Hello all, and good evening. I am a tourist in DR who entered a hotel's casino last night and was "roped into" a scam whereas I lost $6500 US on a game called "caribbean keno". This game requires the bettor to continually double their bets (from $5 to $10 to $20 and so on) in order to have any chance whatsoever to recover the initial investment. Part of the money lost was on a credit card charge agreement that I signed. However, the credit card company declines to approve the transaction of $5900. My questions are the following:
1) Are the casinos of DR regulated in any way to enforce the assumption that each ball in a keno game has an equal likelihood of being chosen?
2) Are the casinos allowed to mislead the customer as to the odds of drawing balls that give them a chance to win?
3) Are the casinos required to pay the advertised jackpot, no matter how high it is (ie if it were $10 Million US dollars, could they evade all or part of the payout)?
4) Now that I have signed this agreement with them to pay up by monday, am I legally required to uphold it as a citizen of the US? If so, would I have any legal right to dispute the credit card charge as fraudulent to my US based credit card company, if I could indeed prove to that bank's satisfaction that the game I played is crooked or misleading?
Please help ASAP!!!! I must do something by Monday at noon Atlantic time..
1) Are the casinos of DR regulated in any way to enforce the assumption that each ball in a keno game has an equal likelihood of being chosen?
2) Are the casinos allowed to mislead the customer as to the odds of drawing balls that give them a chance to win?
3) Are the casinos required to pay the advertised jackpot, no matter how high it is (ie if it were $10 Million US dollars, could they evade all or part of the payout)?
4) Now that I have signed this agreement with them to pay up by monday, am I legally required to uphold it as a citizen of the US? If so, would I have any legal right to dispute the credit card charge as fraudulent to my US based credit card company, if I could indeed prove to that bank's satisfaction that the game I played is crooked or misleading?
Please help ASAP!!!! I must do something by Monday at noon Atlantic time..