Amid Las Vegas dealing with fewer visitors, identity fraud and underage gambling continue to be on the rise, forcing casinos to tighten security and ID checks
Las Vegas is still known for its glitz and nonstop action, but not all the attention is positive. Even as the city sees fewer visitors, cases of identity fraud at casinos, nightclubs, and dispensaries are climbing.
Casinos Took the Hardest Hit
IDScan.net, the“leading adaptive AI identity verification platform focusing on ID fraud prevention, age verification, and access management for security and compliance”, looked at more than 1.4 million ID verification transactions between 2024 and 2025.
The results were disturbing: attempts to bypass identification checks jumped more than 50% year-over-year. Casinos were hit hardest, with fraud rising from 1.22% in 2024 to 2.33% this year.
“We’re seeing that most of the fraud happening right now is from what you might call traditional ID fraud, where people are using counterfeit, borrowed, or even deepfaked IDs to bypass age verification systems,” said Jimmy Roussel, chief executive officer of IDScan.net…