UK Gambling Commission<\/a> secured the world\u2019s first prosecution for charges related to gambling with in-game items. In a remarkably similar case, two YouTubers and owners of the site FUT Galaxy, which offers gambling using FIFA Coins, were found guilty of offenses under the Gambling Act.<\/p>\nCraig \u201cNepentheZ\u201d Douglas and Dylan Rigby were fined a total of \u00a3265,000 ($349,000) for offenses that included inciting children to gamble, after the court was shown footage of a 12-year-old boy using the site.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the FTC said it has written to 21 \u201csocial media influencers\u201d warning that all \u201cmaterial connections\u201d between an endorser of a product and the product itself should be \u201cclearly and conspicuously disclosed.\u201d<\/p>\n
But with apparently little risk of prosecution in the US, there seems to be minimal incentive for them to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two CSGO Lotto skin-betting site owners, who posed as US-based YouTubers blogging about their exploits without declaring that they actually owned the site, were spared fines by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week. Trevor \u201cTmarTn\u201d Martin and Thomas \u201cSyndicate\u201d Cassell\u00a0would promote CSGO Lotto with videos bearing titles such as “How to Win $13,000 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":58222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3312,19,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
CSGO Lotto Skin-Gambling Scam YouTubers Escape FTC Penalties<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n