Basically, if I gamble online, which is now illegal in the U.S., am I risking anything big? Would I get arrested? Fined? And more importantly, how would the FBI catch me? Would they? Has there been any cases yet of someone prosecuted for online gambling?
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I would worry about being broke more than being arrested or fined. Plus, if you are fined, you will by then be broke and therefore unable to pay the fine. Do not gamble.
Most likely (if you continue) you will find yourself broke and in dept before any of the above. Might be a blessing in disguise if you’re caught early enough…
It isn’t illegal to do the actual gambling. No one has been arrested by the feds for gambling online and no one probably will unless the actual laws change. The law passed had nothing to do with actually playing, just the financial side for the banks and companies.
Are there even sites that let you gamble real money anymore. I realize that all (or at least I thought all) poker sites were made so that no US residents could put real money into a gambling site-for foreigners they can b/c it’s not illegal there) I used to play to and it kinda ***** now. I know you can play with “fake money”. If you could even find a place to do that I don’t think that you yourself could get in trouble, it shoud be the site IF anything. I mean unless you sign something. If you do find something and decide to try it, don’t be surprised if you lose money though, considering it’s now illegal ya know-you couldn’t really fight that. But think about this; pirating music and movies are illegal but people everywhere still do it and do they get cought? no, I’ve never heard of anyone doing that anyway, therefor I’d say the likely hood of getting caught is slim-there’s no way that you’d be the only one, there’d be soo many people out there and the FBI have more important things to worry about than an online gambler. (like did you know it’s illegal to jaywalk and to not pay child support, but people get away with that everyday b/c it’s not as important as catching killers and such)I don’t really know what to tell you but good luck, just be careful, don’t do anything stupid 
if you are under 21 year old, yes, they will not send FBI to arrest you. they will vertify your bank account with debit card or credit card and driver license. they will block you until you become 21 year old first
if you are over 21 year old, you are allowed to gamble.
if you steal your father driver license and bank account or credit card info, when you lose all of his money, your father would find out who steal his money and going to file a police report before he will be going to kill the thief for stealing his money to spend the gamble.
if you tell him you did, you would get grounded in rest of your life
There is no law that makes it illegal to gamble online in the US. The new anti-gambling law that just passed targets banks and financial institutions, and also makes it harder to own an online gambling company in the US. But there is no real federal law that makes it illegal to gamble online. There maybe a few states that have their own laws, but nothing federal.
No one has ever been arrested or charged with gambling online, so for the FBI to kick down your door and arrest you is pretty unlikely, you’d be the first in America.
The only laws relevant to this is a 1961 act that bans placing sports bets via the telephone. It has been argued that this applies to sports betting on the internet, although this is a pretty weak legal argument since this law was written before the Internet was invented.
The new anti-gambling act that Bill Frist slipped into the unrelated port security act, actually specifically legalizes three forms of online gambling, even for companies and banks. The three forms that are now completely legitimate under this law are online lotteries, betting on the stock market, horse betting and some fantasy sports betting.
So at the end of the day you are not risking anything, except what you stand to lose by gambling. See link for more details.
Play at your own risk. Besides dealing with the government, you should also be worried about identity thieves. Do you really want some offshore bank to have access to your personal data? Very few of the online services are actually reputable, legitimate companies. How do you know that these companies are not putting spyware on your computer or tracking other things about you that you don’t want them to know?
Anyway, if you do decide to play, be careful that you don’t gamble more than you can afford to lose. Don’t spend hours on end playing. It’s better to play in short bursts. Go up maybe 20-50% and then back out. If you get lucky and double up, then call it a day and take a break. It’s too easy to think you’re invincible and that you’ll keep getting the cards to fall your way.
That’s why I don’t play online poker anymore and have deleted the program from my computer.
One way to get around this is to play at games of skill sites such as:
Because the games are games of mostly skill rather than chance, they are not considered gambling sites.
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