{"id":23793,"date":"2021-10-22T06:39:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T09:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=23793"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:33:22","slug":"australia-acma-blocks-5-offshore-gambling-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-acma-blocks-5-offshore-gambling-sites","title":{"rendered":"Australia: ACMA blocks 5 offshore gambling sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ACMA has requested Australian internet service providers block five illegal offshore gambling websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia.-\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-acma-raps-foxtel-for-breaching-ad-rules\">The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)<\/a>\u00a0has requested local internet services providers block five offshore gaming websites.\u00a0It <strong>warned Australian citizens to withdraw any funds<\/strong>\u00a0held in the five platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The five offshore gambling websites are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Spin Bit<\/li><li>Fight Club<\/li><li>Kim Vegas<\/li><li>Queenspins<\/li><li>Yoju Casino<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since it made its first blocking request in November 2019, ACMA has issued blocks against\u00a0<strong>324 illegal gambling websites<\/strong>. Some <strong>147 illegal services have also pulled out of the Australian market\u00a0<\/strong>since the ACMA started enforcement action in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through its website, ACMA stated: &#8220;Website blocking is also a valuable opportunity to alert people to illegal gambling services.\u00a0When users attempt to access a blocked site, they are unable to do so and are directed to the ACMA website for information about illegal and legal services.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-acma-orders-blocking-of-5-offshore-gambling-platforms\">the regulator<\/a>\u00a0blocked another five offshore gambling websites that were operating in breach of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. The regulator took the decision after receiving complaints about the services.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACMA has requested Australian internet service providers block five illegal offshore gambling websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has directed local internet service providers to block five additional illegal offshore gambling websites, bringing the total blocked since November 2019 to 324. This action reinforces ACMA's commitment to enforcing the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 and protecting Australian consumers from unregulated gaming verticals. The regulator also noted 147 illegal services have exited the Australian market since enforcement actions commenced in 2017.","focusai_entities":"ACMA, Australian Communications and Media Authority, Spin Bit, Fight Club, Kim Vegas, Queenspins, Yoju Casino","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.8), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"ACMA's Enforcement Strategy","query":"What specific governance frameworks and technological mechanisms does ACMA employ to identify and block illegal offshore gambling websites, and how does this strategy evolve with new market entrants?"},{"label":"Impact on Licensed Operators","query":"How do these ongoing regulatory enforcement actions against illegal operators quantitatively impact the GGR and NGR of licensed B2C operators within the Australian iGaming market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156,158],"tags":[6093,23911],"class_list":["post-23793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-acma","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23835,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23793\/revisions\/23835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}