I am Bronwen Aylesworth. I live in Victoria and I spent six years in compliance at a payments processor, which mostly meant reading transaction patterns and deciding which ones needed a human to look at them.
That job is the reason I can write about skipping KYC without either moralising about it or pretending the risk is zero. I know what the checks are for, I know which ones are theatre, and I know that the moment an operator has no obligation to verify you it also has no obligation to anyone about how it treats you.
Everything here comes from accounts I opened and funded myself. I do not publish scores out of ten — a number suggests a precision this kind of testing cannot support, and it encourages people to skip the part that matters, which is where each site's wall sits and whether it will tell you before you deposit.
Every operator in the rankings was opened and funded from her own account. The ranking is ordered on one measurement — how far she got before the site asked who she was — because every casino in this category lets you register without ID, so ordering on that would give a fifteen-way tie.
Where an operator has a verification threshold she asks support to state it before depositing, and records the ones that will not answer. Where no bonus figure can be verified anywhere, the offer is listed unpriced rather than filled with an invented number.
She does not publish scores out of ten. A number implies a precision this kind of testing cannot support and it lets readers skip the part that matters: where each site's wall sits.
KYC and AML rules, FINTRAC's reach and its limits, crypto casino payments, provably fair games and responsible gambling.
