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Best Affiliates Manager Should Be Stripped of iGB Affiliate Award

by AussieDave

Published on: February 27, 2012

Categories: RewardsAffiliates

Tags:Best Affiliates Manager Award, Casino Rewards Scam, Casino Rewards unethical cross maketing, iBG Affiliate Awards, rewards affiliates scam

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The Casino Rewards bomb shell rocked the gaming affiliate industry with proof of unethical cross marketing, stolen players and commissions from affiliate partners assisted by Rewards Affiliates. Surely this should see the iGB strip the Best Affiliates Manager Award from Renee Mate of Rewards Affiliates, shouldn’t it?

“Best” – of the highest quality, excellence, or standing.

An award for “Best Affiliate Manager” should also indicate trustworthy ethics, honesty and above all an integrity of fairness for all.

Whilst it would seem a number of key employees of Rewards Affiliates have since resigned as a result of the Casino Rewards Affiliate Scam, Renee the recipient of the iGB Best Affiliate Manager Award (2010) is still working for this dishonest affiliate program. What does that tell you?

Rewards Affiliates Casino Rewards Name & Shame

by AussieDave

Published on: February 24, 2012

Categories: ITS Management

Tags:Casino Rewards, Jimmy Talyor ITS Management, Renee Mate Rewards Affiliates, rewards affiliates, Yanic Klein Rewards Affiliates

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As promised in a previous article about ITS Management (Internet Traffic Solutions Management) &; Rewards Affiliates &; Casino Rewards, it’s time to name and shame those who have assisted the aforementioned online gaming entities to steal & scam literally millions of dollars of rightful commission income from gambling affiliates world wide.

When this scam was made public in March 2011 (GPWA – Rewards Affiliates Scam Uncovered) the following people were owners or employees at ITS Management & or; Casino Rewards &or; Rewards Affiliates.

Jimmy Taylor CEO ITS Management – Owner Casino Rewards & Rewards Affiliates

Jimmy Taylor CEO ITS Management
Jimmy Taylor (aka Jamie Taylor, aka James Taylor) heads the commerical operations and ownership of ITS Management &; Casino Rewards Group &; Rewards Affiliates. He managers this entire operation from offices at Bondi Junction in Sydney Australia. It would seem that online gambling funds and the stolen commissions from affiliates who partner with Rewards Affiliates, are placed into an Australian Trust Account going by the name of J D Taylor Family Trust.

Renee Mate – Rewards Affiliates Program Manager

Renee Mate Rewards Affiliates Program Manager
Renee Mate is the Program Manager for Rewards Affiliates and it would seem is also the spokesperson for both Rewards Affiliates and Casino Rewards. Renee Mate has actively posted excuses and smoke screens to hide the dodgy activities and unethical cross marketing of Casino Rewards and Rewards Affiliates on gambling affiliate forums. So good has the wool been pulled over gaming affiliates eyes by the Casino Rewards Group, that Renee Mate received numerous voting ballots for Best Affiliate Manager awards at the iGB Affiliate Awards. Renee Mate of Rewards Affiliates won The Best Affiliate Manager for 2010. What a farse!

Yanic Klein – Affiliate Manager Rewards Affiliates

NB Currently Employment – Director at AgentRater Pty Ltd
Yanic Klein Affiliate Mananger Rewards Affiliates
Yanic Klein is an affiliate manager for Rewards Affiliates. His job entails looking after gambling affiliates assigned to his portfolio. Whilst Yanic has not to my knowledge posted any comments publically, I have personally sent him emails asking for my stolen commissions. I received an email form Yanic Klein specifically requesting I stop harrassing Renee Mate.

