Online Casino Abuse - Ozric Vondervelden, Greco

Online Casino Abuse - Ozric Vondervelden, Greco

The online casino industry is a big target for fraudsters, from sign-up bonus abuse through to sidestepping account bans and exploiting business logic to guarantee a profit. This month’s guest on the Cybersecurity Sessions can attest to this – he used to exploit online casinos professionally!

Now using this experience to help operators rather than exploit them, gambling security consultant Ozric Vondervelden (Director, Greco) joins Andy to reveal the devious tactics cybercriminals are using to abuse online casinos.


Ozric Vondervelden, Director at Greco

After years of exploiting online casinos professionally, Ozric Vandervelden now uses his knowledge and experience to help gaming and betting companies prevent online abuse. After two years of consulting with over 30 operators, his team has developed Greco, a Gameplay Risk Engine for the iGaming industry.


Key points

  • Why duplicate account creation is of major concern to gambling operators
  • The techniques fraudsters are using to get around account restrictions
  • How abuse tactics evolve in response to improvements in security processes
  • What gambling operators can do to stay ahead of fraudsters

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