The Dangers of the 'Little Tiger' Online Gambling Game

[00:06] encouraged to open a webpage or social media page advertising Fortune Tiger, better known as the "Little Tiger" game. The game promises quick winnings and works like a slot machine.

[00:23] Simply register, enter funds via PX or credit card, and funds via PX or credit card, and press the button – the die is cast! There are three columns that spin like in a casino; you win when you

[00:39] get three identical figures in the same alignment. If you guess the image selected by the tiger, the prize can be multiplied several times. It's a

[00:51] simple game, but behind these figures of oranges, bags of coins, and lucky charms lies a suspicious and dangerous scheme that has already begun to be investigated by the police. The "Little Tiger" game is the most famous and popular among

[01:08] them, but there are dozens of other platforms that are also illegal in Brazil because they are considered games of chance. Despite reports of winners,

[01:20] most bettors lose everything. This psychologist specializing in neuroscience has become public enemy number one of online gaming platforms for revealing that it's all

[01:32] a fraud. Daniel Aben has already managed to register more than 3,000 bettors who have lost a lot of money gambling. Virtual impression that it's a

[01:46] fun, innocent little game where you can earn some money, an income, right? But it's actually an algorithm, a

[01:58] studies your movements, it knows how much you use it, it studies your profile to know how much It takes money away, so it conditions you,

[02:13] it studies you, and its objective is to induce

[02:25] among the alleged victims of online casinos that have taken over the internet and social networks. Depressed and taking medication for anxiety, the businessman

[02:37] is drowning in debt and claims to have already spent more than R$ 150,000 on online games. Pressured by loan sharks and ashamed to talk about the problem with his family, the businessman admits he is addicted to

[02:53] virtual games. Today my financial situation is the worst possible, mine and my family's is shameful, shameful. I lost more than... "I owe 150,000, I owe

[03:05] more than 30,000 to family and friends, going through a very sad situation that I never imagined I would go through, a person who is an entrepreneur, a person who works for themselves, doesn't earn badly, very sad, a situation I never

[03:18] imagined I would go through, married and mother of a 9-month-old girl," Ana Morgana, 20 years old, also admits that she is addicted to online games. To continue,

[03:30] she borrowed money from relatives and friends, fell behind on rent, and even sold her sofa to spend on virtual gaming platforms. Ana Morgana is registered on more than 30 different platforms. The

[03:47] more than 30 different platforms. The gaming addiction changed her life. "I had a gain of, I think it was R$10, a gain of R$800, then another R$

[04:00] 800, but then that same amount, the money I earned, I would go there amount, the money I earned, I would go there and gamble it all again, and then the next and gamble it all again, and then the next month, always at the end of the month, I had another

[04:13] gain of R$3, but this gain was like R$5,000, so you won R$ 5,000, I won." 5,000, but the 5,000 again, always playing. And then, money, we don't

[04:26] really see it. All gamblers, so I've seen several people I know who gamble, and it's like this: whatever they win, they keep playing more and more and more, that is, they win. And then they believe they'll win more, they keep betting. They'll keep going, and

[04:40] you lose what you won and the value you invested. Gambling addicts claim they started betting small amounts; at first it seemed like a game, some even won, but as

[04:57] time went on, the nightmares began, where the urge to gamble and the adrenaline transformed the gamblers' personalities. I started playing with around gamblers' personalities. I started playing with around R$50 and then it just kept increasing, I'd put in R$80 and it kept increasing to R$

[05:13] R$50 and then it just kept increasing, I'd put in R$80 and it kept increasing to R$ 150, and finally I was putting in a bankroll of R$100 and up, in most cases losing. In the beginning, it's like this: They give you a little bit to get you

[05:27] They give you a little bit to get you addicted, and to tell the truth, 80% is your loss. I would spend the whole day lying down messing with my cell phone all day, my husband would arrive, sometimes I didn't even have dinner.

