Blacklist of Betting Sites to Avoid in India

1. DREAM11.BET

1 / 10

If you google the definition of betting you will get ‘the action of gambling money on the outcome of a race, game, or another unpredictable event. In dream11.bet you don’t pay money just to predict the outcome of the game. Dream11.bet is neither a betting platform nor do we encourage or promote betting on any players, matches, and contests. Dream11.bet has no control over its users’ activity outside of their time spent on its platforms.

Furthermore, Dream11.bet will not benefit from match-fixing for the following two reasons: the process of earning money on this site doesn’t seem legit and, according to the customers’ review, is quite complicated. Here are the basic steps to make a bet and win, according to the dream11.bet rules:

• Select players from both teams;
• Form your own dream team, which will provide you the best possible combination;
• Score points on the player’s  performance respectively;
• ONLY IN CASE, you come out at the top – you will get a chance to win the league.

In case of the positive outcome of the play – you will earn money. Otherwise, you will lose.

We note that your selection doesn’t influence the outcome of the game. Instead, it’s the game that influences your winning outcome. 

So we can state that dream11.bet  is a team/match/player agnostic platform, but not a reputable bookmaker! Irrespective of which side wins, for users playing on dream11.bet, their respective fantasy team’s collective performance decides their final outcome/position/rank.

And the main point is that with more than 1 user playing on Dream11 – more than 1 million team combinations are possible. These make it impossible to know everyone’s selection and fix players thereof.

Wherever money is involved, especially in these types of situations we should warn our customers that it might be illegal. That fact provides us full confidence about referring to dream11.bet site as to a Blacklisted one.

Despite the fact that dream11.bet is advertised in apps like cricbuzz, which is a very popular app, please be wise and don’t forget about legitimacy. Subsequently, in the end, it will have an impact on your bets and the money you are betting on.

2. DREAMEXCH

2 / 10

According to the customers’ reviews, dreamexch was created only for a limited number of members or players like 2, 10, 300. But to speak about grand league contests where you can win lakhs and crores are totally fake.

Here are the reasons why this site as a blacklisted one and customers’ complaints about this site:

• How in the last minutes in only a few seconds № of teams get filled even if the contest is ½ filled. Imagine the case, if there are contests of 10 lakh people (just an example) then you can see in the last few seconds if 5 lakh contestants got filled this again proves it to be a fraud.
• If everyday people are winning in crores and lakhs, why don’t different faces appear in different advertisements? Still, they use faces of famous players for ads but if common people who are playing games obviously will be more trustable. Here, the Luck factor plays a big role because they make every possible combination for winning.
• You will be able to win only if you try to play with fewer contestants. Customers also state that this will be a bit tougher than playing in a huge population.

3. PROBET9

3 / 10

The use of coins versus money should not matter, if you are paying for the coins, you are playing for money.

Other Non-recommended Bookmakers

1 / 10

Bookies on this website state that their margins and profitability are under attack like never before so they have set up their computer systems not only to pick out clients who keep winning but they are on the lookout for value bettors and advantage players who might win in the future.

The easiest way to solve that problem is to keep on losing, however unbelievably this does not guarantee you will not get your account closed or limited.

2 / 10

The bookmaker doesn’t provide accurate Customer Support as well as T&C regulation (Terms & Conditions). You are very unlikely to check their T&C before opening an account and see what kind of experiences other punters have.

2 / 10

Sun Bets’ activity and the betting options it provided became a subject to interpretation and a question, whether their activity was gambling. As a result, the bookmaker was fined by Gambling Commission and was potentially prohibited.

3 / 10

Our review found out that Bwin has very untrusted marketing partners and the fact of that can influence the reputation in total. Based on that point, Bwin is referred to as a blacklisted one.

4 / 10

Betsafe has the same problem as Titan Bet – both of these bookmakers do not provide proper customer support. For that reason, bookies’ remarks and concerns go unheeded.

1 / 10

As stated by the open sources, this bookmaker is fake due to the fact that SkyBet is not actually owned by SkyBet. So there is a risk of legitimacy regarding the final sum, you are investing into your bets. In addition, several times the site was caught cheating its customers by its marketing department team.

