Premium Rate Content and the dangers online gambling

 

4. Read the information on in-app purchasing and discuss your experiences with this

• What could be the danger of supplying an app site with your bank card details?

• What features should you be aware of to protect you from inadvertently mounting up lots of costs on an in-app purchased game?

• Read this article for stories about this and some good advice

 

5. Discuss how aware you are of online gambling adverts and sites?

 

• (Watch Jake's story about his online gambling addiction)

What Jake said after:

 “You don’t even see the money when you gamble online. You use your debit or credit card, and before you know what is happening you are placing higher and higher stakes and losing so much money. My gambling online started to escalate so that I was eventually losing thousands of pounds each month. The video poker games were the worst for me – I just spent more and more money and time on them.

 “These huge losses made me feel sick to my stomach. The more I lost, the more I wanted to win back what I’d lost the next day. I did have some wins, but they never compensated for what I’d lost. At this stage I just couldn’t tell my family what was going on. It was all a secret. They trusted me completely.”

 

6. Online gambling can be highly addictive. Discuss why you think that this is?