How to Avoid Fly-By-Night?

It’s no secret that in recent years more and more people are keen on totalisators, lotteries and betting in bookmakers. This became especially important after the closure of the casino in connection with the law on gambling. At the same time, novice players are not immune from being caught on a bait to scammers and easy-money lovers, who create numerous one-day agencies exclusively for collecting money from clients, with the obvious exception of the possibility of obtaining a win.

To prevent this possibility, bills are adopted to protect the population:

• increase in the minimum amount of the charter capital of the bookmaker;
• increase in the amount of the bank guarantee;
• increase in the requirements for the size of net assets;
• licensing of the bookmaker’s activity;
• a ban on organizing bookmakers to people who have been convicted for economic crimes;
• access to information on persons with more than 10% of the authorized capital of the office.

However, on the Internet, where one-day businesses grow like mushrooms and collect money from customers, they also disappear quickly, it’s much more difficult to deal with them. Therefore, each player before, than to trust a bookmaker office their money and start making bets, must clearly know all the signs of the unreliability of this or that bookmaker.

What do these signs mean?

1. “Curve”, a primitive (sometimes even a template) site, differently displayed in different browsers, having a lot of non-working links (which no self-respecting BSwill allow itself ).
2. Absence of legal and physical address of the betting shops, points of acceptance of bets.
3. Absence of a license (certificate) for bookmaking (with full indication of its requisites).
4. Very poor line of betting with extremely low coefficients on favorites, lack of paintings and Live bets.
5. The presence of scanty bonuses for registration, for visiting the site.
6. The bookmaker lacks alternative methods of payment, especially with the help of plastic cards (since banks check the reliability of applicants before working with them).
7. Abundance on the resource (site) of the betting agency of outside advertising.
8. Absence or non-operational work of the support service (often only through the feedback form on the site), the lack of work telephones.
9. Absence or a rare update of the news section, lack of statistics, results (including online), additional services.
10. No mention of the office on the websites of the international SBR rating.
11. Lack of positive feedback about the office in the services of arbitrage payment systems.
12. Lack of mentioning the office at specialized forums in topics of leading (plus) tipsters and cappers, lack of screenshots of payments of decent amounts.
13. Low (often zero) ranking of the site in the search engines.

The information on the websites of such offices, as a rule, is not true. For example, a five-year work record is reported, and the site is registered in the current year (you can check for seobuilding.ru) or it is written about million payments (which are carried out only through WebMoney), and WMID has BL = 0, and even a formal certificate.

If the site of the checked bookmaker contains at least some of these signs, do not risk your money once again and find another betting shop, the benefit of them is on the Internet hundreds.

PS For the sake of justice it should be said that there were also single exceptions: several offices that started their activity using cheap scripts did not disappear into oblivion, but gradually began to “unwind”, updating their resources, introducing additional services and improving customer service. This includes electronic BSBooker, Olympbet and EUROPAP. However, this improvement was of a temporary nature: the lack of license and supervision by independent arbitration services did nothing to increase the discipline of bookmakers and the greed began to prevail over the need to follow own rules (with all the ensuing consequences).