What are some of the Types of Gambling Scams?
You’ll find as many gambling scams are out there as there are scammers. It’s a very new frontier, and most people are struggling with how it works, not how people can steal your money in online gambling. Some types of scams are: • Fake Sites. You’ve seen the flashing, blinking, strobing advertisements about big payouts! easy money! Well, don’t trust them — any of them. Frequently, scammers will clone an entire existing site — this is very easy to do — and replace information about where your credit card goes with their own information. Protect yourself by: • Bookmarking your trusted gambling sites • Adding these sites to your browser’s trusted-sites list • Never entering credit card information if you have any doubt as to a site’s legitimacy – this includes misspellings, things that don’t look “right,” poorly copied images, etc. • Putting an Internet Gaming Commission logo on their site — this is so easy to do without earning it, it’s laughable. • Writing fake “reviews” and even pu
