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Keeping Anonymous

Online casino gamblers in the United States are following an important trend these days that is a direct reflection on the US’ current blocks and bans on offshore online casinos – gamblers are hiding their identities and lying low in the media. The US Department of Justice has made headlines over the past year for their attempts to go through the US internet gamblers themselves in taking down major online casinos and payment processors operating within the US market. Recent major wins throughout the US will often reveal the playing handle of the internet gambler but not even their first name or home state as gamblers begin to worry about backlash from their own state governments for the online play.

Concerns are actually all valid because the US online casino gambling market is so mixed these days – there are many US politicians who are now firmly on the side of regulating and licensing the market, and yet the controversial UIGEA has stayed in place for more than three years and will have an unknown effect on the actual US players who find online casinos and find a way to gamble. The UIGEA specifically does not make the pastime illegal for US gamblers, but individual US states do have regulations and laws in place that actually have very harsh penalties for internet gambling – a fact that has benefited DoJ investigators and is being used as leverage in many cases.

The US online casino gambling wins therefore frequently have a lot of very vague player data that is intended to keep the player’s identity just a bit more obscure than is the case in Europe, the UK, and other much larger licensing jurisdictions with a fully legal internet gambling industry alive and functioning, meaning very little backlash for major jackpot winners.