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Gambling is a fun activity done consciously by the gambler, no one forces you to do it, it's a personal decision made by those who engage in it. Gambling is only a scam when you get defrauded by a casino or sportsbook. A friend of mine told me about how his account got swiped by a scam casino. According to his story he said that he put in his card details to deposit money, after doing that he started noticing that he was being debited by an anonymous source constantly, he had to transfer the money he had left to another account, in this case you can call it a scam. No one is promising you a win, it's 50/50 and everyone is aware of this risk before placing a bet.

It is true that gambling itself is not a scam if it is conducted in a fair manner. However, in your example with your friend, we are talking about a clear scam on the part of the casino, which may be due to the insecurity and unreliability of some platforms.

Many of us gamblers believe that gambling is not a scam, although there are some casinos that operate illegally that end up being scams. But if it is regulated, the chances are high that it is not a scam.

We just have to know how to investigate or choose casinos whether they are legitimate or not, because if we have no idea, we will surely fall into the trap of casino scams.

If we talk about it from this point of view, it is not so difficult to determine the type of casino, especially if it is a physical casino, because it is very difficult and almost unrealistic to open an illegal casino in cities and anywhere else. With online casinos is much more difficult, you will have to seriously search for information on the Internet itself and there is a high chance of not finding it, no matter what the casino actually was.

I guess most people here in the forum are talking about online casinos and have more experience on that than on physical casinos
though experience in real life casinos is valid too, of course
most online gambling websites have provably fair mechanisms nowadays too where you can verify if the place you are betting has good code or would try to steal you somehow (turning the odds even more to the house than it should)

Gambling is a scam if we do talk literally into those sites on which arent that fair or having those scam attempts into its users but if we do speak that indirectly into those people who had been calling gambling a scam because they are losing up that big time then this is something which will really be just that an alibi because they are really that just that trying out to cover themselves on what they have done. They are really just that making themselves look like laughable into the things that they've been doing because they are the ones who should really be that getting blamed into the things that they have done. On the moment or time that they've been exhausted into the funds or capital that they are using up.

This is really just that a common alibi into those gamblers who had been losing up that huge amount of money on where they do love on pointing out their fingers and telling that the platform on which they have played out are scams on which this is really just that BS thing to come out into your mouth but well people will really be that looking at them to be laughable just because they are the only ones that should be taking blame on into the things that they've been able to do specially on gambling on which every actions are that being done by own will and not being forced on doing so or being deceived.