New Scientist: Researchers developing anti-fraud ‘Gambling DNA’
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The New Scientist published an article today on an interesting evolution in online gambling fraud-prevention tactics: the development of a robust player profile, or DNA, that tracks tendencies and alerts a system to deviation from those established patterns.
Excerpt from the story:
To ensure a human, and the correct human at that, is playing, Roman Yampolskiy of the University at Buffalo in New York and his colleague Venu Govindaraju have written software that monitors how you play. It catalogues how often and how much a player tends to bet, increases the bet, bets everything, or folds - giving up altogether. This information is bundled up into a personalised measure - the player’s “gambling DNA” - that can then be used to confirm their identity. Any deviation from that behaviour is flagged up as suspicious. After just an hour of play, Yampolskiy says, the software can authenticate players with 80 per cent accuracy - and that gets better the longer they play.
