---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 5363"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "5363"
heading: "Prohibition on acceptance of any financial instrument for unlawful Internet gambling"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/5363"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Money"
  - "Chapter 53 — Monetary Transactions"
  - "Subchapter IV — Prohibition on Funding of Unlawful Internet Gambling"
---

# §5363. Prohibition on acceptance of any financial instrument for unlawful Internet gambling


No person engaged in the [business of betting or wagering](/usc/31/5362.md?p=2) may knowingly accept, in connection with the participation of another person in [unlawful Internet gambling](/usc/31/5362.md?p=10-A)—

- (1) [credit](/usc/31/5362.md?p=11-A), or the proceeds of [credit](/usc/31/5362.md?p=11-A), extended to or on behalf of such other person (including [credit](/usc/31/5362.md?p=11-A) extended through the use of a [credit card](/usc/31/5362.md?p=11-A));
- (2) an [electronic fund transfer](/usc/31/5362.md?p=11-B), or funds transmitted by or through a [money transmitting business](/usc/31/5362.md?p=11-E), or the proceeds of an [electronic fund transfer](/usc/31/5362.md?p=11-B) or [money transmitting service](/usc/31/5362.md?p=11-E), from or on behalf of such other person;
- (3) any check, draft, or similar instrument which is drawn by or on behalf of such other person and is drawn on or payable at or through any [financial institution](/usc/31/5362.md?p=11-C); or
- (4) the proceeds of any other form of financial transaction, as the [Secretary](/usc/31/5362.md?p=8) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System may jointly prescribe by regulation, which involves a [financial institution](/usc/31/5362.md?p=11-C) as a payor or financial intermediary on behalf of or for the benefit of such other person.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–347, title VIII, § 802(a), Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1957.)