205 CMR 248.04 - Age and Identity Verification
(1) No Sports
Wagering Operator shall allow any individual who is either younger than 21
years old, or is a prohibited person, as defined in
205
CMR 238.49, to create a Sports Wagering
Account.
205
CMR 248.04 shall not be construed to prevent
a restricted patron, as defined in
205
CMR 238.48, from creating a Sports Wagering
Account and depositing funds to such an account.
(2) The Sports Wagering Operator shall employ
electronic verification at the time of account establishment with respect to
each patron's name, date of birth and Social Security number, or the last four
digits of the Social Security number, or other Federal Identification Number,
by a Commission-approved national independent reference company or another
independent technology approved by the Commission which meets or exceeds the
reliability, security, accuracy, privacy and timeliness provided by individual
reference service companies.
(3)
The Sports Wagering Operator shall refuse to establish an account if it finds
that any of the information supplied is untrue or incomplete.
(4) The Sports Wagering Operator shall at the
time of account establishment, utilize identity authentication questions that
require a patron to provide information known only to the patron through
security questions, unless an alternate method of authentication is approved by
the Commission.
(5) A Sports
Wagering Operator must document and use commercially reasonable standards to
confirm that an individual attempting to create a Sports Wagering Account is
not a prohibited Person.
(6) Upon
developing reasonable suspicion that the patron's identification has been
compromised, a Sports Wagering Operator must re-verify the patron's
identification immediately.
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