How to Bet Safely Online?

In order to regularly make bets and get profit from this, you need to choose a good office or good shops.

Many newcomers “fall into the clutches” of not the most reliable bookmakers due to the fact that they don’t even bother to find out more information about them.

Now on the Internet there are a lot of sites and forums where you can read reviews and feedback of bookmakers. Yes, some of them were bought by bookmakers themselves. But if you look through several ratings and overview portals, you can get a general idea of ​​a betting shop.

This should be enough to make a decision about a game in a separate office. Bookmakers which shares are traded on the stock exchange, offices that actively cooperate with gambling organizations and have all the necessary licenses are credible.

Site Security

Players of betting offices are forced to disclose some of their personal data, specify payment details. Yes, a bookmaker guarantees its clients confidentiality (here it also has its own nuances). But is a betting shop site good enough to provide players with maximum security and safety of their funds?

A mandatory attribute of a modern bookmaker portal should be an SSL protocol with 128-bit or 256-bit data encryption. It guarantees protection from hackers who may attempt to intercept data.

An indicator that a bookmaker’s site is safe is the domain zone in which it operates. Offices with sites in the .COM, .RU, .NET domains cause much more confidence than the portals in the .BIZ, .EU, .AG, .IO zones. Also, you should pay attention to whether there is a reset session on a site. Good portals complete the session of users, if they don’t show activity for 10-20 minutes. Otherwise, someone can use your computer and “mess things up”.

Passwords and login

To authorize a bookmaker’s website, you must use your login (nickname) or password. Sometimes you can also use e-mail as your login.

The safer betting shops include those which give IDs to their players themselves.

In general, we won’t give you any special advice on choosing a username and password. Everyone decides it themselves. But still it’s better to refrain from passwords like QWERTY12345 or 123456789. There are people who are engaged in hacking accounts on sites where you can potentially “deflate” funds.

Verification in a bookmaker office

Recently, the verification procedure has become almost mandatory in all bookmakers. What is it? A player enters a number of personal data for registration: name, surname, address of registration, date of birth.

Verification is necessary in order to confirm them. In its process, a player sends or demonstrates scans of his or her documents. Why is it necessary for an office? In this way, it protects itself from scammers and multi-accounts.

Although the most skillful “minds” have already learned to falsify documents and look for dummies for verification in a bookmaker office.

What do you need to know about identification?

The offices often stretch this process. Especially, when a player has already deposited money. Sometimes it takes a week, 2 weeks or even a month to wait for verification. In this situation, the best option is to pass the identification immediately after registration. Even before making the first deposit. In any case, you will have to go through this procedure if you’re set up to play in an office.

Financial security at bets in a betting shop

The issue of the financial safety of players in bookmakers was very relevant at a time when online betting wasn’t yet so developed. Players were simply afraid to transfer money to offices, because they didn’t trust them. Now Internet payments have become commonplace. Some betting shops introduce payment pin codes to improve the financial safety of players. And these pin-codes are sometimes not even sent to the mail. But players sets them themselves.

Betting shops often practice and verify the payment method. They insist that the payment details must coincide with the data that you entered during registration. That is, you must use a card or purse that was issued in your name. Otherwise, a bookmaker can freeze all payments.

Controversial issues between a player and a bookmaker

In the practice of any bettor there are controversial situations with bookmakers. No one is safe in such situation and this happens at some stage with almost everyone. First of all, it’s worth studying the rules of an office in detail. Some betting shops have very ambiguous clauses in their statutes:

• account scrolling by the output;
• additional commissions;
• too long verification;
• rules of cancellation of bets when writing incorrect teams and so on.

Almost any office in its rules has a clause like “we reserve the right to lower maximums or block a player at its discretion”. The wording on different sites can be different, but the meaning will remain the same.

To protect yourself, you need to read the rules of betting shops. In the presence of too controversial items, it’s better to go past a bookmaker. Otherwise you won’t prove your case.

It’s better to work with offices that cooperate with IBAS. This is an independent service to resolve controversial situations in gambling. A characteristic icon of the organization can be found at the bottom of the betting shops websites that cooperate with it. Also there are sites that review complaints of players, and then contact bookmakers (SBR, RB). You can write directly to a regulator, especially if an office works with authoritative jurisdiction (Malta, UK). You must be able to stand up for yourself at a difficult moment.

Safeguard when betting on sports, what conclusion?

Players registering in a bookmaker office, take a number of not the most objective rules, disclose their personal data, and then probably also trust money to sites. This all seems like a rather risky undertaking. But if you know how to choose an office, manage your finances and personal data competently, and also be able to stand up for yourself, then everything won’t seem so complicated and dangerous.