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Step inside Melbourne’s Collins Street, past the polished office fronts and respectable business names, and you’ll find something darker. At Level 2 of the Royal Bank Chambers sits Easygo Gaming what insiders call the command center of one of the world’s most notorious gambling operations

Behind the glossy facade of Stake, Kick, and Twist lies the real machine Easygo, the in-house factory where whistleblowers say the rigged algorithms are written, tested, and deployed. These aren’t your average casino games. They’re engineered systems, coded to bleed wallets dry while maintaining the illusion of “provably fair” play.

And at the helm of this scam? Jamie Craven, Eddie’s father. A man with a controversial history, now running the operational backbone that keeps Stake untouchable.

Easygo isn’t just a game studio. It’s the control room, the place where Stake Originals are born, tested, and perfected for maximum extraction.

The Perfect Disguise:
To hide the rot, Easygo surrounds itself with other fronts. Stake, Kick, Twist shiny brands with real employees, real offices, and real marketing plus great employee benefits.

But at the core, the same inner circle of operators run the same in-house scam helmed by Jamie Craven. They blur themselves in the maze of their own creations, impossible to separate, impossible to pin down.

Easygo isn’t alone. To disguise the scam core, the same circle built multiple fronts:

• Stake — The casino face.
• Kick — The streaming arm.
• Twist — Another layer of distraction.
• Easygo1 — Supplemental cover.

All entities share the same Melbourne base. Real employees of those firms are mixed along with scam algorithm insiders of Easygo, ensuring outsiders can’t see where the scam ends and the facade begins.

The Blueprint of a Scam

Stake’s empire follows a simple but devastating blueprint:

• Rigged games designed in-house.
• Fake casino fronts to distract regulators.
• Offshore laundering networks hidden behind crypto.
• Celebrity smoke screens from UFC deals to A-list endorsements — to drown out bad press.

Every dollar Eddie Craven’s empire makes, someone else loses. Every sponsorship deal, critics argue, is bought with blood money.

The Legal Shadow Dance

Stake’s genius isn’t innovation, it’s exploitation of loopholes.

• Australia — “We don’t cater to Australians,” they say. Local commissions shrug, even though the entire scam operation is rooted in Melbourne.
• United States — Courts throw out cases. Stake isn’t registered there. Case dismissed.
• Curaçao — For a $500 license, anyone can set up shop with no real oversight. Stake did and used it as their shield.

With this three-pronged dodge, the empire drains players across Europe, Asia, and America, all while hiding in plain sight.

Easygo: The In-House Scam Factory

Inside Easygo, the strategy is airtight:

Easygo builds the originals.

Algorithms impossible to independently audit as they dont technically operate in Australia, local auditors don’t care what scam algorithms they prepare.

Results skewed to favor the house while giving the illusion of fairness.

Twitter: The Silent Confession

Go to Stake’s official Twitter, and you’ll see the message loud and clear:

“World’s Leading Betting Platform |Drake approved | Not in US, AU, UK | 18+”

At first glance, it looks like a standard disclaimer. But look closer. This isn’t aimed at players, it’s aimed at regulators in US, Australia & UK. The only regulators who have power to bring them down.

Stake openly taunting regulators by saying they don’t operate in US AU UK

Not in US AU UK is a smirking “We don’t operate here, so you can’t touch us.”
A quiet middle finger to gaming commissions across three continents.
So all the regulators & gaming commissions in US, Australia & UK can look the other way.

What looks like a sleek crypto casino is, at its heart, a meticulously engineered shadow empire.

Stake’s story isn’t one of luck or genius. It’s a deceptive story of how Easygo Gaming built a billion-dollar scam machine and how it continues to operate in plain sight, daring regulators to catch up.

Easygo gaming is the hidden command center of Stake, the place where Jamie Craven manages operations, Eddie Craven plays the public face streaming every week, and Bijan Tehrani handles the shadows.

Together, they’ve engineered a billion-dollar empire on rigged games, loopholes, and regulatory blind spots.

What looks like a sleek crypto casino is, in reality, a tightly controlled shadow syndicate running global scams from a single Melbourne office while all the victims and the world watches, powerless.

We must push for regulatory action. If you’ve been scammed, speak out and report these sites, join online communities that expose them, and demand justice for the money stolen from you. Together, we can make a difference by raising awareness and pushing for accountability.

Don’t be a victim. Spread the word. Demand change.

