Caution against joining Party Poker

[bornready]

They asked for drivers license, passport and photocopies of front and back of credit card. Money laundering a few hundred dollars??Yeah big time crim here [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Im surprised other people consider emailing those identification documents around is a normal thing to do? What happens when someone in that organization decides the database of everyone's passport and credit card images, might be worth a LOT of money and sells it on? You need those things to open bank accounts and to conduct large withdrawls. You just dont email images of those things to non-government agencies. Especially not to unregulated private companies.

[ShipitFMA]

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They asked for drivers license, passport and photocopies of front and back of credit card. Money laundering a few hundred dollars??Yeah big time crim here [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Im surprised other people consider emailing those identification documents around is a normal thing to do? What happens when someone in that organization decides everyone's passport and credit card images might be worth some money and sells it on?

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A crime is a crime none the less.
As for the people at party poker, a corporation like that would have extensive measures to stop that happening. PLUS you would be able to sue them as they've breached one of their agreements

[bornready]

Sue them? Good luck. Do you know what country their head office is registered in? Where would you even send your lawyer?

If you put a copy of your passport, credit card signature, bank account details and drivers license, into a private and unregulated companies' database, you are asking for big trouble. That databse would be worth a fortune and in the wrong hands... I'm very surprised that others here have done that.

And as honest as any company is, there are always dishonest people within them.

[ShipitFMA]

OP, there is no solution other then sending them the info that they require.

[sonneti]

I think you'd be somewhere near the bottom of the list for identity theft.

[2easy]

cliff notes: i'm underage (?)

[cardcounter0]

bornready, feeling as you do, why are you attempting to gamble online? Since you have such strong convictions, you should never attempt to conduct any type of transaction online. Good Luck.

[TimWillTell]

You are new to poker, that's a genuine excuse for not being aware off the following: this type of mistake you made, is frequently misused by scammers.

PartyPoker has no other choice then to act this way.

[[Phill]]

Its always people with zero posts. Why is the ratio of new posters to current posts being 'screwed' by a site around the 1:8 mark?

And thats just the ones who come here to report it, instead of cutting their losses for money laundering attempts etc.

[Guthrie]

Clearly, online poker is not for you. Maybe you should consider bird watching as a hobby.