Why We Do It

At Sports Gambling Scams we have only one mission: preparing inexperienced gamblers to recognize the dangers of online sports betting. The fact that this business is unregulated is often lost on participants when they make their initial deposit. And that means money lost is money lost forever. You’ll never recover it.  

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I myself fell prey to one of these online sportsbooks in 2016. A gambling site conned me out of seventeen thousand dollars, and there were no more regulations in place then than there are now. There wasn’t a single thing that I could do.

I initiated a withdrawal of fifteen thousand dollars. But after four days there was still no record of the transfer in my bank account. Contacting support produced a response (after a 24-hour delay) and that response was almost predictable: “Your wire is in transit.” I was annoyed, but giving it another couple of days didn’t seem too unreasonable. Two days passed, then three, with no money arriving. I contacted them again, and again, but now I was being ghosted.           

Putting four thousand dollars on a parlay paid out nicely, bringing in enough to cover a weekend of end-to-end games. I was feeling good, and looking forward to my next round. But for now the weekend was over and so I cashed out – fifteen thousand dollars, just a couple days after I’d first signed up.

Here’s how it had played out. A friend told me about this sportsbook. A first view of the site was impressive: eye-catching graphics and really seamless operation. So I create an account and did a few small deposits, reasoning that it always pays to start out with caution. But when the first two payouts came my way without any problems my confidence increased and I went all in. I’ve always loved making high-risk bets, and that’s exactly what I did next.

So it was time to talk to someone “live.” The support person on the other end of the line said there had been an “incongruity” in my account, and accused me of collusion. The discussion that followed – which is a nice way of saying “arguing and screaming” – went on for an hour. At that point my call was switched over to a Customer Service supervisor, who told me I’d have to wait for a response for still another two days.

More emails, more calls. Still ghosted. What was Plan B? There was no Plan B, because I had no legal recourse. There was no one to turn to for help, and no way to bring back my now long-lost money.

Fast forward another month. Now the website no longer exists. When I Googled it, all I found was a long list of complaints, with details that all read like variations on my own story. The site owners got what they wanted, conning who knows how many people before whisking themselves off to some exotic location to live the good life using someone else’s money.

The Demand for a Sports Betting Scam Website

A lot of walls took the brunt of my anger over the next few weeks, but then I realized there had to be a more productive way to release my frustrations. Even though I couldn’t be made whole financially, maybe I could be made whole emotionally by taking some kind of action. I decided to create a site helping newcomers to online betting understand that they needed to be better informed before starting down a path that might well lead to frustration and ruin. This is how SportsGamblingScams.com came to be.

We have a Rogue’s List of online sportsbooks that must be avoided at all costs, and to keep it current we rely on people like yourself to share your stories with us. Give us the name of the site and any details and together we’ll make sure that others don’t make the same mistake we did. It’s the first step to feeling just a little bit better about the whole experience.     

And good luck to you!