Collaboration of AlertPay and Facebook results in illegal gambling termination

According to the recent post on the official blog of the online payment system AlertPay, the company negotiated with the social networking site Facebook to terminate several illegal online gambling operations selling virtual poker chips for use on Facebook's “Texas HoldEm Poker” application.

The statement said: “Facebook does not permit online gambling on its platform and some sellers attempted to convert the Texas HoldEm Poker application into monetized online gambling.”

AlertPay further stated: “Site offering for sale virtual poker chips for use with Texas HoldEm Poker are in violation of AlertPay's User Agreement and in potential violation of state and United States Federal law prohibiting unlicensed and/or online gambling, as well as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 31 U.S.C §5362.”