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11-28-2007, 10:33 PM
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Re: Massive $140,000 chip dump on Ongame
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[ QUOTE ] how does this affect you and why is this a problem to anyone but ongame if he didnt play with the huge stack? [/ QUOTE ] You've got to be kidding? This is a huge deal. Are you condoning people defrauding poker rooms? The more people steal the worse the promotions are, the more innocent people get their accounts locked and the more likely a room is to raise the rake to cover large amounts of money stolen. [/ QUOTE ] QFT. Yes, it seems cool to have the laid back attitude and the "stop snitching" pic, but where the [censored] do you think that $130,000 is going to come from if the site gets screwed because of CC fraud, money laundering, etc? Also, everyone always bitches when the sites ask for a bunch of ID when cashing out - the more fraud that happens, the more sites are going to be asking for this stuff. It would be one thing if it was 2 buddies trying to dump $50 to one another so they can play micros (still against T&C's, but no reason for us to get worked up), but $130,000?? Stop snitching??? LOL! Finally, how much in favor of "stop snitching" will you be if your account is hacked, dumped to someone else, and cashed out? 
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11-29-2007, 01:55 AM
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Re: Massive $140,000 chip dump on Ongame
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how does this affect you and why is this a problem to anyone but ongame if he didnt play with the huge stack? [/ QUOTE ] If it gets established that online poker rooms are routinely tolerating large-scale money laundering then there will be no more online poker. "If you build it they will come" applies very strongly to money laundering conduits. Give organized crime and organized terrorism a good way to move large amounts of money and they will exploit it every time. It's fashionable to think that the U.S. government is making a serious effort to attack online gambling but really they aren't. That will change very quickly if online poker is perceived as a true threat to national security. Washington will become deadly serious about money transfers and the poker sites will become so radioactive no one will do business with them.
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11-29-2007, 03:27 AM
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Re: Massive $140,000 chip dump on Ongame
Thank you for the serious replies to my ignorance and for not just calling me ignorant and flaming me. I never looked at the bigger picture.
All I saw it as were two people transferring money to each other because the only way to do it on Ongame is in the form of $100 gift vouchers. I now understand why I got the replies I did after I made my 1st post, and why it is wrong.
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11-29-2007, 06:31 AM
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Re: Massive $140,000 chip dump on Ongame
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"If you build it they will come" applies very strongly to money laundering conduits. Give organized crime and organized terrorism a good way to move large amounts of money and they will exploit it every time. It's fashionable to think that the U.S. government is making a serious effort to attack online gambling but really they aren't. That will change very quickly if online poker is perceived as a true threat to national security. Washington will become deadly serious about money transfers and the poker sites will become so radioactive no one will do business with them. [/ QUOTE ] If this "sky is falling" sentiment were even true, this would be precisely the reason not to say anything and instead just STFU about it and not alert everyone and his brother as to what's going on. Had the OP not posted about it, none of us would even know.
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