Are you comfortable with sharing KYC data with casinos?

[Satofan44]

Same because as long as there are no-KYC casinos out there that's legitimate and won't screw you over when you win a substantial amount, I will not share any of my data on a casino. I think I won't ever be comfortable sharing my personal details online, even when I was job hunting, I feel some cringe within me because I know that there are some fuckers out there selling personal data to be bombarded with ads through email and phone numbers.

Smart. A lot of people are getting hacked through social media that is disguised as a job or business platform such as LinkedIn. If you don't expose yourself and don't share data, nothing can leak and you won't be targeted at all. I have not even received any spam email in ages. Everything is possible is sufficient knowledge is acquired and a proper plan is developed. Most people are using these things as mindless zombies, because that is precisely what they are.

We've been over this, you can't compare utilities like banks to services like gambling platforms and exchanges. These are entirely different categories of things. Therefore, utilities are going to require data from you for various legal reasons, and that is fine because you need them. Services are optional, and you can live your life without them. There is no valid reason for services to ask for KYC, and there is no valid reason for a person to provide the KYC either.

It's depends, some people put themselves in some problems that the two options they is difficult, either they submit KYC or they abandon their money on which ever platform they used. For example, some people have their money locked in a casino or a centralized exchange and only way to make withdrawal is if they fulfill the KYC requirement. If the money on that account is big, some people will end up submitting the KYC.

I don't agree at all that this is a valid reason to submit KYC, and continue with my strict stand that there is never a valid reason to provide KYC for services. In the particular case that you have given, I will give you 3 reasons why:
1. There are legal ways to bypass this depending on where it happened and how.
2. There are possibly illegal ways to bypass this depending on the circumstances.
3. This is a risk that the person must have accepted at the time when they were making a decision to play somewhere where this could happen. A lot of people choose to ignore and dismiss this because they have to accept responsibility for their actions, and if they weren't aware of the risk at the time it would mean that they have to admit that they acted in a stupid way -- most humans have weak minds and try to avoid this.

I'll share how I deal with this case very easily and continue my strict no KYC stance. For simplicity sake, let's assume that there are no legal or illegal ways to bypass this on the platform that is in question. If for whatever God forsaken reason I find a need or have an unjustifiable want to use a platform where KYC may happen I accept any risk that comes with this. If it is a casino: I accept that I may be unable to withdraw what I deposit or that I may have to forfeit losses. If it is a swap platform, I accept that I may lose the amount that is currently being transacted. It is as simple as that. With the swap platforms it is even easier. For example you may need to exchange $5000. You can split that up into several transactions let's say 10 transactions of $500 and this ensures several things for you:
1) You are probing the platform to see what happens.
2) You are at any time risking a maximum of $500 or 10%.
3) Even if one transaction ends up failing, your total cost for the operation has gone down significantly. For example if you have transacted $4000 and now lose $500, you stop and your cost (calling it a loss is incorrect) will be 12.5%.

Nevertheless, the best thing by far is to never use a service where this can happen rather than find justifications for doing the wrong thing (submitting KYC).

[NurseHub]

I don't like to share my personal details with any casino. But most of this casino is registered and requests KYC, so I have no other choice but to give it out. But mostly this KYC is requested when you win big as a bettor. And sometimes it's when an account is suspected. Personal information is always difficult to set out, even in banks. I can't be comfortable. But I really want that huge win that required KYC in this 2026 hehehe.

Most of us gives out our KYC requirements to casinos out of necessity not like we are overwhelmingly happy to give it to them or to any platforms, it has become a standard to be ready to fill your KYC. I think what we should lookout for is whether the platform we want to give our personal information is reputable, if it is we just have to overlook whatever reservations that we have about releasing our KYC and just do it. I don't mind to be asked for my KYC requirements to collect a big win it won't be a problem for me.

Unfortunately even reputable casinos can have data leaks so no personal information is 100% secure. Of course if casino is reputable they can hire better security expert, so they are more secure than some less known casino, but we never know when breach will happen. And like you said we need to weight between our private data or withdrawing funds and if we have significant funds the decision makjng process could be quite challenging.

