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Secret Plan To Make Online Gambling Legal, What?

Three U.S. House Republicans are objecting to what they call a “secretive, closed-door, undemocratic” effort in the Senate to pass legislation that would legalize and tax some Internet gambling before Congress adjourns this year.

I read this article tonight and find it hard to believe that the Democrats are holding secret meetings to pass online gambling when everyone is reporting about the secret meetings.

With that being said here's a good article on Bloomberg.com, the last days of the lame duck session and maybe, yes maybe still a chance for online gambling being taxed and legal inside the United States.

Getter done Harry Reid!

Catherine Dodge and Robert Schmidt article.

New Jersey Online Casino's

It looks like New Jersey might be the first U.S. state to legalize online casino gambling games. It also appears that the bill S490 should be up for a full Senate vote in the near future.

If this passes watch many states follow suit, enjoying the additional tax revenue. Looks like there might be new hope for U.S. online casino players after all, well maybe, time will tell.

Should be fun watching this unfold in N.J., stay tuned!

N.J. online casino article

Player Verify Only .99 Cents Per Year

It's not a misprint! PlayerVerify.com the only central hub where online Player's can upload their personal ID documents, ACH forms among other requests to online Gaming sites has majorly reduced their full access fee.

Our site is in the beta stages says Mark Dalton, managing member of Player Verify. I think we came in somewhat high with our $9.95 per year full access fee so we're scaling back to a yearly fee of .99 cents.

Player's and Gaming sites now have full access to the Player Verify central hub for the low rate of .99 cents per year, hopefully stopping unsecure procedures such as e-mail, fax and mail for ID verification.

Player Verify does not verify Player documents. We're a secure hub where online Gamers can upload and share their personal information in a secure environment with online Gaming Web sites, the Gaming sites themselves will verify the documents inside our secure document hub.

Get onboard, remember if you're Gaming site doesn't accept Player Verify, request it!

More Internet privacy issues

Well I seriously doubt it's just Facebook with privacy issues since they're one of the largest networking sites on the net. If a company this size is having problems protecting data I can't imagine how big the problem really is throughout the world wide web!

Online Gamers should take every step possible to avoid privacy issues and their personal data from winding up in the wrong hands. Your data is being sold daily to advertisers along with other data gathering trades.

PlayerVerify is the only secure way to send ID documents to Gaming sites.

Facebook's most recent problem.

Player Verify Free Access Codes

PlayerVerify.com has recently enhanced its management system with the ability to generate free access codes. When an access code is entered during registration it automatically gives a player, or gaming site operator one year free access to the Player Verify document hub. The normal registration fee is $9.95 per year.

Player Verify implemented this system with gaming sites in mind. It allows gaming sites to verify player documents at our secure Website along with providing free access for their members.

Gaming sites interested in obtaining bulk access codes should contact support@playerverify.com for bulk access code pricing.

PlayNow.com Account Privacy & Security Procedures

Finally an Online Casino that understands e-mail and fax transmissions aren't secure and are requesting their players not to send personal information using these methods. This is exactly why PlayerVerify.com was created, to provide a secure hub where players can share their personal documents if requested by an I gaming website. Documents are normally requested for ID verification of the player.

To date many offshore I gaming sites still request personal information to be e-mailed or faxed for verification purposes and it's just not safe. Looks like PlayNow.com understands this but when will the others follow suit?

Online gambling should favor both Republicans and Democrats

Republicans and conservatives generally often argue that the government should not have the right to tell private individuals what behavior they may or may not engage in the privacy of their own home, so long as that activity doesn't infringe on the rights of others. As a voluntary, private activity, online gambling easily meets the criteria for government to leave it alone.

Article from Forbes.com

House Committee says YES to HR 2267

After several hours today bill HR 2267 was passed by a vote of 41-22. Player Verify would like to point out Amendment 7 ( Congressman John Campbell, CA) and especially one of his many provisions.
4.) Age and residence of betters must be verified.
We can assure you the U.S. government isn't going to allow player ID's and proof of address to sent by unsecure methods such as e-mail, fax or mail. Player Verify is the only secure solution for sharing personal documents with gaming sites for ID verification and proof of address.

