Thanks From Player Verify!

Despite our efforts in providing a licensed, secure upload system for U.S. online gamblers to share their personal documents with newly launched online casino's in Nevada and New Jersey we're sorry to inform our supporters that PlayerVerify.com has shut down. We still feel confident that our system and additional features offered are needed within the U.S. iGaming industry but due to a lack of interest from the casino's themselves and the lack of enforcement or concern from those who monitor their activity, we have no chance in this market.

                                     It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.”

U.S. iGaming Forum

Player Verify has launched a new iGaming forum on our site at www.playerverify.com.

The forum is very clean and simple but includes areas to discuss U.S. iGaming news, Nevada iGaming, New Jersey iGaming and Delaware iGaming.

We've also added a support forum for Player Verify along with a Lounge for general chit chat and a suggestion forum.

Come get on board with our new online forum, comments, complaints and suggestions welcome.

A direct link to the forum is: www.casinochitchat.com  and also www.pokerchitchat.com.

You can also maneuver the pages on PlayerVerify.com and the forum link is at the bottom of the page.

 

Stop Online Gambling PII Scattering

Many whom are newbie's to the new U.S. iGaming industry might say what's PII? PII stands for personal identifiable information, as described here on Wikipedia.

I've followed the iGmaing industry for many years, most offshore gambling sites, not all ask for PII through unsecured means such as email, API's, Chat and other un-vetted ways. This process has now been introduced within the U.S. too. The mission here at Player Verify is to provide a secure central hub for the sharing of PII between an online gambler and online gambling Website.

Being that our process takes place at one central location removes the scattering of your personal identifiable information through several platforms and moves it to one secure hub for the process to take place. PlayerVerify.com is a secure, licensed conduit for the process to take place and has been fully vetting by the Nevada Gaming Commission and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.

You might be scratching your head right now, saying that iGaming sites are secure. You're correct most of them are but when they  allow email requests for your PII, email isn't a secure form of transmitting personal information and makes more stops on the Internet than the Las Vegas strip. Email can be breached and read when sent from one location to another. Another problem with email is typing the wrong address in your browser and sendind your PII to an unintended party. Also scammers will purchase domain names close to the gaming sites name and request your PII which again could be sent to an unintended party by mistake.

There's probably some very secure API's and chat systems for uploading PII but it's of my opinion these sites and systems should be vetted and licensed by the regulatory commissions because it only takes one bad apple within these companies to gain access to your information. I could currently name at least two systems being used by legal licensed U.S. online gambling sites that have been hacked and PII stolen in 2013. For good measure I won't point fingers, name names but it's a fact.

A handful of iGaming sites provide their own upload system within their software platform which is secure in my opinion but again it's PII scattering through multiple platforms and servers. Did you know that when you upload your personal document information to an iGaming Website your data is backed up on their server for up to 10 years? That's unacceptable since once your information is approved you should have access to remove your personal information back off the server.

Once a player's PII documents are approved by the gaming site on Player Verify, if you want you can completely remove your documents from our server once approved. But due to our secure one of a kind system you can also store your PII documents and leave them within your account too, if you'd like. You retain full contol of your PII when it's online.

For player's to use the PlayerVerify.com system we must get legal U.S. iGaming sites on board for our system to work securely. To date it's surprisingly been hard to get any Nevada or New Jersey online gambling sites to sign up at Player Verify. There seems to be a resistance with legal gambling sites wanting to get on board despite a central hub like ours being the most secure way for players to keep control of thier PII online.

If you agree with the above comments we ask players to send an email to your iGaming site and tell them you'd like to share your PII requests via PlayerVerify.com.

If you're not comfortable with the way any legal iGaming site in Nevada or New Jersey are requesting your personal identifiable information you can file a complaint here.

Nevada Gaming Control Board, click.

New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, click.

We must all pull together and stop the scattering of PII across the Internet within the iGaming industry.

 

 

 

Better Location, Casino Journal eGaming Magazine.

As more states legalize eGaming, vendors boost offerings that streamline the player location and verification processes

Player Verify always appreciates when our site is mentioned within eGaming publications, we were recently mentioned within CasinoJournal.com eGaming magazine's online Website.

Writer James Hodl outlines Geolocation solutions key for U.S. casino's considering eGaming and I thought I'd share the link.

Here's the article link but you will need to sign up to read the full article.

Click Here!

Is U.S. Geo-Location Effective?

Some interesting press today...

It appears that geo-location isn't as fool proof as everyone wished, at least from this article and sub links. It's becoming clearer to me now why more and more OC's are requesting notarized documents and in the future where even a video displaying a player is logged in the site/account and also capturing the players pic during the video process.

I was a against the above before but it appears extra steps still need to be taken at least within the U.S. market for full legalization. For the record you can already upload ID video's, if requested to your PlayerVerify.com account. 

As the FBI confirmed, "Individuals may use a wide variety of mechanisms to conceal their physical location, or give the appearance of operating in a different jurisdiction …" This statement is easily proven using scientifically verifiable and undetectable methods to demonstrate how a person located in Pakistan can play poker on a system located inside New Jersey. We know because we have done it.

Good read, click here!