P2P Transactions Warning

Recently there came to light a situation concerning online casino players who patronized some establishments powered by Real Time Gaming who had their accounts confiscated by the casino security team because during routine security checks it became known that some of the players had engaged in some financial trading with players who had been red-flagged by other casinos using the same software as frauds or cheats of one kind or another.

The casino was able to make these assumptions because the eWallet known as Money Bookers had given the casino security team information about the financial transactions that had taken place between the players completely outside of the casino in question and as such it begs the question what right did Money Bookers have to pass along this information when it actually had little or nothing to do with the financial transactions that took place between the casino and the individual players. If this information had not been made available to the casino the players whom may or may not be guilty of fraud, would certainly not have faced having their accounts frozen.

Trading Money Between Players Using eWallets

Nobody wants fraud. It takes away from the legitimate players, the casino and just about anybody else that comes in contact with such practice. However the right to privacy trumps any argument for having taken such drastic actions as to have sold out their customers based solely on the suspicion of a casino security team. Of course the eWallet makes more money from the casino than the individual player and the actions of Money Bookers certainly showed where their loyalties lie and they do not land on the same end of the spectrum as do the ethics the eWallet should have shown under such circumstances.

Adding salt to the wound is the fact that the players effected were told merely that their accounts were confiscated due to their association with known fraudsters through the trading of funds inside the eWallet. No concrete evidence was given and the casino falls back on the ever favorite but true for a reason, policy, of not giving out the exact details of  the incident because they don't want to see it replicated or to help those that seek to fraud the casino by telling them what they did wrong to get caught.

This could possibly have been avoided had the players in question completed their fax back requirement upon having entered the casino instead of waiting until they had won because most times the player comes under scrutiny is during this process. Once it is completed it is much less common for any extra attention to be given to a player making a withdrawal unless of course the amount is for large numbers in which case it is usually standard operating procedure for the casino security team to give the player the once over one more time before they release such a large sum.

Players should remember that apparently trading funds back and forth using an eWallet can raise a red flag with the casino security team if they are interacting with the wrong people and more to the point is that if the player is using Money Bookers then they should never feel confident their private information is not going to find its way into the hands of some casino security agent and as appalling as that may sound it is never the less a possibility as recent history has proven. Remember that the casinos will always error towards their side of caution and unfortunately that is how it has always been and remains the current state of affairs in the world of online gambling.