The Most Common Online Gambling Scams and How to Avoid Them

Did you know that the users of online gambling sites are targeted by criminals on a regular basis? Due to the fact that users of such sites submit personal and financial information when they create accounts, they are lucrative targets. Most cybercriminals target such individuals because they can sell the information that they steal from them online, on the dark web. If you have a successful career and a lot of money in your account criminals will pay thousands for your information, so they can impersonate and defraud you.

Because of the threat that’s posed to you by criminals, you need to do everything you can to protect yourself online. While it might seem like a daunting task, protecting yourself from criminals isn’t as hard as you might think. As long as you exercise common sense and follow some very basic internet security rules you can deter criminals. If protecting yourself when you are gambling online is something that interests you then this post has you covered. You will find a comprehensive guide for keeping yourself safe, deterring criminals, and preventing gangs from selling your information right here: 

Gaming Regulations

Before you sign up for and begin using a casino, verify its authenticity. As sad as it is to say, many online casinos are fronts for fraud. It is not uncommon in the slightest for criminal gangs to open up websites with rigged games, steal people’s information and pretend to be legitimate casinos. In order to avoid such sites you should find ones that have been licensed and are regulated by their host country’s gaming authority. Ideally, you should only be using gaming sites with strict regulations, like Italy and the United Kingdom. In these countries to become licensed casinos have to prove they are genuine and are regularly audited.

Italy is a country with a very strict gaming authority, making it the ideal nation to play casinos hosted in. Italy’s casino online AAMS (Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato) has rigid rules, making it difficult for criminals or organizations not committed to delivering excellent experiences and fair games to get licensed. Beyond gaming regulations, you also need to read your chosen casino’s reviews. Reviews will be explored more in the next section. Verify a casino’s licensing status with their host nation’s gaming authority before signing up.

Reading Reviews

As mentioned previously, reviews can be a good way of telling whether a site is safe to use. A lot of internet users completely overlook the importance of reviews when it comes to finding legitimate sites. A website’s reviews can tell you everything you could ever need to know about it and help you to get an idea of what it is like to use, from the perspectives of its customers and clients. You should always prioritize reading reviews that have been published on Google and Trust Pilot as ones that are posted on-site have a tendency to be heavily biased and sometimes even fake.

On the topic of fake reviews, you need to learn to spot them. It’s not uncommon for casinos to pay for fabricated reviews. Fake reviews can make a casino look a lot better than it actually is. Learning to spot fake reviews isn’t hard at all. One of the easiest ways to spot them is by reading them! More often than not they are written in bad English, one after the other. If you suspect a casino has been posting fake reviews (or paying for them) then get in touch with their host country’s gaming authority and report them.

Rigged Games

In terms of common gambling scams, the most common one is rigged games. Rigged games are casino games, usually hosted on illegal sites, that are rigged in the house’s favor. No matter how many times you play them you will never win. Unfortunately avoiding these scams is impossible if you have signed up for (and are using) a site that’s run by criminals. The easiest way to avoid this kind of scam is to avoid sites of this kind. Take the steps mentioned previously to ensure that the sites you use are legitimate and are not run by criminals and you won’t have to worry about rigged games.

A game’s odds are a statistical calculation of how likely a player is to win. In the description box of most casino games, there are odds. You always need to ensure you know what a game’s odds are before you play it. If you do not know what a game’s odds are then you can’t calculate your chances of winning. If the game that you are playing does not have information about what its odds are then you should get in touch with the casino and ask them directly.

Phishing Scams

Phishing scams are not unique to online gambling. In fact, most phishing scams have absolutely nothing to do with gambling sites. Usually, people are targeted via email. These scams involve fake links being sent to people. The sender’s aim when sending these links is to then get the recipients to sign in using their personal information. Typically, phishing scams involve the use of sites that look like people’s bank websites or casinos. If you receive an email purporting to be from the casino you use with a request for you to log in using a given link, don’t.

Instead of signing in with the link you have been given go onto your actual account and sign in that way. If there is nothing for you to do there (and the email was not sent by the casino itself) report the sender to their email provider and of course to the casino so they can warn their customers. Phishing scams can be devastating if they are pulled off successfully, as they involve stealing people’s personal and financial information and then using these things for fraud. Again, make sure that you report anybody guilty of making phishing attempts.

Online gambling can be dangerous if you do not know what you are doing. If you want to give it a go, then follow this post’s guidance and you won’t have anything to worry about. You are only at risk of being scammed if you don’t know what you are doing and don’t know how to protect yourself.

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