Is it possible for betting platforms to intentionally target the weak?

[Dunamisx]

Help me make sense out of this, is it possible that some betting companies are targeting some specific set of people who are vulnerable? This news about gambling addiction in Brazil is crazy..



I've been reading alot about gambling addiction and bad news all together but this one strikes different.


Here is the link to the full details
https://newint.org/society/2026/online-gambling-destroying-lives-brazil

Is it's really safe to say that they are intentionally targeting vulnerable people? Corruption and money laundering is not erasable wherever casinos and betting platforms operates, but saying that they are targeting vulnerable people in a country where minimum wage does nothing makes no sense.

They can take gambling as an opportunity to earn more for their sustainability in life should learn from this and know that the risk I hate of what they stand to get is far higher can the benefit distance to get from it, we should not gamble beyond we've planned for if we don't want to end up a miserable life upon the target in gambling, this shows that there are some deliberate gambling platform that front after gamblers with such mindset, before we continue to experience it losing streak in gambling, we should know about all this and try to avoid anything that will make us 100% dependable on gambling.

[EluguHcman]

Help me make sense out of this, is it possible that some betting companies are targeting some specific set of people who are vulnerable? This news about gambling addiction in Brazil is crazy..

If i may ask, who are to be addressed as the vulnerables and how does the companies identifies who is vulnerable or not?
The last time I checked, the VIP gaming experience is exclusive for high rollers which I don't see the feature as a means of targeting specific users.

The feature or service is just made available for anyone interested. This is also as the provisions to unlock free bonuses and offers and only specific users with limited bankrolls. Maybe this special services is what you meant by specific set of user. Let us not also forget addiction which bettors make themselves vulnerable to fall victims.

The casinos will only concentrates on marketing their game services, users trapped over chasing the offers are at the risk of their bankrolls and psychological relationships.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Low income people have always been desperate in making more money to help their financial. So they often used gambling as the shortest way to get more money. So this is the vulnerable that being explosed by the gambling companies. It's why that research actually make sense, and match to the reality.
Even when i asked my friend who have low wage "what's the reason he keep gamble, then he said he hope to hit jackpot someday".

In result, gambling site like gives the poor people a hope to leave from their poverty when they win a jackpot. So it becomes the main thing used to lure these people to gambling. Things worsen with how poor people psychologically weak, and they never been rational.
So they always think they would end up in winning jackpot, then becomes a rich guy overnight.

[KiaKia]

Whoever this Leonardo Sakamoto is wrote absolute trash and here is why.

1. There is no way to tell the difference between a poor person or rich person when you are running a casino or betting platforms.
2. There is no proof that these betting platforms go to these so called poor people's home and force them into signing anything.
3. KYC verification has nothing to do with your job and how much you are making every day.

So how did this writer come up with the idea that they are targeting vulnerable people? Because the poor are surely the most vulnerable but if critical thinking isn't applied here you will blame the wrong person, casinos don't for anyone's hands into gambling.

The poor do needs money the most and I believe that's why they get addicted easily, but mind you the link OP dropped said that over 40% of people in Brazil are able to survive and pay bills using gambling, these people are also part of the so called poor.

[Rruchi man]

Help me make sense out of this, is it possible that some betting companies are targeting some specific set of people who are vulnerable?

Nothing is impossible; that's something you should know. Casino owners can have bad intentions, targeting the vulnerable or weak because their loss is the gain of the casino. But we should not blame the casino only here; they are operating a business, and you as a gambler owe yourself a responsibility to make sure you are not taken advantage of.

The casinos can only present you with offers that are enticing and will want to encourage you to gamble more; no casino is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to keep playing. Self-control is your responsibility.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

My opinion on this matter is that betting companies is not intentionally targeting weak, poor and vulnerable individuals in Brazil. The Journalist that wrote that article is expressing how it is mostly the poor people that are venturing into gambling and also the fact that these individuals are in debt because of gambling and some of them spend their small salaries in gambling, but still, what he said at the last paragraph of the article means that he also knows what the cause of the problem is and not that the gambling companies are the ones targeting the people. Here's what he said;

In Brazil, where financial education is poor and inequality is widespread, betting platforms are not merely harmless entertainment. They are like Robin Hood in reverse: giant corporations that transfer income from the poorest to the richest.

