The carefully arranged blacklist of banned sites maintained by the State Gambling Commission, only serves to scare kids. Designed to differentiate remote betting operators who do not wish to be licensed under the Gambling Act and prefer to work in the shadow sector, the list has loopholes in its entirety, and it now reaches 180 lines. People play freely, sites still remain outside the tax regime and treasury suffers huge losses because of this.
Here are the comments of regular participants in games of chance played from a distance.
The site sportingbet.com for example, one of the most popular ones in the world, was closed to Bulgarian players because it did not license itself. „Many people however play it completely without a problem. This is currently going through a proxy server and link bg.sportingbet158. A month ago the link differed only in the last figures which were 777, but apparently the authorities had got wind of it and this change became necessary,“ a regular visitor of the site commented for the BANKER. He gets the new passwords for connection in the form of advertising for the site and the games that it offers.
The situation is similar with another global giant – Bet365. It currently can be accessed through: http://www.365sport365.com/bg/, say Internet gamblers. Bet365 website uses the so-called cookies to provide better and more personalized service to customers.
But what is a cookie? These are short text files containing some information that is sent and stored in the computer of the tempted gamblers of their cell phones. Then the cookies are sent back to the home site during each visit to the home site or to another site that recognizes these cookies. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize the computer of a customer.
Here’s how fans of the site formulate the functions of cookies. These include the following: they allow customers to log into their accounts at bet365; allow selection preferences, monitoring and collecting information on transactions made on the site, prevent fraud and exercise general protection of confidentiality.
The use of cookies by bet365 falls into the following categories:
– Session management – these cookies are essential to use for the site, they regulate the information session and allow customers to navigate in it;
– Functionality – cookies store information that allows remembering preferences, such as language factors and settings. They are also used in the interest of clients, such as preventing a repeated displaying of the same message;
– Protection against fraud – these cookies store information that allows termination of misuse on the site.
– Tracking: cookies allow the site to store information about how the customer has got to the webpage.
Here’s how the website provides complete information on the Internet to its customers on how to overcome the legal ban to play in it.
Question that allegedly occurred in the consumer: „Why can I not open Bet365.com?“
The official answer: „Bet365 has had restricted access from Bulgaria in June 2013 when the State Gambling Commission introduced filtering of the bookmaking sites that accept bets from Bulgarian customers without a license to do so.“
If the customer persistently asks the question: „How do I log in Bet365?“ which in fact means: „How to get around the ban?“ then the website would rush to help: „One can not open the website Bet365 through an alternative link at the beginning of the article.“
What follows is the advertisement for Bet365: „What are the advantages of Bet365? It offers better odds for most sporting events and a huge selection of markets and bet types. You can watch the most important matches live via video built into the site. Various payment methods exist. Bet365 has a 24/7 support, which allows the bookmaker to serve its customers in virtually all the time.
Then comes the ruthless fishing. „Does the site offer any bonuses?“ The site helpfully points out its advantages for sign-up: 100% bonuses for an initial deposit of 100 levs. The amount of the bonus depends on the size of the sum. How a Bulgarian can register with Bet365? According to the guidebook of the illegal gambler: one should visit the company’s alternative address above. Betting sites often place mirrors sites. These are the sites with the same content, but using a different domain. Example: Bet365.com = Allsport365 = Italiabet365 = Bet365 Italia = 365-808 = Bet365-808 = Italian bet365 = 365sport365.
In fact, according to information provided by the State Commission on Gambling, Bet365 has filed documents in the Gambling Commission asking for a license. It is expected that in case the documents are fine, the permit may be issued in a month.
Online businesses of Bet365 was created in early 2000 by Dennis Coates. To launch the business, he took a loan of 15 million pounds from The Royal Bank of Scotland, mortgaging all his possessions. Since its inception Bet365 began to go very well and in 2005 all terrestrial points of Bet365 were sold to Gala Coral Group for over 40 million pounds, and the company focused exclusively on online betting. At this point it is one of the world’s largest bookmakers and multiple award winner of Bookmaker of the Year awarded by the prestigious magazine EGR Magazine.
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