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Seizures Still Rampant

The attacks on the US bank accounts that are suspected of affiliation with the online casino gambling industry are ramping up in force instead of tapering off as so many in the industry had hoped. The seizure of bank accounts by the US government and state officials really started, in force, in June and since that point US gamblers have been taken aback by the sheer force of these seizures. The UIGEA gives the federal and state governments the right to stop financial transactions between US gamblers and the foreign online casinos and internet gambling groups. The US Attorney’s Office in Maryland has seized another six accounts this week and put many gamblers on edge.

Prior to these account seizures US gamblers were pretty confident that their gambling funds were safe if they could find online casinos willing to accept US players. That is changing though as the Maryland US Attorney’s office has now seized the bank accounts of 15 alleged internet gambling related accounts that were operating from California and other states. The warrants for these account seizures are mostly sealed and that is just how the government wants to keep the situation. The internet companies and online casino and poker companies affected have taken the Attorney’s Office to court asking for the release of the seizure warrants but only a limited amount of the date has been released because there are more seizures underway.

This spate of attacks on the online casino gambling industry is really alarming for many internet gambling companies and the US gamblers who have been complacently depositing their funds into these accounts under the assumption that their money was likely pretty safe.