Topic: Sportsbet.com.au in probelms for unwanted gambling advertising - page 2. (Read 424 times)
February 18, 2022, 11:29:38 PM
"Trying to unsubscribe"? You mean they haven't unsubscribed yet, hence they received the emails. Or they unsubscribed but received gambling promotional offers? If it is the latter, then the yeah, pay fines to the customers is justified, but if it's the former, then this makes no sense. Anyone can claim that they tried to unsubscribe, they couldn't and ask for compensation for the "damage" gambling has caused them. But this would make more sense if sportsbet did it on purpose (which I doubt) so people couldn't unsubscribe from their newsletter. Anyway, lesson learned. They will likely be more cautious now.
February 18, 2022, 09:03:48 PM
checked the link to the article and read that the institution in control of spam in Australia is taking such step to stop young misinformed people from going into gambling. They is a high degree of people that commit suicide because of gambling, especially those that gambled with the loan they took from the bank. Such dispute in a country should be looked into by the Government and its the reason why the betting company got charged of a huge sum of money for misleading over 3000 citizens that read the spam messages including youths who are not interested in gambling. On the other hand, the sport bet company have accepted to handle the bills and as also suspended email marketing at the moment.
February 18, 2022, 03:27:01 PM
Yeah, sure it is a lot of money.
And the government just did the right thing to put a penalty for that trick that they've done. It is the customers that were already asking for their promotions to stop but they didn't.
Doing an apology won't do.
It's already imposed that they have a penalty to pay and whether they apologize publicly or not, they still need to pay the amount.
Correct, they should apologize, after all they were disrespecting their clients by not following their wishes, however that in no way changes what it has already happened and they need to pay the fine they were imposed, now even if this seems like a lot of money we need to wonder how much money they earned by doing something like this? Because if I were to guess I would say they earned more money than the fine they had to pay, in which case they may not change their ways and keep doing this in the future. And the government just did the right thing to put a penalty for that trick that they've done. It is the customers that were already asking for their promotions to stop but they didn't.
Doing an apology won't do.
It's already imposed that they have a penalty to pay and whether they apologize publicly or not, they still need to pay the amount.
February 13, 2022, 03:05:23 PM
I am really amazed at how the government acted on this. I can only wish that spam laws across the world are as strictly implemented as the spam laws in Australia. I am not only awed by the fact that the spam laws in the country are actively and strictly implemented, I am also quite surprised at the enormity of the penalty.
Truth be told, my email is pestered with spam messages. I don't even know how I ended up receiving many of them. Even my phone is also receiving spam texts every now and then. I don't know if my country has spam laws. If there are, they're surely not implemented.
Until that day comes it is important that people learn how to deal with something like this on their own, I know that people like to have the convenience of a single email for all their needs, but when comes to a service that you do not know how long you are going to use it makes sense to have a throwaway email associated to your account, that way if you eventually get tired of the casino in which you are playing and they respect your decision to not send you spam then you can use it for another casino, and if they do not then you just change the password to that email to something you cannot remember and then logout from it, getting rid of the problem of the spam in an efficient way. Truth be told, my email is pestered with spam messages. I don't even know how I ended up receiving many of them. Even my phone is also receiving spam texts every now and then. I don't know if my country has spam laws. If there are, they're surely not implemented.
February 11, 2022, 04:40:10 AM
This is actually a pretty big company in Australia.
It's honestly not a lot of money to settle for. These guys make billions in profits most likely and $3.x million is peanuts to them.
And I don't think that they are going to stop doing it any time soon either - this is a core part of their business, getting people signed up through mass email and SMS campaigns.
It's honestly not a lot of money to settle for. These guys make billions in profits most likely and $3.x million is peanuts to them.
And I don't think that they are going to stop doing it any time soon either - this is a core part of their business, getting people signed up through mass email and SMS campaigns.
February 10, 2022, 07:59:49 PM
If the case is about with these customers that have unsubscribed already to them and they're still spamming them with their ads. I think it's lawful that they should know that these people have tried to avoid them yet, they still insist of sending them those ads.
It's now the authorities that have stepped on it. Someone really got pissed off with those ads and probably have lost thousands already and yet they won't stop.
It's now the authorities that have stepped on it. Someone really got pissed off with those ads and probably have lost thousands already and yet they won't stop.
