A study shows that in the past five months alone, there has been a spike in the use of bots on gaming sites with the intention of moving money. $200,000 to $300,000 is being moved monthly - a reflection of a crackdown on online gambling financial transactions through UIGEA. One-in-20 to one-in-50 PCs worldwide are bots. A year ago, it was one-in-200 to one-in-500.
The system used to launder money is ingenious. Using fraudulently obtained credit card details, the bots flood online poker sites with "players" in the form of bots. These, loaded with poker playing software play in the different poker rooms. A human in cahoots with the crook then enters the same room as the bots to compete against sub par competition. The odds are heavily in favor of the human, who wins the pot. The money from the losers is transferred to the winner - in this case, the fraudster.
The criminals need to go to such elaborate measures because of the difficulty with transferring money a legitimate credit card account overseas. And there are still online payment processors that process online wagers despite the recent and highly publicized crackdown on Neteller.
While large, established poker sites are good at electronically scanning for bots and for players who intentionally lose to a "designated" winner, small sites are not, Joseph Kelly, a professor who specializes in online gambling issues at SUNY College Buffalo told USA Today.
One Canadian poker player said that bot players were frequently encountered, "If you suspect you're playing a bot, you send an (instant message) and attempt to chat with them. They usually don't reply, but some are programmed to respond, "I do not chat," she said.
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