Cheating is not Difficult when Playing Online Poker according to FBI
A letter from a FBI top official to U.S. Representative Spencer Bachus stated that cheating while playing poker over the Internet can happen in several ways. The Bachus, who is a leader in the anti-gambling political community, is gathering all the evidence he can find in order to try to attempt to slow down the momentum that is coming together for the legalization and regulation of Internet gambling. Bachus recently revealed the letter at the hearing on Internet gaming held by the House Financial Services Committee.
FBI Assistant Director penned the letter back on November 13th of last year in charge of the cyber division Shawn Henry. He has stated that players that play poker online can work together as well as exploit technology in order to artificially affect the results when playing over the Internet.
Henry wrote in his letter, “There are several ways to cheat at online poker, none of which are legal. The online poker vendors could detect this activity and put in place safeguards to discourage cheating, although it is unclear what the incentive would be for the vendor.”
Regulation of Internet gambling may require a gambling websites, which are licensed, to use some type of cyber-technology that would guard against fraud. This is expected to be done by gambling websites, if online gambling were to become legal, so that money laundering would be thwarted and persons that are underage would not be able to gamble.
Cheating while playing Internet poker on two of the leading poker websites, Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet, was brought to light by players that observed some irregularities. These players documented the unlikely play and the results and eventually showed that there was corrupted software was used by the gambling websites.
Obviously, it is the case that operators that have websites that are protected well against cheating, as well as money laundering and underage gambling, would be able to draw more business to their sites as opposed to sites that could not have verification that their games are honest ones.
