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Have you ever played on a game were it is totally a scam without realizing it? I just seen a facebook post in which there are several games that doesn't let you win even though how many times you try and you'll just feel like giving up then they will tell you that you won or let you win ... but without realizing, it was just a tactic/s to have you play until you burn your eyelids and money to that game.

This applies on both Gambling Online/IRL, So tell me have you ever seen one of these games and you'll just realize it after the game or watching other people play that certain game?

No, never, in real life I always check if it is a scam or not and most of times I prefer to stay way from such gamble games
Online I trust in the review of users and I check if the website is fair, if community aproves I trust too

There's a lot of gamble games in the streets of my country that is totally scam  :D

by the way those games on fb are like gambling and you also need to depo or play with crypto or real money  ?

 because i mainly see only games that dont involved real money on fb  and its okay because you dont loose anything on their game  . you can only call it a scam if you depo real money and didnt experience to win but it should be easily noticeable the longer you play  and why would you still continue to burn money  ?  not all gambling are scam but its just hard to earn on them  .

Usually not a gambling but a Ponzi scheme group trying to convince me and invest in their platform. But I did not like investing so I always refuse of what they will say. Probably this is a LOTTERY game because they keep saying to bet that combination number they had gave at you and you will hit the jackpot but there's nothing to happen. I experienced this on my side when someone approached me on Facebook and gives a random number. Unfortunately, I lost almost $100 but there's nothing happen.

Not experienced this yet (and never it will I guess :) ) but honestly, are there people really fall on that or just easily catch their attention? I mean being a newbie on this shouldn't be a reason. We are all came from being a newbie and I doubt even newbies today will just play a game that requires money (as you have mentioned until you burn money to that game) without doing DYOR.

I'm now wondering what are those games that able to hook up some people especially in social media platforms to the point that they gamble their money just to play on it.

I have seen some apps wherein users can win a real prize without deposit money involved (credits will come from doing task, shares, freerolls on a given time, etc). There are some Android apps about roulettes and slots that claim they give a real prize. I see people playing on those games expecting something good in return.

I dont know if i got victimized or not after all the years ive been trying out to play with new sites, i eventually stop right away
when i do experience losing streaks and also when the time there are complaints about provably fairness and odds of winning.

Usually i do always check sites credibility first before making any deposits but there are really times that im the one who do risk
on playing on newly launched.You cant tell if they are legit or not if you wont try, yes its risky but thats how it works.

Indeed, it is your responsibility as a gambler to ensure that you are playing on a trusted casino site. It is like common sense because you are aware how unsafe it is to play without considering the website where you're going to play. It is the reason why doing your own research is an absolute necessity, especially when you are just starting your gambling journey. You can't disregard it's capabilities to guide you to avoid scam. Anyway, I haven't experienced it too and I won't let it happen because I know that i'll just end up feeling remorse if I'm not being cautious on every actions that I will be making.

No, not really. I have always been cautious and aware when playing on any new unknown casino. I always try to look for reviews and feedback from real users. Not some shill account or newbie. The review provider must be reliable. If the casino seems kinda a fishy, I will always avoid it. If the offers are too good to be true, then that casino is a total nope for me.
I have seen scam casinos where they provide users with free coins and they magically win more. But before they can withdraw their coins, they will have to deposit a certain amount of coin to "verify" their account. This clearly brings up the red flag and users should avoid those casino.

I have not. I think those scammers also understands the psychology that if they won't let their victims win, it's easy for those victims to stop using them and that will make them flee. But as for me, I will not try out a casino if they have an attitude like that. We can determine them easily because we have experiences if they start acting like that, it will not burn me out but instead I'll just avoid them for sure so that it won't let my day ruin.

This is something I will not be involved in even I'm unable to realize that the whole game is a scam.

At the very beginning, if I saw these games do have few reviews or feedbacks, no way I will try those even they don't have scam issues before. Why should I risk my money on something if there are popular and trusted ones?

Gladly, you didn't mention that you see someone got scammed so I'm putting my hopes that no one really lured on that games.

No, haven't played that kind of game, or at least a game that it is a scam without me realizing it.

But I have seen those kind of games in street, street levels like chess or even three card monte, it's not ponzi per se, but it is street hustling. And even if people really know that those bad actors are going to scam them, still they play with real money and you know that you are going to lose in the end, maybe they just played for fun or for the experience.

I've seen plenty of fake pages that require your to watch an ad to supposedly pass a little splash page that don't actually give you any access to what you want upon completing whatever tasks you're supposed to do, but I don't recall ever playing any sort of games where it was blatant that the odds were rigged against me. I've certainly played on some questionable sites in the past that didn't have any sort of provably fair system and had poor interfaces that looked like they came from a template, but nothing too blatant.

It's also usually very obvious to me what sites are scams nowadays and which ones aren't today. I avoid lesser known sites out of an abundance of caution anyhow.

Well, that's pretty much how all gambling works.

