Two unlicensed offshore casinos have hijacked the identities of football stars Bruno Fernandes and Jude Bellingham, using an AI-generated deepfake video and fabricated BBC news articles to invent official endorsements the players never gave. The operators (Vietnam-facing QH88 and Curaçao-licensed Nightwin) are betting on the near-impossibility of enforcement against anonymous offshore brands.
Key Takeaways
QH88’s one-minute AI deepfake of Bruno Fernandes faked an ambassador signing staged at Old TraffordNightwin used a fake BBC story to push “Bellingham Bet,” a bogus app claiming 1.9 million+ downloadsNightwin is licensed only in Curaçao, run by Flybergom B.V., incorporated there in May 2024Manchester United is still the most popular football club in Vietnam, so Fernandes was a logical target for a scheme like this. QH88 also hosts unauthorized live streams of football matches from several countries, according to Josimar, suggesting an operation with more resources than the typical throwaway sportsbooks that routinely appear and vanish across Southeast Asia.
The Fernandes deepfake followed a parallel scheme targeting Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham. An operator called Nightwin bought Instagram advertising built around a fabricated BBC article claiming Bellingham had launched his own betting app, “Bellingham Bet,” billed as “Britain’s most honest betting app” and carrying a logo based on the stylized signature the player uses with sponsor Adidas. The fake listing boasted a 4.9/5 rating and a fanciful 1.9 million+ downloads before funneling users to Nightwin’s platform. The ads disappeared within days, leaving only screenshots.
Nightwin is licensed only in Curaçao, where it launched this year through Flybergom B.V. – a company incorporated in the jurisdiction in May 2024 that obtained its gaming license there in September 2025. Flybergom also runs the DK88, or Dashking88, brand targeting the illegal Malaysian and Singaporean markets. Its registered Willemstad address is an office building known for housing corporate-services firms that act as trustees for large numbers of opaque businesses – and, per the Guardian, that is where the ownership trail ends. Neither Nightwin nor QH88 appears in the Great Britain Gambling Commission’s register, yet Nightwin can be accessed and registered from within the UK without using a VPN.
