3 months ago
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Good afternoon
I'm a player from Portugal and I have a complaint about this casino:
I opened an account about 1 month ago. After reading the Casino's terms and conditions and considering that there was a contradiction between:
"5.1.2. Using the Service if online gambling is prohibited for residents of your country or for anyone within your country;
5.1.3. Using the Service if you are a resident of, or accessing the Site from, any of the following countries: United States of America and its territories, France and its territories, Netherlands and its territories, and countries forming the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba, Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten."
and
"6.4. Citizens of certain countries, including the United States, Ukraine, France, Italy, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria, Jersey, San Marino, Armenia, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Lichtenstein, Montenegro, Andorra, China, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Mexico, Belize, Bolivia, Iraq, Iran and the Cayman Islands, are not allowed to create an account and deposit money on the Website.
I asked Blockbets customer support whether in fact Portugal was a restricted country or not, and received the following response (I have a supporting email - Ticket #245):
"Hey there, sorry for missing your chat. As we are a crypto casino we do accept players from Portugal. The terms & conditions are just to be safe in front of regulators I guess. The only countries we restrict from playing at our site is the USA, Netherlands & Cyprus.
Feel free to join us and let me know if you have any further questions :)
Best regards
Jason
BlockBets Casino"
After this answer, I was enlightened and made several deposits, and in one specific case, around $950 earned through a bonus was taken away from me, for not meeting the $2 maxbet requirement. Even though I wasn't happy, I understood the reasons and the initial deposit amount was returned to me and they even took the time to give me a symbolic rackback amount.
Meanwhile I received several emails with offers and even that I would have a VPI Host as I was reaching level 50 in the Vip System.
When you Register, i can confirm your Portuguese Phone number and also choose Portugal as your origin country (even tought you cant play pragmatic for example). But the website says VPN Friendly, so no problem...
I submmited my ID (for KYC purposes), and my portuguese ID was accepted (email proof also).
Yesterday, also during a bonus, I won $ 24000.00, and I was left with
$ 26000.00 after finishing a wager of $ 21500.00.
Deposits have always been made in crypto.
I tried to make a withdrawal of 1000.00$ and today I had my account closed by Blockbets and an email saying that the account had been closed for disrespecting the aforementioned clause 6.4 related to my country of origin and obviously I lost access to around 26000.00 $.
Therefore, I would like to obtain your assistance in resolving this situation. The terms and conditions are in fact abusive and contradictory as I have demonstrated and my Nationality was only a problem after i Win a big ammount of money in slots. Even in the review of the withdraw made before, nationality was not a problem.