According to reports from the Tennis Australia, the resignation of its three board members was by any chance related to some match-fixing scandals. Kerryn Pratt, Peter Armstrong and Dr. Janet Young submitted their resignation letters last Friday which would be effectual right away.

Dr Young who was enrolled into the board in 2008 was a member of the team that won the Australian Fed Cup in two consecutive years of 1973 and 1974. Pratt on the other side joined Tennis Australia in 2013. Pratt was in 1979 a semi finalist in the Australian Open Women doubles. She also worked as a commentator and selector of the Fed Cup. Later between 1991 and 1995, she served in the Australian Sports Commission board. Armstrong, a businessman in Australia was indulged as a board member alongside Pratt in 2013.

It is yet to come to the conscience of many following the submission of resignation letters y the three board members. When asked to reveal more information as to why this happened, TA was adamant and only pointed out that the quitting of the three was not related to any match-fixing scam. This was not the right time to quit the post of the three members as the TA was preparing for the upcoming first grand slam tournament of 2016, the Australian Open.

Nonetheless, the TA president Steve Healy had no option but to thank the three for their dedication and effort from the time they were enrolled as board members to their resignation. He claimed that Kerryn, Janet and Peter have made substantial contributions to TA as well as the tennis sport at large for a number of years. He concluded by saying that the TA was grateful for the endurance and wished all the best in their future lives.

The TA will have to consult the nomination committee for the nominees for the vacant three posts a process which has been scheduled to take place before the board meeting in March.

Law breaking will have consequences always. This was what Ladbrokes Australia and William Hill ‘click to call’ betting services found themselves into after it was apparent that the two betting firms had violated gaming laws. This prompted the law makers to task The Australian Communications & Media Authority (ACMA) to conduct through investigation on the two betting firms. The investigating company later would hand over the investigation to the federal Police.

Back in May, ACMA was tasked with conducting an investigation to the two betting firms with focus based on the mirror live/in-play betting an illegal way of betting that was against Australia’s Interactive Gambling Act of 2001 (IGA 2001).

However, ACMA was forced to withdraw from the investigation and hand over the task to Federal police as it claimed that this was a ‘click to call service investigation and hence it would fall under local jurisdiction thus giving mandate to the Federal Police investigation. This made ACMA distance itself from the case and could not even give advices on the same.

The rules were very clear that anything that would involve irregularities of internet gambling that is based locally in Australia, the ACMA could not intervene. The company claimed that such crimes should be handled by local enforcements and in this case it would be the duty of local Federal Police to take up the role.

Another role that ACMA can play in this category is to report AFP any sort of local proscribed internet gambling.

‘Click to Call’ feature basically involves a situation where a client is in a position of communicate directly with operators in the other end of the wire through microphones that are connected in computers. However, this would only work when a client is live betting. In essence, once a client chooses his or her preferred teams to bet on, it would be now the duty of live market teams to complete the processing.

On the other hand, the two betting firms had earlier stipulated that the new feature was legal since it went along as per the provisions of the IGA 2001 policies.

More than $200,000 has been lost on sports betting and share trading scams in West Australia. Grant is a business owner in WA and fell victim of the scam last year when his business was not doing well.

He got in after receiving a call from a company that sold a trading program that they claimed would double his money in a year’s time. He spent $37,000 on this software and later realized that this was a scam.

What lured in the customers?

They promised to have the money doubled in the first year and if this was not done, they would have the principal amount refunded. They claimed that the software would advice you on the shares to buy and sell.

They made this business deal look foolproof since they promised their clients that all money would be refunded if no profits were made. This was one of the key features that lured more and more customers to the deal.

Another person that was duped was Cameron but for him it was on sports. His story starts when he filled an online survey which led to being contacted by a sports betting agency. The agency said that they would make him huge sums of money since they had professional punters who would place bets on his behalf.

Cameron part with $7,000 and was convinced that a given amount of his money would be used in paying professional bettors to watch these races and find the right horses to bet on. He was bought the story since he had not done betting before and thought that this would be an incredible way of making him money. Cameron pulled the pin after a couple of months on realizing that no profits were being made. He tried getting his money back without any success.

Customer protection warns of more and more scams

A statement made by the customer protection said that there are more and more scams on the rise. They advised people to be wary of the phone calls they receive and deals presented to them. People should look into independent entities for advice and not the sales people selling information that seem too sweet to be true.

All the guarantees that might be offered are all misrepresentations.