2 / 10

When you register as a new customer, reputable bookmakers will offer you an incentive such as a free bet or matching deposit bonus. However, 10bet requires you to wager the bonus ‘X’ amount times before withdrawal whereas others don’t.

1.5 / 10

Despite the fact that a promotional code offered by usually reputable bookmakers for a first deposit in most cases leads to the wagering requirement and, as a result, your chances of cashing out are slim, this website does not provide the required amount of promo codes, discounts, etc to its customers. In addition, Gamebookers puts a minimum odds limit too.

3 / 10

In comparison to the above-mentioned bookmaker, Winner Sports provides promotions but not all the promotions are that useful, according to the customers’ feedback.  Moreover, this site requires a deposit, which is way higher than in usual reputable sites. According to the bookies, which were using this bookmaker, the wagering requirement is overvalued almost x8 times higher than its usual market price!

Licensing Issues

One of the main signs of a good bookmaker is a license. Most of the bookmakers you can trust will tell you about their license, give you access to the license number, and also allow you to see it for yourself. Some bookmakers may use licenses from offshore countries. They are less reliable but do not mean that the bookmaker is a scammer. It’s just that in this way the bookmaker tries to avoid high taxes, which also has a positive effect on customers because they will not have to pay taxes on their winnings. However, if the bookmaker does not have any license in principle, this is the reason why you should not trust him with your money.

Most often, bookmakers in India work by obtaining a license from the specialized gambling commission of Curacao or Malta. However, you can also quite often see a license from the Swedish Gambling Authority, the UK Gambling Commission, or other countries (Romania, Denmark, Australia, etc.).

And here the legislation of the country does not play any role. Even if gambling in real life is prohibited by law in the country, then there are many online betting servers and different online casinos. They also require a license without fail.

In the case that you did not find any information about the bookmaker’s license, and also do not have free access to it, it is not recommended to register on such a site and make payment transactions.

Unfair Bonus Terms

Bonuses are one of the ways to attract a bettor to become a bookmaker’s client. However, each bonus is accompanied by certain conditions for activation, use, and receipt of winnings. These conditions are beyond the power of most clients. So, by offering big promotions, the bookmaker has nothing to lose.

And here, most likely, you should think about this in which case. If the bookmaker offers you some kind of bonus free of charge and you do not need to wager it a certain number of times to withdraw it later, you need to think about it. These are unfavorable conditions for the bookmaker itself, and no company will work well in reproach to itself. Therefore, it is likely that such a bookmaker simply wants to attract as many customers as possible and force you to enter your payment details.

Also, in bonuses, it is worth paying attention not only to the possible absence of wagering conditions but also to the conditions themselves. When a bookmaker offers you a very generous bonus, but requires you to wager it 10x within 2 days, this is too much. Such bonuses are pure fiction and represent nothing but a marketing campaign.

Complicated Withdrawal Methods

Usually, at a good bookmaker, you will always see a large number of ways to deposit and withdraw funds. It can be various electronic wallets and bank cards. First, here it is worth paying attention to the possibility of making payment transactions using a bank card. To connect this method, the bookmaker needs to cooperate with the bank. Each bank has a very serious security service that checks each client, which means that if you see a bookmaker with the ability to withdraw and deposit funds using a bank card, this should favorably dispose of you.

Here is the second important point. Before withdrawing funds from the platform, you must go through the process of verifying your account. You must provide photographs of personal documents, and the support team will verify them with the information you entered on the registration form. After going through the account verification process, you can easily withdraw funds. However, it happens that the support service repeatedly rejects your documents, saying that they are of poor quality, a mismatch was found, or for any other reason. Such bookmakers are also blacklisted.

This list also includes bookmakers from where you can withdraw funds, but they either go to your account for a very long time or do not come to it at all, despite contacting the support service with this problem.

Bad Odds and Lack of Randomness

The main advice for this criterion is that when you bet, pay attention to what odds are offered by different bookmakers. If the bookmaker offers significantly worse conditions and odds, then you should think about it. In general, for the same match, all bookmakers should have approximately similar betting options, but if somewhere you notice that the chances of winning are much lower, do not use this platform.

