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In an effort to tackle some of the harder hitting issues within the online casino gambling industry, issues that only a few of the informational and news portals in the market are willing to tackle, we’re going to look at ethics within the gambling industry once again. Previously, GambleCraft closely examined the relationship that online casinos have with developing nations and whether targeting these countries can be considered ethical behavior. Along that same vein, let’s look at the use of credit cards to pay for and fund internet gambling accounts. One clear ethical superiority of the land gambling industry is the fact that land gambling venues mostly take cash and it is much harder for gamblers to spend money that they don’t actually.

At the online casinos, however, the acceptance of credit cards means that players can fund their gaming accounts with borrowed money – a dangerous practice that only leads to gambling problems when gamblers clearly rely on credit for their gaming habits. The New Zealand gaming authorities have specifically spoken out against the online casino gambling groups for precisely this policy and yet not a single gambling group has deemed the practice unethical. In fact, internet gambling sites pride themselves of the many, many ways that internet gamblers can fund their accounts with money – wire transfers, special e-processor sites, credit cards, debit cards, the list is endless.

So where do the ethics really lie in this situation. Clearly the online casinos have the right to operate their businesses, and credit cards are an international standard method of payment, so should these companies be forced to ethically limit their payment methods because of a perceived risk?