Generally speaking there are no serious problems with online gambling. Some law enforcement organizations have expressed concern that criminal organizations were taking advantage of the large number of cash transactions to launder money. These concerns were largely alleviated because casinos require that players use credit cards in their cash transactions.
Credit cards leave paper trails and this makes them unsuitable for money laundering. Mental health professionals have raised another set of concerns. They fear that the speed of online gambling and the instant gratification that it can provide has made things worse for people with problem gambling. Some even think that it might have led to an increase in the number of people with this problem.
The studies looking into online gambling and its relationship with pathological gambling have been mixed at best. Some of the studies point to a greater number of online gamblers having this problem than do casino gamblers. However, it appears that the total number of problem gamblers has not grown because of online gambling.
The last set of issues centers on the legality of online gambling. In most of the world there is no legal problem as online gambling is completely legal. However, in the US, there is a problem. An online casino that wants to have its headquarters in the US can run into legal problems.
People from the US who want to gamble online can, but the US has taken steps to try to restrict their access to these sites. This has landed the US in hot legal water with other countries.
