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I sure hope players are staying away from BingoVega. You will never get your cash out because they will decline your withdraw saying you did not wager enough. After you keep trying to get your money they will close your account. They use house players so the money doesn't leave Vega. put Bingo Vega on your Black List
Posted on:Thu May 10, 2012 10:34 pm
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Posted on:Thu May 03, 2012 6:29 pm
I have opened most of the archives to public viewing. I have not yet decided on where to locate the BPU Archives Forum, for now it is located at the bottom of our Forum Index Page. If you are a member you need to be logged in to use the Search Feature.
Posted on:Tue May 01, 2012 10:22 pm
Dulciana stated:
"First off..kudos to Beth for coming forward. I know it took alot for her to do so and yes she may be guilty of alot but as I see it...it was a job where she had a boss who told who what to do, when to do it, how to do it, etc.etc. Just as in real life, we have a boss and do as our boss says or we have no job"
To Dulciana:
If your boss asked you to do something you knew were illegal would you do it? Well that's exactly how you sound. No boss has the power to force anyone knowingly to do anything illegal unless you allow it. In other words if your boss told you to knowingly rob someone or lose your job, I guess you would instead of going to the police or seeking help - I am sure most people would chose not to and seek help. They only way I see Beth blameless is when she did not know but once she knew she could have done something sooner to help stop it.
Posted on:Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:47 pm
Thank you = I see the list now - finally -
New Bingo Billy customer service/live chat wait was very long - even with deposit questions, so I guess I will skip that for now.
I will try other sites. Thank you very much.
I just wish there are more sites that are easy to withdraw... If other players have good experience elsewhere, please let me know. Thanks again!
Posted on:Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:08 pm
Hi Despair 
The name of the site was stated in the topic! It's IPlayBingo 
Posted on:Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:26 pm
I hope Bingo vega keeps loosing players. They do not deserve to be open. Who wants to deposit at a site they can not win at. They have too many house players
Posted on:Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:01 pm
Hi CH Amy Welcome back! The US market has not changed much! Bingo Entertainment Network pulled out of the US Market, as did BingoFun and Cashmill. This was no real lose for US Players because these sites were caught red handed cheating their players.
The BPU Forum is full of complaints about many US Bingo Sites and they should be avoided, unless you don't mind being ripped off.
Yes! There is a few new Bingo Sites out there but they are sisters of sites that already exsit. They all play in the same room, just different wallpaper. A good example is Bingo Canada just recently opened. But when you play there you are also playing with Vic's Bingo Players. Just about all sites are networked today.
Unfortunately the only US Bingo Sites that I have found to be safe to play at are New Bingo Billy and the Revenue Giants sites, Bingo Hall, Vics Bingo, Bingo Canada and Bingo for Money, South Beach and Instant Bingo. You will never see BPU posting any sites banners that are known to cheat their players, in one form or another.
A good rule of thumb should be, if you don't see a sites banner, on BPU, that you are interested in trying, it's not a safe place to play at.
Posted on:Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:39 pm
yes shut them down
lukymee
Posted on:Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:28 am
wont play there ever 
thanx bpu for helping us i will keep my eyes on then
Posted on:Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:48 am
Hi daisy I have been working with Vega’s so called new management team since last summer. In the past they have always been up front and willing to work on any issue presented to them. My talks with them did progress until I presented them with my recommendations. It has been dead silence ever since.
The Vega Management Team has not been able to refute the evidence that Mike Yates was involved with Fraudulent Activities. It appears to me that Mike hired this PR Team. To clean up Vega’s old rogue reputation. They were successful at convincing most of us that they had changed.
This new information that came out, once again cast suspicions over the honesty of BingoVega. Has anyone notice the absence of Mike Yates? Why has he not come forth to address these issues? As usual, he is hiding under a rock and will not be held responsible for any of his actions; In his eyes, he is free to rob players and get away with it. When tough issues are presented to him they are ignored; That has been part of his signature for years.
The new Management Team claims that Mike is no longer involved with the operations of the sites. Many of you don’t believe this and I share your beliefs. When my recommendations were ignored, that convinced me that Mike Yates is still in control of BingoVega and calling the shots. As long as Mike Yates is involved with any bingo site, that site should not be trusted. Mike Yates severly tarnished BingoVega's reputation. If BingoVega has nothing to hid it would not be a problem to have an audit of their Player Accounts.
Under the circumstances they should be required to prove that anyone who wins a major pot, is indeed a real person, who has deposited and have verifiable contact information. For those of you that still play there, in spite of all the evidence against them, I would be demanding they prove their major winners are legit.
Even though BingoVega’s Management Team is presently ignoring me, I can assure you that the issues we raised about BingoVega are still under discussion with a third party. We intend to stick with this until all our questions are answered and recommendations adopted.
