{"id":95424,"date":"2019-01-03T09:16:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=95424"},"modified":"2019-01-03T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T23:33:08","slug":"scandal-over-youtubes-biggest-stars-promoting-scam-gambling-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/scandal-over-youtubes-biggest-stars-promoting-scam-gambling-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal Breaks Over YouTube Stars Promoting Scam Gambling Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top internet personalities Jake Paul and Bryan \u201cRicegum\u201d Le have been blasted this week for pushing a sketchy Polish gambling website written in broken English and making outrageous claims about the prizes being offered.<\/p>\n

\"Mystery
924 Bel Air Road is the most expensive house ever to go on the market in America and it could be yours if you play at Mystery Brand — except it really couldn\u2019t, so don\u2019t \u2026 please don\u2019t. (Image: YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mystery Brand is the latest in a new wave of websites<\/a> offering \u201cmystery boxes\u201d — lucky-dip loot-box<\/a> style crates that offer randomized physical prizes instead of digital ones.<\/p>\n

The site invites users to \u201cbuy\u201d mystery boxes for the chance to win. Prizes can be big-ticket items like Lamborghinis (or so the site claims), or goods worth just a few dollars, depending on your luck. Box prices range from $4.99 to hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n

In YouTube videos watched by their millions of followers, Paul and Le are shown playing Mystery Brand, betting hundreds of dollars at a time. They start out winning small, but predictably soon amass thousands of dollars in tech and designer clothing.<\/p>\n

Paul — the younger brother of internet A-lister Logan Paul — has 17.6 million subscribers on his channel, most of whom are young teenagers. Le has 10.8 million of the same demographic.<\/p>\n

Prizes Go Missing<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, several Reddit users claim to have gambled on Mystery Brand and not received prizes, although others said they had received theirs.<\/p>\n

Curiously, the website\u2019s t&c\u2019s state that, \u201cDuring using the services of the website You may encounter circumstances in which Your won items will not be received [sic].”<\/p>\n

\n

The site certainly is a \u201cmystery brand.\u201d It offers no transparency about the company that owns it or where it\u2019s based, other than to claim it is \u201csubject to the laws and jurisdiction of Poland.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If this is the case, it\u2019s breaking those laws. Sports betting is the only form of online gambling permitted in Poland, and only then if an operator is granted a Polish gambling license. And if Mystery Brand has a gambling license from anywhere, it\u2019s keeping mysteriously quiet about it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Prime Bit of Real Estate<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Mystery Brand\u2019s purported big prizes — which include Lamborghinis and Rolls-Royces — sound dubious, but not nearly as dubious as its top prize.<\/p>\n

Pay $12.99 to open the \u201cWomen\u2019s Christmas Box\u201d and it\u2019s claimed you could win something called \u201cMost Expensive Los Angeles Realty $250,000,000\u201d which includes a picture of the priciest mansion ever to go on sale in America.<\/p>\n

\u201cBillionaire\u201d — also known as 924 Bel Air Road — was built by real estate developer and designer Bruce Makowsky and initially went on the market for $250 million, before being relisted last year at a discounted $188 million.<\/p>\n

According to The Daily Beast<\/em>, the site initially listed the odds of winning the mansion — a prize it cannot possibly deliver — at 0.0000018 percent, before removing this claim earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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