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Stats on Underage Gambling

Online casino gambling is a very appealing industry in these hard times because of the large revenue streams and tax monies that internet gambling can bring to a nation. But that is not always the only concern. Nova Scotia, a province of Canada on the Atlantic Ocean, has been considering expanding its land gambling operations into the realm of online casinos. The Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation had some priorities first –solve the major issue of underage gamblers accessing the gambling sites. Even though many internet gambling sites have identification and blocking software in place to prevent underage gambling a recent study indicated that underage gambling was a huge problem in the region.

The Gaming Corporation commissioned a study on the prevalence of underage gambling at the online casinos and the results were startling. According to the study’s results underage gamblers are making their way to the gaming sites three times as often as adults. The CEO of the Corporation, Marie Mullally, further explained the results of the study with the statistic that a whopping 19 percent of 15 to 17 year olds admitted to underage gambling at the online gaming venues.

With the prevalence of underage online casino gambling so strong it behooved the Corporation to work toward a solution of this issue before continuing efforts to actually legalize internet gambling in the province. New software, BetStopper, has been developed and tested and marks a revolutionary first step toward solving the problem of underage gambling before the rates and figures become entirely unmanageable and unstoppable.