Given the limitations inherent to the COVID-19 pandemic, brick-and-mortar presences are risky. Online casinos have already started to note the rise in income, as people still have a thirst for gambling, even if they do not plan to visit casinos like they used to. Optimove, an Israeli company, saw a 225 percent increase in new Internet poker players in the first days after the pandemic hit. Even now, with a vaccine at hand, people will be careful about going to a physical casino for a long time, particularly if the Internet offerings are attractive. Yes. Fully licensed online casinos, such as The Phone Casino, are regularly audited to ensure that they offer the safest online gaming environment possible. This includes checks of each individual game and casino to ensure their payouts are in line with the game’s return to player (RTP) values, random number generators (RNG) are working correctly in each game, assessing how personal information is stored and how the data is secured by the online casino, that the online casino offers responsible gambling resources, and other safety and security checks.