The UK Gambling Commission has launched the ‘Tell us something in confidence’ service, a new way for criminal and suspicious gambling activity to be reported anonymously online.
Tell us something in confidence will be a one-stop service for users to report and upload supporting information – photographs and documents – connected to their report anonymously if they suspect it “relates to criminal activity under the Gambling Act 2005” or any other information that could be useful to the Commission from a regulatory perspective.
Activity that can be reported on using the service includes match fixing and sports betting integrity; underage gambling; money laundering concerns; suspicious activity; and unlicensed gambling or criminal activity.
Users can also send further information by email or post, and they can also share contact information if they wish. The already existing confidential telephone service to anonymously report criminal or suspicious activity will continue to operate as usual.
The UKGC added that the service’s primary purpose is to signpost criminal and suspicious activity, and that any complaints about a gambling business should go through the commission’s complaints page on its website.
Last week, the UKGC launched its second round of the Gambling Act review white paper consultations as it seeks to improve gambling regulation in Britain.
The second batch of consultations will cover socially responsible incentives; customer-led tools; transparency of protection of customer funds; removing commission requirements that would become obsolete due to the government’s upcoming statutory levy; as well as regulatory data.