The URL on Maryland's default license plate between 2010 and 2016 commemorating the War of 1812 now leads to a website promoting online gambling in the Philippines.

The URL on the bottom of the Maryland's license plate commemorating the War of 1812 belongs to a a website promoting an online casino in the Philippines.

Maryland and Virginia need to cooperatively crackdown on what appears to be an organized effort to circumvent the law.

It all started when the state's plates listed a website about the War of 1812—but the site changed hands, leaving nearly a million drivers inadvertently advertising gambling.

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About 15% of registered vehicles in Maryland have the plates, which were meant to commemorate the War of 1812 but are now creating a headache for officials.

A URL at the bottom of Maryland license plates made to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and the writing of the Star-Spangled Banner now links to a landing page for an online ...

The plate commemorates the War of 1812 — featuring a website that belonged to a nonprofit that raised money for bicentennial projects. The address now belongs to a gambling site in the Philippines.

Often it leads to a state government website or the local DMV. In Maryland, though, things have gone awry, with around 800,000 license plates now advertising a gambling site from the Philippines.

MARYLAND - In 2010, The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) unveiled a new patriotic license plate as its standard "off-the-shelf" issue.

Hundreds of thousands of Maryland vehicles are unknowingly a mobile advertisement for a Filipino casino after a license plate URL recently began redirecting to the gambling hall.