US’s UIGEA Interfered With Safe Online Gambling

August 10, 2007

Ever since the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, online gambling has pretty much gone to the dogs. Many online casinos can not be trusted, and the illegal side of online gambling is running rampant over your search engines. This is because the US has once again stuck their nose in where it does not belong.

For example, Google is the number one search engine in the world right now – and more than 80% of the people searching their site are from the United States. Therefore, the majority of those people looking for online gambling or online casinos will go through Google to get them.

Once upon a time, before the UIGEA, you could Google online gambling and up would come a list of reputable online casinos. You could then pick one and gamble knowing that you were at a safe site. However, once the UIGEA stepped in, all of those legal and reputable online casinos ran for the hills, leaving the sludge at the bottom.

Google has always filtered out those sites that use spyware, spamware, etc. that can be damaging to your computer. Most online casinos that are reputable do not use that sort of information and therefore the ones at the top of Google were the ones that you could trust.

But that is no longer the case – with the US sticking their nose into the whole thing reputable companies like NETeller are no longer accepting money from players, and thus leaving them open to the wolves. NETeller was very specific about the limits to the amounts of money that people could spend online gambling, as well as having very good customer care. The online sites that handle it now don’t care nearly as much as they did, and now people are losing money.

With many of the online casino operators now corrupt, the only thing that needs to happen to turn it all around again is the abolishment of the UIGEA. Otherwise, you are going to be left with lots of people with no money and no way to get it back.

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