How can casinos for 18 year olds ensure that players truly respect the min age?

[Cityhunter34]

Simple KYC.
Desperate gamblers under 18 years old will surely want to gamble by all means so they lie about the age. So, casinos should take KYC compulsory because that is the only way they can control age factor in gambling. On the other hand, casinos do careless about that these few years.

Of course over too desperate is what is really causing many under 18 years old nowadays to find a way into gambling industry. Actually lying is always the strategy that they normally used when making registration in casinos. However, just like as you mentioned I think if all casinos can be able to make it as mandatory in their KYC process, that is when they are going to find it difficult.

[Apocollapse]

The players always able to escape that, making the casinos have no solid way to make sure their gamblers are at least 18 years old. I don't see it's a problem for the casinos because they only have to try few possible way to make sure the accounts were owned by at least 18 years old people.

If the players are actually lying, using someone else identity or doing other illegal thing in order to claim to be 18 years old, the casinos will not get a problem from authority since they've did their best.

[jcojci]

Casinos will know by asking KYC to their members.

Although casinos may difficult to make sure their users are over 18 years old or not, their member's identities will be enough for casinos to hold.

We just don't know how casinos checks the identity of their members but they will have a way doing that. But casinos will not tell the ways to public how they do that.

Casinos will do many ways to prevent underage gambling because they don't want to get a problem from regulator. If they can run their business smoothly, they just think about how to make their casino develop and big.

The important thing is they will follow the rules from regulator and not cheat their members.

[bitbollo]

in some cases, for what I have seen with "official" casino online, this can be just a "trick" to not pay further winning or to blame the gambler in a second time (you provide fake KYC).
you don't want to go for a KYC = I will complete it in case of winning. Meanwhile, a lot of players continue to play even if they are not allowed there.
it's a complete error. in any case you will not be pay since or you lose or you will be just refused for payment.

[hedgeh0g]

in some cases, for what I have seen with "official" casino online, this can be just a "trick" to not pay further winning or to blame the gambler in a second time (you provide fake KYC).
you don't want to go for a KYC = I will complete it in case of winning. Meanwhile, a lot of players continue to play even if they are not allowed there.
it's a complete error. in any case you will not be pay since or you lose or you will be just refused for payment.

The thing is that many players are frivolous in choosing a casino with KYC, because at first they think that they will just play a little and that's it, but then they make a deposit and luck comes to them and they win a large sum of money. And only after this win, they begin to think. I want to say that we need to be more pragmatic and far-sighted in such situations, because we play to win, and not to lose in the end. So why not think about it more carefully in advance, so that later there will be no problems with the withdrawal of our winnings, if we are very lucky.

[TopTort777]

If online casinos were really checking and trying to ensure that a gambler behind the screen is an adult, that business would not be so popular and profitable today. As long as people keep bringing and losing money, the casino does not care about the age of a gambler. They only start to care a little when gambler tries to withdraw large amount, his gambling session is short, he isnt much active on the platform and his playstyle is suspicious. Why online casinos does not bother about age check also, is because there is no strict supervisory authority and casinos licenses does not cost a lot.

[aioc]

but what about casinos for 18 year olds that offer easy registration and withdrawals? How do they make sure players aren’t minors?

Are these measures enough to prevent underage gambling [/center]

They can't, they only ask for a comprehensive KYC; this is the internet; anything and everything can be impersonated.
The player is at risk of getting his account blocked and his IP if he violated the underage rules. The casino cannot assume they can only ask for comprehensive verification to prove their allegation; all their players are innocent unless proven that they are breaking the casino terms.

[ultrloa]

I’m curious how online casinos ensure that players are actually over 18 years old. How do they verify this information? For gambling sites with a KYC process, they can easily check this detail, but what about casinos for 18 year olds that offer easy registration and withdrawals? How do they make sure players aren’t minors?
I know that With the rise of streamlined and quick registration processes, maintaining proper age verification can be challenging. Many casinos implement additional measures, such as geolocation tracking or random ID checks, to ensure compliance with age restrictions.

