I agree that the casinos like calling people who find the way to beat their bonus offers “abusers”.
I always look from the player’s prospective first, as the casino in general has many advantages over the player. You have to agree, that if a casino says “come and get free $100” they should not be surprised if there are players who would actually take them on their offer and try to get the $100 for free. Mind you, this is done without breaking the T&C, by fullfilling wagering limits, and by only working the odds in players advantage (something that is the casinos business model, and model for existence).
I see the casino point of view – but again, they could have been a little smarter and modify the T&C of the bonus to exclude games with odds less favorable to them.
To tell me that the casino is right in closing accounts of people who take them on their own offers, and play only that they could actually win at the casino – that’s wrong.
And those folks are no part of a “syndicate” of any kind – these are people who probably read the hundreds of guides on the internet which point you to the games with the best odds for generating wager numbers without much shift in the actual win-lose amount. You just do a search for “how to beat the online casino bonus” – and you will find them. Working the odds in the player’s advantage is no abuse, wizardofodds.com is based on this.
Oh, and I hope I dont break a big secret – but affiliate programs are “departments” of the online casinos, i.e. they belong to the same company as the online casinos themselves.