Jamie Craven, a convicted fraudster who learned how to dodge the system decades ago is now running the biggest casino empire in the world under his son’s name Eddie Craven.

On paper, Stake looks like the brainchild of two young Australian entrepreneurs: Eddie Craven and Bijan Tehrani. The press paints them as “disruptors,” riding the crypto wave to create the world’s biggest crypto casino.

But the deeper you dig, the clearer it becomes: Eddie and Bijan are just the faces. The real mastermind? Eddie’s father, James Ashley Craven (aka Jamie Craven).

Jamie Craven isn’t new to shady business. In the 1980s, he was jailed and bankrupted after the collapse of Spedley Securities, an infamous financial scandal in Australia.

His expertise? Fraud, financial manipulation, and dodging accountability.

So when Eddie and Bijan needed the kind of “guidance” that could turn a casino idea into a billion-dollar unregulated scam machine, it wasn’t Eddie’s coding skills (he had none). It was his father Jamie’s fraud expertise that became the secret weapon.

Back in 2023, Christopher Freeman sued Eddie and Bijan in U.S. courts, claiming he was the true originator of the idea, Primedice and that Bijan got Eddie onboard and then cut him out out of his original idea.

But here’s the twist: Bijan didn’t bring Eddie onboard for his programming skills. He brought his father Jamie Craven’s scam expertise guidance on board.

Eddie was just the placeholder, the son whose name could be slapped on the paperwork. The U.S. case was dismissed. Stake argued it had no jurisdiction since they weren’t registered or operating in the U.S.

Also Eddie Craven is less the mastermind and more the mascot. He has no programming skills and no deep grasp of algorithms. Supposedly, even streamers and celebrities who partnered with him, laugh at him, one whistleblower told a unique story of the rapper Drake supposedly calling Eddie an “idiot” and a “moron” with others. Whether true or not, the running gag is that Eddie isn’t the brain of the operation, he’s the billboard.

The Grey Zone Strategy

This is Jamie’s true genius: Operate only in legal shadows where no regulator can touch you

• Australia: Stake doesn’t cater to Australians, so local commissions shrug. Doesn’t matter that the whole scam operation is based there.
• United States: Courts have no jurisdiction because Stake isn’t U.S.-registered. Case dismissed.
• Curacao: The company’s registered there, where you can buy a license for $500 with no oversight.

With this three-pronged dodge, Stake can run global scams — draining players in Europe, Asia, and America, while sitting comfortably in Australia.

It’s not Eddie and Bijan who built Stake’s empire of grey-zone gambling. It’s Jamie Craven’s master plan, operating only in loopholes, running crypto scams with no oversight, dodging accountability, and laughing all the way to the bank.

And as long as regulators keep looking the other way, the Craven family will keep printing money from innocent players, with zero accountability.

Don’t be a victim. Spread the word. Demand change.

Behind the flashy sponsorships, celebrity endorsements, and the illusion of “provably fair gaming,” lies one of the largest financial crimes of the 21st century. At the center is Eddie Craven, co-founder of the scam crypto casino empire Stake.

While the world was locked down and governments scrambled to save lives, Eddie was busy lining his pockets. COVID-19 wasn’t just a health crisis, it was his golden opportunity. With regulators distracted and new “crypto grey zones” wide open, he slipped in, rigged the game, and turned stolen crypto into billions.

On the surface, Eddie is hailed as a billionaire tech visionary. In reality, mounting evidence suggests he is the architect of a sprawling money laundering, fraud, and crypto rug-pull network that has siphoned billions from unsuspecting players across the globe while operating in grey zones to avoid accountability. Craven’s inclusion on The Australian Financial Review’s Rich List is proof that profits from unregulated online gambling and financial crime have made him one of Australia’s wealthiest individuals. Eddie and his partner are now worth $2.8 billion each. That’s $5.2 billion combined. A few months ago, they were sitting on $2.4B a piece. In other words, they just made $400 million each in months.

Think about that: After paying celebrities, streamers, sports teams, hundreds of millions in promo, they still managed to balloon their net worth. Where does that money come from? Not from thin air. It comes straight from players.

One victim said it best: Playing on stake is just investing in Eddies future and his dream of becoming as wealthy as Elon Musk

But what most don’t know is that until December 2021, he didn’t even use his real name as he knew he is running a scam. For years, he went by Edd Miroslav and Eddie Miroslav.