Casinos that require KYC know this about necessity that's why it's required when you win big so that you will submit it out of pressure to take your wins. And that in my opinion is a very wicked act by casinos.

Big casinos or reputable casinos as you called it has more protection because they deal with both the elites and the important ordinary people but where the problem is, is the fact that they have more attacks from hackers to get the informations of important people leaked so reputable casino is not even better than unknown casinos in securing our KYC.

[jossiel]

Casinos that require KYC know this about necessity that's why it's required when you win big so that you will submit it out of pressure to take your wins. And that in my opinion is a very wicked act by casinos.

I don't think that's out of pressure but that's usually an essential thing for most casinos these days.

If a gambler has won so much and about to withdraw, it looks automated that they'll be subject to KYC.

While we do care for our identities, what's the matter mostly is about how they're kept and what if an intruder hacks their database.

[NurseHub]

Casinos that require KYC know this about necessity that's why it's required when you win big so that you will submit it out of pressure to take your wins. And that in my opinion is a very wicked act by casinos.

I don't think that's out of pressure but that's usually an essential thing for most casinos these days.

If a gambler has won so much and about to withdraw, it looks automated that they'll be subject to KYC.

While we do care for our identities, what's the matter mostly is about how they're kept and what if an intruder hacks their database.

You are right, if you win too much or frequent than usual or 70% of the users but in reality we can see thate even guys who have not won close to 10% of the users are required to submit KYC which means that as long as you're likely to take money out of the casino that needs KYC you will be asked for it, which is why I said it's wicked of them but what do we expect free without kyc that's not under this governments, as long as the governments are in control of what can happen then KYC is a necessity.

[tread93]

Most of regulated casinos have clause in their Terms and conditions that they can block the account and ask for personal data if they find users activity suspicious or even for no reason at all.

I have always been careful about sharing my personal data with such services. Not only because they can misuse my data, but I don't have any control of who can access my personal data. Also I don't know who they share it with and finally some unhappy employee can collect that data and sell it on black market.

What are your experiences with sharing personal data and opinions about stricter and stricter regulations that require users to share personal data for every withdrawal?

I mean its kind of something that you really can't get around if you want to make sure you get paid. You can try to bypass this with fake info but when you're found out your money is gone and there won't be anything you can do to get it back. It is definitely something that makes you on edge and I think it always well be now. Regulations get more strict and they require this info to operate legally.

[bubilas]

There's a good way to put a casino on the spot: you can verify your documents in advance. If you know that an online casino asks winners to provide documents, it's a good idea to do this in advance. They'll be happy to approve your documents, since your balance is empty. You can screenshot it and save it, or record your screen. And when you win at that casino, they won't be able to refuse to pay you out because your documents weren't verified.
After all, the green checkmark will already be in your profile details. My gambler friends did this and advised me to do the same.

[bakasabo]

There's a good way to put a casino on the spot: you can verify your documents in advance. If you know that an online casino asks winners to provide documents, it's a good idea to do this in advance. They'll be happy to approve your documents, since your balance is empty. You can screenshot it and save it, or record your screen. And when you win at that casino, they won't be able to refuse to pay you out because your documents weren't verified.
After all, the green checkmark will already be in your profile details. My gambler friends did this and advised me to do the same.

Casino are eligible to ask to verify documents once again and ask for something additional. Once Binance were asking people to re-verify account and required to shot video verification. People have already verified by passports or ID, but later they had to make a video where they were holding those documents, paper with current date. You can easily fail such verification due bad lightening. That does not mean that casino will do the same, but they could.

That is how video verification could look:

Please record a video, including the following information:

Withdrawal records：Please login to your account and show the withdrawal records in your account.

Communication records：Please show in the video the emails between you and Binance CS via this email.