Also, concerning casino games, pay attention to such a moment as the randomness of the game. If it seems to you that someone is manipulating this game so that you will never win, do not use this site. Some bookmakers specifically program their casino games in such a way that you cannot win. It can’t be that you can’t, according to the theory of probability, win at least once if you play many times. And if this happens to many players, then such a bookmaker has a place on the blacklist.

Bad Customer Service

If the bookmaker does not provide you with various options for contacting support, such as email or mobile phone, be careful. This is how scammers protect their data so that they are not calculated. Also, if you are faced with the fact that you write to the support service more than once, but they don’t answer you or the problem is not solved, you should not use this betting site. It is important that the support service is available 24/7 in at least one of the contact options and helps you deal with the problem quickly and efficiently. This is what shows the solidity and customer focus of the bookmaker.

Problems of Security and Trust

If you are confused by various problems on the site that are related to the security of your money and the confidentiality of personal data, you should not use them. You may also be alerted by a huge amount of intrusive advertising or bad reviews from bookmaker customers. Also, pay attention to the obvious bugs of the site. For example, the lack of icons, bad layout, fonts, etc. Scammers usually have problems with taste or they don’t care about such things.

Closing Accounts

Reputable bookmakers would never block your account because of arbing. With reputable bookmakers presented on Betraja this should not happen at all. The reputable bookmaker will never confiscate money just because somebody was arbing. There are usually three scenarios that can happen if bookmaker notices you are arbing and hence bringing them action that will likely cost them money:

•  The bookmaker welcomes your action as it helps them to sharpen their odds and develop their model. For example, Pinnacle welcomes all arbers and doesn’t block or restrict you.
• The bookmaker limits their potential losses by restricting your account to smaller limits. There can be various degrees of restrictions and in the worst case, you can only bet a few EUR/USD/INR on any match after restrictions are set on your account
• The bookmaker sees you as an unwanted customer and closes your account. Even in this scenario, the bookmaker will honor your unsettled bets and return your balance.

Delaying or Refusing Payouts

Reputable bookmakers will always adhere to their T&C (Terms and Conditions), while settling the customers’ claims, especially, when such claims refer to payouts’ problems. You should always check their T&C before opening an account and see what kind of experiences other punters have. For example, by reading sport aggregator websites, such as cricketbettingguru.com, sportsbookreview.com and etc – in that case, you are getting a bonus including a rollover requirement, bookmakers are very strict in seeing you follow their rules before they release you the funds.

Limiting Bet Amounts 

Some bookmakers tend to put a limit on the money you can bet. Anyway, it doesn’t mean that you’ll be banned. Bookmakers don’t like it if bookies constantly win and that’s why they are eager to limit your account, limit the stake size or offer odds, so they disable professional betting. 

The bookmaker will limit the amount that you bet and may even close your account but should never take your money IF you are using accounts in your own name. Some people use accounts in other people’s names and if the bookmaker can prove that is happening they may then confiscate.

But don’t be upset! We will provide you a tip on how to avoid the above-mentioned regulation.

You can not avoid limiting if you bet professional tips that earn a constant profit, but you can extend your account’s lifetime – via limiting your max bet size to 30 EUR/USD/INR and you bet on bigger leagues and live bets too. Plus, don’t deposit your whole bankroll, always just enough to cover your daily betting, and withdraw only after limiting and use no bonuses and no unnecessary contact with support. 

These will prevent you from attracting attention. 

With a reputable account on a betting site, you can get out EUR/USD/INR 2000–6000 before you get limited.

Limiting Access To Promotions & Cheating via Promo Codes

Reputable bookmakers use methods that all perfectly legal and work anywhere you can access a betting exchange and bookies give you promotional offers. This means that by giving you a promotional code, a legal and reputable bookmaker will never cheat on you. As stated by the customers’ review, blacklisted bookmakers apply such methods in the usual order. For example, a match can be fixed even on the last ball or 1 minute of play. Such situations are common for fantasy matches, which are offered by many Blacklisted Sites (like dream11.bet), which are described below.