Friday, February 18, 2011

Spotting Rogue Online Casinos

When people say online casinos are a waste of time and exist just to steal your money, they are usually wrong. With the proper gambling strategy, you can make money at online casinos. But there is one case where those people are true. It is in the case of rogue or fake online casinos.

There are certain online gambling sites that are looking for an easy way to your personal information. The online casino is a front for hacking into your account and stealing your identity. In other cases, the games are rigged so that you lose every time. They use a faulty RNG (random number generator). So how do you avoid this?

Third party organizations like eCOGRA (eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance) and TST (Technical Systems Testing). They test and certify online casinos for safety and security. Look for their seals at the bottom of the casino’s homepage.

Another way to check for legitimacy is to read unbiased reviews at online casino review sites. Some of these sites even have blacklists of online casinos to avoid. You just have to make sure the site is legitimate. Unfortunately, this is an endless cycle when it comes to the Internet. If this review site is ranked high on search results, you can generally trust it.

Trustworthy casinos are operated by the best software providers. The top providers include Microgaming, Vegas Technology, Playtech, Rival Gaming and Wagerlogic. If the online casino uses one of these, this is a step in the right direction. A lot of fake online casinos share their content. That’s because scammers are lazy and spam everywhere as fast as possible to spread everywhere online. A way to check on this is to copy a paragraph from on of the online casino’s page and paste it into an Internet search engine. The search results speak for themselves. Lastly, read the terms and conditions through to the end. There could be unfair wagering requirements hidden. One big sign is the payout procedures. All fair and certified online casinos pay out on a daily or weekly basis, max. If this one pays out monthly, it could be foreshadowing bigger problems.

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