Online Casinos or Internet casinos are nothing but the online versions of traditional casinos. It allows you to play using internet, now you don’t even have to waste time travelling to the casino you can play online. Generally online casinos offer you payback percentages that are similar to land-based casinos. Some of the online casinos even claim higher payback percentages for slot machine games, and some even publish their payout percentages audit on their websites. The payout percentages for these games are established by the rules of the game.
Basically there are three types of online casinos, namely: 1) Web-based casinos; 2) download based casinos and 3) live casinos. A small description of all the casinos is given below:
1) Web-based casino: In web-based casinos you can play casino games using local computer. In this system you do not need to download the software. Games are represented in the browser plug in and a browser support is required to support these plug in.
2) Download based online casino: Unlike web-based online casinos, you need to download software client to play these casino games. This software hook up to the casino service provider and handle contact without any browser support. Though download based casinos run faster than web-based casinos but downloading the software is time consuming and chances of malware infection are there as with any other download.
3) Live casino: Unlike the above two live casinos give you freedom to see, hear and interact with the dealers sitting in your home.
Even though online casino gives you freedom to play from the comfort of your home but there has been cases documented of fraudulent behavior. Most common reports are the payment refusal or cheating software. An online casino which has multiple confirmed cases of fraudulence is known as rouge casino by the online casino players. A rouge casino may intentionally delay a withdrawal in hope that the player will continue gambling and lose all the money in the account. Other rouge casinos continuously apply unfair terms to their house rules. Some casino soft wares have been proved to cheat e.g. Oyster Gaming and Casino Bar.
Casino fraud is not limited to the online casinos online Cases of fraudulent behavior from casino players have also been reported. A common practice known as “gnoming” has been reported where the player signs up using multiple casino accounts using different identities in order to claim a bonus offer multiple times.
