AML & Anti-Fraud Policy

1. Purpose & Scope

RustLion is committed to the highest standards of Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorist-Financing (CTF) compliance. This policy applies to every user, every deposit and withdrawal (skins and cryptocurrency), every in-game item transfer, every wager and every use of the affiliate, rewards, rakeback and promotional systems.

2. What Money Laundering Means Here

Money laundering is the process of disguising the origin of illegally obtained funds or assets so they appear legitimate. On a skin-gambling platform this includes, without limitation:

• Depositing skins or crypto obtained through theft, fraud, chargebacks, stolen accounts, stolen payment methods or phishing.
• Using RustLion as a "pass-through" — depositing with little or no genuine play and withdrawing to a different wallet, account or trade URL to obscure the source of value.
• Structuring deposits or withdrawals into smaller amounts to avoid review thresholds.
• Layering value across multiple accounts, devices or payment instruments you control or coordinate.
• Buying, selling or transferring account balances or items for real-world money outside the Platform.

3. Prohibited Conduct — Abuse & Exploitation

The following are strictly forbidden and each is, on its own, grounds for a permanent ban and forfeiture of all funds and items. This list is illustrative, not exhaustive — anything designed to gain an unfair or unintended advantage is prohibited even if it is not named below.

• Exploiting bugs, glitches or errors. Deliberately using any software defect, pricing error, rounding error, race condition, display error or unintended behaviour to gain balance, items, multipliers, bonuses or any advantage. You must report exploits immediately rather than use them.
• Abusing an advantageous error in your favour. Keeping or spending funds/items credited to you in error, or continuing to act on a mispriced item, bonus or payout after you knew or should have known it was wrong.
• Multi-accounting. Creating, operating or controlling more than one account, or using another person's account, to duplicate bonuses, evade limits/bans, self-refer, or coordinate play.
• Collusion & chip-dumping. Coordinating with other players in Battles, Coinflip, Jackpot or any PvP mode to transfer value, split pots, soft-play or manufacture guaranteed outcomes.
• Bonus, rakeback, rain & promo abuse. Wager-cycling with no genuine risk, using bots or alts to farm rakeback/level rewards/rain/affiliate commissions, or fabricating referrals.
• Affiliate & referral fraud. Referring yourself, using alternate accounts, or generating fake sign-ups or wager volume to earn commission.
• Automation. Using bots, scripts, macros, autoclickers, headless clients or any automated system to place bets, open cases, claim rewards or interact with the API beyond documented and permitted use.
• Attacks on the Platform. Reverse-engineering, tampering with client-side code or requests, replaying/forging API calls, manipulating provably-fair seeds or nonces, spoofing device fingerprints, or probing/DoS/DDoS/rate-limit evasion.
• Payment fraud. Chargebacks, disputed deposits, stolen cards or crypto, or reversing a deposit after wagering or withdrawing.
• Identity & location fraud. Using VPNs/proxies, false identity or false location to bypass geo-restrictions, age limits, self-exclusion or account bans.
• Third-party trading. Buying, selling, gifting or transferring accounts, balances or items for real-world value off-platform.

4. Customer Due Diligence (KYC)

We operate a risk-based approach. At any time, and as a condition of continued use or of any withdrawal, we may require you to verify your identity, age, source of funds and ownership of the Steam account, trade URL, wallet or payment method used. This may include:

• Government-issued photo identification and proof of age (18+).
• Proof of ownership of the deposit source (Steam account, crypto wallet, payment instrument).
• Evidence of the source of the skins or funds deposited.
• A selfie or liveness check to confirm the ID belongs to you.

Withdrawals may be held pending verification. If you refuse, fail or provide false information, we may suspend the account, freeze the balance and, where legally required, report the matter — without any obligation to return funds obtained or moved unlawfully.

5. Monitoring & Detection

RustLion continuously monitors activity for suspicious patterns. Our systems and staff review device fingerprints, network/IP and ASN data, VPN/proxy signals, shared trade URLs and wallets, co-online behaviour, deposit/withdraw ratios, wager-to-deposit ratios, PvP pairing patterns, referral graphs and linked-account clusters. Accounts may be flagged, rate-limited or frozen automatically pending manual review.

6. Consequences of a Breach

Where we identify money laundering, fraud or abuse, we may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice:

• Suspend or permanently ban the account and any linked accounts.
• Void affected bets, reverse illegitimate winnings and cancel bonuses/rewards.
• Forfeit and confiscate the account balance and any items connected to the breach.
• Withhold, reverse or refuse withdrawals.
• Recover losses, costs and chargeback fees caused by your conduct.
• Report to Steam/Valve, payment and crypto providers, and relevant law-enforcement or financial-intelligence authorities.

Forfeiture is a contractual consequence of breach, not a penalty we are obliged to justify beyond the existence of the breach.

7. Record Keeping & Reporting

We retain transaction, verification and investigation records for the period required by applicable law. Where we are legally obliged to file a suspicious-activity report, we may do so without notifying you, and we may be prohibited by law from telling you that a report has been made.

8. Your Responsibilities

• Only deposit skins, crypto or funds that are genuinely and lawfully yours.
• Use one account, one identity, and your own devices and payment sources.
• Report any bug, exploit, mispricing or crediting error to support before acting on it.
• Never help another person launder funds or evade a ban, limit or self-exclusion.
• Keep your account credentials, Steam account and API keys secure.

9. Reporting Suspicious Activity

If you become aware of money laundering, fraud, collusion or an exploit — including one you stumbled upon yourself — report it immediately via our Contact page or in-site live support. Good-faith reporters who do not exploit the issue will not be penalised.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy at any time. Material changes take effect when posted. Continued use of RustLion after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.