Timeline for An online casino owes me money and wants to pay with a wire transfer. Is this safe?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
25 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2018 at 10:59 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Oct 8, 2016 at 16:11 | answer | added | Daniel Anderson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 8, 2016 at 13:07 | comment | added | Fattie | This question is totally unanswerable because there are two types of online casinos. There are any number of entirely legitimate, enormous, nationally-well-known household name online casinos that are ordinary business with TV ads, ordinary offices and so on. In contrast there are sundry marginal/shoddy online casinos. (Note too that, in a word, online casinos are "illegal" in the US but completely normal everyday businesses in say the UK.) It's totally impossible to answer or provide guidance unless the OP explains their region and basically which casino it is. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 21:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackFinance/status/784504995274162176 | ||
| Oct 7, 2016 at 15:35 | comment | added | Grade 'Eh' Bacon | Perhaps they are actually 'legitimate', but are trying to throw complications as to how you get your money. They might do this in order to encourage you to keep gambling, rather than take a payout. I would not be surprised if many online 'casinos', acting unethically, took a long time to actually process a payout. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 15:34 | comment | added | CQM | What country are you located in and what country is the casino purported to be located in? You can always make a new bank account just for the payment if you want to insulate yourself and give the casino the numbers for that account, it would mitigate all of the problems mentioned in this thread, as long as you keep the money in that account for a few months. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 14:41 | comment | added | Joe | What country are you and the casino based in? | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 4:15 | history | edited | Dheer |
edited tags
|
|
| Oct 7, 2016 at 4:12 | comment | added | Dheer | @NickR Agreed with you premise that this sounds like a scam and more likely is a scam. If we are talking about a reputed online site, they may not be storing the card details as security. So they may have a record for it. Certain countries do not allow credits on Cards, except for refunds and repayments. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 4:12 | answer | added | Ben Miller | timeline score: 26 | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 4:08 | comment | added | Dheer | What is the total you have spent at this Casino so far? Is this more than 2300? How did you make the payment to Casino? Can you also indicate the country where you are located? | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 4:00 | comment | added | not-nick | @Dheer Another point about the OP - if they have deposited funds using a credit card, then the casino should simply be able to credit her credit card account with their winnings. And similarly with other forms of depositing money with their casino account. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 3:58 | comment | added | Dheer | @NickR Agreed. There is no reason for a partial check. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 3:57 | comment | added | not-nick | @Dheer I was really meaning that if you have made your money fair and square then no legitimate company operating under regulation would wait two months before attempting to fulfil your request to "cash in", and then only do it partially with apparent "strings attached". | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 3:56 | answer | added | Dheer | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 3:40 | history | edited | Ben Miller | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
retitle, retag, removed signature
|
| Oct 7, 2016 at 3:23 | history | edited | Dheer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 5 characters in body
|
| Oct 7, 2016 at 3:21 | comment | added | Dheer | @NickR I don't fully agree with "No legitimate company is going to behave in this way ..." Google asked me for bank details to wire the Adsense revenue. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 1:10 | comment | added | keshlam | If the check stays cleared, this may be slightly legitimate. One common scam counts on banks saying a check has cleared before it's irrevocable, as other answers have noted. Recheck in a few weeks. Paranoia is not enough. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 0:12 | comment | added | user49188 | Thank you for all the information. I won by playing my own money. So far the check they gave me hasn't given me any issues. My bank says it cleared. I really want this win to be legit, but I won't be a gullible blonde about it. (I hope) | |
| Oct 6, 2016 at 23:34 | comment | added | keshlam | You are almost certainly being scammed. The check will probably bounce too. Run Away. | |
| Oct 6, 2016 at 22:40 | comment | added | not-nick | No legitimate company is going to behave in this way. By any chance, did this company give you some "free funds" to get started and your winnings are the result of your betting with these funds? Or did you deposit funds with the company and use those funds to gain your winnings? Try asking them who their "regulator" is. If they don't have one, then it is almost certainly a scam and the $2300 cheque will be cancelled before you can use it. It may be useful for you to post a link to the casino site so readers can assess its credibility. | |
| Oct 6, 2016 at 22:28 | answer | added | zeta-band | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 6, 2016 at 21:53 | review | First posts | |||
| Oct 6, 2016 at 22:26 | |||||
| Oct 6, 2016 at 21:51 | history | asked | user49188 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |