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Monday, February 27, 2012

Avoiding Online Gambling Scams

By Nico Sullivan


Gambling scams were never as recognized and as prevalent as when it finally came in contact with the internet. Online gambling, although beneficiary for those gambling aficionados, letting them to gamble and gain the enjoyment at home, also has a number of its drawbacks more specifically the presence of gambling online scams.

Online scams usually include the refusal of a certain game company to "give you" your winnings. Some gambling scams may even go as far as totally refusing to let you win with absurd probabilities, and then refusing to let you cash out the remaining money you've got 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 avoid being re-scammed, never fall for these types of offers. Even if you haven't been scammed yet, they'd still send you a bonus offer then refuse to give it to you once you've deposited your money. A good rule of thumb with online gambling, if it's too good to be true, then it probably is.

Piracy

One way to know a legit casino is its affiliations and memberships; one such is the Interactive Gaming Council (ICG). However, emblems provided by such organizations can easily be imitated on the internet, and what scammers do, is that they imitate, and in some cases, go as far as duplicate the design of a legit casino to pass off their own. It's a good strategy to research more information about the online casino on the members list of the certain organization first. ICG and others normally provide an easy to browse and search member's list on their websites.

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




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