For the record, I was not hassling anyone I wanted my rightful affiliate commissions paid. Those stolen from me by Casino Rewards Group. Estimated value exceeds $250,000US.

agentrater.com.au the domain whois info points to Yanic Klein registering the domain but under another company name of enovate.com.au: agentrater.com.au whois info

Waybackmachine (http://www.archive.org/) does not have an pages archived for agentrater.com.au. This means the website is relatively new. Here is the result from the Waybackmachine look-up for agentrater.com.au waybackmachine (as of 25/02/2011).

enovate.com.au whois info points to Yanic Klein. Again this domain was registered under yet another company name – Shoe Time Pty Limited: enovate.com.au whois info

Two obvious questions need to be asked!
When Yanic Klein was employed by Rewards Affiliates was he receiving kick-backs & or incentives to help Casino Rewards scam gambling affiliates out of their rightful commissions, under his management? And if so, were these funds used as start-up capital for agentrater.com.au?

As a pure time line observation, Yanic Klein leaves Rewards Affiliates to become the Director of his own start-up company agentrater.com.au, at a time when Casino Rewards has been busted stealing affiliate commissions and players from their affiliate partners. To me, it all seems a bit too coincidental.

Speculations of deceit and scallywag behaviour is again questioned when one learns Renee Mate (Rewards Affiliates Program Manager) held her own affiliate Btag code (affiliate tracking code).

Adding further fuel to this out of control fire are the in-house promotions (emails) sent to tagged players by Casino Rewards. These players were referred to Casino Rewards by affiliates. However these players were being contacted directly without using the referring affiliates Btag (tracking code).

Effectively Casino Rewards were attempting to hoodwink players away from their gambling affiliate partners and thus stealing rightful commissions.

Renee Mate claimed when called to count on these unethical cross marketing issues, they were sent by 3′rd party entities. However that does not seem to be true. View that GPWA Discussion.

Cristy Hoy – Payments Manager Rewards Affiliates/Casino Rewards

Cristy Hoy Payments ITS Management

Sam Elderfield – Supervisor Casino Rewards

Sam Elderfield Supervisor ITS Management

Graham Wobcke – Web development Casino Rewards / Rewards Affiliates

Graham Wobcke Web development ITS Management

Adam Pinkus – Campaign Manager Casino Rewards

Adam Pinkus Campaign Manager Casino Rewards

Nina Pogossov – Campaign Manager Casino Rewards

Nina Pogossov Campaign Manager Casino Rewards

David Rusnak – Customer Support Casino Rewards

David Rusnak Customer Support Casino Rewards

The Casino Rewards Scam of stealing millions of rightful commission earnings from their gambling affiliate partners has gone on too long. ITS Management, more to the point Jimmy Talyor the owner of Casino Rewards and Rewards Affiliates and CEO of ITS Management (Internet Traffic Solutions Management), needs to make good on the following:

* Return all stolen commissions to all gambling affiliates affect by this scam.

* Map all stolen players back to the affiliates who originally referred them to Casino Rewards Group.

ITS Management

by AussieDave

Published on: September 30, 2011

Categories: Online Casinos

Tags:35 online casinos, Casino Rewards, rewards affiliates

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I always question the motives of anyone who feels the need to hide or camouflage the truth. If people can’t be honest about their activities, it’s a clear warning sign that maybe they can’t be trusted. In my opinion, this goes for any business too; especially those operating in the online gaming industry. If a company can not be honest with what their primary business purpose is, and why they feel the need to actively hide their true commercial activities, this should throw up a big red flag.

One online business, ITS Management based in Sydney Australia, seems to hold truths very loosely.

Our mission statement
ITS Management executes online media and Internet marketing initiatives that deliver measurable business results. With a professional approach to creative solutions, our work matches interface design with functional operation, optimizing our techniques to deliver the most innovative product to our target audience. We utilize the latest technologies and strategies to ensure we are at the cutting edge of business development, with a team of highly skilled individuals building, managing and improving our range of digital products.

The ITS Management web-site does not state it owns and operates 35 online casinos from its offices in Sydney Australia. This lack of being truthful seems to also extend to its employees.