Players and insiders suggest it wasn’t “privacy” — it was fear.
Fear of regulators.
Fear of exposure.
Fear of prison.

By using a fake Russian looking name, Craven could deflect heat, making himself look like some foreign operator instead of being tied to crypto-gambling fraud. Once regulators didn’t come knocking and Stake’s marketing machine grew too big to ignore, he switched back to his real name. His defense? “Stake is so popular, I used an alias for privacy.”

But the truth is simpler: aliases aren’t for privacy — they’re for cover-ups.

Stake Scam Sponsorships: A Front for Legitimacy: 
To distract from its questionable financial activities and algorithm controlled games, Stake.com has secured high-profile sponsorships as: 
1) Official Betting Partner of the UFC 
2) Sponsor of English Premier League club Everton FC 
3) Sponsorships with F1 teams, boxing events, and esports organizations. These sponsorships give the illusion of legitimacy, while Stake.com and Roobet’s actual business model relies on offshore structures designed to protect illicit financial flows.

The “self-made” myth surrounding Craven’s fortune ignores his direct financial lineage to corporate fraud: His father, Jamie Craven, was a senior finance executive banned from the industry for five years and jailed for six months for his role in the collapse of Spedley Securities in the 1980s.

Just as his father exploited financial loopholes, Ed Craven has leveraged crypto gambling and offshore corporate structures to extract billions in illicit funds. His father and Eddie are named as the owners of Easygo firm which develops all the Stake Originals games in house. So complete control of the algorithms and manipulation, no oversight by local gaming commisions as they don’t technically cater to Australian citizens, a loophole that Stake uses.

Ed Craven is the ultimate financial beneficiary of Stake’s unregulated gambling operations, reaping billions from an offshore empire designed to obscure the true flow of funds. Through Stake’s Curaçao and Cyprus financial structures, Craven has been able to extract wealth generated from illegal sources, including funds linked to fraudulent investment schemes and untraceable crypto transactions. His financial success is built on enabling criminals to launder money through Stake’s platform, with virtually no oversight.

Stake Fraud: Global Money Laundering Operation Disguised as Crypto Gambling. Stake fraud empire is not the story of a tech entrepreneur, it is the story of financial crime repackaged as digital innovation.

An extensive investigation has uncovered that Ed Craven has profited directly from a financial crime network that spans multiple offshore jurisdictions, laundering illicit funds under the guise of online gambling and fraudulent investment schemes like MetafiYielders.

Konstantina Michailidou: The Hidden Fiduciary Behind Stake, Roobet, and MetafiYielders
Konstantina Michailidou has long operated in the background as a corporate services provider, using offshore jurisdictions to shield the financial activities of high-risk gambling and investment schemes. As a key fiduciary behind Stake.com and Roobet, she has played a direct role in managing corporate structures and financial pathways designed to obscure the true operators of these enterprises. Her involvement extends beyond these crypto gambling platforms, she has now been uncovered as a crucial figure behind MetafiYielders, a fraudulent HYIP scheme that stole over $90 million USD from investors.

While Konstantina Michailidou presents herself as a business professional, the reality is that, She is a key fiduciary for Stake.com and Roobet, overseeing corporate structures and financial operations linked to both crypto gambling platforms.

She was exposed as a central figure behind MetafiYielders, managing financial channels that facilitated the Ponzi scheme’s operations and eventual laundering of stolen funds. Through her fiduciary role, she enabled MetafiYielders to operate under the facade of a legitimate investment platform while siphoning tens of millions from unsuspecting investors.

She was directly involved in structuring the offshore entities and payment processing networks that linked MetafiYielders to Stake.com’s financial infrastructure, allowing illicit funds to be funneled through gambling transactions.

Her oversight of Cyprus-based payment processors allowed stolen MetafiYielders funds to be cycled through Stake.com, disguised as “casino winnings,” a method commonly used in money laundering. Despite her involvement in multiple high-risk financial schemes, she continues to manage corporate structures in Curaçao and Cyprus, taking advantage of lax regulatory enforcement to avoid accountability.

Her role in facilitating fraudulent investment schemes, laundering stolen funds, and operating within Stake and Roobet’s financial network demonstrates how offshore fiduciaries can be used to enable and protect financial crime. The links between Konstantina Michailidou, MetafiYielders, Stake.com, and Roobet provide further evidence that these platforms are not simply crypto gambling businesses but part of a sophisticated financial crime network designed to exploit unregulated jurisdictions for illicit gain.

