Introduction
Recently, many clients who had a history of online gambling found that their bank accounts had been frozen, even though they had been abstaining from gambling for a long time. The freeze was carried out by a police department in a different location. Most of the customers received a notice from the local police department or a text message alert, requiring them to handle the matter within 60 days of receiving the notice, and that if they failed to do so, the funds in the account would be disposed of in accordance with the law as gambling proceeds. In fact, such freeze issues are referred to as "special case freeze." The so-called special case behind it is usually a case where a law enforcement agency in a certain location has cracked down on a certain online gambling platform or uncovered a cross-border money laundering case, and found that your account had had financial transactions with the involved accounts, so it was frozen.
Suggestions for Dealing with Online Gambling Account Freeze
Usually, special case freeze for online gambling will involve receiving a mailed notice or a text message alert from the local police department or the gang that helped the gambling platform launder money being busted, or your account having had financial transactions with the financial accounts of the gambling platform before, which is suspected of money laundering, running money, and gambling. The freeze of this kind depends on whether you need to handle it or not mainly depends on how much money is in your account and whether the card is particularly important to you. If you are just an ordinary player and no illegal funds have flowed into your account, you can prove that the funds in your account are all legitimate funds, and by going to handle it, you can apply for a full account freeze; If there is involved money transferred to your account, due to the illegal online gambling, the withdrawal amount does not constitute good faith acquisition, and the involved funds will be confiscated or returned. Other unrelated funds can be applied for thawing. In similar cases, if you ignore it, the final result will be to deduct or seize the funds involved according to the amount. Only the court has the right to deduct funds, so you need to wait for the upstream case to reach the court stage and have sufficient funds to be deducted before the card can be restored. This process will be quite lengthy. If there is a lot of money in your card and most of it is not related to online gambling, it is extremely necessary to actively handle such frozen card!
To protect the funds in your card, mainly do two things:
1. Gather evidence of the legitimate and lawful sources of the balance in your card; 2. Write a detailed explanation of how you use your card. Then, provide postal delivery, personally go to the investigating unit in a different place, or entrust an agent to handle it. The specific method suitable for each case depends on the actual situation.