UIGEA Doesn’t Stop ASU Students

October 25, 2007

Even though the Safe Port Act, went into effect a little over a year ago, ASU students are continuing to participate in online gambling. The addendum to the Act, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act or UIGEA, was designed to stop online gambling among US citizens. However, many have continued to gamble and ASU is a perfect example of that.

The school’s students say that although they are aware that the UIGEA made online gambling seem illegal, it actually only made the payment processing part of it illegal, so they continue to gamble. They say that they see the law as being more of a “suggestion” of not to gamble rather than an actual law stating that online gambling was illegal.

Many of them use offshore accounts so that they aren’t breaking the law as it pertains to the processing of monies through the country’s banks. Several of them stated that they prefer ePassporte as they think that it is reliable and is just like an online banking system.

From the offshore accounts that they use, the money then gets deposited into their US accounts for their wins, and into their online gambling websites for gambling. The site is basically a virtual Visa account, and you have the option of having a Visa card or not with it. However, it is more like a debit card as there is no credit check involved.

Students say that since there are still plenty of places accepting US money and accounts, there is no reason why they should stop participating in something that they really enjoy. For some, the ones who are good at it, they say that online gambling is actually a source of additional income for them – which college students can never have enough of.





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