Are some casino scam accusations just negative marketing in disguise?

[Obim34]

I’m not saying all accusations are fake, there are real issues and real bad actors out there. But with so many new accounts and similar complaint patterns, it’s hard not to question if some of this is manufactured noise.

If something as this can happen, it should be between two casinos that are closely in competition.

If you read through some accusation threads on the forum, sometimes the complains is the users fault, while not all are, every casino are willing to attend to complains, fake accusation will come with little or no proof, and if the casino checks their data, it would be an easy catch, why a user will make complains without evidence.

[Fiatless]

Any attack on the credibility of a rival using unhealthy means, will result in a backfire and erase the wholeness of the institution in the eye of the stakeholders. I have found out that, insensible accusations, which lack any tangible evidence, are simply a form of releasing frustration by those who have accumulated consistent losses in their finances. Until a valid investigation has been done, we should not be sucked into unsubstantiated wild guesses. The real service quality is the very decisive factor of switching the trust or the abandonment of a business organization.

These rivals would not mention the name of the casino that sent them to discredit another brand. I see it as a waste of time and resources that would have been spent on promoting their casino. I am aware of these unethical marketing strategies, so I don't leave a casino because of these unverified accusations. 

[shawonngp]

There appears to be a surge in new gambling sites launching over the last few months, and they have allocated a reasonable budget for their marketing efforts. However, it's also true that I've seen some thread where people are complaining about scams targeting both new and old gambling sites, mostly from new accounts. But since most of them are new accounts, it is definitely suspicious. They may be intentionally trying to damage the reputation of a reputable casino site. I have seen it on Twitter as well, and many accounts are engaging in negative marketing.

[tvplus006]

…I’m not saying all accusations are fake, there are real issues and real bad actors out there. But with so many new accounts and similar complaint patterns, it’s hard not to question if some of this is manufactured noise.

The most common reason for creating a new account is that the player does not want to associate their main account with the problem that has arisen. But I don’t rule out the fact that this could be one of the types of unfair advertising, but at the same time I doubt its effectiveness.

[Bluedrem]

I think this dirty game has been around for a long time, when this dirty game was played behind the scenes. Nowadays, casino sites have become so widely exposed that many scam sites have entered the casino field and they are leaving a lot of evidence of fraud which gives other casino sites the courage to expose the negative aspects of the scam sites in public and they are using them to promote. They always want to present their project as much better and more honest than those projects, so they compare them with them. I think this kind of promotion can have some negative effects because there are some people who will have a negative idea about gambling after learning about that gambling scam and will try to stay away from gambling.

[Versatile_choice]

The problem about most gamblers is, I'm not going to be specific because even those that claims they are old gamblers also make such complaints, and when you look at the things they are complaining about you would see that it's just a minor thing and in some cases they might even be the ones at fault but since they don't know what they are doing they will just assume that the casino is actually trying to scam them not knowing that it's due to the fact that they don't keep to their terms and conditions that is why they are facing those difficulties. But i must say that most of the complaints are entirely the fault of the casino, yeah there are alot of scam casinos out there so we all need to find the reputable ones to join to avoid facing unnecessary challenges.

[Asuspawer09]

It can be a thing for sure, and I think a lot of casinos might actually do that because they just can do it anyway, and they might benefit from it or probably not.

But I guess here in the forum, it is more like is it a complete evidence to accuse a gambling casino or something like that, I mean if it is just a newbie account and talking a gambling casino saying something about a bad experience or worst scam experience, we wouldn't really going to believed something like that since it is just a newbie account we could easily though that it is just some other gambling casinos that is trying to mess up other casinos here, maybe unless it has a completely evidence that it is going to post, but it is just really difficult to get the trust of the members here unless you have a trusted account already not just some newly made account it is just way too obvious and our members here are just smart and not really going to be fool by a trick like that.

The forum could give a negative to a casino if it is proven to be a scam or something, ofcourse with enough evidence needed.

[Shinpako09]

Maybe or maybe not. Bad publicity is still publicity, but I don’t think it works the same way for casinos because scam accusations can possibly tarnish their reputation and make players think twice before playing. If the accusation is baseless, most people won’t pay much attention to it since they know it’s just a player who can’t accept their losses. If ever your thought is true, I think the benefit they would get from this wouldn’t be that much compared to using the same amount for promotion in a normal way.

