Fanatics Casino posted the industry's most innocent hypothetical: $20 in FanCash hits your account and you have to spend it today, what are you getting? Offshore casino AceBet slid into the replies to announce it was 'withdrawing and throwing it into Acebet.' Recruiting inside a licensed competitor's mentions is audacious. It is also the entire brand.

The poach collected its first recruit one reply down: 'stay away from acebet. Scam site,' wrote Ronny. Right behind came the warmer welcome from a shill who smelled commission: 'One hundred precent! And when You send it to Acebet, You straight Tip me.' Two replies in, AceBet's $20 pitch had netted one scam accusation and one hand out for a cut of money that was never the shill's.

This is the same AceBet whose mentions are currently running a ten-year ban saga for a streamer who tried to cash out. A brand whose own replies read like a scam chorus went hunting for customers in a regulated operator's thread, and found only its own chorus recruiting in reverse.

Call it a self-own promo: the only people answering AceBet's invitation were a stranger warning everyone off and a stranger demanding a tip on arrival. Technically the poach worked. Somebody showed up, somebody got played, and the somebody was AceBet.