Tuesday 28 February 2012

How to Avoid Online Gambling Scams

By Nico Sullivan


Gambling cons were never as known and as rampant as when it eventually came in contact with the internet. Online gambling, although beneficial for those gambling enthusiasts, allowing them to gamble and achieve enjoyment at home, can also pose several issues more particularly the existence of online gambling rip-offs.

Online rip-offs typically include the refusal of a particular game company to "give you" your winnings. Some gambling rip-offs could even go as far as entirely refusing to let you win with absurd possibilities, then refusing to let you cash out the rest of your money you have left.

One way to stay away from these scams is to know what they are. Here are two most prevailing online gambling scams that you should know, and should be able to identify easily.

Illegitimate Bonuses

Some gambling companies even go as far as inviting their former scammed customers under the ruse of "bonuses" telling them how sympathetic they are about you being scammed, and offering a bonus if you play with them instead. Just think, where did they get your contact details? Well they got it from that short form you filled out when you joined the first scam casino, and they're actually looking to rip you off again.

What do they do? When it is time for you to claim your bonus, they would say that you're ineligible to get the bonus.

To stay away from being re-scammed, never be lured by these kinds of offers. Even if you haven't been scammed yet, they would still offer you a bonus offer then refuse to give it to you once you've deposited your money. A great rule of thumb with online gambling, if it's too good to be true, it most definitely is.

Piracy

One way to know a legitimate online casino is its affiliations and memberships; one such is the Interactive Gaming Council (ICG). However, logos provided by such organizations can easily be copied on the net, and what scammers do, is they imitate, sometimes, go as far as duplicating the design of a legitimate casino to pass off theirs. It is a good measure to look up the name of the online casino on the members list of the certain organization. ICG and others usually provide an easy to browse and search members list on their web sites.

To make sure that the casino you're subscribing to is legit, type the company name and the word review in the search engine and read about them, you'll more or less get an idea of how they work.




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