Land-Based Casino
How BetGRW Shut Down 875 Fake Casino Ads Before They Reached a Single Player
BetGRW partnered with ChainPatrol to detect and take down fake Facebook and Instagram ads impersonating the casino with bogus bonus offers, blocking coordinated scam campaigns before they could reach a single player.
Share
BetGRW is a traditional casino in Quebec. Before ChainPatrol, scammers were running Facebook ads offering fake “free spins” and “exclusive bonuses” under the casino’s name, sending players to lookalike sites instead. The casino had no way to detect the ads or get them taken down. Every campaign ran until it burned itself out, and every player who clicked was someone else’s problem to catch.
The Problem
On the intro call they laid out the issue plainly. The impersonation was concentrated entirely on Meta, fake ads on Facebook and Instagram promoting bonuses that didn’t exist, pointing to domains that weren’t the casino’s. There was no monitoring in place and no process for takedowns. The casino had a real, growing problem and no lever to pull against it.
The Change
ChainPatrol started detecting and filing takedowns before the contract was even signed. The proof of concept blocked 16 threats on March 19, six days before the official signing date of March 25. By the end of week one, more than 30 fraudulent ads were already off Meta.
In mid-May, a group of scammers launched a coordinated Facebook ad campaign built around a fake domain, grandroyalwolinak-play.store. The ad carried a tracking pixel, the kind of detail scam operations use to measure how well their traffic converts. ChainPatrol’s detection didn’t just catch that one domain. It caught the whole cluster the scammers had built at the same time:
grandroyalwolinak-play.store
grand-royal-wolinak.website
grandroyal.co
wolinak.site
grandwolinak.space
All five were reviewed and taken down in the same detection cycle, before the campaign had a chance to build any real traffic. The casino’s actual Facebook page wasn’t running any ads at the time, so the impersonation was easy to confirm and easy to act on fast.
The same group came back on June 3 with 12 more fake ads in a single burst. All 12 were blocked. Two days later, on June 5, they tried again with 9 more. All 9 were blocked too. Each time they rebuilt, the takedown was already waiting.
The Results
Key Results
Takedowns Filed
Threats Detected
Takedowns Completed
Completion Rate
Nearly all of the activity was concentrated on Meta ads, which made up 90.4% of everything blocked, with the rest split across Facebook pages, scam domains, and a handful of TikTok, X, and Instagram accounts.
By the one-month mark, ChainPatrol had removed more than 63 fraudulent accounts and ads, including 30+ takedowns in a single week, and Ivan was already asking about extending coverage to the casino’s Sweeps USA brand. By month two, the team was seeing close to 150 takedowns in a single week and asked to add Slack bot alerts and Canary tokens to keep scaling.
The Takeaway
A casino with no security team and no in-house monitoring went from zero visibility into Meta-based impersonation to blocking coordinated scam campaigns within the same detection cycle they launched. The scammers kept rebuilding. ChainPatrol kept catching them, at 93% completion, without BetGRW having to lift a finger after onboarding.
Want to see what’s impersonating your brand right now? Get your free brand scan. We’ll show you the fake accounts and scam sites targeting you. Results in 48 hours, no credit card required.
Want to see what’s slipping through?
Get your free brand scan. Results in 48 hours, no credit card required.