Sportsbet.com.au in probelms for unwanted gambling advertising

[fiulpro]

Sportsbet.com.au to pay $3.7m in fines and penalties for sending 150,000 unwanted gambling advertising and gambling as well. Apparently sportsbet would have to pay fines since they were sending those messages to people who were trying to unsubscribe to them. At the same time they are not only gonna pay the biggest fine according to Australian spam laws they are also going to pay to individual customers.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/10/sportsbet-to-pay-37m-in-fines-and-penalties-for-sending-150000-unwanted-gambling-ad-messages

Financial counsellors are also implying that they should put a whole ban on the gambling advertising. The company also was contacted by acma but they apparently continued to do it.

What do you think 💬?
I think it's really irresponsible thing to do.

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(Thread for sportsbet.com.au not sportsbet.io )

{I do understand the fact that there are many gambling sites usually that we see upfront using the same name sometimes therefore extremely sorry for the confusion that might have been caused. }

[acroman08]

if this is true, then It is an extremely irresponsible thing to do. they are professionals(at least I'd like to think so) and have been running their gambling site for a while now and they should know that sending advertisement emails to people who tried to unsubscribe to them can/will have consequences. I have nothing against sportsbet but I am glad they are going to be held accountable. I hope they'll take this incident as a lesson and be better next time.

anyway, you should fix the link. the link redirects me to an image instead of the article.

[Fortify]

Sportsbet to pay $3.7m in fines and penalties for sending 150,000 unwanted gambling advertising and gambling as well. Apparently sportsbet would have to pay fines since they were sending those messages to people who were trying to unsubscribe to them. At the same time they are not only gonna pay the biggest fine according to Australian spam laws they are also going to pay to individual customers.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/10/sportsbet-to-pay-37m-in-fines-and-penalties-for-sending-150000-unwanted-gambling-ad-messages

Financial counsellors are also implying that they should put a whole ban on the gambling advertising. The company also was contacted by acma but they apparently continued to do it.

What do you think 💬?
I think it's really irresponsible thing to do.

It's worth noting that this fine is issued to Sportsbet.com.au and NOT the Sportsbet.io cryptocurrency casino that is a regular participant at these forums. They are two distinct entities and direct competitors. Besides that, it is a fairly common occurrence to see these fines going out and it makes you wonder if the penalties are high enough. Let's hope that the multiplier goes up for each time a company is found guilty of breaking such laws so that eventually they will take the proper care or maybe even be pushed into bankruptcy if they abuse their marketing position. Unfortunately in these type of events, where they stand to make huge profits, you have to assume that every act is malicious instead of defaulting to the argument that it is accidental.

[dothebeats]

It looks like a lot of gambling platforms are incurring fines and violations in terms of advertising. I have unsubscribed to lots of advertisements from online casinos and some still went through, and end up in my spam folder. As someone who tries to limit their gambling habits on a select few platforms, and have purposely blocked all promotions and newsletters from other platforms, this is simply unacceptable since they are trying to entice me and tempt me to come and play to them once more. What if I'm a problematic gambler who wishes to change my ways? I'll be back at square 1 and it's all going to be downhill from there, again.

[paxmao]

Interesting, another case of unwanted email that results in a serious nudge on the head. I wonder if this would be the same if the company in question would not be as related to an activity that is always under particular scrutiny and has bad press by default with many people speaking about unwanted effects rather than the jobs and economy that it generates. Seems quite unfair compared to other business.

[VanityWallets2015]

Sportsbet to pay $3.7m in fines and penalties for sending 150,000 unwanted gambling advertising and gambling as well. Apparently sportsbet would have to pay fines since they were sending those messages to people who were trying to unsubscribe to them. At the same time they are not only gonna pay the biggest fine according to Australian spam laws they are also going to pay to individual customers.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/10/sportsbet-to-pay-37m-in-fines-and-penalties-for-sending-150000-unwanted-gambling-ad-messages

Financial counsellors are also implying that they should put a whole ban on the gambling advertising. The company also was contacted by acma but they apparently continued to do it.

What do you think 💬?
I think it's really irresponsible thing to do.

It's worth noting that this fine is issued to Sportsbet.com.au and NOT the Sportsbet.io cryptocurrency casino that is a regular participant at these forums. They are two distinct entities and direct competitors. Besides that, it is a fairly common occurrence to see these fines going out and it makes you wonder if the penalties are high enough. Let's hope that the multiplier goes up for each time a company is found guilty of breaking such laws so that eventually they will take the proper care or maybe even be pushed into bankruptcy if they abuse their marketing position. Unfortunately in these type of events, where they stand to make huge profits, you have to assume that every act is malicious instead of defaulting to the argument that it is accidental.

