CasinoMGA Takes Software Piracy to the Next Level

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September 27th, 2018
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Ever vigilant LCB community discovers another rogue casino, armed to the teeth with pirated slots of all shapes and sizes. Fresh in 2018, CasinoMGA.com opens scanning the international playing field for newbies, unsuspecting customers, avid gamers and other suitable subjects of their shady operations. Unfortunately for the brand, we have a couple of clever members ourselves, who can smell a rat from a mile away!

After LCB'ers reported suspicious-looking games offered by Casinio MGA, we reviewed the site and saw clearly that not only are their concerns completely valid...

...but there are actually MORE incriminating elements to be discovered and exposed to the world.

No License

Throughout the course of the investigation, our team realized this questionable outlet is all talk, and no action.

They take good care to describe the services, games, promotions and their ''honest'' intentions in vivid detail. No shortage of encouragement to deposit and wager real money! And that's precisely the problem here because...

...inexperienced players won't recognize their license is FAKE!

Officially confirmed by Curacao eGaming, Casino MGA's claims to the Curacao certificate are false. The operator displays a permit logo of the www.gaming-curacao.com regulator, which is NOT the official site of the jurisdiction, but a third-party company granted the master license to issue permits to other casinos. Even so, the brand does not hold either one, and in fact are using a license link from a completely different casino - www.casinoempire.com, which we suspect they are trying to pass as their own, legitimate sub-license.  

Below is a screenshot of the homepage and logo, saved for posterity in case the casino decides to remove it:

Pirated Slots

There's a whole array of forgeries - very good ones at that. Fake games are hosted on familiar pirated domains, that we have already encountered multiple times in our past investigations of predatory brands. These illegal copies are, however, of much better quality than the ones we're used to seeing, and by consequence...

... it is much harder to tell the difference just by looking or playing the games. Aside from BetSoft software which is, as far as we can tell - real, the following software products are not genuine:

  • Aristocrat
  • Novomatic
  • NetEnt
  • Amatic
  • Igrosoft
  • Merkur Gaming

Like we already mentioned, Amatic and Novomatic titles, the latter virtually indistinguishable from the originals, are hosted on a well-known grandxpro source.

Pirated Novomatic Book of Ra Deluxe

Pirated Amatic Diamond Monkey

Net Entertainment games launch from a variant of the infamous casinomodules.com server, as evidenced in the Starburst slot screenshot below:

Igrosoft forgeries also hail from a known illegal source, and for these the site is using supermegaslot.com domain:

Pirated Igrosoft Crazy Monkey

We suppose Merkur Gaming has no idea, that a large portion of their popular portfolio is being used and abused to cheat players out of their money. As the Eye of Horus slot screenshot clearly shows, the games are launching from the granxpro.com domain:

To launch fake Aristocrat slots, the site is using nyxop.net - an obvious attempt to make it resemble nyx.com - the official server of the developer ever since they've partnered with NYX.

The image below is taken from the Queen of the Nile slot:

We can't emphasize enough how important it is for players to stay tuned to latest industry news, specifically articles about black market groups, rogue and predatory sites.

Brands like CasinoMGA are getting better at faking software, and players are having a hard time figuring out which ones are real, and which false. It's the same with licensing: there is the logo, the link, and some page where it says in big, green, reassuring letters: valid. Yet, this license is anything but. Stay safe!

Related links based on our report:


Avoid CasinoMGA: Fake Slots, Real Shadiness - Report by Professionalrakeback.com

“There's a whole array of forgeries”

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