Circumventing Legal Issues
There is no doubting that online casinos are legal in the UK, but that doesn’t
mean that all companies are interested in gaining a license to operate a
gambling site. This means that some internet gambling companies, even those with
no direct interest in the U.S. gambling industry are looking for ways to
circumvent the bans on unlicensed online casino gambling. A new company,
Shropshire, has announced a new form of gambling – except that it isn’t
gambling. The SonicWarp.com site is a newly designed site that allows members to
win prizes via a monthly drawing as well as participate in other fun acitivities
through the site.
The new site is intended for those gamblers who are not interested in losing
money through the online casinos but still looking for innovative ways to
participate in forms of internet gaming. There is copious information about the
process of signing up on the actual site, but basically, gamers are asked to
keep their GBP100 refundable deposit in their accounts through the site, and
every month, if their deposit is still in place, they are entered into the
monthly drawing. The monthly drawing is a virtual “treasure chest” that gains
funds all throughout the month according to Shropshire.
The way around the legal issues is the fact that unlike online casinos, the
gamers are able to retrieve their GBP100 deposit and can – but at that point
they are no longer entered into the monthly drawing. There is a viral element to
the marketing of the site where the gamers are encouraged to spread the word to
other online gamers and receive more tokens and entries into the drawing. |