Poor financial education, poor economy and hardship is definitely what is also forcing so many poor people in different countries around the world to venture into gambling because they assume that that's the quickest way to make money. So, this last part of the article described cause of the problem in a nutshell. In my area, it's usually the poor people that are mostly into gambling and even when these persons win good amount, they will not be able to invest it because they have poor financial knowledge.

[retreat]

From what I know, online casinos don't specifically target a particular demographic; instead, they employ marketing strategies designed to reach as many people as possible. For instance, in my country, many online casinos are very active on social media and send out messages via WhatsApp. They made various messages to entice people to play on their sites, then simply wait for those messages to reach potential players and wait for them to sign up. It would be too complicated for online casinos to target a specific demographic when they can cast a wide net and capture more potential players at once.

[Perfectbaby]

Help me make sense out of this, is it possible that some betting companies are targeting some specific set of people who are vulnerable? This news about gambling addiction in Brazil is crazy..



I've been reading alot about gambling addiction and bad news all together but this one strikes different.


Here is the link to the full details
https://newint.org/society/2026/online-gambling-destroying-lives-brazil

Is it's really safe to say that they are intentionally targeting vulnerable people? Corruption and money laundering is not erasable wherever casinos and betting platforms operates, but saying that they are targeting vulnerable people in a country where minimum wage does nothing makes no sense.

I do not think so, but however anything is actually that possible because when you keep gambling and be making specific winning maybe twice in a week or month you would see that they don't mind start monitoring your account to check if you are using arbitrage gambling or using tools that keep helping you to make consistent winning from that particular gambling site.
Of course when you are losing their attention becomes lesser where you are and they would be that happy to see that you keep losing while gambling and when there is a sudden winning they keep monitoring you to check if your bet was actually genuine.

[DPHOR]

Gambling platform do not have any concerns with those that are losing money on their platform rather where their interest are going are for those who are making consistent winning from their account because they would love to limit to them on the amount they keep extracting from their gambling site while those who are using are being used to add up to the balance because they believe those users would never have a big winning from them so whenever they stakes or bet they would have that feeling that they are adding to their balance.

[Yorubek]

He did not do his research very well. More low income people gamble more than the rich people. It is not only in Brazil, that is how it is almost everywhere. I think the kind of mentality that low income people have make more of them to be gambling often than rich people. The gambling sites do not force them to gamble.

You said it very well, casinos do not force anyone to gamble, a person gambles in casinos through their own willpower. It is true that people from middle income or low income groups gamble more than rich people. Their main goal through gambling is to make a lot of money very quickly with a small amount of money. They gamble with the main goal of making a lot of money by gambling, which can completely change their lives. Therefore, the number of lower or middle class people who gamble is much higher than the rich people, so most of the middle class or lower class people are financially affected by gambling.

[Obim34]

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One huge stake from a rich person can cover up 100-1000 low income earners gambling stake for a month. What will be the gain of the casino if they target 100 rich gamblers instead of targeting 1000 - 10,000 low income earners to play in their casino or site?

Betting platforms and casinos are businesses, every business has its audience, but i feel the rich should be the best target, not a struggling man who can't afford an average lifestyle. I feel the sentiment behind the story isn't true, I take my doubts.

[Doan9269]

Different gambling platforms are not the same, and that is why we cannot treat them with an equal approach. For sure, some are reputable, while some are not, and this is where we must amicably handle each of the gambling platforms according to how they appear to us based on our experience with them.

And this also applies to some gamblers who think they will only be more frequent by gambling each time to have a winning opportunity; some may be getting it wrong already because gambling is not what we can apply a single approach over gambling, what you think is your highest target may be a vulnerability to you that others may take as an advantage in order to ensure you keep losing and have this continuously.

[Derekfunds]

First of all we should know that these companies does not impose or coers anyone to gamble or patronize, what they do is open a company and then people who are interested will go and patronize them and one thing is sure,  there must always be customers to patronize them but if everyone decide today to stop gambling we won't be having this conversation so you can not tag this on casinos even though there objective is to make profit.

