PlanetWin365 is Italy’s most counterfeit online betting brand

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it can also a colossal pain in the butt if the imitators are using your name to break the law.

Over the weekend, attorney Fabio Maggesi, who specializes in internet and trademark law, told Panorama.it that online counterfeiting in Italy had increased by more than 50% over the last five years. Maggesi claimed major Italian brands were routinely pirated by scammers hawking cheap imitations of the original products via websites based outside the country.

These knockoffs, many of them offered by Tunisia-based websites, aren’t limited to clothing products such as handbags or shoes, but also extend to website domains – online gambling domains among them. And Maggesi declared that “by far the most counterfeited brand in the panorama of online betting” is PlanetWin365.

PlanetWin365 is the flagship brand of Austria’s SKS365 Group, which operates land-based betting services in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Montenegro, and Serbia in addition to holding online licenses in Malta and Spain.