Gambling Baby: Casino Demands Money From Infant
Little Danica Foster is taking baby steps in her development – she can play peek-a-boo and can make baby sounds – her parents say they can understand her every sound. How she was sent a complaint by an Internal Collections Department of a major online casino is a little harder to understand.
Mark Foster of Custer City, Oklahoma was flabbergasted when he received a formal complaint in the mail from a major online casino addressed to his 6-month-old daughter. The letter demanded the balance of $16,857 to be paid in full immediately to prevent having the file referred to a collections agency. Neither Mark nor his wife Stacy were named in the letter – and what’s worse, neither Mark nor Stacy are casino players.
Doing All They Can to Protect Their Baby
“Me and my wife were just completely appalled and disgusted,” said Mark. “I mean, this casino is sending a bill to my 6-month-old daughter demanding her to pay ten thousand dollars? That’s just sick in my mind and they should be ashamed of themselves. When I demanded to know what games were played in the casino, they told me that most of the games played were on a slot machine game called Mid-Life Crisis. Yeah that makes sense, a 6-month-old baby playing a slot machine game called Mid-Life Crisis. This whole situation is just beyond ridiculous for us right now.”
Mark says he’s taken steps to contact the casino and explain that no one in his household has played there, but the casino insists that the charges are accurate and that immediate payment is demanded otherwise legal action will be pursued to the fullest extent of the law against his daughter. Mark believes that someone has stolen his daughter’s identity and used the identity to play in the online casino.
“We are all really scared right now of these guys. We really are,” says concerned mother Stacy. “They’ve threatened to sue us and to even sue our daughter. They even threatened to go after the college fund that we’ve saved for her and worked so hard for. It’s really terrifying for us and we want this situation to just go away.”
The Casino Continues Their Pursuit
This is the latest item they’ve received from the casino:
Your information is going to be referred for derogatory 3rd party credit reporting to Equifax, Experian and TransUnion if this matter is not resolved. You may want to begin seeking independent legal counsel, as this outstanding balance will not simply disappear because you claim that your daughter’s identity was allegedly stolen.
They have already hired a lawyer for this situation and their legal counsel has requested them to not name the casino involved at the present time. We’ll keep you updated as to how this situation unfolds.
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That’s almost the most rediculous thing I have ever read. I’m actually speechless.
Yeah, I saw that 6 month old kid take a fortune off someone at the Horseshoe last weekend before lunching a full scal assault on the bar along with two lady friends.
C’mon, really now.