How do you know if a gambling site is scam or not?

[milewilda]

I wonder how you do your research if a gambling site is scam or not?

You check here is it legit or not, is there any scam accusations against that casino, and what kind of accusation, most of them are wrong to be clear on that, many people wish to scam casino, or some people are paid to ruin casino reputation. You check reviews, and their thread, and in the end you need to deposit some amount and to see what will happen, can you withdraw if you win, check site and do they have support, talk with them, thats how you check some gambling site.

Gambling sites that are on scam accusations sometimes are not accurate and you do have a point some of them are just posting some accusation without any valid proofs just to ruin sites reputation but checking this board would really help you a lot when you are searching for a certain gambling site.If its not listed there then it might be good but better always take precautionary moves before depositing your hard earned money to them.

[South Park]

I wonder how you do your research if a gambling site is scam or not?

The easiest way, if you are referring to a bitcoin casino is to come to bitcointalk and see the reviews and the comments on their thread and see if they have any scam accusations where there is actual proof that something shady happen and not ridiculous threads like, ‘I lost all my money so it must be a scam’

[emberbekas]

I wonder how you do your research if a gambling site is scam or not?

The easiest way, if you are referring to a bitcoin casino is to come to bitcointalk and see th reviews and the comments on their thread and see if they have any scam accusations where there is actual proof that something shady happen and not ridiculous threads like, ‘I lost all my money so it must be a scam’

Yes, bitcointalk is a good resource to track down casino's record. By reading other users experiences we will easily knowing whether a casino is trustworthy or not. And this forum has a trust system too, so we can easily providing an assessment towards a casino.

[marcuslong]

Actually, i am not searching about any gambling sites, Because i see a lot of gambling sites are here in signature campaigns, and these all are good for playing gambling, and i see everyone are trust on them. So why i need to search and waste time? Even i have not hear any wrong or scam about gambling sites. Only i see the gambling sites name and start to bet.

It is true some of legit gambling sites runs signature campaigns to advertise fast their site to gain players who will be promote soon when they won profit there. Players are anywhere so maybe you're the one who will not waste time for searching for the feedbacks and reputation about the website. All you want is to play and just earn from it.

[Ayiranorea]

I think there is no need to have a vast research in finding the legit gambling website. Just go through the forum gambling section you can easily understand which gambling websites are legitimate in the service provided. Personally I believe most of the gambling websites accepting bitcoin looks legit.

[Mike Mayor]

I don't think you can really tell. Even if they fair they might not pay out a big win. It's best to go with gambling sites with a good reputation. This is not to say never give a new site a chance. Just don't spend big money at a new site. If you a high roller take it to a reputable casino.

[wuvdoll]

I don't think you can really tell. Even if they fair they might not pay out a big win. It's best to go with gambling sites with a good reputation. This is not to say never give a new site a chance. Just don't spend big money at a new site. If you a high roller take it to a reputable casino.

I guess we never need to worry about new gambling site when they are having active support through this forum.

But like you said, we should not take chances with big winning with the new sites because admin may take decisions to go with the big amount of bitcoins instead of maintaining their reputation in this forum. These are all just precautions, but when we are choosing always going with a reputed gambling site must be a better practice.

[EdenHazard]

Actually, i am not searching about any gambling sites, Because i see a lot of gambling sites are here in signature campaigns, and these all are good for playing gambling, and i see everyone are trust on them. So why i need to search and waste time? Even i have not hear any wrong or scam about gambling sites. Only i see the gambling sites name and start to bet.

It is true some of legit gambling sites runs signature campaigns to advertise fast their site to gain players who will be promote soon when they won profit there. Players are anywhere so maybe you're the one who will not waste time for searching for the feedbacks and reputation about the website. All you want is to play and just earn from it.

the problem are not that easy , any online business always have lack of trust , of course you can not completely trust your money on strange random online site no matter how trustworthy they are building reputation for years , you should have a plan B .

whenever something worst happened , you have to take a prevention and don't go allin.

[Janation]

I don't think you can really tell. Even if they fair they might not pay out a big win. It's best to go with gambling sites with a good reputation. This is not to say never give a new site a chance. Just don't spend big money at a new site. If you a high roller take it to a reputable casino.

You may have a point there, but the thing about it is that, gamblers always want to taste or experience something new. They don't just do the same game everyday, they need to change gears sometimes, and that is a given, every gambler that wants to try a new site will never bet big on a new gambling site. Even I am not a good gambler, I can't just stake my own money, on a gambling site, without that experience, new business and still, on the way to prove its legitimacy. Gamblers, don't take words of the casino, but they take it when they do better services, just be smart and gamble smartly.

[tabas]

I think there is no need to have a vast research in finding the legit gambling website. Just go through the forum gambling section you can easily understand which gambling websites are legitimate in the service provided. Personally I believe most of the gambling websites accepting bitcoin looks legit.

Yeah there are plenty of scam busters throughout the forum. And as long as they will give an appropriate proof and it's accurate, it can be considered as a legit accusation and you can already avoid those gambling sites for doing and attempting scams to their players/investors. Not all the gambling sites are legit, there are some that are migrating and turns out to be a gambling site.

