Eleven people now banned from gambling in Pennsylvania

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) — Eleven people are now banned from gambling online (iGaming) in Pennsylvania.

During its monthly meeting, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board voted to ban eleven people who were investigated for fraudulent iGaming transactions.

The Board’s Bureau of Investigations and Enforcement found these individuals to be fraudulent in two ways:

• They used a fraudulent scheme to obtain an iGaming account in another person’s name and identifiers
• They used fraud to facilitate the placement of funds into their iGaming account and, without engaging in any gaming activity, managed to have funds withdrawn from their iGaming accounts directly into their own bank account.

The Board further described the fraudulent before as:

• Illegally requesting and receiving chargebacks to a credit card totaling $5,150;
• Creating two separate online accounts using the personal identification of other individuals;
• Creating five separate online accounts using the personal identification of other individuals and withdrawing $6,195 into their own personal bank account;
• Accessing two separate online accounts using the personal identification of two other individuals and withdrawing $1,000 into their own personal bank account;
• Accessing one online account using the personal identification and credit card of another individual and unsuccessfully attempting to withdraw $1,300;
• Accessing one online account using the personal identification and credit card of another individual and withdrawing $900 into their own personal bank account;
• Accessing one online account using the personal identification and credit card of another individual and withdrawing $200 into their own personal bank account;
• Creating six separate online accounts using the personal identification and credit cards of other individuals and withdrawing $450 into their own personal bank account;
• Creating 14 separate online accounts using the personal identification and credit cards of other individuals and withdrawing $8,595 into their own personal bank account;
• Creating three separate online accounts using the personal identification and credit cards of other individuals and withdrawing $600 into their own personal bank account; and,
• Illegally requesting and receiving chargebacks to a credit card totaling $684 and creating other online accounts using the personal identification of other individuals.

The Board’s actions bring the total number of people banned from iGaming in PA to 30.