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Originally Posted by 1loNgGr1ND
I was trolled by someone in this forum and I would assume w Emails sent to GP support saying that my account was a bot account several months ago when I was putting in quite a bit of volume. Support did Email me and ask me to send a selfie w me holding my Drivers Licence next to my face.
That's pretty cool that Global's at least doing that. However, anyone could sign up with a friend's or relative's details and easily foil that test. I think that security needs to be taken the next level as it hasn't really changed much in online poker over the past decade. Currently, the average person doesn't have a lot of trust in online poker. Are they playing against bots? Teams of colluders? Is the game itself rigged? If people are subjected to random identity verification tests while they are playing, people can at least know that they are playing against a unique person's account; even if there is a bot behind an account, that bot can only ever access Global through that one person's account.
Since Global banned the bots spoken about in this thread, I've noticed more than a dozen new suspicious accounts that showed up at almost the exact same time. Not all of them are necessarily bots or multi accounters, but I suspect the worse, as it is currently too easy to make an account on global poker and access the games.
Players can spend weeks gathering evidence just to prove an account is a bot, when after being banned that bot will just come back on a friend's or relative's account with a new name. The people that are actually behind accounts on a daily basis need to be identified by Global, so if they are ever caught cheating they can be permanently banned from the website. When you log into Global you don't just have access to your own sweeps cash and gold coins, but you have the capability to win other people's sweeps cash and gold coins. Therefore, I think Global should implement some type of policy like this. If someone consistently has delays in verifying their identity Global can more closely monitor the account and would have another reason to stop doing business with someone that it has an abnormal number of reports about. Casual players that only play 1 table and don't exhibit bot like behavior could be very rarely subjected to such identity checks after they have passed an initial one, whereas people who want to play a lot of tables for 12 hours a day shouldn't have a problem spending a couple minutes multiple times a day helping to ensure the integrity of the games by randomly having to take a selfie which can just turn into the players break.