Topic: Beware of the Frauds , how pandemic is affecting gambling negatively - page 5. (Read 936 times)

Definitely fraudulent activities must be more active than before becasue of this laws the government brought into the world of gambling during the Covid-19. The more the government try to frustrate their acts the more they find others means to scam victims. If Covid-19 test was not introduce this wouldn't have happen to a country that stand the chance to win their qualifiers, but becasue there wasn't an appropriate body that champion the process fraudsters infiltrated the system Africa Cup of Nation Qualifiers

That is the only way out of avoiding frauds and scams is by gambling with reputable and credible online gambling sites and casinos even with KYC enabled ones , of course the  impact of Covid-19 had changed our ways of living due to restrictions consequently our online presence had increased tremendously thus gave rise to high increase in scams and fraud online
Gamblers especially newbies should get themselves restricted to the already and we'll established casinos to avoid touching stories

In my opinion, criminal activity has increased not only in the gambling industry, but in almost all sectors of human life. Even people do not think
rationally anymore, many people experience financial difficulties and end up committing crimes to be able to get money. Likewise with what happens
in the world of gambling, there are a lot of frauds that occur both individually or in groups. For now, we should be careful when choosing platforms
to play gambling, choose gambling platforms that do have a good reputation. So we can avoid scammers. Always make sure the address of the website
we want to go to is correct, because there are also many scammers who do phishing.

People without money trying their luck to bring some money but very few of them trying the extreme to win the game by cheating or doing anything illegal but in online gambling these things are minimal to almost zero because if someone is trying hack the script or replacing it the site will notice it sooner or atleast before the user withdraw the cheated rewards.

I definitely have seen the increase in suspicious gambling advertising, over the last few month I have been getting more and more spam emails about crypto currencies, gambling and also sports betting. One factor like you said is definitely the hype in online gambling last year, another factor is that the crypto prices rallied so much over the last 6 months. In my opinion the higher the bitcoin and major alt coin prices the more it attractive it is for scammer to work in this area.

The increased use of VPN's to hide your real geographic location has become the norm. People do not take it serious ...until the online gambling sites lock their accounts and deny their withdrawal.

Who is to blame here? Well, most online gambling sites tend to look the other way, when they see people from "wrong geographical locations" using VPN's to bypass their restrictions. (They welcome the extra wagering and they know that it is guaranteed that they will never have to pay out the winnings to these players.)

The co-owner of Stake.com even use a VPN to play from Australia during his streaming sessions on Saturdays. 

You can prevent yourself from becoming a victim of this kind of scam if you are researching what to do first before doing something. Most of the time, victims of the scam are people that are computer illiterate or doesn't know a lot about scams online so if you think that you are not one of them then you are probably safe. Any situation is an opportunity for people to scam other people so there is no surprise that they are doing this in the pandemic, I mean if apocalypse were to happen, I am sure there will be some people that will see it as an opportunity to scam other people.

Good for you, while I do not gamble on games in which I need to face another player so it was impossible for me to tell how much of an increase we have seen during the pandemic and I was just stating what I read so it is nice to know that in fact gambling got more popular as people were trying to distract their minds of the awful year we all had to endure, however it surprises me that they choose poker, poker is not a game that you can master in just a few days so they should have known they were going to lose their money against people more experienced than them.

Because of the pandemic the only option to continue our activities and works is through online.. The same with the gamblers wherein just to support their hobby they will grab online task as well, "without knowing it's very risky due to some scam gambling sites and phishing" .. In my opinion this pandemic is actually a big opportunity for some fraud or scammers because a lot of ppl nowadays are trying to earn some cash through online and mostly are beginners wherein who dont use to gamble online.. It's just they don't have any choice because of the pandemic. ...

I agree. I am not particularly concerned about it either. In fact, due to the increased traffic from people who were bored at home, I have won more money playing poker this year. Fraud has not affected me because I always play on the same site. And the AI issue doesn't worry me either, we are also identified via IP.

I am not so sure that what we are seeing is as worrying as it may seem, it is known that due to the pandemic many more people are gambling now online and they are gambling even more money than in the past, so from this point of view then it makes sense that the number of scams and frauds has increased as more people are now online using their funds to gamble, what we need to do is to try to warn people about this especially in this market in which we know that if you send your coins to the wrong person then you cannot recover them.

