Topic: Is Gambling a scam - page 3. (Read 1045 times)

No, scamming is illegal and gambling is not. Also scamming *happens* to you, unless you are a scammer. Gambling doesn't "happen" to you, because you are the one doing it, so who are you scamming by gambling?

There are also hundreds of different ways to gamble, so rounding them up under "scamming" is misleading.

Gambling can be illegal if there aren't enough transparency and results are fixed. But you wouldn't encounter this scamming with established casinos. And enough data exist for you to determine the odds of each way you are gambling. So it's up to you if you bother to study that, no one is trying to hide those odds. If casinos would say that you would win no matter what, that would be scamming.

Gambling is not and never a scam, lest the government would've banned it from operating publicly. What we do while gambling determines the results we get. It's an open ground where you indulge as you wish as far as you're not breaking any of the gambling laws.

In gambling you can scam yourself by giving yourself false hope and engaging in it mindlessly. Too much of everything is bad and if you're yet to learn and practice gambling in moderation and staking with what you can afford to lose,  then addiction and serious financial loss is the scam you'll deal with soon.

Why doesn't the OP ask how many scammers there are in gambling instead of blaming the games themselves? Casinos often have various types of bonuses that dishonest players are always happy to receive. Hence, we see many accusations that casinos are scammers who do not pay people their winnings, while they are dishonest and have several accounts from which they want to get more money. Therefore, there is no need to accuse of fraud when people are sometimes scammers themselves.

Responsibility is always the player's business, where to play, how much money to bet, and many other decisions depend only on the player. In my understanding, a scam is initially a fraudulent scheme that aims to steal your money, and the essence of gambling is different, in gambling you can win big money and the casino will give it to you. Of course, sometimes it happens that players cannot withdraw their winnings, but it seems to me that this is a rare case in gambling.

Lmao!

You mean the real gamblers are scam and the rest of the people that doesn't be of your opinion are not real gamblers and are only been delusional? Common my friend. It's seem like you just lost amount of money isn't it? It's normal to feel that when you gamble with an amount that yiu weren't willing to lose otherwise there is no way you will have such kind of feeling. Only if you have gamble with what you can let go, you wouldn't feel all this because it's unnecessary.

It's already a fact known that not everyone can make money from gambling, if all everyone makes money from casino, then there wouldn't be anyone left to serve people, they will grow broke but there are people that are making this money from gambling and they are just few people but the question is are you part of the few people?  I'm not sure otherwise you would say this, even if you are not making huge amount of money from gambling, just make sure that your withdrawal is bigger than your deposit and you will be fine.

You never proved it with backup of how gambling has been a scam.
If it is due to how the irresponsible gamblers goes bankrupt on gambling, remember the casinos or any gaming event never lure anyone in to gamble rather we are out of greed gambling and trying to empty the funds in the gambling sites with the thought that we could make it possible in just participating to gamble.

So therefore, with this tends of greedy insights, the gamblers are the scammers and not gambling itself.
I also do not know where else we should rely to obtain a gambling fund if not from an hard earned. 🤔.

Did you ever heard about setting up a gambling budget with a specific amount of your income if you must keep a responsible gambling? Get to brainstorm about this and you will be refurnished that gambling is not a scam and addicted gamblers owe to be blamed of their effects on gambling.

Indeed but the thing is that it is still often neglected. I think it is because some got carried away by their emotions when they see that the platform has too good to be true offers. In the case you are talking there, it sounds like a phishing website.

Yeah, it is also rampant but the solution to it is in fact only simple like we only need to check the URL if they are spelled correctly and once we feel that we are now on the original and legit site, we will need to bookmark it. That must be the one that we will click to visit them if they don't also have an application that we can just install in our devices.

Thinking about the safety of our funds is still related to money but yeah that it is a must first because if not, making a profit on the scam platform won't still make sense because we can't still withdraw it in the end. It is only a waste of money and also time and effort.

On the last thing that you said about how you define gambling is actually what makes others think that it was a scam even if there are literally legit casinos out there. Casinos should already had enough on this part but nope because those complainers still play and then once they lose, they will again whine up about how scammy the platform is.

We are always told about responsible gambling. You are not meant to gamble with your major money or your emergency funds. You are meant to have a budget for gambling and define why you gamble - either for profit or for fun.

When you gamble for fun, you are doing so to relieve stress, hang out with friends, or simply relax. It's not a scam if you understand that you're gambling for entertainment purposes.

On the other hand, if you're gambling for profit, you're doing so with the intention of making money. You're more intentional about the games you bet on, considering factors like team capacity and game potential.

Gambling is not a scam because you know what you're getting into. You went online to look for a casino or betting site, made your bet, and understood that it's a game of luck - you either win or lose. No one promised you'd start winning hundreds of dollars the moment you registered.

Unless someone deceived you about the casino or gambling platform, it's not a scam. Every gambler knows that gambling is a 50/50 chance - you either win or lose. When you're on a losing streak, you take a break.

A scam is when you're being deceived, lied to, or promised fake evidence. But gambling is not a scam because you willingly sign up, deposit your money, and place bets. You made a choice to gamble, and it's essential to practice responsible gambling to avoid feeling deceived.

Sorry to say this but only a looser will conclude such that gambling is a scam.
A Casino where we gamble on can turn out to be a scam casino, whereas they steal users money through various means, methods and so on, but in general, gambling is not a scam, it's only but a game like every other games out there..

If you believe that gambling is a scam, then you must also believe that video games where players spend their hard earned to purchase in-game teams to help them defeat bosses and climb more level is also a scam.
Now compare the two, in video games, you spend your hard earned money for the excitement of the game, and yet to don't get any monetary reward back even if you win, you paid for the excitement and that it.

