If it is brought to the attention of say the feds, whom we know are already looking for reasons to close online gambling down, that players, either under age, or students, are losing their grants, tuition and money saved up for schooling to online gambling, then we could be looking at all of us paying the price of the feds taking control and shutting everyone out, afterall, this is how they operate. Because students going broke to online casinos makes the news, whereas mother of 3 lost her familys grocery money doesn't.Term has been around for several years, how they find out EASY........Aladdins GoldA Very Expensive Mistakeby Steve RussoSeptember 2010Aladdin's Gold Casino is refusing to give a British player almost $7000 in winnings because he told them he is a student -- even though he has proven that he is not.Neither the casino nor Dan L dispute the basic facts of the case: Dan made three deposits, totaling $5000 over a period of three days, brought his balance to $11983.50, and then went to cash in.He used a student ID card to help prove his identity and when he was asked in Live Chat what his profession is, he replied Student .That was a big mistake. The casino's Terms & Conditions prohibit full time students from playing. It immediately told him that it would return his $5000 in deposits but is keeping his winnings.Gambling Grumbles feels that any casino has the right to set any rules that it wants, as long as it posts them clearly on its website, and if Dan had actually been a student when he played there we would not even have written to Aladdin's about his complaint.That, however, was not the case. I was asked what my occupation was Dan said. Since I recently graduated from university, have been a student all my life, and not found a job yet, I said I was a student, and sent my student ID in. They then said that students were not allowed to play at the casino, refunded my deposits, and closed my account. In fact, I was not a student at any time when I registered, deposited or played at the casino. The student ID I sent it clearly shows it has expired, and even when I said on live chat that I was a student, I think I mentioned that I had already recently graduated (although I'm not 100% sure I did say that). In any case, I went back on live chat to clarify the situation. I explained to them that I was not actually a student at any time when I played there, so I had not breached their terms. They insisted that because in the past I had said I was a student, whatever else I say is basically not relevant. They seem to only want to pay attention to what I tell them if it suits them. In order to prove that I was not a student when I played there, I sent my university degree certificate (which is dated a month before I signed up at Aladdin's Gold), another certificate for an award I won, and transcripts of my degree results (all also dated a month before I signed up). Aladdin's Gold chose to ignore this clear evidence, and simply said again that because I had said in the past on live chat that I was a student (clearly a mistake, which I have since clarified and corrected), they will not reopen my account or pay me what I am owed. Is that really what happened?The casino's representative, Tom, does not dispute it. The events on this account unfold as the player describes Tom said. After making several large deposits and requesting a withdrawal we requested ID from him. At this point and he told us that he was a student and used his student card as his proof of ID.We cannot accept students on our site and so in accordance with our terms of use we refunded all his deposits and closed his account. After he found out that we do not accept students he completely changed his story and said that he was not a student. We cannot accept this kind of retraction and so the original statements he made and proof of ID he provided stands .The key to this dispute, at least in Gambling Grumbles' eyes, is what Aladdin's Gold rules say. They prohibit students from playing there -- they do not prohibit people from saying they are students if they are not.Of course, having said he was a student, it then became Dan's burden to prove that it was not true. The papers that he provided the casino do that.Casinos tend to stand strictly by their posted rules. If Aladdin's Gold required someone to be a student to play there, it would not have accepted his unsupported word that he was -- it would have demanded proof in black and white. Here, where that proof supports the player's claims that he was eligible to play the casino is not interested in seeing it. Suddenly, what he said originally is all that it is interested in.