Although there are many gambling sites centred around in-game items and skins from Steam games it was CSGO Lotto that hit the headlines recently when two prominent YouTubers 'Syndicate' and 'tmartn' started advertising it while pretending they’d merely stumbled up on it by accident – when in fact they were the owners.

It has now come to light via Richard Lewis that popular Twitch streamer James 'Phantoml0rd' Varga not only owned his own CSGO betting site 'CSGOShuffle' that he promoted heavily on his Twitch Stream but he was actively rigging the bets to ensure he wins while also playing with house money.

It's still early days but so far from leaked Skype logs between Varga and a developer for CSGOShuffle the rigging went on for months.

Something else that's very interesting about the chat logs is that in November 2015 Varga shows concern about competition coming from

'CSGOLOTTO The Syndicate Site' and CSGOWILD by the Faze guys

This is interesting because although Syndicate and tmartn have already been outed as the owners of CSGOLOTTO the Faze clan have been actively denying any involvement CSGOWILD.

You can watch the full video below going over the details.

Valve responded to the initial CSGOLotto scandal by halting all third-party skin gambling sites as they were in violation of Terms of Service in place since 2010.

PhantomL0rd gained global attention in 2013 after being one of the earliest victims of a "swatting" incident in which armed police raided his home after trolls placed hoax calls.

Posted: Jul 16, 2016 11:08 pm
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