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