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Online Casinos Poker Funded Iraqi Insurgents

There is danger in the online casinos gambling industry and a case last summer just serves to highlight that there are real dangers if there internet gambling industry is not closely regulated. Several countries use the argument that internet gambling is dangerous and fosters criminal activity as a reason to ban the online gambling, but the fact is lack of regulation can be just as dangerous and criminal activity is bound to happen no matter what the precautions. The case last summer concerning Tariq Al-Daour and his two friends serves as a reminder to just what sort of criminal activity can flourish in the online casinos gambling industry if regulators are paying attention – luckily Al-Daour’s criminal activity was caught and ended within months.

A chief research officer at F-Secure, Mikko Hyppönen remarked on last summer’s case against Al-Daour and his friends. Hyppönen highlighted the need for online casinos players to take security precautions when using the internet for e-commerce and internet gambling transactions – he stressed that players needed to realize that internet gamblers were often targeted for criminal and fraudulent activity because criminals could easily launder the money and funnel it out of a country within minutes.

Hyppönen summarized last summers case and leaves off with a warning to just what online casinos gambling criminal activity can be used for – funding insurgents. The article in Tech Radar noted that “Al-Daour was sentenced last summer…for using Windows Trojans…keyloggers which save everything you type on the keyboard.” Al-Daour and his two friends “managed to get 36 000 cards. American Express, Visa, Mastercard - the lot. And what they did is they took those cards to online poker sites.” He goes on to note that the group was able to launder money through the online casinos poker sites - “they laundered close to about two million euros.” And the real warning though lies in the fact that they purchased “stuff like hiking boots, tents, knives, GPS devices, radios” and then sent those purchases to Iraqi insurgents.

This is just one example of how criminal activity can flourish in the online casinos gambling industry if players are not aware of the potential for fraud.