Dutch Regulator Revokes a Lottery Licence a Fraudster Obtained by Posing as Quick Boys' Chairman

The Kansspelautoriteit says an impostor got a lottery licence in the name of a Katwijk football club and used it to sell tickets on eight websites. The regulator calls it a new risk, and it has tightened the checks behind the licence register it tells consumers to trust.

• The Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has revoked a lottery licence issued in the name of the Katwijk football club Quick Boys after finding that an unknown party obtained it by impersonating the club's chairman
• The licence was used to sell lottery tickets on eight websites, including loterij.quickboys.nl, which the KSA says have nothing to do with the club; it warns consumers not to enter personal or bank details on them
• The KSA says fraudsters are increasingly misusing the names and licences of associations that run legal lotteries, that a similar attempt was stopped by extra checks, and that it has tightened identity and domain checks for its Kansspelwijzer register
• The regulator has filed a police report and has not said how long the sites operated, how many tickets were sold or how much money was taken
• On the same day it republished four items from its OpenOverGokken campaign, including a warning about influencers who promote illegal casinos with fake winnings, all of them earlier material

An Impostor Got Through the Application Process

The KSA said on 2 October that it has withdrawn a lottery licence that stood in the name of the football club Quick Boys from Katwijk but was "obtained through professional fraud" (our translation, as are the quotations below). Quick Boys did not apply for a lottery licence and has nothing to do with the websites on which the lottery was offered, the regulator said; the club is itself a victim of identity fraud. During the application, an unknown party posed as the club's chairman and in that way obtained a lottery licence from the KSA.

The fraudster used the licence to set up websites selling tickets. The KSA named eight: loterij.quickboys.nl, loterijenqb.com, besteloterijqb.com, nieuweqb.com, bestenl.com, topnetherlands.com, newloterij.com and topsloterij.com. It told consumers not to enter personal details on them, such as a name, address, email address, telephone number or bank details, because it does not know what the fraudster does with that data, which could be misused for phishing or identity fraud.

Ella Seijsener, the KSA's director of licensing, said: "Consumers must be able to trust a licence from the KSA. That a fraudster managed to mislead our application process is something we take very seriously." She added: "We have immediately tightened the checks on the identity of applicants and on domain names that go into the Kansspelwijzer," the KSA's public register of licensed operators.

Buyers are told to ask their bank to reverse the payment, report it to the police and the Fraudehelpdesk, and tell the KSA "so that we get a better view of the scale". The KSA has filed a police report and says it will not comment on the investigation.

"A New Risk" for the Regulator

The regulator presented the case as part of a trend. Fraudsters are increasingly trying to misuse the name and licence of associations that organise a legal lottery by using false information, it said, which harms associations whose good name is abused and consumers who think they are taking part in a reliable lottery. "For the KSA as supervisor this is also a new risk," it said, noting that in another case a similar attempt was stopped by extra checks. It also reports an increase in imitation websites of legal lotteries.

The KSA did not say which type of licence was issued, when it was granted or when it was revoked. The route it offers clubs is the one-off lottery licence for a cause of general interest, such as sport, which the KSA grants where prizes total €4,500 or more; smaller lotteries are licensed by municipalities. The licence runs for six months, allows up to 13 draws and online ticket sales, requires at least 40% of proceeds to go to the stated cause, and costs €600 in fees for a prize fund of up to €50,000. It also lets the licence holder outsource the running of the lottery to a third party under a written agreement, so a ticket site that is not run by the club itself is no warning sign to a buyer.

Quick Boys is a plausible name to borrow. The club has run its own Christmas lottery, the Kerstnarrenloterij, selling €10 tickets online through a separate website, most recently in 2024, according to the club's site.

The Campaign Posts Were Not New

The same afternoon the KSA added four items from OpenOverGokken, its prevention platform, to its news feed. One warns that the regulator "regularly" sees influencers on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube advertising illegal gambling companies, often playing with bonus money or "fake play credit" topped up without limit, so that they appear to win all the time. It gives no figures. The other three are earlier campaign material: a taboo survey first released in January, a Roda JC shirt campaign built around a match on 6 February, and a piece citing research reported in October 2025, much as the KSA republished a February survey on 29 September. Its previous new release, on 23 September, was guidance telling licensed operators not to obstruct players who want to close their accounts.

The Register Consumers Are Told to Check Was the Weak Point

The KSA's standing advice to consumers is to check the Kansspelwijzer before playing, and it repeats that advice in this warning. Seijsener's remark that checks on domain names in the register have been tightened implies the fraudulent sites could pass that test, although the KSA has not said whether any of the eight domains appeared there. If they did, the fraudster did not need to forge a licence: the regulator issued a real one, and its own tool would have vouched for it. That is a more serious failure than a fake certificate on a website, and the KSA deserves credit for saying so plainly. The scale of harm will depend on how long the sites ran before anyone noticed, which it has not disclosed. What it has not yet said is what the original identity check consisted of, and whether it went beyond the Chamber of Commerce extract the application form asks for, a public document anyone can obtain.

The Real News Is Licensing, Not Campaigning

The influencer warning restates a problem the KSA, licensed operators and MPs are already pursuing through the courts and legislation, and the other campaign items are recycled. The forged licence is different: it is a regulator admitting that its own front door was opened by an impostor. In the Netherlands, where the KSA asks players to tell legal from illegal by checking its register, that register's integrity is the foundation of channelisation policy.

The KSA has closed the gap it found. It now needs to show whether any other licence was issued on the strength of the same check.