Our Fraud and Prevention Department has been attentively researching the case mentioned above. The decision of asking for the KYC as well as confiscating the funds available onto the account was made for the following reason. After the user’s activity was being associated with suspicious betting pattern, our team has decided to schedule the KYC. During the interview, the OP could not verify the ownership of the corresponding account, as many of the questions were not answered correctly. After making the decision, we’ve decided to refund the last two deposits of the user back, which was a goodwill from our stand point of view, as according to the official Terms and Conditions, we do have the right of confiscating all the funds onto the account.
@NotATether, kindly asking to reconsider your feedback regarding the case as we do have the entire interview as a proof. If there’s a request from the community as well as from you, we can publicly release the video so all of the people having the concerns about the case are aware of the truth.
Thanks for (finally) replying.
I know that you're doing this action out of goodwill, and that you are coming from case of an account being blocked (which itself can have multiple interpretations).
Among other things, account blocks under these terms can be interpreted as:
- a user not being able to prove their ownership of the account (what you wrote),
- failing the KYC check as a general procedure
With the KYC procedure presumably a standard one (request for identity documents, followed by a proof of funds, and possibly a selfie as well)
I am also aware, that in the first interpretation, it would make sense, from a business point of view, to seize the funds because the ownership of the deposited funds is questionable. It might as well not belong to daniilT's bitcointalk account.
In the second interpretation (where the KYC check has simply been failed - not implying a doubt of ownership), it would be grossly inappropriate to hold the funds - like what some other casinos whose names I won't mention are doing [but you probably already know most of them by now] - because it has still been verified that the player is the owner of the funds. In that case, it would be compulsory for the entire balance to be returned back to one of the player's deposit addresses.
As your Terms of Service implies that the first interpretation of account block is what's used (a user not being able to prove their ownership of the account), this means, by seizing daniilT's balance, you have proved that his funds are of dubious origin and do not necessarily belong to him. My hypothesis would be that this happened somewhere during the proof of funds check.
Then again, how can we as users be sure that this is the case?
It makes me glad to see that you are indeed trying to address this situation without malicious intent, so my red tag goes - but the neutral tag stays until you can explain to us exactly how you differentiate between a user not being able to prove their funds source or just failed KYC in general (e.g. connection hanging or chopped images of documents). I would also prefer that you post it somewhere before or after the legal terms of service page on your site, for transparency purposes - as you know, many gamblers do not visit bitcointalk at all so won't see these posts.