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00:00All right.
00:01I'm always up for a good scam story here, because I just sort of feel like at this point
00:06we got to do a better job taking care of our patrons and our people out there.
00:10I mean, the latest one here in the States, as you know, Pat, is this one about where
00:15you're getting a text about paying parking tickets or paying highway parking.
00:18I mean, I get these all the time, then I'm like, this does not apply to me.
00:23So now there's one going on in Arizona, which we got to keep an eye on.
00:26I'm glad we're bringing this up here on the show.
00:28And it looks like there are some different websites that are trying to pose that they
00:31are online casinos by using the logos and extensions and links that you can come bet
00:37with them.
00:38And this is actually not true.
00:41So those people who are watching us today in Arizona or close in that region, listen
00:45to Pat.
00:46He's going to tell us more.
00:47Yeah, this was interesting.
00:48It was on Monday.
00:49I got this email from the Arizona Department of Gaming sending out a PSA about imitation
00:52casinos or for consumers to be wary of companies posing as casinos.
00:58And based on everything we've kind of been talking about and seeing with these sweepstakes
01:03bands and such that do, you know, they offer free to play, but they also offer, you know,
01:08the switch over to allow for, you know, kind of real money gambling.
01:13You know, we thought maybe it would be that.
01:16But I emailed them.
01:17Turns out instead of what it is, is imitation casinos, literally imitating casinos that
01:23are licensed in Arizona.
01:26Now, the thing is, is online casinos are not legal in Arizona and these are not licensed
01:32operators.
01:33They are just simply imitating.
01:34Go check out Legal Sports Report in the story for kind of the things that the Arizona Department
01:38of Gambling laid out in terms of things to look out for, including maybe a dot net URL
01:44instead of a dot com, maybe a misspelling in one of the names.
01:48And it turns out this is certainly something not just in Arizona.
01:53There was news reports from local Kansas news stations that were saying similar things about
01:59the Kansas Star Casino and fake websites around there.
02:02It's been in Canada, Washington tribes up in Washington state are kind of fighting the
02:07similar thing.
02:08And these are not regulated, licensed online casinos.
02:10They're simply imitating it.
02:12They might not even offer real gambling.
02:14They might just take deposits and then say, see you later.
02:18So that's where this fear is.
02:20It's certainly a consumer fraud and consumer scam situation going on.
02:24So that's something Arizona Department of Gambling is looking at and warning consumers
02:28about.
02:29I would not be surprised if more regulators kind of come out and do this.
02:33And to the sweepstakes point, the Arizona Department of Gaming also pointed me to a
02:37release that we wrote about in January that they did also kind of say, play responsibly
02:43online. Remember, online sports betting is the only way to legally wager in Arizona.
02:49And they have a whole sweepstakes page that only free to play sweepstakes games are
02:53allowed. And so that was kind of the interesting dichotomy there from the Arizona
02:58Department of Gaming.