There's a lot of case like this before but this is the first time that finally Casino pay for there greediness on doing this kind of dirty tricks just to get back again there old customers. That 3.7M fine is very huge but the lives that they might possibly destroy again is much valuable. I wonder if they will settle the fine or just do a public apology and bribe all the complainants to dismissed the case. Either way this shuld be a general rule to all crypto casino. IIRC, There's an online casino here in the forum that committed this crime to but they declare it as a mistake from there personnel that's why they got away on possible case.
And the government just did the right thing to put a penalty for that trick that they've done. It is the customers that were already asking for their promotions to stop but they didn't.
Doing an apology won't do.
It's already imposed that they have a penalty to pay and whether they apologize publicly or not, they still need to pay the amount.
February 10, 2022, 04:08:41 PM
Wow! That's a huge fine! Definitely it's an irresponsible job they have done by sending advertisements to such people who have unsubscribed from them, but the government should have been more reasonable here! Even though this fine is probably not a big thing for sportsbet considering their revenue is around 300 million usd per year, but if it was done by a small company, they would have been forced to close down their operations due to such financial penalty.
It is indeed a huge fine and I am thinking what does the management of sportsbet.com feel about it? I mean probably they were in so much discouragement about but yeah since it's happened and the only thing they need to do is to take the responsibility out of it. The good thing about the sportsbet.com really know how to take action and responsibility about it because this falls under the irresponsibility of their job. This is going to be a lesson learned for them and make this a great priority next time to not send advertisements to the people who unsubscribe them.
February 10, 2022, 03:18:36 PM
Wow! That's a huge fine! Definitely it's an irresponsible job they have done by sending advertisements to such people who have unsubscribed from them, but the government should have been more reasonable here! Even though this fine is probably not a big thing for sportsbet considering their revenue is around 300 million usd per year, but if it was done by a small company, they would have been forced to close down their operations due to such financial penalty.
That is really not a huge fine especially for gambling company such as sportsbet. However, I think they are just doing this to notify the company about their illegal activities. It would be higher if they'll be able to do it again. Also, the difference on tax that this kind of big company produced compared to a small gambling company is also the reason why they weren't able to do harsh actions on the company. It's has been made clear the fine levied wasn't against our reputable sportsbet.io I think it would be nice to close the lock the thread to avoid spamming as the raised issue doesn't have much to do with the casinos on the forum. The message is passed and since it should serve as a good warning casinos out there because all the consider is making money and not the health of their customers.
Yup, it has been cleared out by the OP himself at the beginning that this company isn't associated on any way to Sportsbet.io. However since this is a gambling related topic so I think there's no reason for the OP to close the thread other than to avoid spammers. February 10, 2022, 03:02:45 PM
It's has been made clear the fine levied wasn't against our reputable sportsbet.io I think it would be nice to close the lock the thread to avoid spamming as the raised issue doesn't have much to do with the casinos on the forum. The message is passed and since it should serve as a good warning casinos out there because all the consider is making money and not the health of their customers.
February 10, 2022, 02:38:41 PM
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thanks for clearing that up. the article never mentioned that it was sportsbet.com.au so I assumed it was sportsbet.io since it was the only bookie I know of that is named sportsbet. anyway, my comment would still be the same. they are professionals and made an irresponsible move and I am glad they are being held accountable for it. Before they put a fine they should investigate it first if it was an error same happened to stake casino or they can give a warning first and it seems not right if they will also pay the gamblers aside from the fine.
February 10, 2022, 02:34:49 PM
Wow! That's a huge fine! Definitely it's an irresponsible job they have done by sending advertisements to such people who have unsubscribed from them, but the government should have been more reasonable here! Even though this fine is probably not a big thing for sportsbet considering their revenue is around 300 million usd per year, but if it was done by a small company, they would have been forced to close down their operations due to such financial penalty.
It is possible the government is trying to make an example out of them, so other casino operators that are doing the same stop doing it, it is nothing more but a scare tactic but one that is incredibly effective as no one wants to pay millions and millions of dollars on fines and reparations to their customers, I hope that the casinos doing this change their ways, after all the gambling industry is already incredibly profitable, so they do not need to bend the rules to extract a little bit of more profit when that is not necessary. 
February 10, 2022, 01:37:25 PM
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(Thread for sportsbet.com.au not sportsbet.io )
February 10, 2022, 01:06:36 PM
Wow! That's a huge fine! Definitely it's an irresponsible job they have done by sending advertisements to such people who have unsubscribed from them, but the government should have been more reasonable here! Even though this fine is probably not a big thing for sportsbet considering their revenue is around 300 million usd per year, but if it was done by a small company, they would have been forced to close down their operations due to such financial penalty.