[05:52] Ana Morgana gained internet visibility after posting a rant about the harm video games had caused her life. She wrote: "I'm so out of control

[06:11] second job this month. Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything. I get job this month. Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything. I get

[06:25] play, I can't take this [ __ ] anymore, it's destroying me, it's destroying me." This neuropsychologist states that

[06:37] gamers don't always admit they're addicted and that when they win or lose, their addicted and that when they win or lose, their bodies receive a dopamine rush, a behavior similar to that of marijuana and cocaine addicts or even

[06:52] sex addicts. "Games create a disconnect between my self-image and my self-esteem, how I see myself and what I think of myself. So I need to win that money, I need to have

[07:06] that, and what keeps me, let's say physically, from a dopaminergic reactions, these discharges." Dopaminergic factors that give a lot of pleasure, so if I win, I feel pleasure. It's as if this dopamine fills

[07:22] this void between me and myself, and when I lose, I get sad and I keep trying to gamble again to get that

[07:39] family also suffers from the problems caused by the gambling addiction. In addition to selling furniture from the house, like the sofa that was here in this corner, Ana also started asking for money from the family. Kelly, Ana

[07:55] 's sister, was even telling us here that she changed her whole behavior after considering herself addicted to gambling. Yes, she started asking gambling. Yes, she started asking me, my father, my cousin for money, and

[08:08] always said it was to buy something, and we buy something because we sometimes suspected it. Kelly was one of the first people Ana ended up asking for help because she even

[08:21] called you to come stay with her so she wouldn't pick up the her phone so she wouldn't put any more money into gambling. Because the sometimes leaving a little in the account. She would tell me to come here so

[08:36] she wouldn't put more money in the account so she wouldn't gamble, because every time she gambled she lost after becoming addicted. in debt and the shop assistant Ana Morgana confirm that they started gambling in

[08:53] online casinos because of the promotion done by digital influencers who are becoming millionaires while gamblers struggle to

[09:05] overcome their addiction. How did you come into contact with these young people? It was through influencers that I started to have contact. You followed influencers and then it

[09:18] started, they promoted this, they promoted it. And since I saw that they had high earnings, I thought I could do it too. The influencers in too. The influencers in this country are there to influence

[09:31] this country are there to influence good things, and addictions only attract bad things to people, and these gambling addictions have destroyed families, destroyed gambling addictions have destroyed families, destroyed homes, killed people. These addictions are the

[09:45] blood of people. So, they have influenced a lot for the worse. George Abueno also confirms that digital influencers are responsible for the behavior of gamblers who have become addicted to

[10:01] gamblers who have become addicted to people... Which ones, we're going to say that we 're not influencers, we project ourselves onto

[10:15] these people, right? Ordinary people, why? Because we want to have what they have, we want to look like them, all because of a lack, a need to have good self-esteem. The player wants to see themselves as that

[10:30] digital influencer who promoted it, yes, like that digital influencer. These are people who have low self- worth, we say, that's why we say low self-esteem, where I look at myself and I have no value, but that person has value because if I have what

[10:42] they have, I will have value, I will be loved. Modern-day celebrities, the so-called digital influencers, are hired to promote these illegal games. Figures like Lucas Guimarães and Carlinhos Maia,

[10:58] Vit, Deol Bezerra, and a legion of Deol Bezerra, and a legion of internet stars receive real fortunes to promote virtual games. Look at the mother's bank, R$140,000 in the bank, but

[11:13] I can only withdraw R$40,000 per day, that's the bad part too, you don't stop playing, that's the bad part too, you don't stop playing, but it's important that, look at the little pot of gold, the little bag, these little bags of gold, they are... Okay,

[11:29] little bag, these little bags of gold, they are... Okay, close it, one more, one more, one more, player Neymar has already promoted virtual casinos. The life of luxury and

[11:46] ostentation shown on the internet by influencers helps to seduce gamblers who have transformed their computers and cell phones into real online casinos. It's like putting Las Vegas in the palm of your

[12:03] Vegas in the palm of your