We all have seen them, they have large banners saying Internet Sweepstakes or Phone Card Sweepstakes! These little casino like businesses are popping up everywhere and there are litteraly tens of thousands of them throughought the United States and Canada.

They are totally legal and use a simple loop hole in the law to be legal. This loop hole is that you, the consumer, come into their "store" and purchase phone time on a reloadable phone card. You then use this phone card at one of their "free to use" computers to access the Internet. You then enter yourself into Internet Sweepstakes by playing games of skill and chance using the phone time and when you have completed your session you "redeem" what time is available on your phone card.

Of course the loop hole is that your phone time can INCREASE or DECREASE based on your success at the games of skill and chance that you have played.

While they appear to be little casinos, they ARE NOT by law, they are Internet Cafes which provide a phone card service and access to the Internet for what ever the user wishes to do on the Internet with the time the user has purchased from the Internet Sweepstakes store.