Are these measures enough to prevent underage gambling

I guess the answer is KYC, most of the casino implement that and anyone cannot bypass this one especially if the casino is running legitimately and strictly impose this requirements.

If minors would use fake documents or rather go on unregulated casino which offer anonymous betting feature then provably that in future they might encounter an issue with those things since its either they might get caught up using fake id's or get scammed by unregulated casinos. Maybe there are some succeed for awhile but for sure they cannot prolong to do this activities since casino have ways to check if their clients are legitimate individuals.

[danherbias07]

Here in our country, the local online gambling application requires the cellphone number of the gambler for sign-up which means you will have to use that means and not through a Gmail account or any other. Now, every cellphone number today is registered to a person and it will enable the local online casino to ensure that the user is 18 years old and above. If proven that they are not at that age, they can easily freeze your account which means your balance or winnings are stuck there and unable to withdraw them.

[coin-investor]

I know that With the rise of streamlined and quick registration processes, maintaining proper age verification can be challenging. Many casinos implement additional measures, such as geolocation tracking or random ID checks, to ensure compliance with age restrictions.

Are these measures enough to prevent underage gambling [/center]

KYC is the only way to catch cheaters; all the others are useless. Geolocation tracking is only for double accounts when it comes to age and qualification; nothing beats KYC, where the user will provide his passport or national ID
With the user doing a selfie with the credentials he is holding and the code provided by the casino holding in another hand, underage gamblers will be caught using this method, unless he pays someone to do KYC for him, but eventually it will backfire.

[Gheka]

If online casinos were really checking and trying to ensure that a gambler behind the screen is an adult, that business would not be so popular and profitable today. As long as people keep bringing and losing money, the casino does not care about the age of a gambler. They only start to care a little when gambler tries to withdraw large amount, his gambling session is short, he isnt much active on the platform and his playstyle is suspicious. Why online casinos does not bother about age check also, is because there is no strict supervisory authority and casinos licenses does not cost a lot.

Agreed, the measures to determine the age of the players seem to be too sketchy, more precisely, this rule is only for dealing with government regulations because they can justify that they tried to prevent it but the underage players still know how to fake documents and pass the check, in the end the casino denies all responsibility. Honestly, there are too many strict ways to check age but that is the way that reduces profits too quickly, casinos cannot negotiate with the government on these issues and instead of fighting back, everything will seem more legitimate but come with loopholes

[MAAManda]

It is with KYC verification that Casino can know of the age of their players but just as you know there is always this breach again by the minors where they use older ones identity to get verification done. Personally I don’t think most of the Casinos do care about this breaches and that’s why they don’t press harder in terms of this.

The age barrier now is more like a disclaimer such that when the government entity decides to question them for allowing minors play in their casino they will simply say it was stated their and it was the minor that breach the rules and this most of the time saves them.

What you said is real, it even happens in my social environment, there are many underage teenagers who create accounts on e-money applications, actually they are not eligible, but they use their parents ID to get through. Therefore, awareness is also needed from the customer side, previously I mentioned it about the honesty. It's too complicated if we discuss this problem in detail, I just think at least I, the people around me & my family don't do it.

[348Judah]

I’m curious how online casinos ensure that players are actually over 18 years old. How do they verify this information? For gambling sites with a KYC process, they can easily check this detail, but what about casinos for 18 year olds that offer easy registration and withdrawals? How do they make sure players aren’t minors?
I know that With the rise of streamlined and quick registration processes, maintaining proper age verification can be challenging. Many casinos implement additional measures, such as geolocation tracking or random ID checks, to ensure compliance with age restrictions.

