I spent too much time trying to build one of these gaming portals, and they pop them up as a scam like nothing. Must be a team of people behind it.
The technology behind the scenes and UI design are all well made.
I spent too much time trying to build one of these gaming portals, and they pop them up as a scam like nothing. Must be a team of people behind it.
The technology behind the scenes and UI design are all well made.
As I like to say in some other contexts on HN, you must not underestimate the criminal underground. You should not model it as some hacker alone in his basement trying to run scams. You're probably a lot closer thinking of the industry as at least the equivalent of a Dark Google in size and sophistication. If I can imagine a framework where I have a strong set of modular APIs that we can deploy rapidly and put together some prompts for AIs to customize the frontends and graphics hooks so each site looks different, deploying them just like you'd deploy a k8s cluster of these things (and, heck, for all I know, actually being on k8s), the industry as a whole has more than enough firepower to actually implement it. There's an entire dark economy out there where you can outsource parts of this to specialized businesses and get sketchy cloud hosting of all kinds, there's a rich economy around who is taking what actual risks and who gets compensated for them, everything you can imagine.
Wait, didn't they officially adopted Darth Google as name when they drop the don't be evil moto façade ?
Supposedly there are groups who make build-a-scam-website toolkits. The selling shovels model (which might even eliminate some legal risk).
Must be easier to build them if you don't have to commit to building the actual product to be fair
Just goes to show the old adage "crime doesn't pay" is bullshit. it pays very well, right up to the point of if you get caught.