Imposters Will Not Come

February 28, 2008

It seems that several of the big wigs behind the many online gambling companies that are no longer located in the United States have not traveled there since the passing of the Unlawful Internet Enforcement Act. They say that with the passing of the UIGEA and the subsequent arrests of people like David Carruthers of BetonSports and Peter Dicks of SportingBet, they don’t want to take the chance of being arrested.

It would seem to be a very real concern considering the fact that many of their colleagues have ended up on a list of people that the government would like to see behind bars. So real is their concern that they started trying to think up ways to find out if there really was a list and if their name was on it.

Some of the online gambling companies have kicked around the thought that they could send in an imposter with the same name so that they could see how they were treated. They simply located a man with the same name and were all set to send them off when they realized that the person might actually be detained for something they did not do.

They considered sending in an imposter with the same name of Calvin Ayre – the man behind BodogLife – but the fact of the matter is that someone has to actually have that name. They found someone, only it turned out to be a five year old boy – hence the idea was scrapped.

But it does bring up an interesting point. What if they were to go back? Would the online gambling operators be snatched up by our government for crimes against the country? Guess we will have to wait to see as no one seems willing to test the waters just yet.



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