Truth
MG casinos are not able to OFFICIALLY pay US players through any means. Currently, they are playing "Russian Roulette" with player's funds. They use methods of getting the payments past the US banking "blacklists". Once the US banks find out that a payment represents a gambling transaction, they shut down that particular route. Casinos then simply open up another route. This trickery is what forms the backbone of the laundering charges against Neteller. They got past voluntary bans by US banks by disguising the payments by using third party intermediaries to make the transactions not look like ones for gambling. ALL methods being brought out currently are based on fooling the US enforcement systems. ALL such methods will work till the US banks find out about them, at which point they will freeze the methods, and in many cases the money that is still en route.
The ONLY method that has long term potential for the US player is one that does NOT involve the US banking system at all - which is somewhat dificult, as there has to be at least one point of contact with the system - when the player first places money into the online gaming world, and when they finally want the dollars back in the states to spend on something in the real world.
The casinos are prepared to do this, because if caught out, it is the PLAYER that suffers the inconvenience or loss, the CASINO would have been liable to pay out the win anyway. The only thing that damages the casino is if too many players realise that withdrawing is far harder than the casino makes out. If the norm is 21 days for payment, the casino shoud reflect this on the banking page. Holding to the current 3 to 5 days in publicity is giving players a false sense of security in that they are lead to believe the casino is not being affected by the current legal problems.
One sign that a casino REALLY is having fundamental cash issues would be if non-US players playing in the Euro or Pound find long delays in their withdrawals (beyond the usual level of BelleRock incompetence), as the US situation ONLY affects US players and players withdrawing in the US Dollar.
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