Age Verification Guide

Filed under Identity Verification on June 28, 2008 04:10:24 PM.

When Parliament passed the Gambling Act in April 2005, it established the first formal regulation of the remote gaming industry in the UK. Mobile operators in the UK have adopted a Code of Conduct requiring them to control access to adult content as of the beginning of 2005. The intention of this code is that parents and carers should have the ability to restrict children’s access only to suitable content. The code covers various types of content, including visual content, online gambling, mobile gaming & gambling, chat rooms and Internet access.

Much of the focus has centred on verifying the age of players in order to protect minors and vulnerable people from accessing restricted products and services. Mobile Casino providers need to ensure they are not allowing under 18s to gamble on their casinos. Age Verification is not necessary just to keep the regulator happy. The reputation of your casino would be tarnished if your brand is dragged through the press for allowing children to gamble online or your site is fined and forced to return stake money for letting minors gamble.

There are many independent age verification service providers offering real-time information on a given set of details provided by the customer wishing to gamble. The service providers check the details against various database sources such as:

Electoral Rolls
BT Directory Enquiries Database
List of Deceased Individuals
Shared Database on UK's leading financial institutions
Global Password Registration Data
ER Driving Licence Documentation
List of UK Company Directors
UK Business Universe
Global Name and address files

How Age Verification Works:

User enters details on mobile phone and submits them
Casino Server receives details and forwards them to a third party age verification provider
Provider check against database sources and responds to Casino Server a yes or no
Server forwards answer to mobile phone
User is allowed to gamble or asked to re-enter details

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