Re: My Buddy Hit Bodog for $3900
Something not right here. I doubt you will get the truth from this friend.
I did not think they allowed you to use a card unless it matched your sign up information.To be allowed to use a card not in your own name seems strange. I would have to guess that he set up an account in his wife's name after already having one in his own. Two Drivers Licenses for one account and one credit card. Why? It's either his account or hers.
Bodog offers generous matching first deposit bonus. Maybe your pal was milking the system. Newsflash. If you violate the TOS, most sites will freeroll on you letting you deposit and deposit and deposit even if they know you are suspect. In the rare occasion that a score is made by the offender, out come the rules.
" Dear Mr. Smith. It seems that you are in violation of our policy regarding multiple accounts from the same address/I.P....blah.blah"
The sending of the Drivers License is only the first of many steps designed to hold your money. The end result of the run around, after weeks or months of sending various things, along with requiring the wife to speak with a security specialist at Bodog, will be forfieture of all winnings for violating the TOS.
Best case scenario is that your pal has to fess up and tell the wife he opened a gambling account in her name and used her card to fund it. Then he has to tell her she needs to send the operators of such site her personal information to get 3600 he probably doesn't want her to know about.
Seems like your friend painted himself into a corner, otherwise why the big comotion about sending the info. Standard procedure. Nothing to worry about if everything is on the up and up.
I always hear problems involving people from the same address and/or same I.P. If there are money transfers and bonuses involved in this, it's going to get really ugly.
I accept that I could be wrong about this, but in years of lurking on poker forums, the threads that start with such complaints, often end in someone multi-accounting,colluding, or bonus abusing.
I hope your friend gets his money.12io4j2w90