Poker News Daily article.

ID fraud up 22% due to recession

The number of instance has also risen significantly, up 14pc from January to June compared with the previous year according to Cifas, the UK's fraud prevention service.

The report also warned that despite the heightened awareness about ID fraud, there is a strong likelihood of incidents continuing to rise in the future.

The full story here.

Congress talks about a new Internet tax

The House Financial Services Committee will consider a bill that lays the groundwork for a multibillion-dollar online tax. It all starts with legalizing Internet gambling which could become a 42 billion dollar cash cow!

Washington Times story.

Why does Player Verify charge for its service?

I wanted to address some of the e-mails I've been receiving about our yearly fee of $9.95. Yes Player Verify does charge this fee but if you factor the days in a year our rate is only around 2 cents per day. Players can send as many ID or document verification requests to gaming sites as they want during the year at this rate. Faxing ID documents offshore can be costly and some gamers don't have fax machines so they go someplace like the UPS store and pay to fax them off. I've even read recently where some gaming sites request ID documents to be mailed. That's Crazy and the only half secure way to do this would be Fed X or another carrier that you can track. What's that going to cost you? So when looking at the overall picture Player Verify is cheap and your 2 cents per day will help us to stay online. :)

Player Verify also charges the same $9.95 fee per year to each gaming site who verifies their player documents through our secure site. Again for less than 2 cents per day an online gaming site can verify hundreds of players every day at a very low rate. If I operated a gaming site I'd cancel the fax line which I'm sure costs a pretty penny and start verifying players with the most secure system being offered on the net for 2 cents a day. Seems like a no brainer to me!

Finally, in order to keep our users honest a fee based system of some sort always works better than a free system. If Player Verify was free to all users then our system could be abused just as many free sites on the Internet are today. OK, I've addressed our site fee and if you have any comments please post below...

PlayNow.com opens for business in British Columbia

As reported by the Vancouver Sun money collected will go for Health Care, Education among other programs. With over 100 million dollars per year going to offshore gaming sites why wouldn't BC open their own Online Casino and keep some of that money at home? Many restrictions have been put in place such as player ID checking during signup but Player Verify can assure you at some point hard document verification will be needed to verify proof of age, address along with card information to discourage fraud.

The full story here.

China Cracks down on Internet Gaming and ID requirements.

China is cracking down on age ID verification with their new Internet Gaming Rules and Regulations. Effective August 1st. all gamers are required to provide Personal ID's and Bank Accounts bearing the same name.
Player Verify is the perfect solution for China gamers and gaming site operators to share their documents on our secure site. Although Player Verify is written in English we suggest using the Google Toolbar Translation Tool when translating a secure https: site from English to your desired language.

Read the full article here: China Gaming Rules & Regulations

Player Verify, LLC lists with The Better Business Bureau.

Player Verify, LLC has registered with The Better Business Bureau of Tennessee. Since our site is just a few months old we currently have a C rating, says Mark Dalton owner of Player Verify. That's what you get when first listing your business, I look forward to building this to an A+ rating over time. Being listed with the BBB shows our commitment to online players and online gaming sites around the globe.


Player Verify, LLC listing.

Hacker Jailed!

A 21 year old computer hacker carried out a lucrative online fraud scheme to feed his online gambling habit says police. Peckover hacked into private e-mail accounts along with personal computer files and stole credit card numbers, passport information and stole the identify of unsuspected people.

The full story here.

Online Casinos should do more to protect Player documents.

