Hi,
Over €1,500 was confiscated from me today, citing the following reasons:
Dear (my name)
We would like to inform you that your withdrawal has been cancelled by the payments department and the amount of €1,530.57 has been removed from your balance due to the breach of the following Terms & Conditions:
11.1. The following practices in relation to the Services:
a) abuse of bonuses or other promotions (as defined in paragraph 11.4)
b) using unfair external factors or influences (commonly known as cheating)
c) taking unfair advantage (as defined in paragraph 11.4);
d) opening any Duplicate Accounts; and/or
e) undertaking fraudulent practice or criminal activity (as defined in paragraph 11.4), constitute "Prohibited Practices" and are not permitted. We will take all reasonable steps to prevent and detect such practices and to identify the relevant players concerned if they do occur.
11.2. You agree that you shall not participate in or be connected with any form of Prohibited Practice in connection with your access to or use of the Services.
11.3. If:
a) We have reasonable grounds to believe that you have participated in or have been connected with any form of Prohibited Practice (and the basis of our belief shall include the use by us of any fraud, cheating and collusion detection practices which are used in the gambling and gaming industry at the relevant time); or
b) You have placed bets and/or played online games with any other online provider of gambling services and are suspected (as a result of such play) of any Prohibited Practice or otherwise improper activity; or
c) We become aware that you have "charged back" or denied any of the purchases or deposits that you made to your account; or
d) You become bankrupt or suffer analogous proceedings anywhere in the world,
then, (including in connection with any suspension and/or termination of your account) we shall have the right, in respect of your account to withhold the whole or part of the balance and/or recover from the account the amount of any deposits, pay-outs, bonuses or winnings which have been affected by or are in any way attributable to any of the event(s) outlined in this paragraph.
11.4. For the purposes of this paragraph 11:
a) A "fraudulent practice" means any fraudulent activity engaged in by you or by any person acting on your behalf or in collusion with you, and shall include, without limitation:
fraudulent charge-backs and rake-back activity;
the use by you or any other person who was participating in the same game as you at any time, of a stolen, cloned or otherwise unauthorized credit or debit card, as a source of funds;
the collusion by you with others in order to gain an unfair advantage (including through bonus schemes or similar incentives offered by us);
any attempt to register false or misleading account information;
any actual or attempted act by you which is reasonably deemed by us to be illegal in any applicable jurisdiction, made in bad faith, or intended to defraud us and/or circumvent any contractual or legal restrictions, regardless of whether such act or attempted act actually causes us any damage or harm;
b) An "unfair advantage" shall include, without limitation:
the exploitation of a fault, loophole or error in our or any third party's software used by you in connection with the Services (including in respect of any game);
the use of automated players ('bots'), or other 3rd party software or analysis systems; or
the exploitation by you, of an 'Error' as defined in paragraph 18, in any case either to your advantage and/or to the disadvantage of us or other.
c) Bonus Abuse includes, but is not limited to:
i. breach of terms and conditions of a bonus, free bets or any other promotional offer
ii. the opening of multiple accounts to claim multiple bonuses;
iii. all bonuses are subject to bonus use limitation based on the bonus engine, and, unless stated otherwise, they shouldn't be used more that 6 times per calendar month; if for any reason a bonus code is used by an individual player over the stated amount, the Company reserves the right to further investigate bonus abusing pattern and deduct bonus winnings plus all 3rd-party charges arising from player's activity (payment fees, providers fees, etc…etc.
Lastly, kindly note that your last two deposits of total €150.00 is available on your account.
If you have any questions or require further clarification regarding our terms and policies, please do not hesitate to contact our dedicated support team.
Kind regards,
Customer Support Team
That text continues for about 3000 characters, so apparently that's all the rules.
I asked him exactly what I broke and where, he just says that the decision is final.
What can I do?