09.13.08
You will need to send documents to claim your winnings
Online casinos request the winners who want to make a withdrawal to send identification documents in order to claim and receive their winnings.
I will not go into the withdrawal methods and where is the best place to play and withdrawal the winnings as fast as possible.
I will go over the reasons for an online casino to request identification documents from the winners, why you should do it and whether it’s safe to send the online casinos your identification documents.
There are various reasons for which the online casino requires your identification documents and they are as follows:
1. Fraud prevention – There were cases of stolen credit cards being used to play in online casinos. Most of the online casinos has fraud prevention mechanism but they still want to verify that the payment method used by the client, actually belongs to the client.
2. Anti Money Laundering laws – where as the client’s identity is needed in order to send money to prevent money laundering.
3. Terrorism related laws – following the September 11th events, new regulation where ruled regarding online transactions in order to prevent money to reaching the terrorist groups.
Online casinos has no intention of revealing your identity to the authorities as they want you to come and play at their casino again and again and doing that will decrease their chances of you coming back to play there.
Therefore sending your identification documents is safe and you should be able to trust the online casino you play in, especially if it’s a known brand.