[JunaidAzizi]

That's the strategy used by their opponents just to destroy their market and attract people to themselves. However, you mentioned the same pattern and accusations, there are job offerings on Reddit and LinkedIn for reviews. Maybe new users made a single review and posted it everywhere, or many users are making reviews, and the patterns are the same. There may be some real issues, but that's what I saw and realized, maybe they are review guys.

[MRY]

The problem about most gamblers is, I'm not going to be specific because even those that claims they are old gamblers also make such complaints, and when you look at the things they are complaining about you would see that it's just a minor thing and in some cases they might even be the ones at fault but since they don't know what they are doing they will just assume that the casino is actually trying to scam them not knowing that it's due to the fact that they don't keep to their terms and conditions that is why they are facing those difficulties. But i must say that most of the complaints are entirely the fault of the casino, yeah there are alot of scam casinos out there so we all need to find the reputable ones to join to avoid facing unnecessary challenges.

The lack of awareness of the regulations will easily result in unilateral accusations that will harm an organization reputation, despite the fact that such negligence of the user to review official procedures is the cause of them. I have witnessed strains because of misconceptions in expectations of outcome that were constrained technically, in favor of us, during our entry into the project. The most preventive measure against such losses related to rampant frauds is the ability to choose a platform that is known to have a high level of integrity. We need to be keen on checking all policies to ensure that we do not encounter tiresome legal problems in future.

[casey15]

Your theory  may very much be correct as this is not the first time.. many big companies do that but then you'll have to spend a lot of money to pay these reviewers and for these to gain more visibility, they have to be many and mostly have to be across multiple platforms for a wider reach.  Most times the claims may not even be wrong. It may be a flaw that was discovered by the competing company and they decided to leverage on it for their benefit that is why  you have to be at the top of your game especially in a highly competitive industries as these casinos.
But these strategy is mainly used by a big company to bring down another big company because if there are two too players, when one is down more people will tend to run to the other top player. They also use it to bring down upcoming companies that may offer more value and is being favoured by the public

[Yorubek]

The problem about most gamblers is, I'm not going to be specific because even those that claims they are old gamblers also make such complaints, and when you look at the things they are complaining about you would see that it's just a minor thing and in some cases they might even be the ones at fault but since they don't know what they are doing they will just assume that the casino is actually trying to scam them not knowing that it's due to the fact that they don't keep to their terms and conditions that is why they are facing those difficulties. But i must say that most of the complaints are entirely the fault of the casino, yeah there are alot of scam casinos out there so we all need to find the reputable ones to join to avoid facing unnecessary challenges.

Of course, all casinos that people criticize have mistakes, it is not that the reason is completely guiltless. In most cases, casino fraud is detected, so it is better to gamble in a reliable casino before gambling, so that the customer does not have to be cheated after betting and winning. There are various new gambling sites, they can initially show different types of temptations to the gambler, as a result of which the gambler can be cheated by being greedy and betting too much on emotions. Therefore, it is always wise to gamble with awareness.

[SOKO-DEKE]

Honestly, with the way some reports are coming to this forum about certain casinos, it is clear that it is just market competition. Some of these scam accusations are not back by any evidence as some posters always claims.it shows that some posters is likely just trying to damage some casinos reputation possibly even being influenced by other casinos.

But the main reason we don’t always notice this is because some posters actually do have evidence about some casinos they accuse. So, I believe that market strategies play a role in causing some of these casino accusations. When a casino is not that many  in the forum, there are not as many scam reports about them. But recently, we have been getting some scam accusations against big casinos and some of these reports don’t have concrete evidence to back them up.

[sompitonov]

The problem about most gamblers is, I'm not going to be specific because even those that claims they are old gamblers also make such complaints, and when you look at the things they are complaining about you would see that it's just a minor thing and in some cases they might even be the ones at fault but since they don't know what they are doing they will just assume that the casino is actually trying to scam them not knowing that it's due to the fact that they don't keep to their terms and conditions that is why they are facing those difficulties. But i must say that most of the complaints are entirely the fault of the casino, yeah there are alot of scam casinos out there so we all need to find the reputable ones to join to avoid facing unnecessary challenges.

