Casino Bonus Scam

It would be simply impossible to count the numbers of people that are losing money to this scam, I myself lost money when I first started out because of it.

All casinos offer first deposit bonuses, typically if you deposit £100 you are then given a £100 bonus. This would be great if you could cash it out no problem, but this isn't the case.

The casinos put wagering requirements on the money. Typically you will have to place bets that are equal to 25 or maybe as much as 40 times your bonus.

So if you take a bonus of £100 you could have to wager as much as £4000 before you can cash out the money. What's worse is that roulette DOESN'T count towards the requirements, you have to play on slot machines and other games where the odds of actually coming out on top after betting £4000 are exactly zero (In my opinion)

Now none of this would be a problem if the casinos made it perfectly clear before hand, but they don't. In most cases when you make your first deposit you are given the money automatically, no questions asked.

As soon as you then place a bet you are tied in by the wagering requirements. You can't take you original deposit back or anything, basically your money is gone forever unless you play through the wagering requirements.

Even if you lose all your first deposit plus the bonus, you're still stuck, you have to deposit more money just to play through the wagering requirements.

Is all of this a scam? Hell yes, the authorities should be clamping down on this and forcing the casinos to tell people exactly what they will need to do to cash money out before giving them a bonus.

At least casinos that I recommend like Ladbrokes don't give you unwanted bonuses, you have to request one and this is the way it should be with all casinos.

The fact that they give you a bonus is not a scam, what is a scam is the way they give you them without giving you chance to understand what you will need to do to cash them out.

If all casinos had a policy where when you make a first deposit you also get a bonus code and then use the bonus code to request a bonus after making a first deposit this wouldn't be a problem at all, but most of them never will do this.

As I've said Ladbrokes use this policy and that is because they are fair, they aren't in the business to rip people off like some casinos.

It gets worse, read about my Casino.com scam, they are stealing money from people and that page is written from my personal experience. In short if you try and make a withdrawal with them before completing the wagering requirements they will take the withdrawal money off you, take the bonus off you, class both sets of money as void (in other words you're not getting it back) and you still have to complete the wagering requirements.

What a scam, how on earth are they getting away with this?

If you try and say anything to the customer support they just say, "you agreed to it when you signed up and agreed to the terms and conditions."

Maybe this is their legal loophole and this is how they're getting away with it.

Now Let's make something perfectly clear

You Don't need to accept these bonuses, if you contact the casinos before you make a first deposit and tell them that you don't want any bonuses they will then disable them and you will be able to cash out all of your roulette money straight away with no problems.

Read this page -  Say No To Online Casino Bonus for exact instructions on how to avoid the bonus if you're unsure

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