Thanks for your reply Webber. When I was talking about relative transparency of gambling transactions I meant payments coming via cheques. I agree that by using Neteller you are more on the safe side.
My major concern was not about how easy it is for authorities to prove the origin of a certain payment, but about a possible persecution of gambling affiliate sites’ owners. Looks like the pressure “from above” is increasing. I would not wait till it is unbearably hot. I don’t have enough money to pay lawyers in case if I am taken to court, and I have a family to support. I just can not allow myself to risk it.
Online casinos are mostly offshore companies, they are beyond reach of the US and Canadian legal systems. It is us, affiliates who wouldl become the most vulnerable public if it comes to worse.
At the same time, I would feel very bad if I had to quit, to sell my sites and look for something else. I just recently started, but have already seen first encouraging results of my labor. I made all my sites (there will be 4 of them in total) from the scratch, spending all my spare time on the design, over a thousand of hours already. It is time that I stole from my family, from my kids. Should I call this a wasted effort just because of a bureaucratic fuss? I don’t think so! I will try my best to find the best way out- either by using my dual citizenship and virtually placing my sites and banking in my other country which allows any form of gambling, or by going offshore.
Regarding payments through Neteller, these days you can use it as well as Moneybookers, etc. So far. Who knows what will happen in a month or a year?… 4 years ago who would think that PayPal can stop accepting gambling money? Neteller is a midget comparing to PayPal (40 times smaller!), still there was enough pressure applied to make it unaccessible for gambling payments. Everything is possible in this world!
By the way it seems so hypocritical when Google, the PayPal’s parent company sells gambling websites by dozens, but PayPal itself wants to look so clean and sinless!
We will see how this ordeal with the proposed Internet gambling prohibition law will develop and end.