The Age, an Australian newspaper, claims that Internet casinos situated way across the other end of the globe, and mentioning 888.com, valued in billions of dollars, are inducing gamblers to bet in Australia by calling over the phone.

The paper and the Justice Department in Victoria consider this as an illegal procedure, and this week it was revealed when The Age accessed a number of online poker sites to undertake an Internet poker research.  

One such site, Pacific Poker, in less than a day, called proffering cash to come back and register. The company representatives told them they had observed that the researchers had attempted to unsuccessfully log in. They were told that if they re-access the site then all the technical difficulties would be resolved and a bonus would be offered to them.

In addition to any sum deposited in the gambling account, the lady claimed, an additional thirty five percent would be added by the casino.

In Australia, the Federal Interactive Gambling Act prohibits online casinos to advertise or to take wagers from Australian citizens. Nevertheless, Australian persist in making millions of dollars of bets in spite of the prohibitions.

The Victorian Department of Justice's spokesperson stated that there is good probability that the telephone communications were not legal. She claimed that Victoria considers that the issue needs to be addressed by the Commonwealth.

An overstatement of the issue was pronounced succinctly by problem gambling specialists who claimed that gambling on the Internet has always been considered as a hazard for without even leaving your home you can lose it.

888.com is a multibillion dollar gambling enterprise which owns the Gibraltar-based Pacific Poker. The Age states that the 888 was compelled to terminate operating in the United States last October when the American government introduced new prohibition laws on fund transfers of Internet gambling transactions.    

Helen Coonan, the Communications Minister's spokesperson maintained that although the government was worried about the gambling issue, there was no intention to bring in laws to prohibit money transfers to Internet casino sites as it maintained the belief that an insufficient number of Australians were placing bets online to warrant such a required move.

Posted on: March 27, 2007

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