CHARITY boss Jordan Lea started to gamble on online games at 14 – and ended up blowing £100,000 on the black market. At first, he used gaming “skins” as currency before graduating to casinos. 3 Jordan Lea started to gamble on online games at 14 – and ended up blowing £100,000 on the black market Credit: fpnw.
co.uk©2024 3 Jordan blames illegal gambling sites for his addiction Credit: Getty He once spent five consecutive days in one, and he got so desperate for cash that he advertised his iPad and phone on Gumtree – and parted with them for £100. Jordan, 36, said: “I 100 per cent blame those illegal sites for my addiction.
“I was gambling away my pocket money aged 14. I would buy skins, then go to a third-party website to gamble them away, playing roulette or blackjack. “It’s just something that’s done in gaming culture and these sites are advertised everywhere and promoted by gamers.
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now he is millionaire “If I got money from my mum to buy something in a game, she’d put in her card details and I’d use them to steal money from her. “Kids can easily buy crypto currency wallets from illegal sites and are using that to gamble. “By 16 I was working in Tesco and betting away all my wages.
Nobody knew because it’s easy to keep it secret. As a teenager you don’t think you’re gambling because it’s all game-related.” In 2016 he ended up in court for steal.