Higher Incidence of Cheating Online

Those that play the online slot machines are usually worried about cheating. However, their land based casino partners do not. They say that they are sitting there in the casino so they aren’t worried about who is operating the slot machine on the other end. Online slot machine players don’t have that luxury.

A recent report by 60 minutes showed the problem that the online poker industry was having with employees of the online casinos cheating. They were hacking into the software while people were playing and looking at their hands. They then fed the information to another player who won the hand. In doing so they bilked the online poker industry of millions of dollars.

However, now online players are worried – if it can happen with poker, why couldn’t it happen with slot machines? The online slot machines are simply a computer program – why couldn’t someone wait until it got large enough that it was worth their while and then hack in and take the winnings? They could trigger the slot machine to make it look like they had won.

This new report could possibly be very detrimental to the online slot machine industry, for people are already wary of playing since the passing of the UIGEA. If others start getting worried, especially in other countries where online slot machine playing is so much more prevalent, they could be in for some rocky times ahead financially. The online casino industry is going to have to do something, and do it fast, before they start losing customers that they won’t be able to get back.

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