The United Kingdom Gambling Commission reported that approximately 0.6% of the adult populace had problems with gambling issues, a percentage equal to that of 1999, as informed by their "British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007". The highest occurrence of a problem with gambling was found from people who participated in betting exchanges (9.8%), fixed odds betting terminals (11.2%) and spread betting (14.7%). Also, the report illustrated a 4% plunge in general gambling during the previous year, from a rate of 62% in 1999 to 58% in 2007. Pooled with the 1999 prevalence survey, the 2007 prevalence survey advocates that in spite of the quick increase of online gambling, there has not been an associated increase in the number of gamblers with problems.

It has also been assumed that criminal interests exploit the chiefly unsupervised electronic funds which are transferred innately through online gambling to launder large amounts of money. According to a US GAO examine however, "Banking and gaming regulatory officials did not view Internet gambling as being particularly susceptible to money laundering, especially when credit cards, which create a transaction record and are subject to relatively low transaction limits, were used for payment.”