What to Prepare Before Betting Season: Identity Verification Comes First
What to Prepare Before Betting Season: Identity Verification Comes First
This year marks a World Cup season.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the largest tournament in history, co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Interest in the World Cup is always intense, but this time it will be even bigger, as the number of participating countries has expanded from 32 to 48. As a result, the number of matches and overall fan engagement will reach an unprecedented scale.
With matches taking place across North America at the same time, users from around the world will engage simultaneously. The 2026 World Cup will be more than a sports event it is likely to become a moment when global activity and risk rise together.
Major Global Sports Events Bring Big Opportunities
Large global sporting events like the World Cup create huge opportunities for the betting industry. New user signups surge, and betting activity increases rapidly in a short period of time. But at the same time, fraud, bonus abuse, multi-accounting, and account takeovers also rise. What matters is not whether risk increases, but whether operators are ready to handle it. Big events are not just stages for marketing success they are moments that test operational strength and risk management.
During major sports events, new account creation spikes, attempts to exploit bonuses through multiple accounts increase, bots are used for automated signups, and identity fraud using stolen or forged IDs becomes more common. All of these problems start at the same point: identity verification at onboarding. If verification is weak or slow, trying to fix problems later often comes after damage has already occurred. The success of an event season depends on how fast and accurately risky users can be filtered at the signup stage.
Why Identity Verification Matters for Global Events
Responding after problems happen always costs more. Fraud losses, customer complaints, regulatory risk, and internal operational burden all grow at once. Operators who prepare in advance are different. Even when activity surges, verification does not slow down. Automated review reduces operational burden, risky users are blocked early, and legitimate users are onboarded quickly. Preparation before the event is what creates the real performance gap.
Fraudsters targeting big events focus on bonus abuse, multi-accounting, and repeat fraud. One of the strongest defenses is biometric verification especially facial verification. Identity documents alone cannot stop proxy verification or repeated fake accounts, but biometrics can enforce a “one person, one account” rule. Facial verification plays a key role in stopping repeat fraud and automated attacks.
Scalable Verification Is What Survives Event Seasons
During event periods, activity can grow several times over normal levels. Hiring more people to manually review every case is not realistic. What is needed instead is automated KYC and AML workflows, systems that maintain speed even as volume grows, and flexible verification flows that change based on risk level. Only with this kind of structure can growth and compliance exist together.
The World Cup and Olympics attract users from all over the world. Each country has different ID types, regulations, and risk patterns. Operators preparing for global events need verification infrastructure that can handle many types of IDs, adapt to regional regulations, and support flexible policy settings. Global events clearly reveal whether a verification system is truly “global-ready.”
ARGOS Identity Verification: Built Not to Break Under Scale
So how does ARGOS prepare?
The results of this kind of “event-ready verification structure” can be seen in ARGOS’s 2025 data. During 2025, identity verification through ARGOS occurred in 179 countries and regions, and total submissions increased by 1,850% compared to the previous year. Even as activity grew rapidly, the system remained stable, and 117,000 forged or manipulated IDs were detected and blocked early.
Compared to Q1, both submission volume and automated review rates grew by 19 times. As of November 2025, ARGOS achieved a 94.47% automation rate meaning about 95% of all verifications were processed without human involvement. Manual review rates dropped by 17% year-over-year, making operations lighter and response to growth stronger. This data is not just about performance it proves that when activity and risk explode together, only automated verification structures prevent operations from breaking down.
The real preparation for World Cup season is not bigger marketing.
It is building a verification structure that stays stable even when activity multiplies.
Start preparing with ARGOS today!!!