I’ve been giving this some thought since reading Dom’s post.
It seems to me that if the casinos are serious about wanting to pay people but are worried about fraud;
and that they are not using these requirements as a ploy to get out of paying players
then I have the answer. ( I bet the casinos won’t go for it because I think that most of them can’t see the dollar for the dime in front of them; thus the reason they shave us) meaning that the fax-back forms and hoops are there as a way to discourage paying winners.
but if they are truly ONLY worried about sending money to someplace it should not be going;
then instead of asking for all the outrageous info they ask for in a fax-back form.
they simply state that there are two things required to get a cash-in;
1. email confirmation: YOU MUST ENTER A VALID EMAIL ADDRESS UPON SIGNUP BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT WE WILL USE TO CONFIRM ANY AND ALL CASH-INS
plus
2. Phone confirmation: a simple call from the casino to the phone# given during sign up to confirm the cashin is to be paid to that address.
Now you can’t tell me that wouldn’t work for 99% of the time.
if I’m wrong; please show me how? I can’t think of any situation where the casino could be frauded (successfully) by someone when they ask for a verbal and email combined confirmation.
The only possibilities I can think of where another party would have access to both the afore mentioned methods to attempt to fraud; would be someone living in the home.
In which case the check would still arrive in the mail made out to the legit person’s name; and to their mail box where they’d likely have first crack at seeing the letter (check).
NETeller and other such would be even harder to use to fraud the casino. since the winnings would always be credited to the email address that was entered upon signup.
anybody see any holes in that?
so if that’s the case; the question then becomes…..
do the casinos want to pay the winners or not?
the #1 thing I hear from skeptics about playing online isn’t that the games are or might be fixed.
Its this: “why if they didn’t need all that info to take my money; do they need it to pay me?”
I think that the extra players = income that would be brought in by changing this around; would more than make up for anything extra lost due to fraud and not asking for all the rediculous information.