Give people a taste of potential winnings, then take it away. This is particularly the case for platforms that offer no deposit bonuses, free spins and bonus cash etc. They know people don't read the small print so they end up wasting a whole load of money trying to get away with their bonus winnings, only to find that the rollover or withdrawal requirements are practically impossible.

It's also a tactic employed by a lot of pay to win mobile games. They give away a high level character or item or something and the players start destroying all the other noobs. Then, when they start facing similarly well-equipped players they start to fail, which leads them to start buying equipment packs and loot boxes to keep up.

If it works, hell, why not!

I have never experienced that in real life since I only gamble with my friends and never have played casinos in real life before. And if ever,  before playing a game I always watch the mechanics and see for my self if the game is fair and square before playing it. I've never seen an in real life gambling that is rigged.

No I never experience this kind of tactics I also think that there is no such thing in online gambling.
I used to play a lot on carnival but I don't really think that they could do it because they have so many gambler who bet's at the same time.

i think it is more on real money because i used to play one also back then and they are accepting credit cards as well but mostly you need to deposit funds to play.
yups majority of the Games don't really need money to deposit but if you want to purchase something to boost your account then Money must be involve as well.
of course there is a money because there is no scamming if there is no valuables involved like money or items that can be bought by money.

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that is why maybe OP is confused because it seems that there are some kind op Cheating or misleading to make players believe but the truth is they are scam.

I don't deny because it's really happen in gambling, there's possibility encounter a scam in gambling but you're the only one who can avoid it by always checking and observing before you gamble, also it can help to those players to not victim of scam if they know the mechanics of the games, so always read there rule.

IRL, it always happened on me all the time. When I was playing I didnt know why I kept losing on the bets, I am playing electronic bingo machine and one of my favorite gambling. Then I noticed when I am the one watching I can see how they can back to back win the bets. Though I know this is just a lucky game but if youll check the pattern it seems like there are some players on the house side which is ask to play and show players that he is winning. Maybe a tactic but we can also considered it as deception as he shows playing in a good play but once you try you lose.

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By the way this is own by government entity of our country.

I only heard about it but I never experienced it.
There are some local card games and other gambling games that could be cheated by the dealer.
One of my friend told me that one of his family member used to be a card dealer and knows how to set the card on who would win.

No, I don't. Fortunately, I never got that experience. If I see that the games are not allowing me to win, I will leave the games and search for the other games. There are a lot of gambling games that I can play, but so far, I can accept when I lose, and I never get lost too much money now because I always stop gambling before my money runs out.

In the real-life, I never try to gamble, so I don't see the games as you said. But I don't know with other people, and perhaps, they saw someone that is like what you said.

Yes but I don't know what it's called since you don't see these games every day only in festivals or certain places with carnival rides. The objective of their game is to toss the coins in the icons precisely and the dimension of the icon is nearly the exact size of the coin so if your coin landed 1cm off the icon it's an automatic loss. The rewards are mostly items that look cheap like cups or mugs.  

The first thing that comes to mind are games in festivals or at traveling funfairs. There are so many gambling games available at funfairs and many of these games, if not all, are said to be rigged in such a way that you will lose most of the time or anytime they want you to. But I always have fun going to this kind of events and playing funfair games. My childhood memory is full of it.

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Ralle14's post above speaks of one of the most popular games at any funfair.

IRL, I have played several games that are scam but I just discovered it when I grew up and matured.
These are the games that are in carnival or "perya" in our country and they usually are there when there is a fiesta celebration, because of the internet, I am more matured now and I find that most legit or transparent games are in online and happy that with the help of internet I could make some research before starting to put my bet.

I haven't experience this kind of scenario but I experience some gambling sites where we have a very low chances of winning and most of them are online gambling like dice game and etc.

I am very careful in what gambling sites that I enter therefore I always double check or triple check the sites before I joined so I can avoid those scam sites that you are talking about in which they make sure that they will win 90-100%. If you will closely check all the gambling sites, they have tactics on how they can win the odds against the better or gamblers, so I am not that surprised if many are losing their bet compare to their winnings.

IRL gambling and online gambling is just the same, the only differences is that you're engaging in front of the screen in online gambling. Online gambling have a variety of games compared to IRL gambling because there are many online betting in online that you just need to wait for the result while in IRL, it is actual and on the spot. Both are risky, both are uncertain when it comes to the result that's why they are both not be tolerated by the people who have money to gamble for. They should invest their money to a proper business where he or she can make profit out of it. Gambling will just make you lose your money and can bring you stress and depression. But it depends on you because the money you will spend in gambling is the money you've worked for.

I think that in this forum, everyone who has ever invested in a new project that ended up being fraudulent, they all played these games.
After all, investing in new projects can be compared to betting on roulette. You will either be lucky or not (if the project turns out to be scams).
This is why investors are so easily attracted to gambling games.

This sounds like the problem of people who are ready to gamble everywhere they do see but not for the gamblers who are caring while choosing their reputed gambling houses.

