“DataCash Screens For Under-Age Gambling”

How to prevent players from using online gambling sites when they are not of legal age is a particularly gnarly problem in this age of easy internet access. But one payment services provider DataCash has come up with a system of detection, and hopefully, prevention.

Using driving, financial, mortality, passport and utility records, the payment services provider DataCash is now providing its customers with a service to help detect and root out underage players of online gambling sites. An identity verification service called BT has signed an agreement with DataCash, enabling DataCash customers to have access to BT’s system of identity verification. In keeping with the agreement, what DataCash can do is cross-reference their information – culled from several different national databases – with the answers to the questions that BT routinely asks people who try accessing online gambling sites. The cross-referencing sends up a red flag not by disclosing personal information but by indicating when there is a discrepancy in the answers; in other words, when the compared data reveals discrepancies, “no match” is written and the alarm is sounded.

Underage gamblers are of course not the only ones “found out” through this process of verification and cross-reference. False identities and fraudulent use of credit and debit cards can also be detected through use of this system. But DataCash is currently targeting the online gambling industry for sales, as they feel quite confident that their services will be in particular demand in this area.