[Cryptomultiplier]

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One huge stake from a rich person can cover up 100-1000 low income earners gambling stake for a month. What will be the gain of the casino if they target 100 rich gamblers instead of targeting 1000 - 10,000 low income earners to play in their casino or site?

Low income earners are desperate to win big so the micro amounts they bet is more frequent and continuous than a rich gambler who may bet big but only once on a specific game, until another day.
It's just as if the small income earners are more and their frequency of bets equates or surpass the rich gambler bets amounts over time.

Betting platforms and casinos are businesses, every business has its audience, but i feel the rich should be the best target, not a struggling man who can't afford an average lifestyle. I feel the sentiment behind the story isn't true, I take my doubts.

The sentiments behind this story may be statistically true if you get to look at it from an angle even though it might not be as glaring as the eyes can meet.  Check how much low income earners are more addicted to gambling as compared to how rich gamblers are addicted and see that there's a difference.

[Charles-Tim]

Low income earners are desperate to win big so the micro amounts they bet is more frequent and continuous than a rich gambler who may bet big but only once on a specific game, until another day.
It's just as if the small income earners are more and their frequency of bets equates or surpass the rich gambler bets amounts over time.

There are some low income earners that bet but still do everything in a way that they are not addicted to gambling. It is true that many low income earners are betting with low amount of money but expecting huge return from high odds which is the reason they are losing, but they should still be able to afford the money used. There are some rich people that bet frequently also, but the difference is that many of them can afford to lose the money and they do not depend on gambling, they depend on business.

[EarnOnVictor]

Help me make sense out of this, is it possible that some betting companies are targeting some specific set of people who are vulnerable? This news about gambling addiction in Brazil is crazy..
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I think you are misinterpreting that guy, and again, the guy himself didn't explain it well.

I believe what he was trying to say is that the politicians have destroyed the economy. For him, it was deliberate, so that people can be economically stranded and desperate, thereby moving to gambling as their financial resort.

Of course, this is his opinion; it doesn't have to be true, even as the expression is ill itself.

[HelliumZ]

The point is exactly this: why are weak-hearted people more prone to gambling? That is, those who are more focused on earning money, that is, people of poor nature, are most prone to being attracted to gambling. One of the main reasons for this is that poor gamblers basically always have a kind of intense desire for money and they find ways to earn money very easily. For poor gamblers, gambling seems to be the only easy way to earn money. That is why the poor and weak-hearted are mainly seen to be more attracted to gambling only to become rich in a very short time. Moreover, there is no other intensity where the poor have to be attracted to gambling, rather the rich are also attracted but it is much less than the poor.

[rdluffy]

Unfortunately, this journalist is quite biased in favor of the current government and often posts highly tendentious content, he is in no way capable of practicing impartial journalism
That’s why I end up not trusting the article or the surveys he cites, since so much here in Brazil is corrupt

Check out the website where he publishes his articles:



They also make money from betting 

I’ll look for more information, but the ads from betting sites target everyone over 18, though I’m not sure if there’s a particular social class they focus on more

[acroman08]

Is it's really safe to say that they are intentionally targeting vulnerable people? Corruption and money laundering is not erasable wherever casinos and betting platforms operates, but saying that they are targeting vulnerable people in a country where minimum wage does nothing makes no sense.

Putting Brazil aside, they have been doing this for a long time, it's why they build betting shops near poor areas, because they know poor/low income people are more likely to gamble out of desperation(I remember reading an article about a study about it) compared to people who are in a better financial situation. Here in my country, or at least in the area I live, you'll see a lot of e-bingo shops near areas where low income families live.

[len01]

Is it's really safe to say that they are intentionally targeting vulnerable people? Corruption and money laundering is not erasable wherever casinos and betting platforms operates, but saying that they are targeting vulnerable people in a country where minimum wage does nothing makes no sense.

I don't think that's the case. Gambling doesn't specifically target any particular group. Gambling businesses simply aim to attract as much traffic as possible, regardless of who the players are. That means they target all gamblers, whether they are wealthy or have limited incomes.

In fact, if you assume that they only target wealthy gamblers, the reality is quite the opposite. Many lower income gamblers deposit money more frequently and sometimes end up losing even more than wealthy gamblers. So your assumption is simply incorrect.