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Wed, July 30, 2025
Scammers Flood Social Platforms with Fake Gaming Sites
🔍 Fraudsters are promoting hundreds of polished fake gaming sites across Discord and other social platforms, falsely claiming partnerships with influencers and offering a $2,500 'promo code' to lure users. Visitors create free accounts to play sleek casino-style games (for example gamblerbeast[.]com's B-Ball Blitz), but cashouts are blocked and victims are prompted for a cryptocurrency 'verification deposit' and repeated payments. Investigators, including a Discord researcher and the threat-hunting firm Silent Push, linked a shared chat API key to at least 1,270 active domains and found centralized wallets, AI-assisted support, and network-wide tracking that make these scaled scams efficient and hard to report.