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11/03/2008		Handing Out Fees
Home History Games News Dictionary		The United States cracks down hard on companies that have been helping promote illegal gambling. An estimated $31.5 million in fees were collected in 2007. For companies that are accused of accepting payments from businesses advertising illegal online gambling the price to pay is steep. Of course none of the companies admitted liability. These companies claim they are looking to expand online advertising sales by letting marketers target consumers with ads that match their interests. A lot of money is going into the advertising of internet gambling sites. Ads are appearing in all kinds of places like mobile phones, video sites, Internet television, and video game consoles. Of the collected fees $13.5 million will be spent on advertising aimed at people under age 22, informing them on the dangers of becoming addicted to gambling. The rest of the money will go to other places such as the government and the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children to assist it in its mission. Many offshore companies that are assisting players to gamble are being shut down, as U.S. online gamblers must stay in the U.S. to play. Reaching out to foreign countries is illegal and not recommended by the U.S. government. One publicly traded Internet gambling business in London that pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy earlier this year filed for bankruptcy in the United Kingdom. The company was indicted last year on violation of US laws barring the placing of bets by telephone wire across state lines. All twelve people involved pleaded not guilty.

11/03/2008

Handing Out Fees

The United States cracks down hard on companies that have been helping promote illegal gambling. An estimated $31.5 million in fees were collected in 2007. For companies that are accused of accepting payments from businesses advertising illegal online gambling the price to pay is steep. Of course none of the companies admitted liability. These companies claim they are looking to expand online advertising sales by letting marketers target consumers with ads that match their interests.

A lot of money is going into the advertising of internet gambling sites. Ads are appearing in all kinds of places like mobile phones, video sites, Internet television, and video game consoles. Of the collected fees $13.5 million will be spent on advertising aimed at people under age 22, informing them on the dangers of becoming addicted to gambling. The rest of the money will go to other places such as the government and the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children to assist it in its mission.

Many offshore companies that are assisting players to gamble are being shut down, as U.S. online gamblers must stay in the U.S. to play. Reaching out to foreign countries is illegal and not recommended by the U.S. government. One publicly traded Internet gambling business in London that pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy earlier this year filed for bankruptcy in the United Kingdom. The company was indicted last year on violation of US laws barring the placing of bets by telephone wire across state lines. All twelve people involved pleaded not guilty.