The Kansspelautoriteit has revoked a lottery license issued under the name of football club Quick Boys from Katwijk after discovering it was acquired through identity fraud. Ella Seijsener, Director of Licensing at the regulator, announced the revocation.
Identity fraud and license acquisition
The Dutch Gaming Authority revoked a lottery license registered to Katwijk football club Quick Boys after determining the permit was secured through professional fraud. Investigators established that Quick Boys did not apply for the lottery license and maintains no association with the web platforms offering tickets under its name. The club itself is a victim of identity fraud, with an unknown perpetrator impersonating the club chairman during the application procedure to deceive the Kansspelautoriteit.
The fraudulent actor utilized the acquired permit to establish a network of illicit online portals offering lottery tickets. The identified unauthorized domains include loterij.quickboys.nl, loterijenqb.com, besteloterijqb.com, nieuweqb.com, bestenl.com, topnetherlands.com, newloterij.com, and topsloterij.com. Officials confirmed that none of these digital addresses belong to or represent Quick Boys.
Regulatory tightening and broader trends
Ella Seijsener, Director of Licensing at the Kansspelautoriteit, emphasized the severity of the security breach.
“Consumers must be able to trust a license from the Ksa. We take the fact that a scammer managed to mislead our application process very seriously. We have immediately tightened checks on the identity of applicants and domain names included in the Gambling Guide.”
In response, the supervisory authority has immediately tightened verification procedures concerning applicant identities and domain names listed within the Gambling Guide.
This incident reflects a wider pattern across the sector, where bad actors increasingly attempt to exploit the names and credentials of legitimate associations organizing authorized lotteries. Such deceptive schemes damage the reputations of sports associations and mislead consumers into purchasing tickets from unreliable sources. Furthermore, the occurrence introduces novel supervisory challenges for the Kansspelautoriteit, which previously intercepted a similar fraudulent attempt through supplementary screening. The regulator has filed a formal police report regarding the Quick Boys case while withholding further details on the ongoing investigation.
