A customer adviser for Lloyds bank sold customers’ account details to her friend who was a gambling addict. Jaspreet Marwaha, from Birmingham, gave the information of more than 80 accounts to Mohammed Saif Maqsood, from Blackburn, who paid £50 for each set of card details and swiped between £82,000 and £92,000 from them. At one point the … Read more
Gambling giants flout advertising rules to target children by using websites popular with youngsters The Advertising Standards Authority say gambling giants are breaking the rules Watchdog found some 70 different betting ads appeared on children’s websites The ASA said it would not name and shame the firms or take action against them By Sean Poulter … Read more
Debt firm worker stole £380,000 from his employers to feed gambling addiction after bookmakers offered him free bets and hospitality at Cheltenham races Glyn Rothwell, 36, stole money from debt management firm Harrington Brooks He used unwitting colleagues to ‘approve’ payments which went to his account Inquiries revealed 343 fraudulent transactions occurred between 2015 and … Read more
Swansea City becomes highest profile football team to ditch gambling company from shirts sponsorship Swansea City has dropped online betting firm Yobet as its main shirt sponsor The club came under pressure from gambling campaigners to make the change Swansea University will take over as the football club’s main shirt sponsor By Tom Witherow Business … Read more
Offshore gambling companies should be forced to have UK bases to stop the Treasury losing hundreds of millions in tax, report says Social Market Foundation think-tank called for gambling firms to be based in UK Report found more than half of remote gambling services are based in Gibraltar Gambling firms should be forced to provide … Read more
For my patient Tanya*, it started innocently enough. Off work after an operation, she was bored and killing time online when she clicked on a pop-up advert for a betting site. ‘It seemed like fun,’ she told me. ‘The advert had women just like me in it. It was just a laugh.’ And at first … Read more
I turned £5 into £90 betting on football so thought I must be good at it. That was disastrous Smartphones, online gaming and shrewd marketing have led to such a shocking rise in young problem gamblers, the NHS has opened a specialist clinic solely for teenage addicts. And the scariest thing? Many parents were oblivious … Read more
MPs warn Ministers have ‘unacceptably weak understanding’ of problem gambling – and ‘toothless’ industry regulator needs radical overhaul By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 27 June 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 27 June 2020 Ministers have an ‘unacceptably weak understanding’ of problem gambling – and the ‘toothless’ industry regulator needs a … Read more
Gambling giants were last night accused of ‘providing the gateway for the next generation of harm’ after bombarding sports fans with TV adverts and free bets during the return of Premier League football. Despite curbs on TV gambling advertisements around live sporting events introduced last year, the first two televised Premier League matches since the … Read more
Don’t let bookies target addicts: NHS mental health director Claire Murdoch urges gambling firms not to use restart of football season to ‘open the floodgates of addiction Top flights English football is just days away from returning to TV screens NHS mental health director fears gambling firms will look to capitalise hugely Thousands could be set … Read more