You also need to appear in the video and hold the information page of your ID document, and repeat clearly the following sentence : "Today is the year/month/day, my account is applying for withdrawal of XXX coins with XXX amount. I confirm that it is my own operation. I am contacting Binance CS to resume the withdrawal function of my Binance account xxx@xxx.com "

Just imagine how easy it is to fail while completing these steps, or you can do something wrong or not how they expected it to be. The result of a fail might be "Fail to verify".

[MainIbem]

In the right sense, modern day (crypto) casino's are meant to be decentralised and offers privacy so I see no reason why they should be requesting for important documents of customers in the name of KYC, I really can't trust any casino with my personal data so im not comfortable with it, but on the other hands I really don't blame them cause if it was left for them they would done the other way round but due to government regulations on casino lots have to adjust their policies and start requesting for KYC at some point. Anyways my privacy matters even at that so im not comfortable with it.

[Ocham]

Op Transactions made through accounts without KYC are completely risky. The main reason for doing KYC is to protect your wallet or account from scams and unauthorized access, so your access remains secure. Personally, I am very cautious about KYC. Usually, when we open a wallet, we just complete some captcha s and the wallet becomes fully active. But that is not where the process truly ends. At the time of withdrawal, KYC is requested, which means the platform wants to ensure that no one other than you can withdraw or transact with the funds in your wallet. In my opinion, completing KYC and then carrying out transactions is very important. It helps keep your account or wallet safe and secure.

[Awaklara]

In the right sense, modern day (crypto) casino's are meant to be decentralised and offers privacy so I see no reason why they should be requesting for important documents of customers in the name of KYC, I really can't trust any casino with my personal data so im not comfortable with it, but on the other hands I really don't blame them cause if it was left for them they would done the other way round but due to government regulations on casino lots have to adjust their policies and start requesting for KYC at some point. Anyways my privacy matters even at that so im not comfortable with it.

But when we start feeling comfortable playing at a casino that eventually updates its terms and conditions, requiring us as customers to complete KYC verification, we might reluctantly do it. Even so, I also do KYC at some casinos that I consider reasonably trustworthy. I am more cautious with new casinos.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

In the right sense, modern day (crypto) casino's are meant to be decentralised and offers privacy so I see no reason why they should be requesting for important documents of customers in the name of KYC, I really can't trust any casino with my personal data so im not comfortable with it, but on the other hands I really don't blame them cause if it was left for them they would done the other way round but due to government regulations on casino lots have to adjust their policies and start requesting for KYC at some point. Anyways my privacy matters even at that so im not comfortable with it.

Were you trying to say that modern day crypto casinos were supposed to decentralised and make gamblers privacy a priority, and by this, have no business asking gamblers for their important documents in the name of kyc?
If this is what you meant to say, well, I would say that you are not far from the truth but unfortunately, you and I have seen that this modern day casinos are not decentralised as we hoped, many of them are heavily regulated by the government of the region or jurisdiction where the casino was registered and you and I also know that no government in any part of this world currently place any value on privacy..

So, most casinos as we see have no choice but to comply with every regulatory laws in their registered jurisdiction if they must continue to stay in business.

[Satofan44]

Casinos that require KYC know this about necessity that's why it's required when you win big so that you will submit it out of pressure to take your wins. And that in my opinion is a very wicked act by casinos.

It is wicked. People who defend these practices are most often clueless idiots. There are several groups of those that provide excuses. For example, one group of people incorrectly compares this to the case of crypto exchanges where you need to submit KYC (or before, you could use them without and then get asked for it). This is completely incorrect as in those cases the users are withdrawing their own money, and in the case of casino they are most often withdrawing wins from the casino. That means that those wins make the casino lose money, therefore they have an incentive to try to stop them in any concealable way that seems legitimate. KYC is being used in manipulative ways in order to try to get some people to abandon those wins.

Some others defend it in the sense that the casino wants to make sure that you are withdrawing the money, which is again complete nonsense. A sudden large win on the account has nothing to do with compromised accounts, they are entirely unrelated events. Even if the user had submitted some level of KYC already, additional KYC does not guarantee that it is the same user. It can be faked in many ways, or the original user can even be coerced to produce documents for the KYC.