In our opinion gaming sites are forgetting about players security when requesting player documents. To verify players most Online Casinos ask for a Government ID, Passport, Utility Bill, Credit Card Scans and whatever else they can think of to secure proof of a players identity. It's great Casino's are looking at ways to prevent Online Casino fraud but Online Casinos are forgetting about how they request these documents. It's simply please fax us your personal documents by an unsecure fax line. Don't dial the wrong number by mistake and we hope the line isn't hacked since most fax lines are not encrypted. Online Casinos also say please e-mail us your personal documents by e-mail. They should say unsecure e-mail as we all know e-mail isn't secure either. Don't type the wrong address by mistake when sending your personal gaming documents! Also, you don't know when or by whom your personal documents are received by the gaming site and if approved or denied until they decide to let you know, if ever. Player Verify stops all of this nonsense with our secure 256-bit Secure Sockets Layer encryption. You also know by whom and when your documents are being viewed and have a real-time log showing the data. There is NO better way providing online gaming documents other than PlayerVerify.com. We understand that most online gaming sites are in fact secure but as you can see not totally. By allowing thier players to provide gaming documents via PlayerVerify.com will fill a much needed security void within the online gaming industry.

Player Verify adds Player & I Gaming site tutorials.

Player Verify online i gaming verification website has just added instructional player and gaming tutorials to our site at PlayerVerify.com. Players now have incite on how to upload gaming documents and send document verification requests to their favorite gaming websites. Gaming site operators can also learn how to verify player documents along with approve or deny documents inside the Player Verify site. See how Player Verify works, links provided below.

Player tutorial: https://playerverify.com/SiteTutorial/playersection.html

I Gaming Site tutorial: https://playerverify.com/SiteTutorial/gaming.html

Player Verify

PlayerVerify.com Launches, Providing Easy and Secure Verification for Online Gamers and I-Gaming Web Sites
Online gamers and gaming Web sites that want a secure platform for submitting and reviewing account verification details can now use the new Web site PlayerVerify.com. With PlayerVerify.com, gamers can upload all of their document verification details to one secure platform accessible to specific gaming sites or operators, providing extra security against the ever-present threats of identity theft.
(PRWEB) April 13, 2010 -- Player Verify, LLC, the only company with the firm mission to ease the verification process between players and gaming sites for added security, announces its launch at www.PlayerVerify.com. Designed for both online players and the i-gaming industry, PlayerVerify.com provides both the services and secure technology needed to ease the player document verification process between the two groups. Among other information, PlayerVerify.com helps players and sites around the world securely verify such information as proof of age, address and credit card information.
“PlayerVerify.com has developed a revolutionary secure system where players simply login, upload their documents and send a request to the gaming site for document approval,” says Mark Dalton of Player Verify, LLC. “With PlayerVerify.com, players and gaming sites alike can be confident that sensitive personal information remains private.”
Most gaming sites require highly sensitive personal information for both registration and use. With the threat of identity theft ever-present, players and gaming sites need to ensure they are utilizing secure services to both protect against this threat and to provide peace of mind. With PlayerVerify.com, instead of faxing or e-mailing sensitive documents, players can upload all of their document verification details through one portal. PlayerVerify.com then makes this information accessible to specific gaming sites or operators, who then obtain the information through an access code provided by the player.
PlayerVerify.com provides online gamers with many account security features. Players can see who is viewing their personal documents in real-time and have real-time accessibility to whether those documents are approved or denied. In addition, players have exclusive access to a log that lists who viewed uploaded documents and when, providing an added layer of security. Users can learn almost instantly if an unauthorized person or site is trying to gain access to their information. Players also have the ability to lock their documents upon approval from the gaming site, further preventing unauthorized access.
Online gaming sites also have many benefits to using PlayerVerify.com. Gaming site operators no longer need to sort through faxes or e-mails that contain the personal details of their players. In addition, gaming sites no longer need to worry about how to properly and safely store or dispose of this critical information. Operators can also benefit from PlayerVerify.com’s online approval/denial services and can quickly send requests for further information from players.
For more information about PlayerVerify.com’s revolutionary online system for online gaming players and gaming sites, visit www.playerverify.com.
About Player Verify, LLC
Player Verify, LLC’s founder is intimately familiar with all aspects of responsible gaming and efficient verification. As a result, Player Verify introduces a whole new level of security into the gaming experience. The company is registered with the state of Tennessee.