There is a big difference between the two parties. Those companies have nothing to do with each other, do they? Then sportsbets.io does not have to worry at all. The amount of the fine surprises me enormously, I have rarely seen such high fines. Most often, fines in the gambling industry come up when a company offers gambling to players from a country where it is illegal.

[Oilacris]

if this is true, then It is an extremely irresponsible thing to do. they are professionals(at least I'd like to think so) and have been running their gambling site for a while now and they should know that sending advertisement emails to people who tried to unsubscribe to them can/will have consequences. I have nothing against sportsbet but I am glad they are going to be held accountable. I hope they'll take this incident as a lesson and be better next time.

anyway, you should fix the link. the link redirects me to an image instead of the article.

Wondering if Stake would be the next one to have this kind of problem on which they would be penalized as i have seen some similar issues on them.

I wasnt expecting that Sportsbet do make the same thing on sending out promotional or advertising emails to those who unsubscribe which i could say that it is very unethical for
a platform to do so.

They are really not following into  those features on the first place and doesnt really let go to those gamblers who do tend to get out on gambling addiction.

[cabron]

Nice that  a spam law actually can make a company liable to the violation they did. Upon reading, this is not the sportsbet.io we all trusted. Australia seem trying to tighten. Government normally doesnt care about spam.

I just hope this spam law applies to all companies sending emails we didnt even register nor subscribed.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

It has already been mentioned in this thread by Fortify that this is NOT about the trusted Sportsbet.io who are represented here on the forum, that everyone loves so much.  

The company being fined is www.sportsbet.com.au & not www.sportsbet.io

OP should really have been more clear about which entity this thread is about.

For anyone trying to shit post & spam to fill their signature campaign quota, reconsider doing so because you’re barking up the wrong tree.

[Hamphser]

Nice that  a spam law actually can make a company liable to the violation they did. Upon reading, this is not the sportsbet.io we all trusted. Australia seem trying to tighten. Government normally doesnt care about spam.

I just hope this spam law applies to all companies sending emails we didnt even register nor subscribed.

It is really just right for them to a bit tighten and i dont really see this as a bad thing about these spam law which it should really be applied in all industries which this could really get rid of those unwanted emails about promotions and stuffs that we dont really need.On the time  that we do unsubscribe then it is really just right that those companies or platforms should stop on sending those craps out and its true that
government doesnt really care this much in the past on which these things are confidently continuing to do despite of exclusions or unsubscribing since they do know the couldnt be sued out
but now times changed and we are seeing these things to happen.

[Rruchi man]

It's a big concern these days the number of unwanted and unsolicited advertisement we get on our mobile phones. I'm even more concerned for the young and desperate who through these advertisement may decide to try out gambling as a means to make money without knowledge that there is a high potential for it to become a damaging habit to the future.  These sort of advertising from gambling platform creates am image of them being desperate IMO, and a desperate company does not care about limits, which is bad. This fine for unwanted advertising is a step in the right direction, other gambling platforms should take cue.

[Silberman]

Sportsbet to pay $3.7m in fines and penalties for sending 150,000 unwanted gambling advertising and gambling as well. Apparently sportsbet would have to pay fines since they were sending those messages to people who were trying to unsubscribe to them. At the same time they are not only gonna pay the biggest fine according to Australian spam laws they are also going to pay to individual customers.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/10/sportsbet-to-pay-37m-in-fines-and-penalties-for-sending-150000-unwanted-gambling-ad-messages

Financial counsellors are also implying that they should put a whole ban on the gambling advertising. The company also was contacted by acma but they apparently continued to do it.

What do you think 💬?
I think it's really irresponsible thing to do.

If they did this then it is incredibly irresponsible on their part, after all it makes sense they can send emails to their customers if they have decided to subscribe to their newsletter, however if they have opted out of this then they need to respect that decision, now if we were talking about an isolated case here and there then we could make the argument it was just a mistake and let it slide, but we are talking about 150k messages, that is not something that can be ignored as the number is simply too big to think this was a simple mistake and not an official policy on their part.

[Fatunad]

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It's worth noting that this fine is issued to Sportsbet.com.au and NOT the Sportsbet.io cryptocurrency casino that is a regular participant at these forums. They are two distinct entities and direct competitors. Besides that, it is a fairly common occurrence to see these fines going out and it makes you wonder if the penalties are high enough. Let's hope that the multiplier goes up for each time a company is found guilty of breaking such laws so that eventually they will take the proper care or maybe even be pushed into bankruptcy if they abuse their marketing position. Unfortunately in these type of events, where they stand to make huge profits, you have to assume that every act is malicious instead of defaulting to the argument that it is accidental.

