Bonus scams designed to cheat players

Bonus scams designed to trap the player's deposited money into unreasonable play-through terms  are becoming a favorite way to not only rope in new players because they see these unbelievable bonus offers which are available to anyone willing to risk just a small percentage of their own money to get that big bonus. But also because they are a legal way to assure the casino it has little chance of losing because the odds are so great of anyone meeting the extreme play through requirements attached to these bonuses before losing their bank roll. Best of all is the player is the one who has agreed to these terms and nobody can claim the casino did anything wrong. In fact they offered the player all that extra casino cash if they agreed to the terms.

Luck is a short-lived marriage of prepared meets opportunity.

There is a really nasty bonus offer running at the time of this writing at a casino I guarantee (Club USA>.

Update: 3/2/10

This article was written some time ago, back before the leading software provider had pulled all casinos powered by their games out of the US market. Since then I have had to rethink my approach to the RTG powered casino or lose you good people from the states to another site. I have done my homework and the RTG casinos I have advertised on my sites are the best of the lot, in my experienced opinion (10 years now).

While I admit to having not checked out their bonus situation in some time at Club USA, I would be inclined to advise to avoid their bonuses still to this day. That also now includes Allstar casino as they just were bought up by the network which club USA is associated.

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Upon visiting the site I decided to check out the bonus T&Cs and was shocked to see this term. They do make it clear in their terms about what to expect if you accept their bonus ... I just have decided to run a disclaimer to not accept the bonus.

first off... is that "minus the bonus amount" meaning the $750 they advertise on the site? hmmm... so the worst they stand to lose is $1250? Gee what a bonanza!

sigh. I will have to run a warning next to all the links telling players that's how the deal works. - I can't call them out-right scoundrels since they do mention at the end of their long list of terms that if you don't request the bonus via adding in the bonus code ... that you are not bound by those rules.

So if you're a sport and willing to abide by the deal in trade for the bonus just remember it may include having to fly over here to our friendly little island somewhere south of the equator and wrestle the man-eating tiger we've imported in for just such an occasion", so read the terms before you accept any bonus. Oh, and if they automatically put one in your account, don't gamble until you've had them remove it or your actions will be viewed as an act of agreement to the bonus offer. Steve Briggs: BondedCasinos.com