KSA revokes Dutch lottery licence after Quick Boys identity fraud, warns on fake lottery sites

The Dutch gambling regulator KSA has revoked a lottery licence after finding it was obtained through identity fraud using the name of football club Quick Boys from Katwijk. For PSPs and banks, the useful bit is simple: a fraudster used the licence to run a cluster of lottery websites, which means there is now a live consumer-data and payment-risk issue attached to the domain set.

1. The KSA said an unknown party impersonated Quick Boys chairman during the application process and secured a lottery licence in the club’s name through what it described as professional fraud. The club itself had not applied for the licence and had no connection to the lottery websites.
2. The licence was used to launch multiple sites that were falsely linked to Quick Boys: loterij.quickboys.nl, loterijenqb.com, besteloterijqb.com, nieuweqb.com, bestenl.com, topnetherlands.com, newloterij.com, and topsloterij.com. The regulator stressed that the sites do not belong to Quick Boys.
3. The KSA warned consumers not to enter personal or banking information on those websites, including name, address, email address, telephone number, or bank details. It said it does not know what the scammer is doing with the data and warned it could be misused for phishing or identity fraud.
4. Anyone who has paid one of the sites was told to contact their bank to try to reverse the payment, file a report with the police, and report the case to the Netherlands’ Fraud Helpdesk and the KSA. The regulator also told people who entered data to watch for suspicious emails, text messages, or phone calls requesting more data or payments.
5. The KSA said it has tightened licence application checks after a similar attempted fraud was stopped through additional checks. It has also submitted a report to the police, and said the Quick Boys case fits a broader trend of scammers trying to misuse the name and licence of associations organising legal lotteries.

For operators and payment providers, the operational takeaway is that a valid-looking lottery licence is not enough on its own if the brand, domain set, and beneficiary are being stitched together by fraud. The KSA’s warning is also a reminder that payment exposure can emerge long after the original licence check, once the sites start collecting card or bank details under a borrowed name.