Spam Received

[FictionNet]

I've had some spam today, promoting winner.com. I tried to report the spam by e-mailing it to marketing.casino@winner.com (as shown on your contact page)and it bounced back as follows:

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

marketing.casino@winner.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<marketing.casino@winner.com>:
host ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com [74.125.45.26]: 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.

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So here's the spam:

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to play for free!

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Winner ID Spins Won Date

Frank@xxx.com $1000 $112,120 03/10/2011
Christian1966@xxx.net $1000 $38,438 28/09/2011
Alexander@xxx.com $1000 $68,540 22/09/2011

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[Anthony]

Thanks for posting. I will let them know at Winner the email you sent bounced.

[Robbie Winner]

Thanks for reporting the spam and the issue re: the email address. We are currently investigating both who sent the smap as well as any technical issues there may be with the email address you listed.

We appreciate the heads-up!

[NickyV]

then check this too please..

those fuckxxxx are spamming me daily several times with their ****...

hxxt://www.best-cazino.info
hxxp://www.coinsplacescazino.info

cames always from name "Belohnungsabteilung" and theeeeeeeeeeyy are using a lot of domains like aboves.

headers:

Return-Path: <root@www2.oplima.com.br>
X-Original-To: xxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivered-To: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
    by mail-xxxxxxx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2608B2B7
    for <xxxxxxxxxx>; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:04:20 +0100 (CET)
X-Virus-Scanned: by mail-smtp01 Virus-Scanner
Received: from mail-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ([127.0.0.1])
    by localhost (mail-xxxxxxxxxxxxx [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
    with LMTP id 4b7ozSeAkkTJ for <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
    Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:04:20 +0100 (CET)
Received: from mailxxxxxxxxxxx (mail-rbl01 [10.1.1.16])
    by mail-smxxxxxxxxx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518B78B2B5
    for <xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:04:20 +0100 (CET)
Received: from www2.oplima.com.br (xxxcnn6250.hospedagemdesites.ws [187.45.228.161])
    by mail-rbl01.edis.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A35D10064C14
    for <xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:04:18 +0100 (CET)
Received: by www2.oplima.com.br (Postfix, from userid 0)
    id A6AEE774D7; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:07:08 -0300 (BRT)
From: Belohnungsabteilung <belohnungen@coinsplacescazino.info>
To: xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 1000 EURO Willkommensbonus!
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related;
    boundary="=_a4871df9801eabe89397f96920890329"
Message-Id: <20111130220708.A6AEE774D7@www2.oplima.com.br>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:07:08 -0300 (BRT)

</belohnungen@coinsplacescazino.info></xxxxxxxxxxxx></xxxxxxxxxxxx></xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx></xxxxxxxxxx></root@www2.oplima.com.br>

[hakank]

You can add, spinnerpromo.(om to the winner spam also arrives 1-2 times per day.
They do have an unsubscribe link, but it don't work..

aff id 277879 ?

[Robbie Winner]

Hi hakank and NickyV,

Thank you both very much for alerting us to this severe problem. We have contacted the affiliate in question and demanded that he cease this spamming immediately. Should he not stop ASAP, we will be taking the appropriate punitive measures against him.

[NickyV]

another one;
hxxp://hot-winner.com/link.php?M=3006391&N=37&L=2&F=H

and again "Belohnungsabteilung":
hxxp://www.bestcazino.info/
hxxp://www.palace-best.info/

[NickyV]

and here the fresh one (16:46 CET) from "Belohnungsabteilung"

hxxp://www.bestpalace.info/

1 time to my affiliate email
1 time to my gambling email
1 time to my private email

[NickyV]

and here the "Belohnungsabteilung" bitchez again (7x 3 email adresses used = 21 emails received!)

hxxp://www.bestcazinopalace.info
hxxp://www.palace-cazino-best.info
hxxp://www.cazino-palace-best.info
hxxp://www.cazino-best-palace.info
hxxp://www.cazinobest.info
hxxp://www.best-palace-cazino.info
hxxp://www.palacebest.info

[Robbie Winner]

Thanks for all the informative posts re: the spam.

We have contacted the affiliate in question again and have let him know that we are currently taking significant punitive action against him.

We apologize sincerely for any inconvenience he may have caused you.

Winner Affiliates

[theGman]

We have contacted the affiliate in question again and have let him know that we are currently taking significant punitive action against him

What punitive action would that be then ? It seems your punitive action from the last time did not work . So what kind of action are you taking if any at all. I just dont believe that Winner are taking this seriously or it would have stopped by now. Either that or it is yourselves who are doing the mailing.

[Robbie Winner]

What punitive action would that be then ? It seems your punitive action from the last time did not work . So what kind of action are you taking if any at all. I just dont believe that Winner are taking this seriously or it would have stopped by now. Either that or it is yourselves who are doing the mailing.

Hi Gman,

We understand your concern but you can rest assured of a few things: 1) it is for sure an affiliate who is doing this, not us 2) there was no "last time" - what we had done before was warn the affiliate that we would take action unless he stopped. 3) Since he refused to stop the spamming, we have now taken action against him.

For your information, this action in effect means that we have terminated his deal with us and he will not be getting paid for any players/traffic generated through these activites.

Unfortunately, we cannot physically prevent him from actually sending out emails. However, should he persist in doing so, we will commence with legal proceedings against this person.

[universal4]

Frank@xxx.com $1000 $112,120 03/10/2011
Christian1966@xxx.net $1000 $38,438 28/09/2011
Alexander@xxx.com $1000 $68,540 22/09/2011

Is this part real or did they fake that portion?

If it is real, where did the spammer get this info?

Surely winners emails/ids are not published??

Rick
Universal4

[Robbie Winner]

Is this part real or did they fake that portion?

If it is real, where did the spammer get this info?

Surely winners emails/ids are not published??

Rick
Universal4

Hi Rick - it's fake. As you correctly surmised, we don't publish Winners IDs or emails. We do, however, put out a "limited" list of big casino Winners, which can be viewed here:

http://casino.winner.com/winners.html

[theGman]

Robbie thanks for your response and the action you have taken. As these people dont work for free - i am sure that we will not see any more of this spamming , unless that is, you do another deal with people like this who go around spamming randomly for various Casinos. The one thing that i never see major brands like Bet365 do is engage in practices like this . I guess thats exactly why i am m ore than happy to give them great positioning on my sites.

[Robbie Winner]

Affiliates who sign up with us are treated as business partners. Accordingly, we are not in the habit of taking unilateral actions against our partners without first contacting them directly to discuss.

For the record, the affiliate involved in this case is legitimate; i.e., he has a website and has worked in many legitimate ways to bring us players in the past. When we were alerted to the fact that this affiliate began illicit spamming activities, we took immediate action, as detailed in previous posts.

As a responsible, upstanding operator, we and our affiliates have mutual obligations to one another. When we learned that this affiliate partner of ours was spamming, we informed them of the seriousness of this offense and meted out punitive measures accordingly, not paying them for any players brought to us via this method. We have also informed the affiliate that continuing such activities would be tantamount to a breach of contract, in which case he would also no longer get paid for any players he brings to us, even via legitimate means.<O</O