February 10, 2022, 12:36:52 PM
I think it's fair since sportsbet.com is like one of the biggest sportsbooks in Australia and it seems like it's their fault for letting the spam slip through for over a year. It would've been fine if it's only for a month or two IMO but when that issue is going for more than a year it's not acceptable to allow any casino to get away with it. I rarely unsubscribe from casino mails but so far i'm lucky that I haven't experienced any similar issue since it'd be annoying to see unwanted emails clogging up your inbox. Also i'm not sure if it's just me but I want to point out that the link in the OP doesn't show the actual article.
February 10, 2022, 10:49:30 AM
I think if there is a system of fines on their gambling platforms to get rid of the problem of unwanted gambling ads troubled sites will not be able to promote. Also need to do a good analysis before joining although the key to the success of the game series is all of them are suffering from huge financial problems for all these spam platforms. This situation is moving towards a frightening situation failure to take action now could lead to further misguidance in the future if there is a system of fines and imprisonment it can be removed.
February 10, 2022, 10:40:54 AM
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(Thread for sportsbet.com.au not sportsbet.io )
{I do understand the fact that there are many gambling sites usually that we see upfront using the same name sometimes therefore extremely sorry for the confusion that might have been caused. }
if someone is not clear then I include a little link = sportsbet.com.au (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsbet) different from sportsbet.io (https://yolo.io/team/tim-heath/)
sportsbet.com.au comes from australia, while sportsbet.io from estonia
February 10, 2022, 10:07:28 AM
if this is true, then It is an extremely irresponsible thing to do. they are professionals(at least I'd like to think so) and have been running their gambling site for a while now and they should know that sending advertisement emails to people who tried to unsubscribe to them can/will have consequences. I have nothing against sportsbet but I am glad they are going to be held accountable. I hope they'll take this incident as a lesson and be better next time.
anyway, you should fix the link. the link redirects me to an image instead of the article.
anyway, you should fix the link. the link redirects me to an image instead of the article.
The article is interesting but yeah it's not redirecting to the article, but back on the post that's a bad way to advertise, gambling advertisements through emails should be targeted and people are opted to subscribed to receive newsletters, bonuses, and giveaways, this is gambling once a non gamblers receive such email campaign it will be reported and the email provider will ban their emails, the huge fine is enough lesson for them to do better.
February 10, 2022, 06:28:52 AM
It looks like a lot of gambling platforms are incurring fines and violations in terms of advertising. I have unsubscribed to lots of advertisements from online casinos and some still went through, and end up in my spam folder. As someone who tries to limit their gambling habits on a select few platforms, and have purposely blocked all promotions and newsletters from other platforms, this is simply unacceptable since they are trying to entice me and tempt me to come and play to them once more. What if I'm a problematic gambler who wishes to change my ways? I'll be back at square 1 and it's all going to be downhill from there, again.
Their act really deserves to be fined simply because they're causing disturbance to their customers who already unsubscribed to them. There are still lots of other gambling sites that advertise this way which I think also need to penalize. Gamblers are actually unsubscribing to get rid of gambling so they should be responsible for spamming their customers with too many advertisements.
February 10, 2022, 03:07:57 AM
I am really amazed at how the government acted on this. I can only wish that spam laws across the world are as strictly implemented as the spam laws in Australia. I am not only awed by the fact that the spam laws in the country are actively and strictly implemented, I am also quite surprised at the enormity of the penalty.
Truth be told, my email is pestered with spam messages. I don't even know how I ended up receiving many of them. Even my phone is also receiving spam texts every now and then. I don't know if my country has spam laws. If there are, they're surely not implemented.
Truth be told, my email is pestered with spam messages. I don't even know how I ended up receiving many of them. Even my phone is also receiving spam texts every now and then. I don't know if my country has spam laws. If there are, they're surely not implemented.
February 10, 2022, 12:28:13 AM
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thanks for clearing that up. the article never mentioned that it was sportsbet.com.au so I assumed it was sportsbet.io since it was the only bookie I know of that is named sportsbet. anyway, my comment would still be the same. they are professionals and made an irresponsible move and I am glad they are being held accountable for it. Jump to: