Casino asks for your photo holding your passport - will you be ok with that?

[Seventh777]

32RED and 3DICE realize that if you use an eWALLET (like NETELLER in my case) they ALREADY checked everything, including bankaccounts, shoesize and how many pets you have. There is really no use (*except for a real suspicion of fraud) for a casino to go all over it again.

Amen to that brother .

[kangamick]

It's things like this that make me only want to play at a B&M casino.

I can understand for bonuses you mite ask for this but if I deposit with my own cash, play with no bonuses, I should be able to withdraw hassle free.

[Jufo]

Just try to find a casino which would do that. I mean verification before any deposit was made. Most players will just move to another casino if they are not allowed to deposit "right now".

Wagerworks casinos (Virgin, Blue Square, Boyle) didn't let me deposit until I had verified my identity and their verification was quite strict and took some time (I had to provide them the long sequence of code text at the bottom of my passport first page). So yes, some casinos do this.

[Nate]

Sometimes or always? That's the question.

I made a deposit and played for quite a while and my account was suspended mid session. If I had lost that amount and my account was then locked, I wouldn't bother going back. I made the effort because I had a balance over $1k.

Nate

[DiamondGeezer]

Well, that's the point: we could offer two options, standard documents (passport, bill etc - will take more time to verify and it STILL possible to do some photoshop work), and player's photo holding documents (just few minutes to verify and very hard to photoshop, because faces on a photo and player's MUST me a BIT different - smile, maybe different haircut, face expression, BUT STILL it will be the same face).

One more option: we could easily ask players send their photo holding a piece of paper with code word or phrase written on it (we can give it in our email). We even can make a video call via Skype or any other IM and ask player to SHOW us his/her passport or ID or Credit Card he/she used for deposits.

There are actually many options, I'm trying to find the easiest way for players to verify their identity.

I've had a passport photo request from Canbet which I was happy to provide and personally can't see what the problem is.

I also think Skype would be a good way forward. Casinos need to do more in terms of KYC amd ought to do more to combat fraud.