Online gambling comes with its own advantages and disadvantages and online phishing and fraudulent websites with lesser fairness and more house edge are no less. For example, rise of crypto prices has seen an increase towards creation of phishing sites just like how dogechain blockexplorer has it's own phishing site and there has been no improvements from google to prevent the phishing site from reaching the top. I was scammed with 2k doge recently for entering my wallet info in the phishing site and this is one among the important reason why I never use web wallets or software wallets which are connected over to the internet all the time for higher amounts.

The problems being faced by the igambling industry can be divided into many types and one among the primary problem is the fairness of the online casino. There are many examples of a trusted casino turning into a non-fair scam casino over the years due to the greed and these are increasing year by year. In regarding to the crypto accepting gambling sites, the problem of fairness and trustworthiness can be mitigated to an extent by using BTCTCGOSU where they come up with various tools and reviews to ensure the gamblers are safe. Companies can prevent frauds by regularly doing a quality audit check of their site and also by reporting phishing sites immediately so that they get to know about the downsides if there are any.

Yes. Phishing sites has grown in numbers and the fairness of a few trusted casinos were once in question! Hence we, the gamblers should be taking more care towards selecting the gambling site for larger bets and I personally have glued my bets towards popular sites alone.

Privacy is destroyed in this process but AI is important in preventing online scams and provide a better gambling environment for the users.

Yes, and seasoned offline players cannot just assume they are knowledgeable on online gambling. They must be humble and learn about online gambling 101. In other words, become a newbie. It's not that the scammers getting more skilled and stuff, but they have more fish to catch.

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Anyway, don't see it as something negative, but an opportunity to be more involved in the ecosystem since many new players arrived. Not as a scammer, but to work/partner with the legit casinos.

If there's a trend, fraudsters would always lurk around and was just waiting for a victim. Just like how fake ICO projects in 2017 was showing up because that was the time when ICO becomes a real hype in crypto space. It's almost impossible to completely eradicate this kind of activities, especially that most gambling websites are allowing complete anonymity. The companies itself can be a fraud, the very reason why some of these gambling companies violated the license agreements.
The very least that a gambler can do is to be cautious in choosing where to gamble.

I am not too know about the malicious activities in online gambling, but it could be right as when the business is on the internet, everything could happen, and we do not know if that is real or not. But I do not like the idea of AI tracking whatever I do while I am online because that could break the end-users privacy.

But the important thing that we must do while we online on the internet is always careful because that can prevent us from getting scam by bad people. If you see the gambling site use that AI to watch your moves, you can move to the other gambling site, which does not use that AI because you only want to play gambling without being known by other people.

i dont noticed it in my favorite casino but its noticeable in most new casino  . malicious activity increased because gamblers are forced to play online and when it comes to a.i tracking our moves , who would like it ? i believed no one because it kills our privacy especially in gambling because they dont only know our names and other information but they may also know the strategy that we used in betting .

The problem can easily be solved if we were to inform the people about the gambling platforms that scams people, I mean that is the only way and most of the victims of this scamming gambling sites are oblivious to the fact that they are going to be scammed because most of this websites operate in a way that they look like a legitimate one. Minors gambling is not the responsibility of the website as the parents are the first and should be the only deterrent for their children to stop gambling.

Actually this is same reason why Some gambling sites are abusing players because of these kind of stupidity from other gamblers as they are using the site for their own benefits and the sad thing is different players are suffering .
If you are in Illegal gambling , better stick to it and don't bother disturbing those legal players and sites.

Some gambling site might already using the AI to monitor those suspicious activities, and we all know that some gamblers are using the money from their illegal source and casinos or gambling site knows this thing and they are putting extra measure to make sure that their site is safe, so there's nothing to worry that much about this one.

If you're just a simple gambler that seeks entertainment to gambling, then just keep playing but if you do have connections with the illegal gambling, you might be in trouble now. This pandemic makes digital more effective, and since the online world is vulnerable for such frauds, they have to put extra safety feature to avoid any financial incidents.

As far as I know ECQ aka Enhanced Community Quarantine is a measure enacted in the Philippines, so I guess when you are talking about Asian countries you are especially referring to this country. Do you mean Manilla will be locked down again soon? It can profit to online gambling nonetheless.