Gambling was highly regularized for years for a variety of reasons, including harms from addiction and organized crime involvement. Currently, each state may decide whether to legalize Internet gambling activities (e.g., poker, sports) within their borders. The main motive for doing so is to gain tax revenue based on gambling profits. Gambling businesses are responsible for ensuring that their online members are actually 21 years of age or older and are present inside the state at the time of betting.

Paragraph 1: Consider first the harms to individual users and then to their communities due to legalized Internet gambling and/or gaming. In your opinion, what are the Gambling Industry, Financial Institutions, and/or the Government doing to ensure the regulation of Internet gambling and gaming and protect users from harm? (Must cite both: Gainsbury et al., 2020; Gatto, 2018).

Paragraph 2: In my lecture, I reviewed testimony by FBI Assistant Director Campbell, who indicated several ways that criminals are using legalized Internet gambling to launder money and/or swindle other players. Describe 2 methods and explain how these violations make legalized Internet gambling illegal ( Must cite: McMullan & Rege, 2010).

You must support your points with all 3 of required readings (Gainsbury et al., 2020; Gatto, 2018; McMullan & Rege, 2010), cited at least once each as instructed, and include a reference list

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*Read Before Required Readings

The Internet has enabled gamblers with digital devices and an Internet connection to placea bet from one country to any country in the world with an online gambling site and Internet connection. The rise of online gambling can be attributed to the availability of a multitude of websites that could be accessed easily to engage in the activity conveniently from the comfort of one's home or work environment. In the 2015 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Joseph S. Campbell--FBI Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division testified (https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/law-enforcement-implications-of-illegal-online-gambling). He indicated that the FBI focuses their investigation on Internet gambling's ties to organized crime (e.g., La Cosa Nostra), to larger criinal schemes, and to illegal gambling/collection operations within the US. Campbell mentions several ways online gambling leads to crime:

• online casinos involved in money laundering
• allowing criminal actors to hide within online gambling
• using online tools (TOR, VPN) to conceal their identity, location, and true gambling activities
• fraudulently manipulate games
• conspire to use online gambling accounts to transfer criminally derived funds
• exceed limits through private tournaments
• manipulate games through co-conspirators using fraud

A Casino in every smart phone

This website provides additional information regarding concerns raised by allowing Internet gambling: https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/hearing/a-casino-in-every-smartphone-law-enforcement-implications/

Read lecture on Legal US gambling regarding the impact of Murphy v. NCAA (2017) Supreme Court ruling

(Gainsbury et al., 2020; Gatto, 2018; McMullan & Rege, 2010)

Gainsbury, S.M., Black, N., Blaszczynski, A., Callaghan, S., Clancey, G., Starcevic, V., & Tymula, A. (2020). Reducing Internet gambling harms using behavioral science: A stakeholder framework. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 1-7.

Gatto, J. G. (2018). How the evolution of games has led to a rise in gambling concerns: All bets are on! Gambling and video games. National Law Review. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/how-evolution-games-has-led-to-rise-gambling-concerns-all-bets-are-gambling-and.

McMullan, J.L., & Rege, A. (2010). Online crime and internet gambling. Journal of Gambling Issues, 24, 54-85. https://jgi.camh.net/index.php/jgi/article/view/3824/3851