stuff including gambling fraud and fake giveaways and this video would also criticize a guy called fused a gambling youtuber who was friends with skinfreak now the interesting thing about this drama wasn't the accusations it's actually the cover-up mcskillet very quickly released a statement saying the drama was cleared and privated his original upload and after a while a notorious video and a number of other videos criticizing skinfreak infused were also privated and while met skillet put all this down to a misunderstanding many people have speculated that skin freak may have had some kind of dirt on mcskillet and was able to blackmail him into silence although at this point i don't think we'll ever know the truth the NUMBER_TOKENth of july NUMBER_TOKEN. with multiple scandals swirling valve put out a statement clarifying that they have no business relationship with any of the gambling sites using steam's trading systems and cs go skins to operate and have never received any revenue from them they also explain they'll be taking action to stop these websites from operating although it's not entirely clear how they plan on doing that the NUMBER_TOKENth of july NUMBER_TOKEN richard dewis releases a bombshell video accusing james phantomlord varga of secretly owning a gambling site called csgo shuffle richard's video was based on a huge dump of hacked skype blogs and the evidence in them was utterly damning revealing that phantom was not only lying about his ownership but had rigged the site when you're streaming himself betting on it unlike the people involved in many of the previous scandals however phantom's career would be utterly ruined by this he was banned off twitch and outright disappeared off the internet for a year however the logs also contained one additional intriguing tidbit they confirmed that faze clan were the owners of cs go wild after all just as so many people had speculated but there was still one detail the public still didn't know fans had actually stopped being involved in the business months ago and it was now being entirely run by a former business partner of theirs called dracula and man we're going to be hearing a lot more about the NUMBER_TOKENth of july NUMBER_TOKEN valve finally puts their foot down and takes action against these gambling sites sending out a cease and desist letter to the many many gambling sites that had emerged over the past year and a half importantly this status states that they will disable the accounts of any cs go website that did not comply and that is exactly what they did trade banning thousands of bot accounts and banning millions of dollars of skins in the process now this would kill several famous sites cisco lounge probably the most famous and important skin site in the history of cs go shut down because of this and also cs go wild which dracula abruptly shut down without giving people time to withdraw leaving this image in its place what a nice sky however most gambling sites took a slightly different approach what they did was they made new bots and basically kept on operating with impunity valve's crackdown hadn't really stopped anything the NUMBER_TOKENth of october NUMBER_TOKEN concerned over valve's lack of progress in stopping gambling sites the washington state gambling commission sends a letter
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