Posted on:Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:49 pm
There is always a lot of movement regarding bingo sites...some shut down completely and their site/domain names are bought up by other sites because of that old name recognition. Some sites have management issues and are bought out by new management and most times, this is a cover scheme to keep the site up and running with the same crappy techniques the previous management used.
My complaint is 'home page banners'....I want sites that merge with other ones to announce that on their homepage.
If they merge and incorporate those sites into a sister site or networking situation, they should list ALL of the sites they own so 'duplicate account' issues don't BECOME an issue because players would know right away that they have to notify LiveHelp or email accounting or use a Trouble Ticket to disable old accounts you might still have at the newly acquired sites. If they haven't added any sites but have dropped sites from their 'network', they should tell us that as well so we can keep an eye out for where that dropped site actually went to because some other site might pick it up and add it to THEIR network, causing a problem for account holders at the site that picked it up so notification needs to be done THERE. If they haven't added any LIVE and ACTIVE sites to their network, but merely took over a domain name from a site that completely closed down, they should announce that as well.
In the world of online bingo, taking your money AND KEEPING AS MUCH OF IT AS POSSIBLE, is their goal and ninety times out of a hundred, multiple accounts is the best reason they have for denying your cashout request and closing/disabling your account is the best way for them to keep your winnings and never pay you. They will let you deposit at ALL of their merged/acquired and networked sites without question....but they will deny you your winnings at any one of them and disable them ALL before paying you as soon as you request that cashout because they DO know all along that you have multiple accounts across that network.
Posted on:Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:03 am
Hi BingoGirl. I can assure you that all bingo sites operate from offshore. They all have contacts in the US that send out things for them. It can include just about anything from promo post cards to gift cards and lap tops. Sending these items from an offshore country is impractical and expensive. Different countries do observe various holidays that are not observed in the US. A sites accounting dept. is usually located in the Sites Offshore Headquarters and a payout may indeed be delayed because of a holiday there.
Posted on:Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:00 am
Because of these unfounded suspicions that NBB has House Players, an audit of the account in question was done. The account showed numerous deposits over the last 3 months. NewBingoBilly and BPU have a transparent and open relationship. Unlike the majority of other Online Bingo Sites, New BingoBilly can back up their claim of being House Players Free, because they allow BPU to audit any account at any time. They allow this because they have nothing to hide.
BPU’s integrity never has and never will be bought. You never have, not will you see any Rogue Bingo Sites Banners on BPU; That is why we have so few US Banners! All Bingo Sites are free to post and change their rules. Its been that way ever since I have been involved with Online Bingo. Unfortunately, not everybody is going like all of any sites rules. We all know that you can't always please 100% of the players. There will always be a few that will disagree or contest the validity of any given rule.
To those players I say to email the site and voice your comments in a professional manner. Sites do listen to players and perhaps will accommodate their requests if enough players request the same thing. This will not happen over night! In the end the professional approach will accomplish more than site bashing. If you disapprove of things at any bingo site, you have the option to stop playing there and finding another site that may suit you better.
Posted on:Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:52 pm
the ones complainig about bingovega now in 2011, are the ones who worked for Mike & was his helper . they no longer work at bingovega & decided to vent once Karma bit them in the butt lmao. i love KARMA You can tell who they are by the dates they decided to join BPU. haha I LOVE THIS SITE
Posted on:Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:28 pm
I was contacted on January 1,2012 about the use of Prop Accounts at Bingo Vega. I spent long hours pouring over all that was sent to me. I did realize that the information was dated and Vega’s Management would say it is part of the past and should not reflect Bingo Vega’s new image they achieved in early Summer when they settled all outstanding complaints here at BPU and CasinoMeisters.
First off these accusations of wrongdoing greatly outweigh anything that has been reported in the past and because of this can’t be overlooked by the Bingo Community. There has been a sever breach of trust between a Bingo Site Operator and his Players and someone has to be held accountable.
Since the data was dated I decided to see if any of the accounts were still active. Since all the Account ID’s and Passwords were readily available it was simple matter of just entering the login information. I spent hours in the fake accounts taking screen shots of the profile, reconcile and other records. I can truthfully state that the majority of the accounts were still active.
A few, such as: Talk2owl, QueenOfBingo, BingoBets, WishingForRed and others were disabled. I’ll show a few of the accounts that I verified are still active. For the sake of file size, I cropped the screen shots I took to include only the account information. If there is any questions about the validity of the shots the originals can be produced.
Once the Prop List hit Facebook Vega’s Server went down and I no longer could enter any accounts that I previously had access to. They were all disabled. Clearly! Someone was doing damage control.
I have spent some time talking to Beth about this and I am convinced her remorse for her part in all this is genuine. Is Mike still running the show at Vega? I think this and other question will be answered, it’s just a matter of time.
