| 1 | Now, most offshore bookies can be reached instantly through the Internet as well. |
| 2 | A formality many operations no longer bother with. |
| 3 | The industry standard is a 10% bonus on a player’s initial deposit, credited as cash directly into his account. Some companies occasionally advertise bonuses as high as 30%-40%, but these too-good-to-be-true offers are often too good to be true. Several dozen notorious scammers, now out of business or operating under another name, used the “we’ll give you the moon” come-on before absconding with all of their customers’ cash. |
| 4 | They subsequently went out of business, leaving behind thousands of unpaid customers. |
| 5 | Roxy has recently sold his interest in LVSC and no longer personally supplies opening numbers. |
| 6 | Belize is the latest principality to court bookies, promising them government cooperation—not to mention cheap telecommunications prices. |
| 7 | He’s now the main man at LVSC. |
| 8 | As a gentleman named Jay Cohen can attest, the U.S. is becoming much more explicit in its displeasure with the burgeoning offshore gambling industry. Cohen, one of the founders of World Sports Exchange, a pioneering book in Antigua, was charged—and convicted—of violating the Wire Act. He is currently free on appeal. His case is viewed by many in the offshore gambling industry as both precedent-setting and foreshadowing with regard to either further legal travails or blissful freedom. |