The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Wednesday placed 26 people on various involuntary exclusion lists, banning them from gaming in a casino in Pennsylvania or via an online betting site regulated by the board.
The list includes four peopls who left minors unattended in order to engage in gaming activities in a casino and nine others for committing fraud using igaming sites.
The approvals were made during an online public meeting and upon the recommendation of the PGCB’s Office of Enforcement Counsel.
Placed on the Casino Involuntary Exclusion List for unattended minors were:
- A man and woman who left three minors, ages 5, 7 and 9, unattended in a vehicle in the parking lot of Valley Forge Casino Resort for six minutes in 80-degree weather while they gambled at the sportsbook and on table games.
- A man who left an 11-month-old child unattended in a vehicle in the parking garage at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course for 45 minutes in 40-degree weather while he played slot machines.
- A man who left a 13-year-old minor unattended in a vehicle in the parking lot at Live! Casino Philadelphia for 10 minutes in 75-degree weather while he gambled at the sportsbook.
Adults in Pennsylvania are banned from leaving minors unattended in the parking lot or garage, a hotel or other venues at a casino. To complement the efforts by casinos to mitigate this issue, the board created an awareness campaign, “Don’t Gamble with Kids.”
Also, 14 people whose presence in a licensed facility would be “inimical to the interest of the Commonwealth and licensed gaming,” according to the board, were placed on the Casino Involuntary Exclusion List for various offenses. Since its inception, 1,269, people have been placed on the Casino Involuntary Exclusion List. There are three people on both the casino and igaming involuntary exclusion list.
Additionally, eight people were placed on the board’s Involuntary iGaming Exclusion Lists for fraudulent behavior for creating and accessing 15 separate online accounts using the personal identifying information of other people.
Their offenses included:
- A person who created and accessed nine separate online accounts using the personal identifying information of other people.
- A person who created and accessed seven online accounts using the personal identifying information of other people, funded those accounts with credit cards belonging to other people, then withdrew a total of $1,490 from those accounts into his personal banking accounts.
- A person who created and accessed eight separate online accounts using the personal identifying information of other people.
- A person who created and accessed 19 separate online accounts using the personal identifying information of other people.
- A person who created and accessed 20 separate online accounts using the personal identifying information of other people.
- A person who created and accessed 14 separate online accounts using the personal identifying information of other people and then illegally requested and received chargebacks to a credit card totaling $6,681.
- A person who created and accessed six separate online accounts using the personal identifying information of other people.
The additions bring the number of people who are on the iGaming Involuntary Exclusion List to 61.