Yaniv Klein is an affiliate manager / coordinator with Rewards Affiliates; the affiliate program who enlist webmasters to promote online gaming properties owned by Casino Rewards. Both commercial entities CR & RA are owned by ITS Management.

Mr Jamie Taylor is the CEO/Owner of ITS Management & well known in the online casino industry.

Running a business name search from the NSW Office of Fair Trading returns these results:
ITS Management NSW Business Search
Registration details
For business name BN97767149 – ITS MANAGEMENT

(i) Business name: ITS MANAGEMENT
(ii) Registration number: BN97767149
(iii) Registration details:

Date registered: 16/10/2000
Registration status: REGISTERED
Nature of business: BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Renewal due date: 16/10/2012
ABN: 27-094-089-951

(v) Trading history under business name:
Trading status: TRADING from 01/09/2000

One thing that really bugs me, why the above business only has a sole trading registration. I suppose that’s a moot point when factoring in that this Australian business does not openly declare it owns and operates 35 online casinos.

Rewards Affiliates & Casino Rewards

by AussieDave

Published on: September 26, 2011

Categories: ITS Management

Tags:Casino Rewards, Interactive Gambling Act 2001, its management, J D TAYLOR FAMILY TRUST, rewards affiliates

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ITS Management Sydney Australia

Rewards Affiliates and Casino Rewards are both connected to the operations of online casinos and which are run from the business of ITS Management located in Sydney Australia. On closer inspection the ABN (Australian Business Number) for ITS Management is connected to the entity name of J D TAYLOR FAMILY TRUST.

There is where it gets interesting. ITS Management who supposedly has over 200 employees BUT is only registered as sole trading business, not a PTY LTD. Further more the details contained within these records state that ITS Management’s nature of business: BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTANCY SERVICES.

Hang on a minute that’s not correct. ITS Management who is directly connect to J D TAYLOR FAMILY TRUST owns and operates online casinos from it’s offices in Sydney Australia.

Casino Rewards Breaks Australian Federal Laws

Casino Rewards and Rewards Affiliates are connected to operating online casinos – adding Casino Rewards although not licensed by the Australian Government ITS Management still accepts bets from Australian citizens. This is a Federal Offence by the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 of Australia.

ITS Management, aka Rewards Affiliates and Casino Rewards are breaking Australian Federal Gambling Laws. Fines for these illegal activities are, up to $220,000AUD per day for an individual and up to $1.million a day for bodies corporate.

NB – Although Casino Rewards and their online casinos no longer accept new sign-ups from Australian players, they still accept wagers from exsisting aussie gamblers who already hold casino accounts at Casino Rewards.

Meaning, ITS Management are still breaking Australian Federal Gambling Laws by continuing to accept online casino gambling wagers from fellow Australian citizens.

My next blog will highlight some of the people (including photos) who work for these crooks. Who actively assist both Casino Rewards and Rewards Affiliates to scam affiliates and steal their rightful affiliate commissions. Which could turn into a complete nightmare for these people as it seems a lot of ITS Management employees have obtained sponsorship employment from other countries. Being connected to illegal activities could very well see them deported!

Whilst I personally have no intention to cause anyone grief. It’s not right to steal affiliate earnings. ITS Management, Casino Rewards and Rewards Affiliates refuse to enter into any discussions with me about affiliates not being paid their rightful earnings &/or compensated for all the players stolen from them by Casino Rewards and Rewards Affiliates.

Proof Casino Rewards and Rewards Affiliates are stealing tagged players from their affiliates:
Casino Rewards Drops Affiliate Tags
Rewards Affiliates Casino Rewards Hijacking Tagged Players
Casino Rewards Dodgy Cross Marketing
Rewards Affiliates Unethical Affiliate Program
Rewards Affiliates Blacklisted

GPWA Sinks to All Time Low

by AussieDave

Published on: September 18, 2011

Categories: GPWA

Tags:gpwa crass polls, gpwa trailer trash, gpwa unprofessional

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If the GPWA Poll on “How was your first sexual experience?” wasn’t enough to shock any professional online gaming company sponsoring the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association, then the latest poll “How many times a day do you fart?” certainly proves the GPWA is unprofessional. Its clearly obvious the GPWA is more suited to attracting trailer trash than professional gambling affiliates.

