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Mastercard and Visa online gambling crackdown
Credit cards Mastercard and Visa have recently imposed restrictions on online gambling transactions to US customers, in preparation for the implementation of the anti-gambling legislation in June this year.
The following was reported by eGaming Review:
Mastercard crackdown leaves US players unable to pay
US-facing operators have been hit by an overnight crackdown on online gambling payments by [...]
Ladbrokes data scandal: personal information of millions of customers offered for sale to national newspaper
Ladbrokes suffered a mighty embarrassment, earlier this week, and 4,500,000 customers had cause to get nervous, when the Mail On Sunday revealed that the UK uber-bookmaker’s customer database had been offered to them for sale:
For sale: Personal details of millions of Ladbrokes gamblers, offered to the MoS by a mysterious Australian
The confidential records of millions [...]
Eurolinx: Withdrawal problems and cashflow concerns for this formerly top-ranked Microgaming poker room. How can lightning strike twice in the same place?
In my Microgaming poker article of earlier this year, I described the saga of the collapse Of Tusk Investment Corporation and the subsequent loss of around $5,500,000 in player funds. This was a debacle from which the software provider, Microgaming, did not emerge with much credit, having offered no assistance to the players nor uttered [...]
Is it right to use children in online gambling promotion?
The Association of Professional Casino Webmasters, or “APCW”, produces a twice-weekly promotional video which reports on news matters relevant to the online gambling industry – see their Perspectives Weekly page on You Tube.
Have a look at the July 17th video and see what you think. It lasts ten minutes.
You can see some select graphics I [...]
How confidential is your confidential data in the hands of online payment solutions? Is Moneybookers fully in tune with the law?
All we online gambling players, ploppies, punters, squares, sharps and sharks share the common need of moving our money around as quickly and painlessly as possible. With credit cards not always passing muster, online payment solutions Moneybookers and Neteller are a valuable resource. Also Paypal, which still services a limited gambling market, and Click2Pay, offering [...]
Microgaming poker trouble: $5,300,000 owed to players of failed licensee, and a deafening silence from the oldest software provider in the business
This post is long even by my standards, but please bear with me as it’s significant news on several levels. It is an extension of the Microgaming poker scandal article I wrote for my own site, with some additional material but with graphics removed.
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Let me kick off by commenting generally on the relationship between a [...]
The Malta LGA and the Alderney AGCC at the London ICE: no answers and nobody available.
This is the rather long-promised followup to my previous articles on the Malta LGA, the ex CEO of the LGA Mario Galea, and also the Alderney Gambling Control Commission.
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I attended the 2009 International Casino Exhibition in January this year for the purposes of speaking to the Malta Lotteries And Gaming Authority and the Alderney Gambling [...]
Mario Galea and the Malta Lotteries And Gaming Authority: the continuing corruption of this puppet online gambling licensing body
This is a follow up to the previous Malta LGA article I wrote for Midas Oracle earlier this year, and a re-working and extension of the Mario Galea and the LGA article on my own site a few weeks ago.
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Since my previous articles, I should point out that there have been some changes pertinent to [...]
Gambling Commission and DCMS stance on the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, a regulator which condones its licensees’ unlawful behaviour
This is a follow up to my Alderney Gambling Control Commission article.
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To date I have emailed the above article to both an AGCC lawyer to whom I spoke while researching the matter (at his request), and also the general contact address of the AGCC. On neither occassion did I receive any response.
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Since the government has [...]
The Alderney Gambling Control Commission: you follow the rules but you still don’t get paid. Why bother with regulation at all?
Online gambling regulation by accountable governmental bodies is a good thing for one reason and one reason alone: it offers protection to the player. There are many reasons why it’s good for the industry in terms of profit and image, but all that is irrelevant if the player side is missing from the equation, as [...]
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