[ovcijisir]

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Some others defend it in the sense that the casino wants to make sure that you are withdrawing the money, which is again complete nonsense. A sudden large win on the account has nothing to do with compromised accounts, they are entirely unrelated events. Even if the user had submitted some level of KYC already, additional KYC does not guarantee that it is the same user. It can be faked in many ways, or the original user can even be coerced to produce documents for the KYC.

Id like to add that usually they do not worry that users are underage, if he is playing over VPN, if he has legitimate personal documents up to the point where user wants to withdraw the funds. Then suddenly they become vigilant about minors gambling, VPN usage and personzl documents.

Like you said, documents can be faked and videos can be generated with AI and unfortunately innocent people who didnt read TOC and are worried about their privacy pay the toll and are forced to leave their funds in the casino.

[Cointxz]

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Some others defend it in the sense that the casino wants to make sure that you are withdrawing the money, which is again complete nonsense. A sudden large win on the account has nothing to do with compromised accounts, they are entirely unrelated events. Even if the user had submitted some level of KYC already, additional KYC does not guarantee that it is the same user. It can be faked in many ways, or the original user can even be coerced to produce documents for the KYC.

Id like to add that usually they do not worry that users are underage, if he is playing over VPN, if he has legitimate personal documents up to the point where user wants to withdraw the funds. Then suddenly they become vigilant about minors gambling, VPN usage and personzl documents.

It’s the typical behavior of the casino. They don’t act aggressive to the players account that much because they consider them as valuable customers when they do deposit.

The concern arise when the money is going out of the casino especially when the account demonstrates some irregularities on their gambling activities.

They will find different ways to make the funds stay on the casino.

[Tipstar]

Most of regulated casinos have clause in their Terms and conditions that they can block the account and ask for personal data if they find users activity suspicious or even for no reason at all.

I have always been careful about sharing my personal data with such services. Not only because they can misuse my data, but I don't have any control of who can access my personal data. Also I don't know who they share it with and finally some unhappy employee can collect that data and sell it on black market.

What are your experiences with sharing personal data and opinions about stricter and stricter regulations that require users to share personal data for every withdrawal?

It's sad but were are in a time in history where there's no privacy at all, none of my personal data are personal and everything is open to grab for anyone.
It would have been better if there existed a central authority that did the KYC and worked for every sites rather than doing KYC for each one.
I just hope my identity won't be misused by any other impersonating me. There are already many ways the technology is trying to make transactions safer and until I have full access to my funds, It's not worth being tormented about your data being sold in darkweb as we all know, most of our data are already there and there's nothing we can do to stop it now.

[IsraelK]

Personally? No. Handing over passports and selfies just to place a bet feels backwards.
That’s why bitcoin-betting makes more sense to me, no KYC hoops, no data sitting on some casino server, just fast deposits, fast payouts, and privacy intact. Bet the game, not your identity.

[Satofan44]

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Some others defend it in the sense that the casino wants to make sure that you are withdrawing the money, which is again complete nonsense. A sudden large win on the account has nothing to do with compromised accounts, they are entirely unrelated events. Even if the user had submitted some level of KYC already, additional KYC does not guarantee that it is the same user. It can be faked in many ways, or the original user can even be coerced to produce documents for the KYC.

Id like to add that usually they do not worry that users are underage, if he is playing over VPN, if he has legitimate personal documents up to the point where user wants to withdraw the funds. Then suddenly they become vigilant about minors gambling, VPN usage and personzl documents.

Like you said, documents can be faked and videos can be generated with AI and unfortunately innocent people who didnt read TOC and are worried about their privacy pay the toll and are forced to leave their funds in the casino.

