Yeah, if he wanted Stake support to close his account, he should have done it properly. This message that he sent is not it. He is praising the casino and asks for cashback because he is "crying all day". This looks more like begging and asking the casino for some bonus credits and not asking to have his account frozen.

I am not sure what responsible gambling tools Stake has, but most probably their is a self-exclusion procedure and tools to limit deposits, losses, time spent wagering, etc. 

I have tried to access Sportsbet.io with a UK IP address and I get a notification on my screen that Sportsbet.io isn't available for users in the United Kingdom. There is also a button to redirect to Sportsbetio.uk.

I am confused about your case. What site did you initially register and play on? The main domain or the UK domain?
If you played on the main domain with a UK IP, how was that possible? Maybe Sportsbet didn't have this ban for UK players at the time. Did you use a VPN or some other way to mask your location?

About the case, have you done the KYC verification or did you refuse it?

Which users?

Unfortunately, when you sign up for an online casino, you accept its terms of service. I am pretty sure that Stake's TOS states they have the right to request KYC or SOF if they deem it necessary. I never liked such rules, but there is always a choice. Don't gamble in places whose terms you don't agree to.

Sorry, but what is the connection between their verification requirements and your gambling addiction? I am guessing they don't allow you to play because you can't pass SOF verification. Is that it? If you are an addict, I hope you can get control of your life and seek professional help in order to recover.

They are not into Bitcoin and aren't holding anything themselves. I am the black sheep of the family in that regard. More like the orange sheep, if you know what I mean. I hold Bitcoin for two friends, though. But it's not set up using child keys. I have gifted bitcoin to some of my friends in the past and asked them whether they want me to save a copy of the keys. Both of them agreed and have no problems with me doing it. Trusting me with the task isn't a problem as we have known each other for decades.

If that is the case, why are you gambling on Curacao-licensed casinos? You should know better. I bet mostly on sports, and I have accounts on a few Curacao-licensed online casinos. None of them have been blocked nor have I had my money confiscated.

The screenshot you posted is not evidence of anything. No one here can possibly know what the casino has against you and if you are telling the truth or not. The best thing to do is to share your story with a mediator site, link the discussion here, and hope for the best.

I am pretty sure that there is a large enough group of people that do it for it to be worth the time and effort for scammers to come up with schemes like address poisoning. If that wasn't the case, you wouldn't have people like this guy who lost millions. Besides, people lose hundreds of millions yearly on different crypto scams. A good amount from that isn't due to hacking, but social engineering scams they fall victims to.

Update:
I have checked some of the recommendations that different users made in this thread about new crypto casinos which I should add, and I have decided to include the following ones in my table:

- l0tt0
- Shuffle.com
- 8ombard
- SLM.Games
- VAVADA

It doesn't have to be fake coins and tokens. In the example of the person who lost tens of millions of dollars in wBTC, he didn't receive fake tokens. He received a 0-value ETH transaction because the Ethereum network allows it. That transaction now shows up at the top of their wallet's transaction history. If they make a mistake and copy the address from there, thinking it's a different one, they will send their coins to a scammer.

Don't take shortcuts and you should be fine. These scams are successful because people are lazy to do things right.   

This investigation of yours shows a connection between the chochi1621 and Heartilly accounts. They have used the same BEP-20 wallet address. But the only connection to the agustina2 account is via the merits. I personally believe they are all connected, but from an objective standpoint, I think there needs to be more proof to connect agustina2 to chochi1621 and Heartilly. But since they are all tagged already and the flag has the needed DT support, it's fine.

I remember that case.
They were trying to make it look like the player submitted late bets and took advantage of late market odds changes to bet at higher odds than what should have been the case. That was debunked as being untrue because the timestamps when the bets were made show that the odds were of the same size as on other popular bookies.

Based on that, there are two possible scenarios:

1. They have no idea how live sports betting works and tried to frame the player as being a cheater.
2. They knew exactly what they were doing and tried to steal the players money/winnings.

In either case, the public appearance in the Scam Accusation board made them look incompetent. They got butthurt, and tried to present themselves to the community as being the victims of harassment of you and me, while in reality they took money that didn't belong to them. Didn't they also try to offend you by saying something like "he is just another Croatian!?" Maybe I am thinking of another case.

Since no one bought their bullshit, they decided to never again engage in a scam accusation against their brand. Why? Because they might be put in a situation where they will lie or be shown as being incompetent again. So, their forum rep. decided it's better for business to remain quiet.       

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Dust attacks and address poisoning scams serve different purposes. Dust attacks are a means of trying to identify the users behind certain addresses by having them spend or consolidate the dust together with other coins in addresses connected to a verified identity. It's not a scheme to steal and scam people. Poisoning attacks are exactly that, a scheme to trick people and steal from them.    

That's not very likely to happen. These altcoins are account-based, not UTXO-based. Like I said previously, it's very likely you are using the same altcoin address for all your tokens. You can't freeze 1 cent of unwanted ETH in an address that holds the rest of your ETH.