Are these measures enough to prevent underage gambling

For any new user registration on a gambling platform, they have to include the column for age and anyone found being underaged should be denied further privilege of continuing the registration, not only gambling has this age limit restriction, there are many things one may want to do and access denied until the age is 18 and above on other platforms as well, since most of the casinos are being regulated, then they must see to the effectiveness of this on all their sites and be consistent about it, taking additional efforts on kyc could also help on this.

[mdzahed134]

Without KYC casino owners will never find out about the actual age of their customers, most of the gambling platforms sign up process is very easy, just need email & password, and need to click the 18 years or above tick mark, but they didn’t ask about KYC, may be they believe their all of customers age 18 years or above that's it.

[Tipstar]

This is one of the issues that makes it almost illegal for online casinos to operate without KYC. They do have in their terms where they makes yourself liable of confirming your age is over 18 and do have related notifications but they can't verify it it the user is minor or not.
But looking at the numbers of minor gambling, I don't think it would be huge and there are very rare case of such things coming to light as kids have no access to large amount of money or credit card details. Kids might not be as interested in gambling as adults do. They'd rather love games and spend a lot more in buying skins and perks. Still juvenile involved in illegal gambling is a problem to both the casino and real adult gamblers.

[Findingnemo]

Do you mean the anonymous casinos? I guess there is no way to verify unless the warning triggers the KYC verification and yeah even the casinos with no mandatory verification can still asks for KYC details when they suspect the user is involving in money laundering or other illicit activities.

But KYC can be faked too, nowadays people use other's identity that can be bought for very cheap prices so the only way to verify the age is via liveness test but to only some extent.

[Agbamoni]

Simple KYC.
Desperate gamblers under 18 years old will surely want to gamble by all means so they lie about the age. So, casinos should take KYC compulsory because that is the only way they can control age factor in gambling. On the other hand, casinos do careless about that these few years.

Of course over too desperate is what is really causing many under 18 years old nowadays to find a way into gambling industry. Actually lying is always the strategy that they normally used when making registration in casinos. However, just like as you mentioned I think if all casinos can be able to make it as mandatory in their KYC process, that is when they are going to find it difficult.

There is always something that triggers desperateness. One i is abject poverty, this is why i am always against underage pregnancy and people who giving birth to multiple children that they give the necessary training to the child. Most underage gamblers you see today are either finding way to survive in the hard economy. The world isn't favoring them, and their parents are incapable of taking good care of their them. So, if not for fast money what will make a 16 year old go into gambling.

[Yucky]

It's quite hard for online casinos without strict KYC policy to determine minors in their casino because these minors have phones; they could even use VPNs to change their location or certain things just to play. And I don't think a casino that doesn't have a strict KYC policy would even want to know the age of their gamblers; otherwise, they would have put a KYC in place to gatekeep their casino, but they didn't.

it might be possible to identify minors in physical casinos - I mean, when they walk in and everything. But online casinos are quite difficult; you want to know their age, it's only through a casino that uses KYC that you can make progress in catching minors.

[cryptoaddictchie]

I’m curious how online casinos ensure that players are actually over 18 years old. How do they verify this information? For gambling sites with a KYC process, they can easily check this detail, but what about casinos for 18 year olds that offer easy registration and withdrawals? How do they make sure players aren’t minors?

Some probably uses their parents or fake KYC address that above requirements. But surely there are some gamblers who play below 18 yrs old. Some gambling sites doesnt have KYC so they can register but in the case of the withdrawal if ever they got a lot of profits or gambling rewards they must have asked kyc and they will use someone KYC let say their parents.

[DaNNy001]

It's simply by strict implementation of KYC rule, lots of bookmakers and casino sites have KYC registration but I don't know why they allow it to get bypassed, most teenagers gain access to these sites without going through proper verification.. sometimes I feel it's because these casinos don't care about age limit anymore they are just after making money which is very wrong...if irresponsible gambling keeps increasing daily imagine what the next generation would look like...This is something that shouldn't be taken for granted because lots of underage kids are getting addicted.