Thanks for the clear up.I had directly presumed out that it was Sportsbet.io but it isnt.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/10/sportsbet-to-pay-37m-in-fines-and-penalties-for-sending-150000-unwanted-gambling-ad-messages
So this do talks about Sportsbet.com.au which people shouldnt really believe that this is talking about sportsbet that we know on this market.
Thanks for the clarification.

[Oceat]

I think I've read something like this before but the difference is that it's sending emails to those troubled gamblers who wants to stop receiving or wanted to be banned from their website yet they accidentally/intentionally send an email message to these kind of people.

It's worth noting that this fine is issued to Sportsbet.com.au and NOT the Sportsbet.io cryptocurrency casino that is a regular participant at these forums.

Thank you for the clarification about this matter, I almost thought that it was the regular one that has been in around to this forum. I never knew they have had a competitor who has almost the same website name but it's a bit different in their domain name.

Anyway, I think they deserve to pay the fine though since they pushed too much their marketing strategy that it actually cause some trouble specially to the troubled one who suffered too much from gambling. I think they aren't seriously following the law but instead they pushed to do such act despite of the warning by their government.

[jossiel]

If the case is about with these customers that have unsubscribed already to them and they're still spamming them with their ads. I think it's lawful that they should know that these people have tried to avoid them yet, they still insist of sending them those ads.

It's now the authorities that have stepped on it. Someone really got pissed off with those ads and probably have lost thousands already and yet they won't stop.

[Wexnident]

Ig it was a mistake on their side, or the system rather? It should be rather obvious that sending advertisements to unsubscribed users shouldn't be done. Especially since they're running a gambling casino, which could make a lot of issues depending on how the status is reported. I don't think it's something new, but it is something I don't often see since most casinos tend to actually take this issue with quite the careful stance afaik.

Financial counsellors are also implying that they should put a whole ban on the gambling advertising. The company also was contacted by acma but they apparently continued to do it.

That, I don't think would actually happen. I guess there'd be more strict regulations for casinos to comply, but complete ban? Nope.

[acroman08]

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thanks for clearing that up. the article never mentioned that it was sportsbet.com.au so I assumed it was sportsbet.io since it was the only bookie I know of that is named sportsbet. anyway, my comment would still be the same. they are professionals and made an irresponsible move and I am glad they are being held accountable for it.

[Darker45]

I am really amazed at how the government acted on this. I can only wish that spam laws across the world are as strictly implemented as the spam laws in Australia. I am not only awed by the fact that the spam laws in the country are actively and strictly implemented, I am also quite surprised at the enormity of the penalty.

Truth be told, my email is pestered with spam messages. I don't even know how I ended up receiving many of them. Even my phone is also receiving spam texts every now and then. I don't know if my country has spam laws. If there are, they're surely not implemented.

[Cling18]

It looks like a lot of gambling platforms are incurring fines and violations in terms of advertising. I have unsubscribed to lots of advertisements from online casinos and some still went through, and end up in my spam folder. As someone who tries to limit their gambling habits on a select few platforms, and have purposely blocked all promotions and newsletters from other platforms, this is simply unacceptable since they are trying to entice me and tempt me to come and play to them once more. What if I'm a problematic gambler who wishes to change my ways? I'll be back at square 1 and it's all going to be downhill from there, again.

Their act really deserves to be fined simply because they're causing disturbance to their customers who already unsubscribed to them. There are still lots of other gambling sites that advertise this way which I think also need to penalize. Gamblers are actually unsubscribing to get rid of gambling so they should be responsible for spamming their customers with too many advertisements.

[coin-investor]

if this is true, then It is an extremely irresponsible thing to do. they are professionals(at least I'd like to think so) and have been running their gambling site for a while now and they should know that sending advertisement emails to people who tried to unsubscribe to them can/will have consequences. I have nothing against sportsbet but I am glad they are going to be held accountable. I hope they'll take this incident as a lesson and be better next time.

anyway, you should fix the link. the link redirects me to an image instead of the article.

The article is interesting but yeah it's not redirecting to the article, but back on the post that's a bad way to advertise, gambling advertisements through emails should be targeted and people are opted to subscribed to receive newsletters, bonuses, and giveaways, this is gambling once a non gamblers receive such email campaign it will be reported and the email provider will ban their emails, the huge fine is enough lesson for them to do better.