[cpfreeplz]

You absolutely positively have to do your own in depth research or you'll get burned. So many bitcoin gambling websites are scams it's ridiculous.

I'd suggest checking here obviously but also reddit and any other forum that you know real reviewers will be on. That's usually where you see the scam accusations and not anything close to their official websites, threads, or anything like that. Go with big websites only that have been around a long time and never assume that they didn't become a scam yesterday.

[iv4n]

I don`t how, I see what people talking about specific site, that is all. How else we can know is some site is scam or not, or will turn into? You don`t know something is a scam before it happens, I have positive experience with bitcoin gambling site and I go to sites where others had good experience also, I don`t have some special norms about this matter.

[Nagadota]

The only way you can truly do it with Bitcoin gambling is checking their provably fair mechanisms.  Any other judgement you make is solely based on their standing within the community, which is never completely reliable.

[maydna]

The only way you can truly do it with Bitcoin gambling is checking their provably fair mechanisms.  Any other judgement you make is solely based on their standing within the community, which is never completely reliable.

we can check in what other members said about one site or i think there is any website that specifically makes review of the site especially for gambling site, so it makes us easier to check if the site is trusted or not. but this is not always guarantee because i have experience that when i look into other members, they said the site is good, but its not good for me. i think we can get different experience from what we get compare with other people get in the same site.

[cotton ball]

The only way you can truly do it with Bitcoin gambling is checking their provably fair mechanisms.  Any other judgement you make is solely based on their standing within the community, which is never completely reliable.

we can check in what other members said about one site or i think there is any website that specifically makes review of the site especially for gambling site, so it makes us easier to check if the site is trusted or not. but this is not always guarantee because i have experience that when i look into other members, they said the site is good, but its not good for me. i think we can get different experience from what we get compare with other people get in the same site.

From the site's interface has been able to believe it is scam or not, most of the gambling sites are good already have real certificate, and the one thing that can't be lied to is total volume of participants and payment mechanisms that are problematic or not, good gambling sites always take response quickly to any problem transactions.

[raven7886]

The only way you can truly do it with Bitcoin gambling is checking their provably fair mechanisms.  Any other judgement you make is solely based on their standing within the community, which is never completely reliable.

Yes, it is really simple really. You go on bitcointalk and ask people. We are so crowded here that I am almost certain there are some old accounts like hero members or legendary accounts who already gambled where you wanted to gamble, the casino probably even has a topic about it and you can check the comments.

For example recently a sportsbook had some minör issues and I know it because I read it here, not because I gambled there.

[FrueGreads]

I wonder how you do your research if a gambling site is scam or not?

I usually try to search for some info here in the forum. Try to get some feedback from other users and their experiences, and I also look into ranking threads. If they have a decent amount of votes, then they will give me some confidence about a site.

I think those rankings threads are quite important, and that's the reason I created one for sportsbook sites.
Since we are talking about trust, I would like to ask for your help, by submitting your feedback about sports site, in this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1820529.0

I'm sure it will help other users make some research about sportsBook websites.

[eternalgloom]

I don't think you can really tell. Even if they fair they might not pay out a big win. It's best to go with gambling sites with a good reputation. This is not to say never give a new site a chance. Just don't spend big money at a new site. If you a high roller take it to a reputable casino.

The only thing you really have is their track record.
If a certain Bitcoin casino has been running for a couple of years without any scam reports on it, you can be pretty sure that they're not going to scam you.

Crypto-Games is a good example of that and I'm not just saying that because of my signature Just research it yourself!

[Lancusters]

I don't think you can really tell. Even if they fair they might not pay out a big win. It's best to go with gambling sites with a good reputation. This is not to say never give a new site a chance. Just don't spend big money at a new site. If you a high roller take it to a reputable casino.

The only thing you really have is their track record.
If a certain Bitcoin casino has been running for a couple of years without any scam reports on it, you can be pretty sure that they're not going to scam you.

Crypto-Games is a good example of that and I'm not just saying that because of my signature Just research it yourself!

I do not believe any reviews in addition to reviews of my friends. If someone plays for a long time and sometimes winning I can try. And then I never make big bets. In General, to protect yourself 100% from a Scam is not possible.

[Skarner21]

I don't think you can really tell. Even if they fair they might not pay out a big win. It's best to go with gambling sites with a good reputation. This is not to say never give a new site a chance. Just don't spend big money at a new site. If you a high roller take it to a reputable casino.

The only thing you really have is their track record.
If a certain Bitcoin casino has been running for a couple of years without any scam reports on it, you can be pretty sure that they're not going to scam you.

Crypto-Games is a good example of that and I'm not just saying that because of my signature Just research it yourself!

This is the only thing that i think that we can know the site if its legit or not checking their terms and faq if the site is new is not a good way to know because they can do it the same terms like other site..  so better to know if they have promotion like signature campaign and if they are longer alive here in forum.. that we can say they are legit..