I received a typo-ridden email from a @protonmail.com account on Monday to the address I used to register my NitrogenSports account with the subject "Fw: Latest info Nitrogensports Fraud!!!!". It was addressed to ~15 addresses which mostly looked like personal email accounts but included
affiliates@nitrogensports.eu and
marketing@nitrogensports.eu. Of course it listed all the emails plainly in the To line. Looks like somebody using ProtonMail doesn't care about others' privacy. Here's the email:
Quote:
THEY ARE NOT ANONYMOUS AS THEY SAY, THEY USE YOUR IP ADDRESSES TO LOCATE INFO AND ARE WORKING ALONG TERRORISTS AND MONEY LAUNDERERS USING YOUR ACCOUNTS BACKSTAGE MAKING UP YOUR BALANCES NUMBERS IN ORDER TO REPORT THEM AS GAMBLINNG ERANINGS AND THEN WHEN IT IS NEEDED THEY WILL REPORT YOU ALL TO THE USA TAX AND NON LEGAL-ANTIU TERRORIST GAMBLING AUTHORITIES TO MAKE YOU ALL SEE AS THE ONES LAUDERING MONEY WHILE THEY RUN AWAY. I HAVE THE PROOF AND WILL SHARE IT IN THE INTERNET AND THEY CAN DO WAHTEVER THEY WEANT AGAINST ME CAUSE AND I WILL WIPE OUT MY ASS WITH THE CONFIDENTIALLY AGREEMENT THEY SAY THEY MAKE ME SIGN!
It went on to attach a screenshot showing what looked like an Excel file including some deposit and win/loss information from various accounts and included IP addresses although the last digit looked zeroed out on all of them (zeroing out the last digit of IPs is a semi-common practice in "anonymizing" them). It also included what looked like an SBR complaint form receipt:
Quote:
Name:
Date: 05/31/2021 - 06:25:25pm
Sportsbook: NitrogenSports
Account #: ###### (OMITTED@gmail.com)
Ip Address: XXX.XXX.XXX.VPN
Type: Costa Rica
Email Address: help@sportsbookreview.com
Reply to Address: OMITTED2@gmail.com
Country Of Residence: Costa Rica
Alt Contact: OMITTED@gmail.com
Name of Account Holder:
Forwarding Sportsbook Email: Yes
Requested copy: Yes
Authorize to Disclose Dispute Info: Yes
Forum Screen Name to Create:
Description:
I am an insider of Nitrogen Sports operatiosn whic are located in Costa Rica. I have very important information about customers accounts whith huge BTC balances as well as the plans of NitrogenSports to use this next Sports high season to accumulate winnings and customers funds balances and run away. I am at the operational department and tey have left out of the earnings so I am willing to let all customers know about it, so they are carefull by depositing since they will not let them withdraw their money at some pioinbt as they are doing right now. There are hundreds of customers which have their balnaces withheld by NitrogenSports making up things so they can keep cheating customers longer before they run away which will be right after the high season ends. The information I have is clear and I can share it at any time. If you are interested in letting this customers know feel free, anyways I will make all of the information public all over the internet. Thnak you in advance for your attention to this matte
The name was blanked out in the email but the account number (looks like the right number of digits for a Nitrogen account #) and the email addresses were listed in the clear. I omitted them here. The first three octets of the IP in the SBR receipt were also listed in the clear with the last octet being "VPN". Quoted typos are included here verbatim. There were some commonalities to the omitted gmail.com addresses and the protonmail.com address and it seems likely they belong to the same person.
Anyway, I'm curious if anybody else got something like this. I'm not sure what to think about it. Personally I expect a sportsbook to use IP addresses as a fraud prevention tool. I'm a little concerned that my email address leaked to this person but not overly so. Nonetheless, I've been screwed by books before and with the increase in crypto value over the last year I figured I could reduce my exposure to Nitrogen a bit. My guess is there's a disgruntled former employee at Nitrogen. I did a withdrawal of the majority of my balance and it processed successfully. I know some users on this forum have had issues with Nitrogen in the past but I've been a relatively happy, winning customer of theirs for a few years. Thoughts?