The lack of awareness of the regulations will easily result in unilateral accusations that will harm an organization reputation, despite the fact that such negligence of the user to review official procedures is the cause of them. I have witnessed strains because of misconceptions in expectations of outcome that were constrained technically, in favor of us, during our entry into the project. The most preventive measure against such losses related to rampant frauds is the ability to choose a platform that is known to have a high level of integrity. We need to be keen on checking all policies to ensure that we do not encounter tiresome legal problems in future.

However, various reviews of gambling platforms can be written to order; this is no secret anymore. For example, if I want to read reviews from real users and players, I'll first read posts from reputable users on our forum, and then I'll search other resources for alternative opinions. In a pinch, I might even register and play for a while to get a feel for some aspects and ultimately determine what's really going on. Reviews serve as a guide for me, but I'd never fully rely on them anyway.

[DiMarxist]

You raised a very important issue because going through the official threads of different Casinos you discover that, there are accusations which is always coming up. And the most strange thing is that it's coming from newbies accounts this is were things gets interesting to me because, there are two ways to this it is either there are genuine complaints coming from customers which has been dissatisfied with the casino and has used everything possible to to resolve the issue but was banned instead from the Casino they are using. So they resolves to using these new Accounts to raise alarm. Again I also believe that it could be sabotage from other Casino's who wants to spoil the reputation of others because of competition sake.

[hyudien]

We can't find a definitive answer to your conjecture OP, but it is still possible that the conjecture does have something to do with marketing techniques, the reason is as you said, with the rise of gambling companies today, making competition in this industry very tight.
Each company will compete for how its business can attract many customers, maybe with bonus marketing techniques have become common, so other techniques are needed, namely with the help of others to spread the negativity of other competing companies. But as I said above, there is no evidence for this, we can only speculate.

[Ivystar5]

The possibility is high, infact the possibility is very very high, but I can't even imagine it to be true, however it seems like it's becoming obvious that lead to you noticing it. but thinking of it is another way to make a casino more known with making only a little to no serious accusations that has no significance of effect on the casino reputation.

But then the way to stop this something everyone should be thinking right now if it's becoming an issue, maybe newbie accounts are not allowed to raise accusations, of course that won't work.

[SmartGold01]

Nowadays anything is possible from anywhere and in whatever ways that can seems to tarnished the good image of others. I only views those reports that are seems to be valid hence whatever accusations without any proves or properly being reported can be seem as a marketing strategies against their competitors. And of course you won't see them coming with their main account rather they could get some random newbies or newly created account to come make those accusations just to make sure the other names are ultimately destroyed. But I don't give a fuck, if I wanna use your casino I must make sure to meet all requirements by making sure I have passed my verification before funding the account, and of course I don't jump for bonuses so I don't see any reason why I would get penalized for bonus abuse, where I didn't use it so I don't think there is anything a casino could hold me at on their site.

[NurseHub]

We really can't say and probably only time can tell. I've seen some newbies too that reports about getting scammed and with evidence, however if you are going to take a look at the response of the gambling sites, you'll sometimes notice that they do have a point and the players is sometimes wrong but the problem is some people don't bother reading and if they saw a lot of complains or topic about the gambling site, their first instinct is to avoid it just to be safe. I think it wouldn't be surprising to see gambling sites doing dirty marketings, but if they are going to create a accusation they need to target a lot of gambling sites.

I think most dirty tactic they do is to create a new account and shill their own website, a few days ago or I think yesterday, I saw someone posting on different ANN thread shilling a casino/gambling site. I'm not sure if the gambling site itself hired that person to shill or just another gambling site pretending to be their rival site and shilling it so if people will see it and saw it shilling the gambling site will look bad.

I agree with you with the opinion of gamblers not reading. Some people, when they just see testimony in the comment section or how the ad is so easy going, they put in their funds, forgetting the internet is a big space and people can create a fake casino besides the real one, and the real casino isn't even aware of it. As a gambler, you should be open to asking questions about some app before you can make use of it. Making research which is part of us. With the number of people saying this, it might not really be an accusation but a thing that is going on. ‎

[xbetz.io]

I think both things exist at the same time. Some accusations are clearly noise or emotional reactions, especially from new users. But real issues usually show patterns over time, delayed withdrawals, changing limits or new rules once an account is no longer “new”.

The mistake is treating every complaint as either 100% fake or 100% scam. The signal isn’t the accusation itself, it’s whether the same behavior keeps showing up across different users and weeks. Marketing can create hype but long-term behavior is much harder to fake.