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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
I don't see the forums filled with people complaining they can't cash out from Intertops, so I hardly think this is being done to freeroll people. I'm sure part of the reason is that most people just go ahead and send the ID; the "hoops" here aren't really all that onerous.
The 'hoops' involve Intertops keeping all the details on record that would be required for identity theft (your passport details , a photo, etc.)
We always see stories of major companies that supposedly everybody trusted, being hacked and thouands of customer personal details being stolen.
I don't blame OP for wanting to have the minimum amount of his personal documentation put up on the Internet, and I don't think Intertops' request is reasonable here (for the reasons that we're discussing)
What happens if your passport photo ends up in a hacker hands? Perhaps the passport will be cancelled, which is an annoying time and expense to have fixed (and could be very bad if you don't discover it's been cancelled until you're going on your world trip)
Certainly this is a little bit "tinfoil-hatty" but it does happen, and why should Intertops force OP to engage in the risk at all?
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Under certain circumstances, probably. If they're helping me launder money, either intentionally or through negligence, I would expect that they could be breaking laws or at the very least rules of their gaming license.
How does it help to launder money to deposit money via one method and withdraw the same amount via the same method?
If we were talking real banknotes at a B&M casino, it helps because you get different-numbered banknotes back from what you deposited. But with an electronic wallet transaction there is no difference.
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And what if they have reason now to suspect that he's underage?
The passport with the photo and serial number blacked out would do just as well as one with the photo not blacked out. (They don't know what he looks like to compare it anyway).
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If he is, they already have a problem in having allowed him to deposit in the first place, and they'd clearly have to refund his deposit. But they wouldn't give him any winnings, and they'd want to know so he could be blocked from depositing in the future.
This is heading in the direction of having to know the details of the laws in the jurisdiction Intertops is registered in. How stringently do they have to verify age? It seems to me that if someone were determined to play underage, they could just send false documents, or someone else's documents and Intertops would never know.
In my country at least, if casinos let an underage player in,they don't have to return funds lost but they do have to allow cashing out of funds retained and funds won (and get prosecuted in either case).