Topic: Concerns grow over online gambling among teens (Read 3370 times)

Gambling amongst kids could be more of real competitions with friends, than online casinos. Subsequently, they now begin to wager online when their peers are not close or nearby. But since the requirement for kyc is getting strict on underaged players, teenagers easily gamble with cards games in school during break time. Because they'll want to double their money. However, I've read of children that convinces their grown relatives to stand for them regarding KYC. Which is quite degenerating on the adult's end, for accepting to do such for a younger sibling.

Yes, maybe this is what is meant by the negative impact of technological developments. when children do not get good supervision from their parents and with a high sense of curiosity from a teenager, it is certainly easy to access online gambling. for land-based casinos, I think teenagers will definitely have problems getting in. but for online gambling, everything can be tricked by the intelligence of children related to technology today.

For some reason, I think telling teenagers is more difficult than people the same age as us or older. they are teenagers who have their thoughts that must be done without interference from others. it's just that with gambling activities at their age, it is very risky to cause other crimes. that's what I'm afraid of.

I think even though the casino provides KYC as a requirement to be able to participate in the game or to be able to make a withdrawal when a minor wins a number of wins, there are still other possibilities that they can do, such as using their family members' personal data secretly or asking for help from one of their older friends to solve the problem so that they can participate in the game or to be able to make a withdrawal.

Basically, if we talk about it, there are actually many possibilities that a child can do, and in the end, of course, for this restriction issue, it should actually go back to their parents, because other people will not care about your safety unless you yourself apply various restrictions.

In the case you mentioned, I can say that this case also often occurs in my area, and with the development of the era that is now increasingly sophisticated, along with the gambling industry that has now entered social media in promotional practices, I think parents should know about these concerns so that they can limit all access that can connect a child to gambling.

It is not unusual for many children to be able to outsmart things that they could not do before, this is the encouragement of increasingly developing technology and they themselves are already familiar with current technology that makes many things easier. Is it possible that this happens because of the lack of supervision from their parents, because of course parents will not be able to supervise their children all day long because they must have their own activities, so parents have no choice but to let go of their supervision of their children.
There is no doubt that there are currently many illegal casinos operating even in countries that actually prohibit gambling, in fact I think it is only natural that many still access it even though it is prohibited in their country because of the lack of strict supervision by the government, maybe the government has even issued a warning but that does not stop people from gambling online.

Well, even if the casino allows to play without KYC, most would not allow the children (the players) to withdraw unless they do the KYC. If you want to stop the teens and children from accessing the casino, the first restrictions should come from the parents and only depend on the casino to filter out teens on the basis of KYC.

I can give you the example here where a kid or a teem can only gamble if his parents give him the money to gamble. KYC is a later thing, how come the parents give the children access to the laptop and the money to gamble? In many cases, children play from their parents account and the parents know about it. So, i would blame the parents for not stopping them from gambling and later when something bad happens, they blame the casino's policies etc.

Well, I personally have come across a teen, a 15 years old boy who save up money he was being given for snacks by his parent when ever he was leaving for school without breakfast, this boy saved up the money and when it was tangible enough, a friend who was also a teen though older, lead him to where he used the money to play lotto, it's popularly referred to as "baba ijebu" here in my country.

Luckily for the boy, the numbers he selected played and he won over $30,000, but unfortunately, he died few minutes after learning about his win.
What happened was that, after seeing that the numbers he selected played, and was told how much he won, he literally went out of his mind, he started shouting on top of his voice jumping up and down, when some people there tried to get hold of him, he ran away, he took off his shirt and short, ran around necked wearing only boxers(inner pants), eventually he ran into the express and a bus at a top speed knocked him down, he died on the way while he was being rushed to the hospital.

Teens do gamble for sure, the fact you have not seen one does not rule away the fact that teens gamble, and it's not good for them since their brains are not yet developed enough for the surprises that comes with gambling.

In this era of the internet, teens and even the underaged have access to it, it's just to have access to a mobile device that is connected online and they can access whatever they want. I don't think that there is a data that can accurately capture the exact number of teens that gambles. The problem with teen gambling especially those that are below 18 years is that they are not matured enough to gamble responsibly, most of them still depends on their parents and guardians to survive, so it will be very unfair for them to engage in gambling when they are not making their own money. We don't need to depend on schools and institutions to educate our teens about gambling addiction, we can start teaching them from the homes, if we don't take on this responsibility then they might learn from experience which can lead them to addiction.

Yes this is certainly a big challenge today, where many young people and even small children who are not financially ready to access gambling, and with the broad internet world and in -depth marketing to the application and send personal messages to our social media accounts that are a thing What's bad now, those who do this ad do not see who received their message whether it was children or not, and that made this case more complicated in some countries, there must be two two supports that were massively done first of support from People to supervise their children and the two governments must work hard to block gambling advertisements continuously and establish clear regulations on gambling advertising regulations in order to have controlled advertising segmentation.


The case in offline gambling I think is not as bad as online gambling, because it will talk about mobility and obedience.
I will connect your argument, in the problem that parents often underestimate the ability to be young or children who are now very familiar in using their cellphones. It's true because in general parents who don't even understand about cellphones, but now I think there are only a few young people who are more comfortable using cash, most of them are more accustomed to using e-money, even if they see crypto users are still small, but things like Transactions can still be tried to use P2P exchange that can be found easily without using the exchange, and as I say that this KYC is quite difficult for some people who don't like complicated things in accessing casino.

There's certain indicators that they are participating on gambling activities. For sure there's foot tracks they left online that's why its really good that we as parent we should check every activities they do online. Also we should check their devices if there's gambling apps or links on their search history.