Posted on:Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:55 am
Just heard the news from chat and from emails- two more cm's are getting sacked from the seven sites= bingofun, zany, zodiac, cashmill, rv, a1 and playtime. CM Jenni was fired, and now CM Christine is being forced to quit. Could it be that they know more than they should about the game? Would kamarie aka stonelady from the old zany have anything to do with it? There are some heartless people that are in charge on that site. And kamarie and rumi, do NOT send me emails with free bonus if i come back, it will not work!!!! You are history and those sites will eventually shut down. The most are house players anyway, and the others like myself allowed to win once in awhile to try to prove a point. My point is you need to be SHUT down. You treated you good cm's like crap and you are cheating loyal honest players.
Anyone who is still playing there should highly think about this and find another site. These sites are cheaters!!!!!!
Posted on:Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:50 pm
Just heard the news from chat and from emails- two more cm's are getting sacked from the seven sites= bingofun, zany, zodiac, cashmill, rv, a1 and playtime. CM Jenni was fired, and now CM Christine is being forced to quit. Could it be that they know more than they should about the game? Would kamarie aka stonelady from the old zany have anything to do with it? There are some heartless people that are in charge on that site. And kamarie and rumi, do NOT send me emails with free bonus if i come back. You are history and those sites will eventually shut down. The most are house players anyway, and the others like myself allowed to win once in awhile to try to prove a point. My point is you need to be SHUT down. You treated you good cm's like crap and you are cheating loyal honest players.
Anyone who is still playing there should highly think about this and find another site. These sites are cheaters!!!!!!
Posted on:Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:46 pm
My name is Beth I was an employee at Bingo Vega for 10 years, ending in
Feb of 2011. During my time at Bingo Vega I took part in cheating honest
players and I am so very ashamed of that. I feel like I owe it to the
players to come forward and let you all know what goes on at Vega.
I was instructed by Mike Yates himself to load money into false accounts
(aka Props Accounts) anywhere from $500 - $1000. These were a mixture of
old player accounts that were no longer used and new accounts that he had
me create. These accounts are listed in the screen shots. I logged into
these accounts and pre-bought cards as instructed. I programmed some 24
hours a day and sometimes as many as 75 props Accounts were playing
against the paying players in the $1000 - $5,000 games..
I participated in Play Off Tournaments for prizes such as Dell Computers,
and Shopping Sprees, in other screen shots you can see I won the Dell
Contest as well as $1000 first place Shopping Spree Prize under props
names. I inquired about testimonials for 2 props that split a $5,000 game and I
wasn't sure what to do with them, his reply to that email "Just leave it
to me! MY" I did end up writing a testimonial for another prop account
that won a huge prize and I was told to find a fake picture to go along
with it.
We also had free roll games that had extended time on them, for two reasons
1. So that I had time to keep logging in and buying cards since the games
were free you cant pre-buy them, so I would manually log in get cards,
close out, open another account and so on so you guys had slim chance of
getting anything for free
2. If I extended the time between calls and games we could put less games
per hour so less was being given away for free, there were complaints from
players about time between games so some players did catch on.
I also took part in Casino Vega activity. We had weekly and weekend casino
tournaments and I was told to play in these tournaments to keep players
funding. I would play under several props to bump players out of their
spots with hopes they will keep funding to get back into their spots. I
kept knocking them out of. You all kept depositing and I kept putting a
$1000 in my accounts to keep it going.
The screen shots also include one of a non depositing multiple account
player winning a progressive on Bring Home the Bacon Slots for over
$7,000. Instead of resetting it for you, Mike decides we shouldn't give
any details other than the players name. This was one he didn't have to
worry about cashing out. Our former tech also won a progressive on that
slot of over $10,000.. the odds of him to win the PJP were set in his
favor and he won it.
This site is not on the up and up like it once was, they cheat players out
of their hard earned money and its disgusting.
I have nothing personally to gain by doing this, my name and comments are
on those screen shots as well and they make me look just as bad as Mike. I
can tell you these screenshots are 100% real, they have not been changed
in any way. If I just wanted to make Mike look bad I would have removed
anything that I said or did wrong. I did as I was told, I desperately
needed my job and I don’t need the lawsuit that he threatened me with.
I Helped Mike cheat you, and for that I am so very sorry.
Beth
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Posted on:Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:52 pm
Been there..done that with instant bingo. Free 20..was a housie for them.Watchin too many same winners and i do beleive i got to a one to go one time. Played minimal cards until I realized that was a total waste and began playing 16 to 20 cards and no "luck" as they call it. I am going to stay out of online bingo until they become accountable for their claims of fairness and security. Find me one lowly site that does not have their standard winners on a daily basis with a chosen winner now and then to offset the skeptics, and It would indeed shock me! 
Posted on:Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:53 am
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