FTP Allowing US Credit Card Deposits?

[_Towelie_]

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The lack of wisdom and discretion is truly amazing.

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Yep, pretty Goddamn stupid

[RubbishCards]

Well my debit Mastercard never worked for online sites before now. Just tried it at FT and it worked first time, ship it! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[orentha]

fwiw. my mastercard has NEVER worked on FT, until 2 days ago when i was able to deposit for a bonus...

so maybe i somehow slipped through somehow...

[Kazuma]

You will prolly also get charged a cash advance fee for the transaction. I know my CC charged me one last week.

[pipedreamz]

wow this forum is full of fish

[Skallagrim]

While it is unlikely that the major credit card companies monitor this forum, mentioning specific credit cards here is just plain stupid.

And while I guess getting the word out to poker players that you can try your cards on FT is appropriate, lets at least keep this information amongst ourselves, lest some one we dont like actually does investigate.

[orentha]

HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA

i'm not too worried about it


and it's "just plain stupid" to be that worried and think it's bad to say that...

[thepizzlefosho]

are you people effing serious? Do you think that the feds can't figure this stuff out without browsing 2p2? If they really cared they would be trying these things out themselves and trying to stop them. Nobody cares about online poker anymore. The UIGEA did little to nothing to affect poker. They went after the sportsbooks and the companies that did business with them. They are in the process of writing new legislation to clean all this crap up. Then they are going take a big old chunk out for uncle sam.

The UIGEA was legislation with no teeth. The time period passed and they never wrote the regs. Nobody cares about this, and they certainly aren't going to shutdown FTP because someone mentioned information on a free public forum that anyone with a telephone can get.

[Tachyon]

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If this is a new thing, this is interesting. I think the vast majority of fish deposit via credit/debit card, so this could be very beneficial. Unfortunately the only action the US gov't has taken thus far is against credit card transactions.

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I used to work for a credit card company. Every credit card transaction is sent with an identifying code that the banks use to make decisions about approval. It is how banks can block specifically online gaming transactions, or treat them as cash advances, or charge additional fees etc etc.

It very much sounds like FTP are deliberately identifying their transactions as something else. It can land them in a bunch of hot water since they are basically trying to be something that they are not. To be honest it doesn't suprise me though.

[RikaKazak]

mentioning specifics here isn't going to change a thing.

You really think they'd "monitor 2+2" yet not just open accounts on sites themselves and give it a try?

Either A.) no monitoring of anything is going on...or B.) the companies or feds etc. already have accounts at all sites and periodically test all major cards etc.

I'd lay 10:1 on A (and it'd be heavily +EV for me)