Online gambling arrests in China rampant

Looks like the Chinese government are taking serious measures regarding online gambling.

Around 210 are confirmed to have committed online gambling crimes while 918 others are in custody. These numbers grew rapidly in just a span of 13 days. The efforts of the Chinese government in enforcing strict measures on online gambling have been all out in full force. They have issued a warning on cracking down illegal online gambling within the country including anyone who is operating, advertising, or any ties with an online gambling site.

This kind of enforcement, not meaning to judge how China does it, may bring a negative impact to the face of online gambling to the world. People from other countries have been trying their best to legalize online gambling only to see such scenario from other part of the world. It might not happen to where they are but it can be an inspiration to those who oppose the legalization of online gambling.

Are your credit cards still safe?

There were a couple of posts on the web regarding the use of credit cards and other debit cards when making a deposit in online poker rooms. Most of them are warnings on when, where, how to use these cards in utmost safety that they wouldn’t fall in the hands of fraud… or even in the hands of the law.

Gambling online is an enough risk. You are already risking the money that your are betting whether you would gain something from it or you would lost it entirely. The risk of disclosing important personal information to a website that you don’t know who’s running is also a huge risk. You don’t know if confidential information are safe enough that it would not be used for scams and other fraudulent activities that some crooks could think of.

The danger of the use of credit cards is no news and is really one of the main concerns of online gaming and online gambling. These cards can easily be used and manipulated once it get in the wrong hands. Even though the information you give would be something that people could not do anything to go over your account, but people who are wise enough to know how to connect the dots would easily penetrate into that teeny-weeny security that lies between you and the bank.

Basically, your credit cards are safe if they are in the safe hands and if the confidential information is indeed kept confidential, then there is nothing or just less to worry about.

Online gambling on the line

What seemed to be a long protest to legalize online gambling still remains but a dream to many poker fans. They have had a share of momentum when more and more people, even officials, who stood by their side and helped them push the legalization of online gambling. Although lately, that has not beent he picture. The Feds are on the run.

Just recently, a man has been caught and pleaded guilty in front of the jury for hosting online gambling in US states to a company in Costa Rica. This probe also brought famous online gambling company, Doyle's Room, in danger. The government's federal probe against illegal online gambling have been heading strong and are really investigating further on the issue.

This scene doesn't only happen in United States. The same case goes to South Africa. The country's online gambling has been temporarily stopped and is now illegal on the place. There have been no proper laws and regulation of online gambling, thus they would need to further study and investigate the case.

With these scenarios going on in the online gambling industry, it is still too far and too impossible to say that online gambling would really be legalized.

A flashback on online gambling

The history of online gambling dates back in 1994, although systems and programs to make such has been there long before the internet has been introduced. It started with Carribean's Free Trade and Processing Act. Since then, people from different parts of the globe have the free reign to put up their own online casino. With the growing demand, software developers didn't lack the initiative to make and further update the needed software to operate and online casino.

In 1998, the world's festivity over the rise of online gambling was seemingly cut short. During that year, U.S. Senator Jon Kyl opposed online gambling with his Internet Gambling Prohibition Acts making it illegal for US companies and citizens to participate in any online gambling or online casinos. From then on, other countries have also made other laws with regards to the restriction of online gambling.

Today, online gambling has boomed into a wide and huge industry that a number of people - of different ages and gender. Its popularity rose tremendously that even in courts, poker players fight for its right to legalize it. It would be a long run but for these people, they would fight and do everything just to legalize an industry that they deem potential to the economic growth of the country.