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Board Gambling discussion
Re: How risky it is having 2 accounts under the same household?
by
pawanjain
on 12/10/2024, 17:09:27 UTC
We’ve been seeing a lot of posts about multiple accounts using the same IP. When this happens, the casino will usually close the account, and worse, they might even confiscate the funds. As gamblers, we want to be honest and follow the TOS, but what if you’re living in a house where your family also loves to gamble and you all use the same site? Is it reasonable for the casino to close your account for multiple accounts, even though you didn’t actually create them, but because you share the same IP, that’s what they see?

Since we already know that gambling sites verify the IP address to determine if a person has multiple accounts or not, in this case we can try to find alternatives.
You can use different gambling sites such that person A uses one site and person B uses a different site.
If you still want to use the same site then you can consider using VPN to use different IP address for person B.
You can also try contacting the customer support and let them know the situation and may be ask for an IP whitelisting if they agree to it.
Some gambling sites are also against allowing VPN access to their sites and users could face same punishment as those who use same IP address.
I think every device has its own unique IP address, so family members can have their own accounts on same gambling site on different devices and not have this concern.

The solution of family members sharing one device could meet the need for each member to register on different gambling platforms and there won't be need for contacting the customer support or whitelisting.

That's a good suggestion but I guess websites look at the public IP address of the devices.
If these devices are connected under the same wifi network, a single house mostly has 1 wifi with all devices connected to the same network, in this case they will all share the same public IP address.
So the chances of getting banned are still there in this case.
In case they are using cellular data then they will get a different IP address though and so they can create separate accounts.