Tell your friend to not use transaction histories for information about destination addresses. He may never run into problems, but it could also happen the next time he does it. I see no reason to gamble like that.

There is no reason why poisoning scams couldn't be used in Bitcoin and against Bitcoin users. But there a few reasons why they are less effective:

1. They cost more. Compared to Ethereum, Polygon or BSC, you have to pay more in fees to transfer Bitcoin. It might be enough to pay a few cents on alternative networks, but you may need $1 or $2 for bitcoin and maybe much more.

2. Bitcoin has a dust threshold. There is a minimum amount of satoshis that you have to send, which is known as the dust limit. I think 0-value outputs were possible on the Bitcoin network in the past but not anymore. Or, if they are, they are non-standard. Many alternative chains allow 0-value transactions.

3. Bitcoin isn't account-based. With Ethereum, Tron, etc., you have one account for the native coins and you use the same account for all your tokens. With Bitcoin, you have outputs spread across multiple addresses. Address reuse isn't popular for privacy reasons. Also, it doesn't save you any money to use the same address over and over again. You can't target a Bitcoin address as easy in an attempt to fool the user like you would for those alternative chains. If you and me did some trades, I would give you a new BTC address every time. But if we used ETH, all transactions would probably go into the same address even if its tokens and not the native coin.   

4. It's harder to generate similar-looking Bitcoin addresses. I am not an expert in this topic, but I think it takes more computational power to generate a similar-looking Bitcoin address compared to an Ethereum one, for example. And it gets exponentially harder the more unique custom characters you want. It's also close to impossible to make the last characters identical (like in the example of the person who lost +$70 million) because there is a checksum.   

An address poisoning scam involving wrapped bitcoin (wBTC) on the Ethereum network resulted in a victim losing over 1155 wBTC, worth $74 million currently. The scam happened on 3 May.

A little earlier, the victim received a 0-value transaction that was recorded in their transaction history. This transaction came from an address that had similar characters at the beginning and the end to the address the victim wanted to send the tokens to. Both addresses begin with "0xd9A1" and end with "853a91."

The victim wasn't careful and didn't check the whole address they were sending to. They probably copied the receiving address from their transaction history and ended up sending a fortune to a scammer.
It's a good lesson for everyone reading this. Don't be in a hurry, and take your time. Check the transaction data once or twice, and when you are sure everything is correct, check it a third time.


Read more about it here:
https://cryptopotato.com/costly-mistake-victim-loses-68-million-in-address-poisoning-scam/

Sorry, I don't do that kind of thing, nor do I have much experience with on-chain transaction analysis to connect alternative accounts and catch cheaters. It's not my cup of tea. But I know there are people who like to do it and are good at it. Hopefully, some of them will see this thread and help you.

Hold on, did you receive any kind of proof from this PYramid Blockhead guy that he carried out any managerial work at all? Is there a spreadsheet with amounts that were supposed to be distributed to bounty participants or did he not even do that?

The advice that rfan_pak10 and AB de Royse777 gave you makes sense. The scammer has (or had) access to the spreadsheet. It's theoretically possible for him to change all receiving addresses with his own. That's why they told you to verify if the information in the table actually belongs to them. Forget about the old spreadsheet entirely. Ask them to submit new info in your thread.

@Sodenmaster
Have you tried to talk with the FortuneJack forum representative? This is their profile (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=303298). Send them a PM and invite them to share their side of the story in this topic. 

Sodenmaster has already explained in their OP that it wasn't a live bet, but a pre-match bet. They claim to have placed it before the match started.

That's a proper shitcoin. It's down almost 99% since its all-time-high. You got your coins back, but they are probably worthless or worth a few dollars max. Nevertheless, the situation has been resolved, and I suggest you write (RESOLVED) in the subject field for other readers to know.

Can you show me the connection between the agustina2 account and those of chaser15 and Heartilly? I will support your flag if there is proof that all three accounts are connected and part of a larger farm with the intent to scam people and/or participate in signature campaigns.

I wouldn't call this a mistake. Being late with payments can happen to anyone. We are all human after all, and all kinds of factors can affect and prevent us from completing our work in time. The payment part could have been seen as a mistake on his part.

Here is what wasn't a mistake:

It wasn't a mistake to ignore the questions about the delays on Telegram. It wasn't a mistake to ignore you after you asked about it.
Moving the tokens to another address that is connected to his alt account was also not a mistake. Well, it was in his eyes because it proved he controls both accounts.
It was also not a mistake to remove the Telegram ID from his Bitcointalk account in an attempt to erase the proof.

In summary, he planned and wanted to cheat the bounty hunters, but he got caught and decided to make the best out of a bad situation. That was to give the money to you. The only reason you got the money is because you caught him. He has probably learned a few lessons here. Lessons that he might use to carry out a better thought out scam in the future.