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Posted by: Jetset at February 17, 2005, 2:41 pm

Topic: Gambling Federation Spyware Forum: Winner Online

GF have made a statement that this covert trojan in their download was an anti-spam measure designed to protect their customers from the sites it closed access to.

They have apologised and acknowledged that it was a dumb thing to do (not to mention unethical and an invasion of player privacy) I don't think it will just end there, however.

IT specialists on the other site have debunked and ridiculed the "spam measure" excuse as BS.

I expect this will have serious repercussions for the GF company and its leadership, not just in a business and maybe litigative sense but in respect of its membership of trade associations like the IGC and iGGBA too - it is inconceivable that those bodies will let this go unremarked.

Here's the GF statement:

First off, please allow us to extend our apologies for this major issue. We owe all of you an explanation regarding this.

A few months ago, we received several spam complaints from our players being sent by the domains you found in your host file. At first we tried to calm our players down, stating that we had nothing to do with these properties and were not responsible for their actions. However, the issue repeated itself several times within a short time span, causing us a mass influx of complaints.

We decided, albeit foolishly, to resolve this issue by blocking the domains which cause our players grief through the software. We did not intend to ever block any one else, nor impair revenues for affiliates. We now realize that this was not the right way to go about this problem. We will be issuing a fix for this ery shortly and we will correct this problem within 24 hours.

We sincerely apologize,
Talia
Gambling Federation PR Manager

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