Online Gambling Frauds

The online gambling industry deals with large sums of money and subsequently it attracts many con men. These are willing to break every law in order to steal your money and they use many ways to do it. Sometimes it is more refined than you might think, so elegant that only after a long period they are caught. In order to avoid these ill occurrences you must always gamble in known online casinos, which have certificates that guarantee their honesty and consistent alertness to malicious activities. There are many rating systems of online casinos' honesty over the Internet and it would not take much time till you would find such one.

But even known online casinos may be exploited by skilled con men, without them noticing anything wrong. Many times con men would use your favorite casino's name in e-mails addressed to you, in which you would be asked to send them your password or other crucial details. If you are contacted by your online casino and you find their request a little odd or peculiar then consider phoning their head office or to their support phone number and just ask them what's it all about. You can never be too caution.

Another method applied by criminals is used to manipulate casinos' odds to their favor. If you feel that you're losing in more games than usual, than you should contact casino-odds sites and they would check the matter for you. For many of these sites it is a duty they would be more than glad to fulfill.

Other schemes are applied by casinos is tempting gamblers by offering high bonuses and later on, when gamblers try to use these bonuses, they are denied in ridicules claims. These casinos would claim that you "do not meet our bonuses criterions" and such other statements.

Con men have numerous ways to steal your personal details and later on they sell these for money – you should avoid giving any information about yourself when you gamble, even in free casino games, where most gamblers do not suspect a thing, cause after all it's not the "real thing", thus they think con men do not lurk there as well.

You can be conned in many ways if you don't pay attention but you have little places to report such activity. If you're a gambler from the US then you have little hope, less the gambling activity you participated in is considered as legal in the state you live in. Since the Federal Government did not yet legalized online gambling activities you are actually breaking the law, and you cannot expect for any protection from the government it you practice in such unlawful behaviors.

But if you did gamble on a lawful site then you have many authorities to address on the matter, and since the gambling industry is very keen on preserving its lawful status then many resources would be presented to you by this industry. Abstention is the key word. You should avoid giving away any details to unfamiliar sources, also to not be tempted to different luxuries proposals. Hopefully these two actions would help you stay in safe a place.

Written by Derrick Ballios,
Editorial staff
14-12-2005