Online Gambling Leads to Debt

August 27, 2007

With online gambling as popular as it is these days, many are concerned for those that have a problem with gambling. In the casinos the employees are trained to keep an eye out for someone who may either have a problem or might be developing one; but if you are online gambling there is no one there to ask you if you might need the number of Gamblers Anonymous.

There are now more than 1,700 online gambling sites for people to try, and every day it seems like there are more to try. But the more sites that open, the more online gambling is becoming a real problem. There are cases of people who moved away from the casinos so as not to be tempted by them as they had a gambling problem – but now, with online casinos everywhere you turn, they find themselves being sucked back into the world of wagering because they can simply play at an online casino instead of a B&M one.

GamCare says that they are starting to see a dramatic increase in the number of people who are calling them with an addiction to online gambling. They are getting more calls every day of people who say that they cannot walk away from the online casinos. They call for help because they just don’t know what to do. Think about it – you are addicted to crack cocaine and someone keeps leaving it in your living room – it is the same thing.

The Insolvency Service is also reporting a large number of people getting into debt because of their online gambling habits. They are getting more and more calls from people who have spent all of their money and then some, and just don’t have the money to pay their bills now. Since they can use credit cards or bank cards online, they can clean out their bank accounts or run up their credit cards without blinking an eye.
 

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