Recent announcements by Visa and Mastercard as stepping away from processing online poker transactions is a clear sign that the UIGEA ruling is being heavily enforced by US officials. German national Michael Olaf Scheutt is now behind bars and is being made an example of all those who are trying their luck to break the ruling. Authorities were able to uncover over $70 million dollars worth of online poker transactions to over 23,00 American citizens.

What alerted the authorities was when FedEx delivery was concerned about the unusually high number of letters being shipped from Schuett’s home address. One further investigation, they were able to uncover that the letters contained cheques , and when asking the recipients, they all proudly proclaimed that they were online poker winnings. Schuett had used numerous accounts with Bank of America to both receive and send out funds. Scheutt is now held in Lee County Jail.

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