“DataCash Offers Fail-Safe to Gambling Operators?”

DataCash, a payment services provider, is offering a new service to its customers that would help detect players that are using online gambling sites but are not of legal age. BT, an identity verification service that operates by asking a series of identification type questions to persons wanting to access an online gambling site, has signed an agreement with DataCash that would allow DataCash customers access to Bt’s identity verification system. With the agreement, DataCash can then cross-reference the answers to the questions, asked in BT’s verification process, with several different national databases. Driving records, financial records and mortality, passport and utility records are the categories of information that would be cross-referenced and verified for legitimacy. Personal data is not disclosed through the process, but if there is a mismatch between the compared data, the mismatched answers are marked as “no match”. Answers with no discrepancies are marked as a “match”. The verification and cross-reference also creates an independent audit trail as proof that checks have been performed.

Through the use of this system, DataCash should be able to successfully screen for underage gamblers, false identities and fraudulent use of credit cards and debit cards.

DataCash believes that their service would be of particular interest to Internet gambling operators and is targeting that industry for sales accordingly.