Tag: Online Poker Fraud
Two Jailed in Sweden for Online Poker Fraud
April 18, 2014
Poker News – Sweden’s authorities have indicted 10 people for what the Värmlands District Court described as a “major fraud case” involving an online poker scandal which occurred between 2007 and 2011. The incident supposedly involved a large number of players active on Sweden’s gambling company Svenska Spel and a number of other operators. According to a statement released on Wednesday by Sweden’s online gambling regulator Lotteriinspektionen, between 2007 and 2011 the 10 people involved in the court case gained unauthorized access to the operators’ databases and collected a large number of players’ personal data such as email addresses, password…