Reiterating my views.
There is a time and place for everything including joking around. However allowing a GPWA private member to continually post crass polls and cheered on by GPWA staff is about as low as the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association can go. Whilst these polls are completely out of line, it’s good to know only a few of the GPWA members posted.

Obviously the low forum thread participation didn’t register with the GPWA owner that most of their members and gaming sponsors found these poll topics to be in very poor taste. To those affiliate managers who added their comments, I have to wonder at what ethical calibre their affiliate programs are managed under. More importantly what type of people head up these gaming entities.

Any casino, poker-room or sports-book who would allow their representative to post comments in these trailer trash polls should be given a wide berth.

GPWA Sinks to All Time Low – You bet!

GPWA Turns Sex Therapist

by AussieDave

Published on: September 16, 2011

Categories: Gambling Portal Webmasters Association

Tags:Casino Rewards, gambling portal webmasters association, GPWA, professional gaming, rewards affiliates

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Gambling Portal Webmasters Association is the only professional organization of its kind.

They surely can’t mean they’re a professional gaming organisation, when they run a gpwa poll asking:

How was your first sexual experience?

Whilst I’m anything but a prude, there is a time and a place for everything. And these same people wonder why Governments think most of the online gaming industry are unprofessional goofs. I rest my case.

Maybe if the GPWA spent more time concerned about the welfare of their affiliates being shafted by dodgy casinos and their marketing programs, such as Casino Rewards and Rewards Affiliates, the industry would be in a much better position than it is today.

Gambling Portal Webmasters Association, your a class act!

Rewards Affiliates Scam at GPWA

by AussieDave

Published on: August 11, 2011

Categories: Unethical Cross Marketing

Tags:Affiliate Guard Dog, affiliate unethical cross marketing, Executive Director GPWA, rewards affiliates, rewards affiliates scam

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From March 8′th 2011 at the GPWA (Gambling Portal Webmasters Association) a long time forum member posted proof that Rewards Affiliates were scamming their affiliate partners with unethical cross marketing. Its been proven with factual evidence Rewards Affiliates scam their affiliate partners by contacting their tag players with untagged links.

A private GPWA voting poll was commenced to determine if Rewards Affiliates should be suspended as a sponsor program. This unethical cross marketing does contravene the GPWA sponsorship Code of Conduct*.

The Executive Director of the gpwa.org stated*:

Calls for suspension in the private forums are taken seriously.

That vote returned a YES to suspend Rewards Affiliates as a sponsor program at the GPWA. However as a result Rewards Affiliates was not suspended. Instead the Executive Director of the GPWA turned tail and stated*:

The poll was to obtain a sense of the membership.

In my opinion and others it points to the GPWA holding a contra deal & or a conflict of interest with Rewards Affiliates. To this day (9′th August 2011) this forum thread remains*.

This unethical cross marketing has been swept under the carpet and the GPWA continues to provide a safe haven to Rewards Affiliates by given it carte blanche to scam online gaming affiliates.

NB – the topic of Rewards Affiliates scamming their affiliate partners with unethical cross marketing has been brought to other online gaming forums. However a similar mindset prevails and these threads are closed quickly using any silly excuse. Or those who protest against Rewards Affiliates face personal attacks.

Recently I challenged Renee the affiliate manager and spokesperson for Rewards Affiliates at AGD (Affiliate Guard Dog). I posted screen shot proof, backed with email proof that Rewards Affiliates continues to unethically cross market their gaming properties. However even with all that proof and facts, the owner of AGD closed that thread down*.

The owner of AGD (Guard Dog) stated*:

This WAS a professional forum. Since I intend to to keep it that way – I am going to do what makes sense to me…This thread is closed.

