The Dutch Gambling Authority (Kansspelautoriteit, KSA) has revoked a lottery licence after finding that a fraudster obtained it by posing as the chairman of Katwijk football club Quick Boys, then used it to sell lottery tickets through eight websites.
The KSA announced the revocation on 2 October 2026. The club had no part in the application and is the victim of identity fraud, according to the regulator.
The KSA has filed a police report and is warning consumers not to enter personal or banking details on any of the sites.
Eight sites on one licence
An unknown party submitted the lottery licence application to the KSA while impersonating the Quick Boys chairman. The KSA granted the licence, and the applicant used it to run ticket sales across eight domains:
- loterij.quickboys.nl
- loterijenqb.com
- besteloterijqb.com
- nieuweqb.com
- bestenl.com
- topnetherlands.com
- newloterij.com
- topsloterij.com
The first address on the list is a subdomain of the club’s own quickboys.nl domain. Three others carry the club’s initials, qb. The remaining four use generic Dutch and English lottery names with no visible link to Quick Boys.
The KSA has not said how the subdomain was set up, how long the sites were live, or when it first granted the licence. It has also not disclosed how many people bought tickets or how much money the sites took.
KSA tightens applicant checks
Ella Seijsener, director of licensing at the KSA, said the regulator was treating the breach of its application process as a serious matter. In a statement translated from Dutch, she said:
“Consumers must be able to trust a licence from the KSA. We take the fact that a scammer managed to mislead our application process very seriously.”
The KSA said it has tightened identity checks on licence applicants. It now also applies closer scrutiny to the domain names listed against licences in the Kansspelwijzer, its public register of licensed gambling offers.
Those added checks have already stopped at least one comparable attempt, according to the regulator. The KSA did not give details of that second case or say whether it also used a sports club’s name.
The regulator has not named the person or group behind the Quick Boys application. With a police report filed, any criminal investigation now sits with Dutch law enforcement. The KSA has not shared details of one.
Advice for ticket buyers
The KSA told anyone who paid for tickets on the eight sites to contact their bank about reversing the payment and to report the fraud to the police.
It also asked consumers to report the case to the Fraudehelpdesk, the Dutch national fraud reporting service, and through the KSA’s own reporting portal.
People who entered personal data on the sites should watch for phishing messages and further fraud attempts using their details, the regulator said. It advised consumers to check any lottery or gambling offer against the Kansspelwijzer before paying.
Why the licence mattered
The case differs from the KSA’s usual warnings about illegal gambling because the websites operated under a licence the KSA itself had issued, not under a foreign licence or none at all.
The Kansspelwijzer is the tool the regulator points consumers to when they want to know whether an offer is legal. Its value depends on the licences behind it being issued to the people and organisations named on them. The KSA added the domain checks after this case came to light.
Using a football club’s name also gave the sites a known local brand. Quick Boys is based in Katwijk in South Holland and one of the eight sites ran on the club’s own web address.
What happens next
The open questions are the size of consumer losses and whether the fraud reached beyond the eight listed domains. The KSA has not said whether it is reviewing other recently granted lottery licences in light of the case.
The regulator has also not set out what the tightened identity checks require from applicants. Clubs, charities and other organisations applying for lottery licences in the Netherlands will face those checks on their filings from now on. The outcome of the police report will show whether the person who misled the KSA’s process is traced.
Source: Kansspelautoriteit
