Roblox Casino Sites Allegedly Allowing Children To Gamble Millions Of Dollars

A new report has been released that alleges Roblox Casino Sites is allowing children to gamble millions of dollars worth of Roblox currency. 

Journalist Cody Luongo claims that there are a "handful of black market casino sites aggressively targeting the franchise's youthful audience and facilitating illegal gambling services" in his Sharpr newsletter. According to Luongo, one of these sites is known as Bloxflip and has been approaching underage content creators in an attempt to sponsor them.

"DarkkHayden, a 14-year-old Roblox creator with over 600K combined followers on YouTube and TikTok, is one of many examples. In January, they claimed to have received an email from Bloxflip’s marketing team offering to sponsor their content, agreeing to pay a fixed rate for views and an affiliate code that would provide a percentage of wagers from referred accounts in perpetuity. "

An official statement from Roblox reads as follows:

“Roblox’s Terms of Use and Community Standards prohibits use of sites like those mentioned. However, bad actors make illegal use of Roblox’s intellectual property and branding to operate such sites in violation of our standards. Roblox has teams and processes in place to investigate these websites to protect our brand and platform, including, where possible, having the websites removed. In some cases, we engage with law enforcement as part of our efforts. Ensuring a safe and compliant online experience for users of Roblox is a core tenant of the company. Roblox will continue to be vigilant in combating entities who engage in practices that are in violation of our policies or endanger the safety of our community.”

The news comes after a data leak earlier this month which resulted in over 4,000 users having their information leaked.

Roblox's Month Gets Worse

As reported earlier this month by PCGamer, Roblox had a major data breach that included the names, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and physical addresses of attendees of the Roblox Developers Conferences from 2017 to 2020, which means over 4,000 different users had their information leaked.

According to a source that spoke to PCGamer, the leak happened back in 2021 but wasn't widely publicized or known until earlier this month, meaning that the data has been out there for a long time.