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Dutch Regulator Revokes Lottery Licence Obtained in Quick Boys’ Name

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The Netherlands Gambling Authority (Kansspelautoriteit, KSA) has revoked a lottery licence that was obtained through professional fraud in the name of football club Quick Boys from Katwijk, the regulator announced on October 2, 2026. An unknown party posed as the club’s chairman during the application and was granted the licence by the KSA.

Quick Boys never applied for a lottery licence and has no connection to the websites on which the lottery was offered, the regulator said. The club is itself a victim of identity fraud.

Fraudulent Websites and Personal Data

The fraudster used the licence to set up websites on which lottery tickets were offered, the KSA said. The regulator named eight sites: loterij.quickboys.nl, loterijenqb.com, besteloterijqb.com, nieuweqb.com, bestenl.com, topnetherlands.com, newloterij.com and topsloterij.com. None of the websites belongs to Quick Boys.

The KSA warned consumers not to enter personal data on these websites, such as their name, address, email address, telephone number or bank details. The regulator said it does not know what the fraudster does with submitted data, and that the information could be misused, for example for phishing or identity fraud.

A Broader Pattern of Application Fraud

What happened to Quick Boys fits a broader development, the KSA said. Fraudsters are increasingly trying to use false information to abuse the name and the licence of associations that organise legal lotteries, harming the associations, which see their good name misused, and consumers, who believe they are taking part in a trustworthy lottery. The authority described the trend as a new risk for itself as supervisor, and said that in another case a similar attempt was prevented through extra control.

Ella Seijsener, the KSA’s director of licensing, said consumers must be able to trust a licence from the regulator and that the authority takes the deception of its application process very seriously. Checks on the identity of applicants and on the domain names entered in the Kansspelwijzer, the KSA’s public register of licensees, were tightened immediately, she said.

Advice for Ticket Buyers

Anyone who has bought a ticket through the fraudulent websites should contact their bank about reversing the payment, file a report with the police and notify the Fraudehelpdesk, the KSA advised. Buyers should also report the purchase to the regulator through its portal, which the KSA said gives it a better view of the scale of the fraud.

Anyone who entered personal data on the websites should be extra alert to unexpected emails, text messages or phone calls in which data or payments are requested, the regulator said.

The KSA said it sees an increase in imitation websites of legal lotteries, and urged caution with unknown or unusual web addresses, payment requests to foreign accounts and offers that do not run through an association’s own channels. Consumers in doubt can check whether a licence appears in the Kansspelwijzer or contact the association directly.

The KSA has filed a report with the police over the fraud and said it makes no statements about the investigation.

The KSA is an independent administrative body and the supervisor and regulator of gambling services in the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was established in 2012 and is governed by a Board of Directors whose members are appointed and dismissed by the Ministry of Justice and Security but are independent in their decision-making. The authority is funded by the gambling industry through levies, and the ministry bears political responsibility for gambling policy in the Netherlands.

The authority describes itself as neither for nor against gambling, with a mission it summarises as Playing Safely, and says it strives for reliable gambling services, transparent operators and protected players. Its public register of licensees contains all legal operators, searchable by company name, website, app and licence number, so that players can verify whether the KSA issued a licence; operators in the register are supervised under Dutch law, according to the authority. The register is available on the Dutch-language part of the authority’s website.

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