Is Club Pogo a Scam Operation?
1 My wife and I both have had Pogo memberships for over a year. We have nothing that would help substantiate that they are running a less than legitimate business, however we personaly suspect that they are running a slip shod business with very little respect or ethical treatment of thier members. We know the games cheat when playing the bots, we've seen it numerous times and it is sometimes very blattent to the point it is almost humerous, but not quite.It's funny you asked this as we were just discussing this last night.
It seems a great number of players question the legitamacy of thier claims that they pay out any of the cash prizes as there is no way to verify that they actually did. They only claim to have a "screen name" winner of the prizes. Although this is only speculation on our part, we have discussed how easy it would be for them to create fictitious players to award cash prizes to.
Your situation to collect a $5.00 prize just adds to our suspicions that even if they are actually paying prizes out to real people how many actually end up getting them if they can so easily accuse someone of "cheating". After all, by what mehod can you disprove them? My wife loves playing the games, but I hate seeing them frustate her so easily when she knows they will inevitably cheat on her but I myself will not be renewing my membership.
I really wish you the best of luck pursuing your case against them, they need to be knocked down a few pegs and straighten up thier act or put out of business.
3 In last 3 mths, I have never seen the same logon name win 2x. I have been in many chat rooms where the only thing anyone has ever won is "wallpaper", and that is the only thing I have won, too. I have noticed that if a jackpot winner just won, the name shows, and a few days later, the winner disappears from the prize page, or never appears.
I was told the winner didn't qualify, but the jackpot was not put back in for someone else to win, and Pogo said they spread the jackpot into other prizes.
4 In last 3 mths, I have never seen the same logon name win 2x. I have been in many chat rooms where the only thing anyone has ever won is "wallpaper", and that is the only thing I have won, too. I have noticed that if a jackpot winner just won, the name shows, and a few days later, the winner disappears from the prize page, or never appears.
I was told the winner didn't qualify, but the jackpot was not put back in for someone else to win, and Pogo said they spread the jackpot into other prizes.
A scam is going on within the game rooms of Pogo.com. Pogo's staff are completely aware of it, yet are obviously doing NOTHING to stop it. Pogo.com is part of the EA Games Corporation, a company making billions off of the sale memberships to its various game sites as well as their downloadable games.
One would think that a company with its reputation would want to provide excellent service AND security to its members. But I found out that this is NOT the case. Pogo offers paying members, a chance to earn tokens and spend them on raffles to win cash prizes.
People are conning members into revealing their passwords, gaining access to their accounts and stealing their tokens. These people are apparently using these stolen tokens to purchase HUGE percentages of the raffle tickets; thereby increasing their chances to win. I was not forewarned of this scam and I became a victim of it.
I inadvertently and naively revealed my password through a con being conducted on the chat board of a game room. And even worse, after these people gained access to my account, they were able to contact people I had listed on my pogo "Friend's List" and actually HIJACK their account while chatting with them (pretending to be me) in a private chat room provide by pogo. I know of at least 5 other pogo members who also lost access to their accounts and also lost all the tokens they had acquired as wellPogo's policy is to place blame on the victims.
Their In Game Dept. Keeps track of what happens in game rooms as well as token counts. Yet Pogo's policy is to NOT reimburse the victimized Pogo member their stolen tokens even though it is clear to them the member's account had been hijacked.
AND, since this has been going on for a VERY LONG TIME, Pogo's policy undoubtedly includes NOT going after the people that are engaging in this scam. These people MUST be winning enough money, through winning raffles, to justify continuing to engage in this scam. Add insult to injury, when a PAYING pogo member loses access to their account through these scams, it is a NIGHTMARE to gain access ANYONE in pogo to correct the situation.
They cannot do this through the pogo web site, because one must be signed onto their account to do so. Pogo's on line customer service provides MINIMAL, let alone prompt support to members that have had their accounts hijack. The only way to get prompt action is by phoning the company.
AND pogo web site is PURPOSELY designed to make finding a phone number to contact anyone VERY difficult. I am VERY upset with how this security issue I had with Pogo was handled, I am concerned that these people may actually have the ability to hack into my own computer while I am playing on Pogo, and am DEFINITELY concerned that others be forewarned before they consider becoming a member of pogo themselves.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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