Gambling inducements are banned in many countries and a parliamentary committee has recommended Australia follow suit, but more than a year later nothing has happened.

Callum feels the familiar vibration of his mobile phone. Another text from Sportsbet.

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Callum hasn’t placed a wager for more than a year. Sportsbet is still trying to lure him back into action with an almost daily stream of text messages.

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I actually had the opposite experience to the complains in this article…

I’m not really a gambler, but I did fire up SportsBet for my first ever bet in my life during State of Origin. I put in $50 and lost $10 on Queensland. Then I found the horse bit and selected some random horses and apparently I’d won $100 so I took out my original $50, then threw away the rest on random horses and greyhounds, and Queensland at State of Origin again.

Outcome? Zero dollars lost, and a couple of games worth of funsies thinking I was going to become a tenionaire with my 1.xx odds win.

Sportsbet sent me one SMS, and I replied STOP.

Sportsbet sent me one email, and I hit unsubscribe.

I haven’t received any communication since - no sms, no email, no push notifications, no anything.

Not sure I’m fully on board with people claiming its all SportsBets fault they’re gambling and being preyed upon IN THIS SPECIFIC WAY.

I do say their constant spam during any sports match of any kind on free to air television is an absolute disgrace though.