Poker players try to read the faces of their opponents – now software is about to do something similar in a bid to stem fraud against poker websites.
Like online banks, web-based casinos suffer phishing attacks: players’ identities are stolen through emails purporting to be from the casino but actually from fraudsters trying to obtain account details. If successful, they then empty the account by losing the victim’s money gambling against themselves or accomplices. Other crooks use software agents, or bots, which play automatically, often beating all but the best players.
To ensure a human, and the correct human at that,…
