Hi everyone,
First of all, thank you to the @OP for initiating this topic, it's truly golden for numerous reasons.
I have received over 20 refunds in a span of ~7 days, and would like to share my 'good practices' with everyone here.
I seem to have established quite sound and simple process to getting the refunds. Sharing it below, together with the exact wording for the emails which has been working very well.
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Process:
1a) Whenever possible, contact the merchant directly first (scroll down for my wording example).
1b) If you do not have the email address of the merchant - don't worry, your options are contacting casino and/or initiating chargeback via your bank.
2) Make it sound like you already reported it to the bank, making it seem like the merchant has two options only: 1) initiate a refund; or 2) face chargeback, and thus attract much unwanted attention.
Remember - these are mostly shell companies, it is their incentive to stay under the radar.
3) Give them a deadline of ~7 days to respond, indicating that otherwise they will be facing chargeback.
4) Send reminders every day. Be a pain in the ass. Your reminders will potentially be used to strenghten your case later on, if it ends up as chargeback.
5) If they do not respond in 7 days - feel free to contact the casino, requesting refunds, or file a chargeback straight away (I have not had a chance to contact casinos - can't say much here).
6) Revolut bank has no problem if you admit you have been gambling - no need to lie when filing a chargeback.
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Email wording (merchant):
Subject: Refund request: Transaction laundering subject to chargeback
Dear Team,
My bank has recommended that I contact you with regards to a refund for suspicious transactions on my bank account. I hereby request an immediate refund on a transaction made through your payment system, that then went to an illegally operating gambling site.
This is against Mastercard/VISA rules and is subject to a chargeback, as it bypassed a block placed on my card and, to this day I have not received any service or goods from you.
These are the transactions in question:
*date* *currency* *amount*
*date* *currency* *amount*
Card number: xxxx xx** **** xxxx
My bank statement including these transactions is attached (*attach your bank statement*).
If there is anything else you would need from me, please let me know.
Otherwise, I trust we can resolve this matter amicably without the bank's involvement.
Kind regards,
Your name
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This has been working very well for me.
If you have plenty of transactions which you would like to be refunded, I recommend creating an Excel spreadsheet for tracking these.
Here's how mine looks:
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When I have time tomorrow, I would like to create a shared spreadsheet for us all where we can put contact details for merchants that we have founds.
With that said, I can say that I have managed to get in contact with following merchants:
Elegro (aka WynActive; Omicron; NikoTPF)
wintermads
instantgamesncards.com
smartwallets.tech (Da Vincis)
Tsinda
Games Artifact (Talinn)
yourphotographer.ai
prompthives.com
Complianceworld.ai
Xboxtime (Larnaca)
Mobilumpay
Until I create the shared spreadsheet, feel free to message me for contact details of these merchants.
I also have a strong suspicion that Advertising Services Brussels is: Contact - azerion (have not tried that yet, though).
Thanks!
Edited by author 5 months ago
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