The Online Exstortionists.
Betting Companies Twisted Moral Compass?
Gambling Websites Taking Advantage Of High Unemployment.
With the majority of the U.K. either unemployed or furloughed due to the COVID 19 outbreak.
Online gambling websites are still ramming advertising down people’s throat either through personal contact details or through mailing lists, social media platforms, online adverts, television & radio.
Gambling is highly addictive. I can confirm this myself. I wouldn’t like to put a number or fixed amount on how much I have spent over the years.
What I will say is it has hurt my personal & professional life in the past. Causing me extremely high levels of debt and pain & suffering It consumes your everyday life causing mayhem.
You find yourself going and making a concerted effort to source money. To place a bet with no matter what the ramifications.
This blinkered outlook and selfishness can be very costly. All that you care about is gambling.
Twenty years ago there were hardly any online websites to bet with. People would go to their local bookmakers.
The only positive point I can make regarding this is at least they closed each day around 8 pm.
Unfortunately, now you can gamble online 24hrs a day 7 days a week. You can gamble all year round. Even on Christmas Day.
You can say the larger bookmakers & casinos do try to get you to set deposit limits or time zones to cool off.
The fact remains that a gambling addict will find a way around this by opening an account elsewhere. As long as you provide the identification you can have an online account in ten minutes maximum.
Though prevention is sort of around and in place. There is no cap on how many accounts you can have with all the various companies that are available to select from online right now in the U.K.
At one point I had 42 different online betting accounts. I was not breaking any laws. This is because there are no laws to break.
So you can only imagine how easy it is to consistently keep gambling whether you have deposit limits or not. Access is available on all devices in the modern-day technology era.
Applications are downloadable in minutes the functionality of a gambling addict can spiral out of control in a matter of hours.
Once your hooked and locked in I feel it is possibly worse than taking illegal substances. My reason for debating this is that you either get a high rush or a low rush with illegal substances.
I fully understand that they cause addiction. It’s just my case in point is that where do you finish if you can gamble 24/7. There is no ending to the streams of sites that you can access.
I must repeat myself; I am not saying illegal substances don’t cause detrimental effects. But there is a comedown or it wears off or whatever you want to compare it to.
Gambling has never been known or been seen to be stopping or slowing down at any point ever.
Surely it has to be regulated in a controlled system or structure. Just because 80% of the country can not work.
This has not stopped all of the bookmakers & casino’s aggressively ramming down your throat (in a metaphorical sense)the special registration offers or bonus offers or free bets or any other promotional offers readily available.
In this unique yet unfortunate pandemic, with the lockdown keeping, people indoors, etc.
You would expect a little conventional morality to be included within this thought process to be put in place.
The fact remains that these companies are just as bad as an extortionist by taking advantage of the weaknesses of some people by trying and mainly succeeding in taking customers/addicts who are vulnerable.
Some online sites email/message you saying have you forgotten your password?. Just because you haven’t logged in recently. You have to say that is poor unethical behaviour.
We need to implement change within this flawed structure & system.
Before it is too late.
I am enclosing a link for GamCare self-exclusion support.
Brian Anthony Cumberlidge.
