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Casino.org: Fake Counter.

Author
Gray et al.
Date
1 Aug 2017
Publisher
UXP2 Lab

“The site prominently displays a ticking counter of visitors’ winnings since 1995, but viewing the site through a foreign proxy reveals that the number isn’t exchange-rate accurate, just arbitrarily set somewhere in the 33,000,000.00+ range, regardless of currency or region.”

Casino.org was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab over a ticking counter on its site that prominently displays visitors’ winnings accumulated since 1995. According to the entry, viewing the site through a foreign proxy reveals that the figure is not exchange-rate accurate but is simply set somewhere in the 33,000,000.00+ range regardless of the visitor’s currency or region.