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Polymarket's Rush to Grow Left a Door Wide Open for Fraudsters

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  1. fortran77 · · focus · HN ↗
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    1. Morromist · · focus · HN ↗
      Thanks. These paragraphs are pretty damning:

      &quot;At one point, the processor rejected as fraudulent more than 80% of the deposits it was handling, a rate that far exceeded industry standards of roughly 1%. Polymarket employees quickly raised their concerns with Chief Executive Shayne Coplan, according to people familiar with the events.

      The compliance team, those people recalled, was floored by Coplan’s response: Just keep growing and pay a fine if regulators ever find out.&quot;

      At what point are you a casino and at what point are you just a utility for money laundering, insider betting, scams &amp; fraud?

      1. podocarp · · focus · HN ↗
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