I never willingly became a Kryptonim customer.
I authorized what looked like a normal CAD card payment on a .ca casino site (Neon54/Powbet). The page showed CAD dollars, Canadian branding and no obvious mention that my card would be used to buy USDC.e or that the transaction would run under MCC 6051 (fiat→crypto).
Only after my bank called asking if I was "buying crypto" did I start investigating. I then discovered the following:
The casino checkout redirected, after I entered my card details, to a "Pay by Straal" hosted page and then into a Kryptonim flow.
Kryptonim later confirmed in writing that they operate a fiat→crypto service under MCC 6051, and that my money was converted into USDC.e and sent to wallets they provided.
On-chain checks (Polygonscan) show a Kryptonim hot wallet receiving liquidity (including from "Binance 48") and then pushing USDC.e to collector/merchant wallets. None of these wallets are in my control; I have no keys, no seed phrase, no login.
At no time did I knowingly open a crypto wallet with Kryptonim or intend to buy crypto. I thought I was making a standard CAD deposit on a Canadian-facing casino site.
When I challenged this, Kryptonim’s stance was essentially: you bought crypto, it’s irreversible, no refund. In my view this ignores basic truth-in-transaction rules:
The point of sale was a .ca casino page in CAD, not a crypto exchange screen.
No clear disclosure that the transaction would be coded as MCC 6051, converted to USDC.e, or routed offshore.
KYC (ID/liveness) performed in their flow proves who I am, but it does not equal informed consent to a crypto conversion or offshore routing.
I have requested:
reversal refunds
Clarification of their relationship with the illegal offshore casinos operating as Neon54 / Powbet for Canadian players.
So far, I’ve received no refund and a lot of blame-shifting.
In my opinion, this is a card-to-crypto rail hidden behind a .ca casino front, with the customer left holding the risk while everyone in the payment chain denies responsibility. I am escalating this to regulators and card networks using Kryptonim’s own written admissions and on-chain evidence.
If you are a cardholder who suddenly discovers you’ve "bought crypto" after using these Casinos, check whether Kryptonim is in the flow and document everything.