). It's thinking of everything that I've taken away from my family with my stupid compulsive gambling, of all the struggle we face financially because of my illness that really hurts, and it's them and seeing the joy in my youngest sons eyes when I'm with him that stop me from ever doing anything stupid, I could never leave them on their own and could never take that route for their sake - even though at the moment it feels like a complete black hole, I need to find a way to completely be self excluded from every single casino in the world and to seek help with this addiction, my mental health and the and the linked vices of alcohol and drug abuse which all add together and make this ten times worse. Casino.com could see I was going crazy depositing £200 every 5 or 10 minutes, somethings £400, £500, £100, completely random amounts as nothing was real at that moment in time, I had even gone from having £50 to £1000 and lost it all in an hour or so and kept on depositing, no notion of withdrawing money existed as it just felt like a game, like a demo version where you keep on playing and playing and playing, luckily the operator appeared otherwise it could have ended up being 10k, 50,k 100k, 500k - whatever paypal would have carried on allowing to be taken - with no questioning or challenging of why - at least banks contact you if they see something so irregular - unfortunately this casino failed to - and paypal too. The main thing now is to try and refocus, try to get help and counselling and move on, to try and recover what I can from this mess I've ended up in! Thanks for the support everyone, it's great to know there's such understanding here, I really really appreciate it.
  9. Hi I've been struggling with gambling addiction for the last couple of year and had managed to keep things at a level until recently when my mother was diagnosed with secondary cancer and I ended up being off work with stress and anxiety for a few months and prescribed medication. This last week I went completely off the scale - and gambled at some casinos that I have self excluded from, some sites I wasn't aware of their relationship to sites I had excluded from but they let me join anyway and their response was that they didn't check as the payment method was different. They said they would not return any deposits as the difference in payment form meant they didn't pick it up - plus one site said that I had asked for my other account to be closed due to gambling addiction (the email from the company stated the account closure and called it self exclusion) this particularly casino said that they were wrong as I had closed my account and not requested self exclusion so cannot have any deposit returned. In my mania I joined casino.com and used my paypal account, saturday night I spent £1000 and even though I had opportunities to withdraw with all my money I carried on until I had nothing left, I was awake all day and night in a mania and then yesterday started gambling again with casino.com - increasing my bets and manically betting larger sums. I noticed that one of the representatives had come onto chat in a window to the right of the screen and in desperation I told that I can't stop that I need help. My account was closed immediately - and I had spent over £5000 in total and not withdrawn a single penny even though I had winnings at points, I carried on in a mania just putting money in from my paypal account and gambling away with no reason or logic. I explained in an email to the representative from Casino.com after they emailed me to inform me of the closure that I am in an extreme sitiuation, I have no money and serious debt, my bank account is under control and maxed to it's overdraft limit and now I owe Paypal £5000. I don't know how I can pay them and I didn't realise they would just keep charging money with no limitations. I don't know what to do, I have asked the casino if they will refund me or help me in some way as I was out of control and it was only when their rep intervened I was able to have some form of block. It's my own fault and I haven't slept for two days, I can't afford to visit my mum and I've made a real mess of everything, I feel so stupid and lost, any advice would be much appreciated.
  10. I also opened an account with Monopoly Casino after relapsing due to dealing with major life stresses, my mother being diagnosed with terminal cancer and myself being diagnosed with stress, anxiety and depression. Monopoly Casino never cancelled my account and continued to let me carry on throwing my money compulsively away - until I asked them why they were still allowing me to play when I was self excluded from their Starspins site and should have been self excluded from this one too. Their response was that my previous account had the name Joe instead of Joseph and that I was not self excluded but that my account had been closed instead. The conversation record from Starspins actually mentions self exclusion. As it is Monopoly Casino are refusing to acknowledge any concern and I will have to raise it with the next complaint level.. While in this recent relapse Mania I also opened an account with SpinandWin who then closed my account with money in and refused to refund any deposits etc as my previous Daub Alderney Casino accounts were in the name Joe rather Joseph and with Paypal rather than Visa Debit - all address, email, name and dates of birth were all the same of course. Mirror Bingo/Casino then suspended by account but when I queried why they allowed me to open one they had no response even they they had closed it!
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