Are you a bit of a lad do you consider yourself to be the professor when betting and have you put your smart money on with coral these are stereotypes targeting that ladbrokes coral use in their advertising in particular and . of course the chance to win lots of money maybe you're a dreamer a glory seeker a back page philosopher a wednesday night warrior or a have a go hero on a saturday afternoon or maybe it's time . that you wised up because this is the ladbrokes life exposing several shocking truths about , ladbrokes coral that they don't want you to see inspired by an article that was in the news , earlier in the week where four individuals were sentenced for defrauding ladbrokes coral betting shops for more than six hundred thousand pounds they've done it by placing bets on the automated . betting terminals inside the shops depositing a note into the machine and then using a plastic . lead to pull it back out once the machine had registered the deposit something that i certainly . couldn't condone isn't right and he's certainly wrong you might say that they were changing the . terms of the bet after it had initially been placed which is what drew my attention to this , article and made me laugh a little bit because ladbrokes are renowned for doing exactly , the same thing in a roundabout kind of way for example you place your bet with ladbrokes . and then they turn around and withdraw the best odds guaranteed they take away promotional bonuses , they tell you that the odds are a palpable error therefore it needs to be changed or in some instances they even cancel the bet altogether although they don't offer you the chance to take , your money back once the bet has already been placed maybe somebody at ladbroke should also . be looking a little bit of sentence in in the near future too but it gets worse because recently , there's also been issues online where people have announced that ladbrokes have changed the terms of . their bets after they've been placed because they own a grid card for anybody that doesn't know what a grid card is it's like a bonus card an offers card that incentivizes you to come back as a customer inside the betting shops what they're doing though is taking your data and information ,
when you register for one of these grid cards linking it to your online betting account so if , you face betting restrictions because you are a winner or somebody who has previously taken promotional materials from ladbrokes coral they are then restricting you in shop after you've . placed a bet i mean just look at this instance online where somebody has placed bets in the , shop in the knowledge that they had a great card that the bet was accepted they have a bet id and then later once the bet has won ladbrokes turn around and say that you cannot have your winnings because your online account is restricted presumably ladbrokes being , a responsible operator that they are would refund that money to anybody who is in that same situation where the bet didn't win wouldn't they to add insult to injury there's an ongoing , gambling review where betting operators like gladbrokes or gbc and coral who own ladbrokes , coral are claiming that they have problems identifying problem gamblers although they clearly , don't have problems identifying winning gamblers i mean just look at this article online where , they took eight years to identify somebody who had a problem addiction which leads me on nicely to the latest developments around single customer view now some people may not be aware what , that is watching this video so very quickly single customer view is something that's being . put forward by the uk gambling commission and mps in parliament to empower bookmakers and allow . them to have your data across multiple platforms meaning if you deposit with ladbrokes then william hill bet365 many other operators will also know this is supposed to be used to target problem gamblers although i think it's highly likely companies like ladbrokes are going to be using . it to link up with their grid card system so they can actually limit customers who actually take , money from them use their promotional materials and let the problem carry on as usual an , interesting point on this is andrew rhodes the ceo of the gambling commission recently said , in the racing post that if ban operators abused affordability checks and this kind of system then the gambling commission would step in and take action something i'm sure he regrets right .
now because it's been happening for over 10 years and we're still waiting ladbrokes state restricted , my account and refused my bets many years ago so it's old news for me as it will be for many . people that also follow this channel if you don't understand how you can be a bookmaker check out , this link in the top of the screen here or also description down below but the point is very clear , and simple this is not about identification it's about integrity you only have to look at the news once more ladbrokes in the past have wooed problem gamblers to spend more money on their platform and . then when things go wrong they want to pay them out of court have an out of course settlement and stop it from appearing inside the media i mean we have to ask ourselves here is this really a . good idea to give these companies more data and allow them to share it between multiple . different platforms and also is the gambling commission even doing their job after all one of . their main lines is to make sure that gambling is fair and open right now they don't appear to be representing consumers as they should be neither does chris phillips one of the mps who , is endorsing the single customer view of the information commissioner's office earlier in the . month in the past looking at more news articles it appears that mps have been incentivized and asked . for advice in terms of gambling laws as reviews are coming up so that they can get their way . here's just an example where gbc paid one mp 50 000 pounds on the months leading up to a gambling , review if you think that's bad you need to see this video here in the end screen about sky bet was released on the channel earlier in the month is a real eye opener it's a broader problem that's , happening across multiple platforms right now many other betting companies are also using tactics . like this where it's extremely easy to click and deposit in seconds without any identification and , when it comes to withdrawing your money you can expect to wait weeks fill out lots of different paperwork and make it extremely awkward these betting companies are using regulation against . the consumers that is there to protect and in my opinion no better than those four individuals . that were prosecuted earlier in the week