Good point, this is exactly a prime example of bullshit that is being used to create a legitimate narrative. If they worried about those things, they would worry about them from the start of the process -- from the registration throughout the play time and to the final process of withdrawing. Those that are inconsistent in what they do, should not be believed in what they say especially when it comes to situation where the incentives are misaligned. The casino has an incentive here to prevent one from withdrawing massive winnings. Furthermore, these situations give them a lot of play room in trying to find ways to justify their behavior in order to avoid ruining their reputation.

It’s the typical behavior of the casino. They don’t act aggressive to the players account that much because they consider them as valuable customers when they do deposit.

The concern arise when the money is going out of the casino especially when the account demonstrates some irregularities on their gambling activities.

They will find different ways to make the funds stay on the casino.

I blame all sides involved that this is still a thing though. From the side of regulators, they should not allow it -- as I say, only concerns that are consistent should be considered valid. On the side of users, they should boycott casinos that behave this way. A combined effort would purge this junk behavior from the scene pretty fast. The problem from the player comes from the fact that they are very tolerating of all sorts of malicious behavior, their standards are quite low.

[virasisog]

Nope, I don't really feel comfortable sharing my personal information or doing KYC verification, but if it is a something that needs to be done and the one who requires it is a trusted company then I am willing to comply with it.
Not just in casino or gambling but also in trading sites, there are plenty of gambling sites nowadays and some of them doesn't really requires a KYC verification so it is all up to us if we want to continue with it or look for a similar one that doesn't requires a KYC but still have a good reputation.

[dunfida]

Most of regulated casinos have clause in their Terms and conditions that they can block the account and ask for personal data if they find users activity suspicious or even for no reason at all.

I have always been careful about sharing my personal data with such services. Not only because they can misuse my data, but I don't have any control of who can access my personal data. Also I don't know who they share it with and finally some unhappy employee can collect that data and sell it on black market.

What are your experiences with sharing personal data and opinions about stricter and stricter regulations that require users to share personal data for every withdrawal?

It's sad but were are in a time in history where there's no privacy at all, none of my personal data are personal and everything is open to grab for anyone.
It would have been better if there existed a central authority that did the KYC and worked for every sites rather than doing KYC for each one.
I just hope my identity won't be misused by any other impersonating me. There are already many ways the technology is trying to make transactions safer and until I have full access to my funds, It's not worth being tormented about your data being sold in darkweb as we all know, most of our data are already there and there's nothing we can do to stop it now.

Yes, everything could be known now specially if the government would be that wanting to impose KYC on everything. Just like been said by most people on here is that even on our daily transactions on real life on which it do required some ID on which means or some documents on which it will already that expose when we do speak about identity. Now we are speaking about gambling in casinos on which they are now asking for verification because if you dont then you wont be able to proceed when it comes on making some withdrawal on which means that we dont have any choices but to comply on whats being asked if you dont like on having that holded up withdrawal. Also, there are indeed those people who doesnt want KYC and thats why they do skipped out on playing on a particular casino and looking for something else.

Actually there are still casinos which doesnt have that KYC but it wont be shocking that sooner or later on which they will be making up such transition specially if the regulation will be that keep on tighten on which these business owners ending up on having no choice.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Nope, I don't really feel comfortable sharing my personal information or doing KYC verification, but if it is a something that needs to be done and the one who requires it is a trusted company then I am willing to comply with it.
Not just in casino or gambling but also in trading sites, there are plenty of gambling sites nowadays and some of them doesn't really requires a KYC verification so it is all up to us if we want to continue with it or look for a similar one that doesn't requires a KYC but still have a good reputation.

Rest assured any online casino that doesn't not require kyc isnt legally registered, and I know registration doesn't mean much to alot of us gamblers but this is supposed to contribute to how much we rate a casino in terms of reputation, a casino that can one day decide to pack all the money belonging to their users and run away without any body being able to trace them, not even the government shouldnt be counted as reputable.

And lets not forget that some casinos remain kyc free as long as you the gambler keep losing money to them, or keep a minimal amount in winnings, the moment luck smiles on you and you win a significant amount of money, story changes, you will discover that a casino that was supposed to be a non-kyc casino have automatically turned into a kyc casino 😂