But in gambling, you pay for the excitement of playing the game, and also you have the chance to get your money back, plus profit if you are lucky to win the game.

If this two were to be scam, which do you think is more scam than the other?
In conclusion, gambling is not a scam, only a bad looser believes it is.

Well, it depends how you see it. Obviously it should be not a scam since you are choosing to play by yourself, nobody forces you to play or makes any promises about winnings. Every straight forward thinking person knows that basically at every site you place a bet or wager in the casino you work against a handicap, as small as it might be there is always one. This is also not a scam since these numbers are out in the open for everyone to see.
Now the only scam part is coming from outside influences like scam casinos that don't pay, rigged games like roulette with magnets/blowers, rigged poker games where collusion and so can occur or for example rigged sports matches that are sold. There are countless more or these things that can happen, I guess we know plenty of them.

But the main idea of gambling is not a scam, it's an entertainment where you pay a price and maybe or maybe not you win.

A good casino that follows all the rules cannot be a scam, because they let you deposit money, give you the opportunity to play and win, then you can withdraw your money.

But not all casinos play equally fair, there are different cases, starting with the fact that players cannot withdraw their money (for various reasons) and ending with the fact that players find losing bets in their account that they never made. But these are only the stories that I managed to read, I myself have never encountered this, so it is difficult for me to say whether this is true or not. Therefore, I advise you to play only reliable, time-tested casinos, then you will not have any problems if you do not break the rules.

Maybe that is because he lost all of his money by playing gambling so he say that gambling is a scam. But if he know that gambling is like an activities that we do every day and there is no point to playing gambling too often, he will not say like that. He needs to be careful when playing gambling because there is a big opportunities for him to lose all of the money. Gambling is existed from a thousand years ago and many people enjoy playing gambling although many of them lost their money. But they don't considers that gambling is a scam because they know what will happen to them and the risk behind of playing gambling.

I hope OP is not a kind of gambler, who claim he was cheated and casino is scam whenever he loses all his money. I know such kind of people. When they win = they beat casino because they are lucky and smart. When they lose = casino is a scam. Then such people run to forums and try to find people who think the same, so they would calm them down. Because nobody wants to be that one only who has lost, but if there are many losers and who think similar, then it aint hurt so much anymore

Gambling with your "hard earned money" is definitely not worth it and a mistake. Always gamble with money that you can afford to lose.
If you have false expectations about making lots of money via gambling, yes, gambling is a scam.
If you don't have any false expectations about getting rich and you are realistic about the outcomes, then no. Gambling is not a scam.
It all depends on your point of view. Please remember that the gambling industry is a part of the entertainment industry and not a part of the "make money" industry. You are supposed to be entertained in a casino. You are not supposed to become rich in a casino.
Can you get scammed by casinos? Yes, you can get scammed by casinos. That's why you should never put enormous trust in a casino.
Always be cautious and don't deposit big amounts of money in a casino.

In the field of gambling of course there are cases of fraud, but if you play on gambling platforms that have a good reputation you are unlikely to encounter fraud. You can not judge the whole field of gambling that they are fraud because you personally failed to win a big win. If gambling were a fraud they would not have gathered around themselves millions of gamblers in all corners of our planet. 

Usually people who consider gambling or casinos to be fraudulent are more concerned with the advertisements they place, now with the many casinos operating, of course they are trying to develop their casinos to be bigger and more advanced, with one of the marketing methods used is to place advertisements that are distributed generally with interesting statements of course to be able to attract many people's interest in gambling at their casinos, showing how easy it is to win and bonuses or even promotions, but when they register and gamble at the casino, the winnings are still just as difficult to get, this is what they often think that the advertisement is a fraud.
I agree with you, there is no doubt that gambling is something that has a definite risk of loss, this is what must be understood well. Because with this they should not think that there is a victory that will be easily obtained, it only depends on luck that will determine the end of the gambling that is done.

why do you think gambling is a scam? is it because the chances of winning are lower than losing that you say it is a scam? it seems you are too naive. gambling is not a scam, it is an entertainment that has been going on for thousands of years in human civilization, if it was a scam then we would not see any online/offline casinos operating until now. but how do you see it? until now there are still many casinos operating because it is not a scam, no one forces you to play or deposit money, all of that is your responsibility and depends on whether you can win or not it is just your luck and strategy.

Its not a scam, because?

-No one forced you to play
-As long you are dealing with legit platforms or sites

People do usually calling it a scam on the time or moment that you do lose up money with gambling. It is really that a very common behavior of most
people on having that kind of denial on the moment that they do play gambling just to ease up that kind of disappointment and other emotional issues.
It will really be just that normal that there would really be those moments or times that people will be having those kind of realizations but
ending up on having those late realizations into the mistakes that they have done.

My verdict is that gambling is not a scam!

I quite understand the reason why people have so many conflicting views and bitter indignation about gambling, no matter how you feel about it, if there is a term and condition regarding gambling and you agreed to it and the casino/sportsbook did not renege from it by cheating you in any way, then it is not a scam.

We should understand that gambling is risky, we can lose a fortune through it and in casino games, the house always wins. For this, I would rather call gambling tricky and house-biased, but certainly not a scam.

What leads you to believe that gambling is a scam when the conditions are known beforehand? Nobody forces you to either play slot machines when you are uncertain about their legitimacy and nobody forces you to place a bet in sports betting when you feel that the odds are unfair. Unless you gamble with some shady places, I would not call it a scam. You can perhaps never 100% prove whether slot machines are legit, but then go with other games instead.