It has become apparent, through the release of legal documents, that PartyGaming used elaborate measures to continue offering gambling actions to players in the United States, until they fled the US market, like many online casinos, after the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. 

PartyGaming did not run into any problems with the United States market during their first four years of operation.  Problems started to arise for online casinos in 2001.  Banks began to change their policy toward online casinos.  Major credit card distributors began flagging payments from online casinos with the code 7995 and refusing the transactions.

In response to this change, PartyGaming began utilizing different processing methods to avoid having their transactions flagged by the banking system.  One method was they use of third party payment service providers.  According to the legal documents exposing the PartyGaming’s operation in the years leading up to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act, the payment service providers “misrepresented the nature of internet gambling transactions to the acquiring bank so that the acquiring bank would apply a non7995 code to the transactions”.

Another method used by PartyGaming was selling phone cards and “virtual” credit cards to their guests.  This allowed gamblers the ability to transfer money into their PartyGaming accounts with out attracting attention from the banking system.

In addition to these clever schemes “Party Gaming masked payments to US customers who sought to withdraw winnings . . . by engaging an intermediary to open bank accounts in the US that were funded by Party Gaming under the name Advanced Marketing Solutions.”

“We had no intention of breaking any laws in the US and we are not being charged with any offence,” stated a PartyGaming statement, insisting upon the innocence of their operations.

“The non-prosecution agreement is an amicable resolution to our situation in the US before the law was changed on 13 October 2006, when we voluntarily exited the market.”