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Comment by bjourne

7 hours ago

Fun fact: if you sign up for many online casinos or betting sites they will indeed use Google Streetview to lookup your house to estimate how much money they might extract from you.

I feel like looking up official county records which show outstanding mortgage terms and purchase price and permit applications would be a better resource than an image from google street view. You should be able to figure out people's mortgage payments just based on the info on homes.com

that's wild, do you have a source? curious to know more

  • Their strategy is more in-depth than that, and they’re more accurately looking for sharps. Somebody working minimum wage in a trailer betting for “their guy” isn’t a problem, even if they’re not going to make the book much money. Somebody working minimum wage in a trailer smurfing for a sharp can be a huge problem. You can read first hand info from professional bettors, books don’t like to reveal their risk management methodology for obvious reasons.

  • I know that people who work for at least one non-profit, use Google Streetview to see how much money they should ask people for.

  • A friend working in the business told me. I don't think it's a strategy the casinos would publicly disclose.

    • Seems quite cumbersome to do this manually when you can get purchasing power assessments at street-level granularity from data brokers.

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    • Streetview and a visual model seems excessive when there's plenty of databrokers straight up selling your mortgage info and shopping habits (from CC purchases)