Gambling at random places definitely will be a problem. We must take time to due diligence on where we are going to risk our hard earned money for ever reasons like it could be for entertainment or for multiplying it. But, we should start only after reading lots of reviews and opinions from real time experiences of trusted users.

Personally I never gambled at a random place just after the first glance. Moreover I do gamble only at crypto based gambling houses only and not even think about trying at fiat based gambling places due to various security reasons. This must be the simple reason why I just gamble with full peace of mind all the times.

Sometimes. Though I never spent much on them because it becomes clear as day after playing a few times that the site provides a scam of some sort that makes the game unwinnable. Though on a side note, I do enjoy those kinds of games like puzzles where there's only close to a single answer. Still, It's quite easy to determine whether a gambling site is a scam or not though. Just look for reviews and opinions of a few notable persons in forums. I only got scammed a few times because I wanted to personally try the site, which led to me losing immediately.

As for irl gambling, there were a few times where I saw people trying to put a trick into the game and well, compared to being mad, I'm honestly amazed they found ways to do as such. It's kind of amazing seeing gamblers do small sleight of hands to align the favor of the game towards them but well, those were few in a kind so not much experience with that.

I don't trust these games because they are magic, you cannot win, you will lose all your money. A lot of times I follow these games without betting, I try to check the game agent and consider it fun for me!!!I was able to figure out the trick they were working on, and it depended on the wheel brakes  ;D In fact, they have many tactics that can trick the dupes.

I have seen lots of gambling games on Facebook but it's a good thing that I have doubts about it and I have trust issues. Some of my friends have fallen for this trap and they even invited more people but still ended up being unpaid which is really frustrating. It's really important that we'll know where to gamble legally without being scammed. We have to check the legitimacy of a certain site before trusting it.

I only play a game if there are reviews of fair play, if you are victim of that kind of game then you have been scammed and you can report it, but you must show proof that it is indeed scam and not just a perceptions, because there are a lot of instances where gamblers call a site a scam after he lose a lot with out showing any proof that it is a scam.

As far as I know, I have never been into a scam gamblinv website maybe it is for the reason that I always check the credibility of the gambling site that I am engaging myself with and also, I do not move from one gambling site to another, often. If you are interested into something, checking its background would be always advisable, that would save you from fraud and scam, especially if you are not that familiar into it. There are many scam gambling websites which are reported to be a fraud, and that should be enough for a gambler to be careful of his actions.
This is why traditional gambling games are preferred by many gamblers over those of the new ones. But good thing is that I am only into gambling games which are pure luck-based because I found it more acceptable to lose just thinking that it is not my day to win. Unlike on strategical wherein there is a slight of regrets that I should have done this or that in order to win.
I am interested with the real life scam gambling games. I mean, I am well aware of the tricks that the 'house' could do to their gamblers in order to get the win at the end of the day. Because as far as I know, tricks do not happen all the time, and it would still be the luck of the gambler which would be the bottomline.

I have not encountered such kind of game before and it will help those who are not aware of that game like me if you have the name of the game or a screenshot, but if it is true that you have no chance of winning then we must alert people not to participate here, this is called cheating if you don't have a chance to win.

i experienced it before where ive been refered by some randome dude to check out a gambling site  . in my mind that time i said that ill do almost anything to earn because i was also verry broke that time but not to the point of doing really risky or dangerous thing just to earn a money  . so i tried visiting it , it was like a kind of a slot game  and like i was i expected i did won  but the surprise element was there to think that people will believe that it was a legit gambling site  . what happens next is more obvious because it ask me to do several things including buying a subscription to be able to withdew my winnings  .

I don't have that experience in my online gambling because I don't try to play a long time in a new gambling site. I only for some time in a recommended gambling site so that can prevent me from spending too much money. In real life, I don't go to the real casino because it is too difficult to see those places in here. But I don't know if in other places, maybe some people already saw that happen but they are too late to realize that the games are too attracted them to spend more money without any chances to be the winner.

In real life I got scam but in online gambling, no.

That is because I started gambling when I was a kid and as a kid I am not matured enough to determine scams but that still help me as I learn from that experience but in online gambling, I only started it when I am matured enough and there's a lot of information online where you can search about a certain site and a certain game so its less likely we will be scam if we are not lazy to do our research.

How young you are when you did engage with gambling? In my case where i do gamble when im already 18 above and i can say that im still newbie on some sort but not literally because there
are things which you can easily understand by simply logic and common sense.When it comes to gambling site fairness i do always look up for the suggested or popular ones than on risking
into places which arent known yet you can already presume that these guys would have that high tendency of fraud.

Not for me. Those gamblers who can't realize it at first glance of the site is either a newbie or just a dumb gambler :D.

In my whole life, I can count how many times I got scam (around 4-5 maybe) but not in gambling or any games. Before I play games, I often do some research on it or watch youtube videos regarding the reviews on that game and apply it too on gambling. Before I invest my money, I also read some reviews from different websites to that gambling site. I didn't encounter though any online game that is like a scam to me but sites yes I encountered some and I always ignore them.