{"id":472,"date":"2025-05-12T20:01:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T20:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:05:10","slug":"online-sports-betting-scam-targeting-brick-and-mortar-casino-gamblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/online-sports-betting-scam-targeting-brick-and-mortar-casino-gamblers\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Sports Betting Scam Targeting Brick-and-Mortar Casino Gamblers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post Online Sports Betting Scam Targeting Brick-and-Mortar Casino Gamblers<\/a> appeared first on Vegas Slots Online News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A new scam is reportedly targeting US casino gamblers on the Gulf coast, though as far as scams go, there is nothing particularly creative about it. Then again, sometimes the simplest lies are the most effective.<\/p>\n

According to Will Polston of Fox 10 News<\/a> <\/em>in Biloxi, Mississippi, scammers are trying to get people to sign up for non-existent online sportsbooks by offering seemingly juicy incentives.<\/p>\n

Golden Nugget General Manager and Vice President Chett Harrison said his casino has sometimes been the lure; one scam site offered its targets $1,500 in Golden Nugget vouchers. The vouchers, of course, did not exist.<\/p>\n

Harrison gave the age-old advice: \u201dIf it\u2019s too good to be true, it probably is.\u201d<\/p>\n

One usually reliable way to weed out scam e-mails is to look at the sender\u2019s e-mail address, which will generally be completely unrelated to the supposed gambling site, or at least have obvious misspellings. But Harrison said it\u2019s not always as easy as it used to be.<\/p>\n

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I couldn\u2019t even tell the email address was different\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s difficult. I\u2019ve looked at some of them that I couldn\u2019t even tell the email address was different until I slowed down to check it,\u201d said Harrison.<\/p>\n

Harrison added that in Mississippi, specifically, online sports betting is illegal, so any e-mail that offers incentives for signing up for an in-state site is clearly a scam. He also said that any legit online sports betting operator will require customers to use an app, though that is not necessarily true \u2013 plenty of operators allow betting right on their websites (though they may require a phone for geolocation purposes).<\/p>\n

For people in Mississippi, Harrison concluded that the safest thing is to gamble in person at a casino. Of course, as the GM of Golden Nugget, he is incentivized to encourage that. When it comes to avoiding online gambling scams, though, he\u2019s not wrong.<\/p>\n

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