Edinburgh Council Site Promotes Rogue Casinos

0:00An old Edinburgh Council website, last used in 2019 for their neighborhood partnerships, is now pushing online casinos that dodged the GameStop self-exclusion system. It still got links from the Council's main site, edembarrow.gov.uk, and even shows their branding plus logos from Police Scotland and NHS, Lothian. Back in 2022, someone hijacked the site and slapped on ads for London Escort Services. By late last year, it flipped back to the original look, but swapped in the shady casino promotions that claimed to bypass addiction blocks. GameStop lets folks self-exclude from UK gambling sites for six months up to five years, and the gambling commission makes operators join in. Bypassing it puts vulnerable people right back in the danger zone, especially with Council links making it seem legit. Council officials just got tipped off and say they don't own the site anymore. They're scrambling to yank those links from community councils, library pages, and elsewhere

1:00as fast as possible. They've moved the real partnerships info to a fresh site at edembarrowcapartnership.scot. Stay sharp out there. Old links can lead to new traps in the battle against gambling harm. That wraps Edinburgh news today. I'm brought to you with AI.