PayPal has been accused of letting problem gamblers spend up to 150,000 a day, prompting concerns that addicts are using the online payment system to circumvent bank limits.
MPs and gambling experts called for the company to be more responsible to stop people racking up huge debts that could force them into bankruptcy.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said the Gambling Commission could consider payment providers as part of its review of gambling on credit cards.
Henrietta Bowden-Jones, a psychiatrist who founded the NHSs only specialist gambling clinic, said: The first time I ever heard about a gambler using PayPal to pay for online gambling occurred about two weeks ago in clinic, when a young man came accompa…
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