AGD like so many other gaming affiliate forums have ties back to the GPWA. Either by the owners hold private membership or in the case of AGD having their own GPWA forum. Was this Rewards Affiliates thread closed because of pressure from the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association?

References:
* http://www.gpwa.org/sponsor/codeofconduct.asp
* http://www.gpwa.org/forum/all-22-casinos-rewards-player-emails-links-cr-website-196308/p10.html#post642850
* http://www.gpwa.org/forum/all-22-casinos-rewards-player-emails-links-cr-website-196308/p11.html#post644751
* http://www.gpwa.org/forum/all-22-casinos-rewards-player-emails-links-cr-website-196308.html
* http://www.affiliateguarddog.com/forums/cr-issue-t4308.html
* http://www.affiliateguarddog.com/forums/cr-issue-t4308-p7.html

Australian Webmasters Affiliates Association

by AussieDave

Published on: June 17, 2011

Categories: australian affiliates

Tags:aussie affiliates, Australian affiliate programs, Australian affiliates, Australian webmasters, AWAA

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In a few weeks the AWAA – Australian Webmasters Affiliates Association will open. The aim of the AWAA is to provide a combined voice for all aussie affiliate webmasters, to help bring forth positive changes within the Australian affiliate industry. The most pressing issue which troubles not only aussie affiliate marketers but those in other countries, is whether the programs they promote are honest. Up until now Australian affiliates have had to simple accept if their stats don’t add up against those displayed in the affiliate programs they work with. All too often these webmaster stats are shaved. As always it’s the affiliate who lose income.

Although the AWAA accepts not all affiliate programs are unethical, it’s well aware not all are honest either. It’s with this knowledge, drawn from many years of hands on affiliate marketing, that the AWAA has been established. The Australian Webmasters Affiliates Association would encourage all Australian affiliates to visit their site below.

Protecting Australian Webmasters Affiliate Interests

Quicktender (QT) Exits Online Gaming

by AussieDave

Published on: May 28, 2011

Categories: Web Wallets

Tags:Affiliate funds frozen, QT, quicktender

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If the seizure of poker domains by the USA Department of Justice (DoJ) didn’t make you sit up and take notice, then Quicktender (QT – web wallet) taking an abrupt exit stage right from the online gambling industry this week 22′nd May 2011, has surely shaken not only USA players but USA based affiliates to their core.

As much as I’m sorry to hear that many, many affiliates have had their earning frozen, most knew this was coming but decided to run the gauntlet anyway. The UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) was pass in 2006. Since then, the DoJ has taken swift action with precision effect. Over this time the DoJ has managed to push most of the online gaming industry away from its shores. Gambling software providers such as MGS (Microgaming), Playtech and others have ditched USA players as a risk too great to being hunted down by the USA Department of Justice.

Looking at it from here, without QuickTender most America affiliates and players are going to find it tough receive payments or making deposits. Don’t be surprised if that wasn’t the prime intention of the DoJ all along. Stop the flow of funds – isn’t that what the UIGEA was all about!

Rewards Affiliates Strokes Affiliate Egos with BS

by AussieDave

Published on: May 6, 2011

Categories: Casino Rewards

Tags:Casino Rewards, casino rewards blacklisted, rewards affiliates, rewards affiliates blacklisted

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If your an online gambling affiliate, do not promote online casinos owned by the Casino Rewards Group. Do not sign-up, join or work with the Rewards Affiliates Program. Both of these online gaming entities have one sole purpose and that’s to steal your referring players and scam you out of your rightful commission.

Rewards Affiliates strokes affiliate egos with BS. The fact is they along with Casino Rewards are in cahoots and have no issue contacting your players with untagged promotional mailers designed to hoodwink your referred players from the casino(s) they signed up under you and woe them to other casinos thus they don’t have to pay you your monthly affiliate commission.

Casino Rewards would not have your players if you did not refer them. It’s that simple.

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