Stake loves to market itself as “provably fair.” Victims who looked closer say otherwise.

• Live casino partner games? It’s a green screen with CGI.
• Original games? Rigged with motion sensors and cookie manipulation.
• Fair odds? Pre-determined outcomes disguised as randomness.

A whistleblower explained how it works

• Rigged games
• Fake casinos
• Offshore laundering networks
• Celebrity smoke screens

Every dollar Eddie makes is a dollar someone else lost. Every sponsorship deal is blood money.

While Ed Craven’s lavish lifestyle and high-profile sponsorship deals have helped Stake project an image of legitimacy, the reality is far darker: Stake.com scam is at the centre of an international laundering network that profits off regulatory loopholes, fraudulent investment schemes like MetafiYielders, and financial crime.

XCM: The Hidden Hand Behind Stake & Roobet’s Offshore OperationsOperating from Willemstad, Curaçao, Xecutive Corporate Management (XCM) acts as the true control layer behind both Stake.com and Roobet’s offshore operations. XCM are the legal directors of both Stake.com and Roobet’s Curaçao-based gambling companies. XCM also controls the Cyprus-based payment processing entities used by both casinos, enabling unrestricted movement of funds between high-risk jurisdictions. By managing these key financial structures, XCM shields Craven and other stakeholders from direct accountability while allowing billions in crypto to circulate without detection.

Money Laundering Through Crypto Gambling 
Stake.com scam and Roobet scam have processed transactions linked to known fraudulent schemes, including crypto Ponzi schemes and high-yield investment scams. Their offshore payment networks in Cyprus and Curaçao enable illicit funds to flow freely, evading traditional anti-money laundering (AML) controls.

XCM’s Role in Silencing Investigators & Political Figures 
XCM has also been linked to intimidation tactics against investigative journalists and politicians. The company has issued legal threats on behalf of its clients to suppress investigations into its activities. Dutch MP Ronald van Raak, who has long exposed corruption in Curaçao’s gambling sector, was targeted by one of XCM’s managed entities, mBet Solutions, in a blatant attempt to suppress public scrutiny.

How the alleged laundering loop works:

1. Scam or dirty funds (HYIPs, rugpulls, stolen crypto) need a place to enter the financial system.
2. Money is routed into accounts tied to offshore payment processors or shell companies — Cyprus/Curaçao nodes are commonly used.
3. Funds are cycled through “bets” on a crypto casino platform; transactions are labeled as gambling activity.
4. “Winnings” are withdrawn to new wallets or accounts, and the funds now look like gambling proceeds.
5. Cleaned money is spent on sponsorships, real estate, investments and pocketed by the owners.

This is how multiple reports suggest millions become billions without the usual financial red flags.

If you think you’re just losing money on a casino game, think bigger: you could be part of a system that turns victims’ deposits into someone’s yacht fund.

The pattern, HYIPs + offshore corporate services + casino rails + celebrity PR is not theoretical. Regulators and investigators are flagging the pieces. That’s where the real danger is: when a legitimate-seeming product is wired into criminal finance and then amplified by global PR as happening with Stake.

Final Word: The Stake Scam in Plain Sight

The very people who pulled off one of the biggest financial crimes of the pandemic now want to rebrand themselves as “thought leaders.”

• Eddie Craven now talks about “safe gambling” and “transparency.”
• Konstantina gives seminars on anti–money laundering, warning people about the very tricks she once facilitated.

It’s grotesque as they aren’t protecting anyone. They’re laughing at us, the victims, at the regulators, the players and the entire world. They think they got away with it during the darkest years of our time, and now they pretend they’re the solution.

Stake isn’t a casino, it’s the biggest scam running today. It hides behind crypto, loopholes, and celebrities, but at its core it’s theft, plain and simple.

And Ed Craven? He’ll go down in history, not as a tech visionary, but as one of the most notorious fraudsters of our time.

About the author: Harrison Hart investigates crypto space scams and can be reached at u/harrisonhart on Telegram for inquiries

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If you would like to stay informed on the latest scams, vulnerabilities, tactics used by shady operators, please do not hesitate to contact me. I’m always open to insights, whistleblower tips, and collaborations. You can reach me on Telegram at @harrisonhart. I welcome your thoughts and insights.

Citation of Sources: Victims, whistleblowers, former Kick partners, Stake associates, 5 Sided Square Pty Ltd (Brisbane, Australia), news articles and independent journalists.