Identity Verification for Gambling

Online gambling and gaming verification is the process of confirming that users are who they claim to be and that they’re eligible to use your platform. This includes identity and age verification, as well as payment method and geolocation checks to ensure compliance and reduce risk.

Verification is critical for fraud prevention and regulatory compliance across online gambling verticals—including sports betting, casino games, horse racing, lotteries, and poker. It helps prevent account takeover, bonus abuse, multi-accounting, payment fraud, money laundering, and identity theft. Platforms can also restrict access based on age, legal authorization to wager, or involvement in criminal activity.

When choosing identity verification software for gambling, ensure a platform has the following components:

• ID verification: Verifies government-issued identity documents for their validity and compares against user-provided information;
• Biometric authentication: Uses technology like facial biometrics with liveness detection to ensure the person signing up is the real holder of the identity document;
• Age verification: Uses a combination of ID verification and biometrics as well as third-party data to confirm a person is the legal age to play; Multi-factor authentication: Combines these methods to verify identity in various log-in scenarios, including account changes, payouts, and purchases.

In addition, identity verification software for gambling should offer a smooth user experience with streamlined onboarding to ensure little friction to users and be 100% compliant with any privacy standards, AML/KYC processes, and industry regulations to avoid fines.

AuthenticID’s age verification solution confirms a user’s age for online gambling and gaming through document scanning, facial estimation, or a combination of both. Users can verify their age with a government-issued ID, a selfie, or start with one method and trigger the other for step-up authentication.

Selfie Age Verify uses cutting edge, real-time facial estimation to determine a user’s age—without requiring an ID—and includes liveness detection to prevent advanced spoofing. If a user’s estimated age doesn’t meet requirements or falls outside a defined threshold, document verification is initiated.

Document Age Verify leverages fast, accurate ID scanning to extract the user’s date of birth and issue a pass/fail decision. Backed by AuthenticID’s proprietary machine learning and over 2,000 computer vision models, the system verifies ID authenticity and captures all required PII.

For additional validation and underwriting, platforms can prompt users to submit both an ID and a selfie.

Online gaming and gambling are heavily regulated with a diverse set of government regulations around the globe. AuthenticID’s identity verification platform complies with all gaming industry regulations to ensure full compliance and avoid hefty fines. Our platform includes age verification to ensure compliance with age restriction regulations. 

AuthenticID’s solution is fully compliant with KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) regulations, helping organizations prevent fraud, detect suspicious activity, and meet due diligence requirements. Compliance is enforced through robust identity document verification and transaction-level monitoring tied to each user.