Christina Spicer  |  March 3, 2021

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FanDuel feeds bettors false info, says class action.

Online sports betting company FanDuel has been hit with a class action lawsuit claiming it provided bettors with inaccurate scores and game times, inducing wagers based on false information.

Filed Tuesday in Illinois federal court, lead plaintiff Andrew Melnick seeks to represent more than 6 million consumers across 10 states where online sports betting is legal, including Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, Tennessee, Virginia, and Michigan.

Melnick, an Illinois resident, claims that he and others were duped into thinking they were placing much more advantageous bets based on the false information provided by FanDuel on its sports betting app that purports to provide “real time” information to bettors.

He says that he made an “over/under” bet in February of this year on FanDuel concerning a men’s NCAA college basketball game. Melnick says that he placed a bet based on the remaining game time information provided on FanDuel; however, he later found out that the game time information provided by the online betting company was off by up to 35 percent from the actual time.

Melnick says that after he discovered the discrepancy in game time information provided by FanDuel’s app, he attempted to get a refund by calling customer service; however, he says his request was denied.

In his class action lawsuit, he contends that the false information is no mistake. Instead, “while purporting to provide its customers with real-time, live sports game data, FanDuel regularly understates the time remaining in a given live sporting event in order to induce its customers to make wagers that they are more likely to lose, and/or that are riskier, than if they were being provided accurate, real-time information in connection with their live wagering,” says Melnick’s lawsuit.

In addition to false info about game times, the class action lawsuit contends that FanDuel provides inaccurate information about the score of the game. Class Members “have made and lost wagers that they would not have made had they known the actual time remaining in the given sporting event or, in the alternative, they would have, instead, wagered on the ‘Over’ and won that wager, rather than losing a wager placed on the ‘Under.’”

The plaintiff, who also points out that he has opted out of FanDuel’s arbitration clause, claims that he, along with hundreds of thousands of other FanDuel customers, have lost millions of dollars by placing bets based on false information provided by the app.

Were you provided false information by FanDuel that led you to place a bet? We want to hear from you! Tell us about your experience in the comment section below.

The lead plaintiff, Andrew Melnick, and the proposed Class Members are represented by Voelker Litigation Group and Fox & Fox S.C.

The FanDuel False Information Class Action Lawsuit is Melnick v. Betfair Interactive US, LLC, Case No. 1:21-cv-01178, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division.

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31 thoughts onFanDuel Misleads Bettors With False ‘Real Time’ Info, Class Action Lawsuit Asserts

  1. Matt says:

    This has happened to me countless times since 2018 and I’ve attempted to get responses from fanduel. They claim it’s a 3rd party vendor providing those scores and times so they are not liable. But clearly something can be done here I am just not sure what and how I can do it

  2. Coach says:

    This happened to me several times, and now they’re locking in your bets at numbers you don’t want. For example, I took the over at 52.5 but after I placed the bet my number went down to 50.5 then jumped up to 54.5 and locked me in there and of course I lost. They deceive and you and then steal your money, I have screenshots to prove it and I’ve told them but they don’t care.

  3. Coach says:

    They happened to me several times, and now they’re locking in your bets at numbers you don’t want. For example, I took the over at 52.5 but after I placed the bet my number went down to 50.5 then jumped up to 54.5 and locked me in there and of course I lost. They deceive and you and then steal your money, I have screenshots to prove it and I’ve told them but they don’t care.

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