Avia bots class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Andrew Pandolfi and Mandi Shawcroft filed a class action lawsuit against AviaGames Inc., its founders Vickie Yanjuan Chen and Ping Wang, and a pair of venture capitalist firms and other unnamed alleged co-conspirators.
- Why: Pandolfi and Shawcroft claim Avia leads its users to believe they are competing against other real players for money, when, in reality, the company allegedly populates the competition with computer bots.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court.
Avia populates its online games with computer bots to compete against unwitting human players who bet real money while under the belief they are squaring up against real people, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiffs Andrew Pandolfi and Mandi Shawcroft claim Avia users have bet hundreds of millions of dollars while thinking they were competing against real players, instead of allegedly computer bots that “can impact or control the outcomes of the games.”
“Instead of being games of skill as advertised, Avia’s games are manipulated games of chance that amount to an unapproved gambling enterprise,” the Avia class action states.
The plaintiffs want to represent a nationwide class of persons who have lost money playing any Avia game until the company’s “unlawful conduct and its harmful effects stop.”
Avia’s games are allegedly ‘unapproved gambling enterprise’
The plaintiffs claim that, by allegedly manipulating their games with computer bots, Avia has turned games that were marketed as skilled into “an unapproved gambling enterprise.”
“Recently uncovered evidence indicates that Avia has perpetuated a lie on its customers and that players are actually playing against computer bots in a stacked game of chance,” the class action states.
The Avia games include traditional card games such as solitaire and blackjack, bingo games, pool games, bubble-popping games and Tetris/block puzzle games, according to the Avia class action.
The plaintiffs claim Avia is guilty of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and California’s Unfair Competition Law and Consumer Legal Remedies Act.
In a similar case, a class action lawsuit was filed against Amazon.com Inc. earlier this month by a consumer arguing the company profits from social casino apps that are illegal and addictive.
Have you lost money playing an Avia game? Let us know in the comments.
The plaintiffs are represented by Todd Logan of Edelson PC and Matthew S. Tripolitsiotis and Spencer Cox of Burns Charest LLP.
The Avia bots class action lawsuit is Pandolfi, et al. v. AviaGames Inc., et al., Case No. 5:23-cv-05971, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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I’m a professional Solitaire player. I can pretty much solve every Solitaire. Deck, there is I have screen recordings, showing that they duplicate the games. And what they claim is when they can’t fill the lobby with a person, they fill it with a person that did that same game. And it’s ghost, so basically you are playing yourself. When you play It sometimes also, they’re right about the 2 bots. It’s always two people that are always like playing still playing still playing, and then it waits till you finish your score. And then those 2 are above you to where you don’t make profit, because the third place loses a little bit of money. That’s the way it’s set up if you can get the computer coding in the algorithm of it. You could probably prove it. But definitely I’ve got all kinds of proof like screen recordings, it’s just exactly what they say, and they’re still doing it with different other games, new games they’re coming out with and just using different company names, all this online gambling is all crooks. Rico is definitely a part of it
Who has gotten paid for being played or waiting on an official verdict help me
I’m in the same boat as your guy.. I would come out and top score until I notice the pattern of two people or shall I I say bots.. I didn’t think of it until my son say mom don’t play that game. It’s not all real people. At first I didn’t believe it because I was winning but then I notice I was top score many times until the last 2 players keep coming out way higher than me. I love thousands of dollars in less than 2 wks and there’s still winnings that I had cashed out tht they hadn’t pay me. They keep telling me to call my bank for ARN tracking and my bank say they don’t do that. I meant they should be the one that should be tracking that since they sent it. PayPal dismissed my case although it was link to my bank account. So now I have to go through my bank to see if they can get my money back. I didn’t even know that was a lawsuit against them about this. I wouldn’t even played.
Yeah, I used to play this a lot, a couping mechanism for about to be a father and during the first year of my child’s life. I stopped playing and Uninstaller after I realized I would be doing great and whenever you were close to a decent cash out and they would put you against a “ringer” im still hitting ridiculously high scores (it has been a while but in the 7ks) how ever there was always “players” im waiting for then they magically get a slightly higher score. Since I was a first still under the mind set I was playing humans I play another trying to get my money back. However, rinse and repeat until I lost my money again. Finally decided to stop and focus on my kid so I deleted my app to stop the temptation.
Yea, I was scammed every time I played this game. It started when I was mowing my lawn with my phone in my pocket. hundreds of dollars was accidentally deposited multiple time. I started playing to see the pattern, no matter what you “win” it will never let you withdrawI the amount you deposited with the “bonus money” The game will let you win until you get close to the amount you started with, then you will loose every game after. I downloaded this app a couple years ago after I realized its literally a scam and I reported it, I recently downloaded it again just to see, its even worse than it was then.,