If we don't do those things then provably that there's huge chance for our children to be involve on gambling since there are lots of influencers promoting this and anyone could gamble at their comfort. Proper advice is needed and maybe it will be good if we step up first educate them the risk on gambling since it will be hard to interrupt them if they are already participating.

Yeah, it is hard to check and know how many teens gamble because with using the Internet, they can hide their gambling activity. Their parents also doesn't know if their children gambling until they see their children have a problem with their gambling habit. They can go to a place and sit in the back with their friends but they open their smartphone and browse the casino. But I already seen some people playing together in a home in the night where I came back from my office. They looks enjoy playing slot game because I see what they played. I don't ask too much to them but I know that they are above 18 but under 25 years. I still consider that they often playing slot games with their friends and if they don't have control, that will makes them in a difficult situation.

Have you seen many teens that gamble? I understand that is hard to check it, as teens will never confess that they gamble, nor it is easy to catch them during playing, but overall, has anyone ever seen a teen in a casino, or saw them placing bets using their mobiles? I did not have a goal to find a gambling teen, but I have never seen one around. What I usually see, is that teens watch instagram or tiktok video, laugh about it, and keep swiping for a new video.

It's interesting that this is happening in the U.S. even though supposedly there every sports book has to be licensed on a state level.

So obviously even with KYC and strict age/ID verification, people have obviously found a way to go through these systems even when underage. At some point, personal responsibility is also coming into play. So I don't think we should just blame it on the platforms. If a parent or uncle or cousin or whatever lets a literal kid use their name to access gambling, it could happen with vapes, alcohol etc also. So gambling is the least of their worries. It's the adults that are responsible at this point.

It would seem most teen and children who are introduced to the world of gambling manage to find the way to gamble and bet on sport through offline methods anyways.
They could use the account of someone else who allows the child to gamble with their own money or be introduced to card games by a family member, there is no scarcity on the ways they could access to gambling.

Often adults underestimate the abilities of teens to get what they want and get away with it, in my opinion. When I was a teen, I recall there were others of my same age which were able to get to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes, in spite of their young age. So if they can get away with tobacco, they can definitely do the same with casinos.

Also, For teens and children is easier to manage cash instead of cryptocurrency, less KYC, let us remember exchanges also require sending documents to them as well.

Yes, maybe some of us hate KYC, but on the other hand, KYC has a plus side that can limit children's involvement in gambling. And this certainly reduces the possibility of children to gamble. yes although indeed, you are right, there are a lot of online gambling on mobile phones that can be done by children because of the ease of access, even without KYC. even in my country where gambling is prohibited, they can still easily access online gambling, with VPN or others.

Even gambling applications can be found anywhere, even in games and children's video shows. this is bad, because children cannot really understand and pamper themselves in gambling. still often carried away by emotions and of course cannot earn their own money better. Their focus is on enjoying their time at their age to learn and play, not gambling which can squeeze the brain badly.


Source: Underage gambling

There must also be attention and vigilance from parents to know the condition of their children, and pay more attention to their children's activities, especially managing their use of cell phones.

However, minors these days know how to go around such requirement, like they can borrow ID cards from their older siblings or sneak the IDs from their parents. That is why you need to instill values to your kids at their early age. This will be your weapon even if you are not around.

Do remember, illegal casinos will always be there. They will only stop their operations when someone reported them and forced to shut down their site. But as long as they can do their business, they will.

That is true and I think that is also one of the main purposes of KYCs, it's to prevent minors from gambling while they still don't understand what the risk they are taking.
Many gambling sites on the other hand which are created for the purpose of scamming people will not even have KYC at all, they will just the gambler if he is 18+ and that's it. Any kid who learned how to read can simply answer yes just to be able to enter the game.
I think this is where the government should focus on stopping, those small businesses that are making money through their illegal work, but they don't want to catch them because they will not make money out of them. They will just simply close their business and create a new one. If possible, they should be prevented from creating another by imprisoning those who are behind it.

Well so far personally I have not seen a statistically reliable source that has gotten a correct and accurate data with evidence that the data was from actual underaged gamblers, the most I have seen so far are literally estimation and maybe assumptions gotten from data on gambling sites accessible by almost everyone cutting across all ages because most of these sites do not have restrictions if you are visiting them and some even t the point of signing up on some.of these platforms you still find no restrictions except for the question that concerns age which almost anyone can literally lie about.

If we talk honestly, KYC is actually quite a hindrance for children to be able to play gambling in online casinos because not all children can fake their identity, I think this is quite helpful, but the worse thing is with casinos that do not set KYC and anyone can access it, I myself often find many illegal casinos or do not apply KYC in their casinos, and the average child of them does not care about the regulation or license of a casino or talk about casino security and fairness, because in their mind is to play and multiply their money in gambling, finding a random online gambling site on Google they will register.

Nice suggestion but I don’t think that would help very much. Kids forge IDs to get a drink at the bar all the time, it would not be that difficult for them to verify kyc on a gambling site. Gambling will remain a center of attention for the kids as long as their favourite online streamer is promoting the casino. They spend most of their time on their phones and watch these online streamers play video games and promote gambling sites, it’s safe to say kids nowadays listen to influencers on the internet than anyone else in their life.

I like your suggestion, yes,it's very crucial as well.Even though you're not so consistent,you should be able to monitor their activities and attitudes more especially at this young age where they seem to be unaware of some addictions or unnecessary struggling to addictions.

I'll advice you find healthy alternatives that'll engage and indulge the children early against laying wrong foundations and Gambling prevention and education should introduced early.
Children/teenagers will think and refer to gambling as a social activity but it could give them more problems and stress to cope with.