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“DataCash Offers Fail-Safe to Gambling Operators?”

Two companies are getting together to try and improve control on online gambling

BT is an “identity verification” service whose method of verifying identity is by asking a series of standard identification type questions to anyone trying to access an online gambling site. They have just signed an agreement with DataCash, a payment services provider used by online casinos to transfer money.

The new agreement allows DataCash’ customers, i.e. the online gambling sites, to detect players that are using online gambling sites but are under age and therefore not permitted to do so. The agreement will also allow DataCash to cross-check answers to questions which are asked in BT’s verification procedures in a few different national databases.

Such data as driving records, financial records, passport, mortality and utility records are the sort of national information that would be cross-checked and verified to see if it matches.

The process does not disclose personal information or data, but a mismatch between the data compared will be picked up immediately and marked as “no match”. Where there are no discrepancies, the search will be marked as a “match”. The cross-checking and verification will also create an independent trail proving that checking has taken place.

DataCash will be able to screen successfully for gamblers who are under age, who have given false identities and are using credit and debit cards fraudulently.

DataCash is, of course, aiming their marketing in the direction of the Internet gambling site operators believing that the service will be of great interest to them.

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