The IOM has from the beginning of modern history survived by smuggling, tax evasion, more recently "Wealth Management", Payroll stuff and the like, and its nothing new. All immoral industries that make a few a lot of money.
Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with making fortunes in business, if it is moral but I don't think most of the rocks bigger "industry" is.
Robbing the poor of money - AKA eGaming, is just the latest morally corrupt thing. What other industry advertises on the TV telling their customers how not to get totally addicted to their product?
I don't remember in the old smoking days adverts from Marlborough saying " Smoke our cigs to look like a Marlborough Man" but please don't smoke too much as it will f7ck you up?
It is in the Manx economy DNA
This was undetectable properly until the introduction of them dam new fangled computer things and GDPR which leave history, you cant really kill a computer.
You reap what you sow.