{"id":1943848,"date":"2023-06-04T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T17:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-800000-drivers-just-unwittingly-became-a-rolling-advertisement-for-foreign-gambling-site-are-you-one-of-them\/"},"modified":"2023-06-04T13:14:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T17:14:39","slug":"nearly-800000-drivers-just-unwittingly-became-a-rolling-advertisement-for-foreign-gambling-site-are-you-one-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-800000-drivers-just-unwittingly-became-a-rolling-advertisement-for-foreign-gambling-site-are-you-one-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"800K drivers unknowingly advertised foreign gambling site. Were you one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnearly-800000-drivers-just-unwittingly-became-a-rolling-advertisement-for-foreign-gambling-site-are-you-one-of-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1943848&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>License Plates in Maryland Advertise Philippine Gambling Site<\/h2>\n<p>Did you know that your Maryland license plate might be promoting an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-800000-drivers-just-unwittingly-became-a-rolling-advertisement-for-foreign-gambling-site-are-you-one-of-them\/\" title=\"800K drivers unknowingly advertised foreign gambling site. Were you one?\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drakes-rep-denies-reports-rappers-been-arrested-in-sweden\/\" title=\"Drake\u2019s Rep Denies Reports Rapper\u2019s Been Arrested In Sweden\">online casino<\/a> based<\/a> in the Philippines? It turns out that around 13 years ago, Maryland printed the URL www.starspangled200.org on hundreds of thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-unorthodox-pro-life-bills-advancing-in-state-legislatures\/\" title=\"Five Unorthodox Pro-Life Bills Advancing In State Legislatures\">license plates<\/a> to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812. However, the state has failed to preserve the link, resulting in it now being used by an online casino. This means that about 15 percent of all registered vehicles in the state have unwittingly become advertisers for \u201cPhilippines Best Betting Site.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>How Did This Happen?<\/h3>\n<p>The discovery was first made by a Reddit user whose curiosity led them to the site. According to Ashley Millner, a representative for Maryland\u2019s Motor Vehicle Administration, the URL was previously \u201cmaintained by Star Spangled 200, Inc., a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-laptop-documents-at-least-459-legal-violations-watchdog-group-says\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop Documents At Least 459 Legal Violations, Watchdog Group Says\">nonprofit formed<\/a> under the War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission formed in 2007 through an Executive Order.\u201d However, the non-profit has since been disbanded, and the URL probably expired under the previous registrants and was then hijacked by a third-party.<\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s Being Done?<\/h3>\n<p>Millner clarified that the agency is currently working with their IT department \u201cto identify options to resolve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland drivers may have unknowingly advertised a Philippine gambling site on their license plates. The state printed the URL www.starspangled200.org on plates to commemorate the War of 1812, but the domain was later sold and now redirects to an online casino. Hundreds of thousands of plates may be affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2043,"featured_media":1943849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[28261,17987,10774,5542,23297,5537,4013,14246],"class_list":["post-1943848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-800k","tag-advertised","tag-drivers","tag-foreign","tag-gambling","tag-one","tag-site","tag-unknowingly"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2043"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}