Most online bingo sites have CMs in their rooms. They are the welcoming presence in the rooms, serving both purposes of moderating the chat to ensure no abusive behaviour is taking place and also answering any questions players may have about the site in question.

CM is the popular term, but these individuals may be known as chat hosts, chat moderators or chat monitors depending on what site you visit. Some sites don’t have any CMs at all but they are few and far between.

Most CMs work remotely from home, although some sites such as Tombola insist that all their CMs work in-house at their offices. Because of the ability to work from home, getting a CM job is often seen as a brilliant solution to stay at home mums looking for some extra cash. However, many fail to realise how difficult and time consuming CM work can be, and how fierce the competition for the few jobs available is also.

WhichCM is widely recognised as the place to get CM jobs. They have a jobs board where sites can post vacancies and applicants can apply directly from the site. However, there are usually only a handful of jobs at any one time and hundreds of applicants all fighting for the same post.

As a result, bingo sites are in a commanding position when it comes to negotiating wages, especially when they know they can drop a CM at any moment and have hundreds of willing wannabe CMs waiting to fill that position. Don’t go into it expecting to earn big bucks.

Also, if you are working from home you may be considered as working freelance and as a result be responsible for declaring your earnings to the taxman. If you do not, you could be in for trouble, so be sure you know what you are signing up to if and when you get offered a CM job.

If you are still concerned about the security of your current bingo site but you want to make your initial deposit and start playing right away, then this article is perfect for you. In this part, we are going to talk about some security traits that a good bingo site always have in order to protect their customers’ personal information and credit card number security.

Before you make your deposit and fund the account, make sure you evaluate the payment page properly. A padlock icon should appear at the bottom of your browser. If you use Mozilla Firefox, you will also find a green bar next to the address bar revealing the site’s SSL certificate registration name. The site address should also begin with “https” instead of the usual “http”.

Even with all these signs in place, don’t make the initial deposit just yet. Double-click on the padlock icon in order to confirm the site’s security certificate. If the certificate is still valid and is created for that particular domain name, you will see a window displaying the bingo site’s credentials right away. If not, your browser will issue a warning that the security certificate may no longer be valid.

You can also check with your credit card issuer regarding possible internet fraud protection. Most credit card issuers nowadays offer internet fraud protection to further protect credit card holders, which means you can easily file a claim and have invalid transactions reversed should your credit card is misused in the future.