Scam Type
Online Purchase Scam
Business Name Used
Online Gaming
Date Reported
October 15, 2023
Postal Code
23502
Total Dollars Lost
$ 3000
Scam Description
This game is a gambling game that uses deceptive gaming practices. The game entices it’s players to submit designs to win challenges. The submitted“design” is grouped with 10 other players then allegedly voted on by millions of users/players from around the world. According to Redecor the results tallied and rewarded if you place in the top 3. Considering how enormously complicated and impossible this type voting system is to achieve, this not what they use to determine wins. Playtika uses casino type slots machine methods to determine wins and not by peer votes based on any design but a luck of the draw or manipulated by them. Basically, it’s computer generated. What’s even more deceptive, they use this method to keep you playing and spending money. They make sure win a few times but then eventually keep losing. Just like a casino. Each design platform cost game coins to use the ridiculously materials expensive in the challenge to design each challenge. Of course you quickly run out of coins and have to purchase more and more to keep playing. The whole game is set up to make spend more and more money in the guise of an interior design game. Playtika is well known for developing gambling gaming apps however in this case, they are LYING! This is gambling app should be removed from US platforms or labeled as a gambling app. What this evil company is doing is illegal. https://mobilegamer.biz/how-playtika-fumbled-its-600m-acquisition-of-redecor/
BBB Notes as provided by the FBI:
WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE A VICTIM
If you are a victim of an online scam, the FBI recommends taking the following actions:
- Report the activity to the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov or your local FBI field office, which can be located at www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices.
- Report the activity to the online payment service used for the financial transaction.
- Contact your financial institution immediately upon discovering any fraudulent or suspicious activity and direct them to stop or reverse the transactions.
- Ask your financial institution to contact the corresponding financial institution where the fraudulent or suspicious transfer was sent.
If you believe you are the victim of an Internet scam or cyber crime, or if you want to report suspicious activity, please visit the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov.
