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Targeting the Processors

The whole of the world seems to agree on the fact that the US’s online casino gambling legislation, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) is completely flawed and largely ineffective in its efforts to prevent internet gambling in the US. The UIGEA gives the US Department of Justice the power to prosecute both the online casinos and the payment processors that operate illegally in the US and offer internet gambling services to US gamblers. The thrust of the enforcement power of the UIGEA is directed at the payment processors that accept the money from the US gamblers and then deposit that money into accounts at the gambling sites.

Right now, although there seemed to be a leniency toward online casinos growing in the US political arena, the government is actually still aggressively pursuing those companies that are support the US internet gambling industry. The government has recently seized the funds of the Account Services payment processing company because the business handled transactions between US gamblers and online casino poker gambling sites.

Poker is one of the key areas up for debate right now. The online casino gambling industry is definitely illegal by the wording of the UIGEA, but poker enthusiasts and supporters claim that the internet poker gambling industry does not actually count as a form of gambling because the game is skill-based. Account Services has been targeted by the government for processing transactions to online poker sites. The seizure case is currently being contested in the courts on the grounds that internet poker does not qualify as chance gambling.