Betting and casino sites hand out money to new customers: welcome bonuses, free bets, deposit matches. Every offer meant for one person per household is a target for someone running a hundred accounts, and the odds themselves are a feed worth scraping.
What bots do to betting sites
- Multi-accounting. Scripted sign-ups, often with real but bought identities, each claiming the welcome offer.
- Bonus abuse. Free bets placed by scripts on outcomes that cover each other across accounts, so the bonus turns into cash.
- Odds scraping. Arbitrage tools read your odds the moment they change.
- Account takeover. Accounts with balances are stuffed and drained.
The signs
- Sign-ups that share a device, a token or a subnet, claiming the same promotion.
- Bets placed through the API by clients that never loaded the event page.
- Odds pages requested at machine cadence from datacenters.
Where to ask
- Sign-up and promotion claim: refuse
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bot_high; reviewbot. - Odds pages and APIs: slow or cache
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Bot Protection does not replace identity checks a licence requires; it tells you which sessions are automated, so those checks and your bonus rules go where they matter.