{"id":33706,"date":"2022-09-22T06:32:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=33706"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:40:18","slug":"acma-orders-blocks-on-15-illegal-offshore-gambling-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/acma-orders-blocks-on-15-illegal-offshore-gambling-websites","title":{"rendered":"ACMA orders blocks on 15 illegal offshore gambling websites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ACMA found the sites to be operating in breach of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has ordered internet service providers to block access to<strong>\u00a015 more offshore gaming websites<\/strong>. The<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>websites are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Spin Oasis<\/li><li>Fab Spins<\/li><li>RB Carnival<\/li><li>The GoGo Room<\/li><li>Velvet Spin<\/li><li>Zenith Slots<\/li><li>Slots of Wins<\/li><li>Latinbet24<\/li><li>Hell Spin<\/li><li>Sky Crown<\/li><li>Blue Leo<\/li><li>Wolf Winner<\/li><li>Bizzo Casino<\/li><li>Wabo88<\/li><li>Ozbet88<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACMA advised consumers that even if a service looks legitimate, it&#8217;s unlikely to have customer protections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the ACMA made its first blocking request in November 2019, 614 illegal gambling and affiliate websites have been blocked. A further 180 illegal services have pulled out of the Australian market since the regulator started enforcing new illegal offshore gambling rules in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, the regulator ordered internet service providers to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/acma-orders-blocks-on-6-illegal-offshore-gambling-websites\" target=\"_blank\">block access to six offshore gaming websites<\/a>. It also warned<strong>\u00a0Proxous Advanced Solutions Limited (Proxous)<\/strong>\u00a0after\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/acma-warns-company-for-providing-gaming-products-to-illegal-online-casinos\" target=\"_blank\">the regulator<\/a>\u00a0found the company\u2019s gaming software was being used by 13 online casinos that were illegally targeting Australians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACMA found the sites to be operating in breach of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.<\/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 mandated internet service providers to block 15 additional offshore gaming websites for breaching the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. This action is part of ACMA's sustained enforcement strategy, which has resulted in 614 illegal gambling and affiliate sites being blocked since 2019 and 180 services exiting the Australian market since 2017. Furthermore, ACMA issued a warning to Proxous Advanced Solutions Limited regarding its software's use by illegally operating online casinos targeting Australian consumers.","focusai_entities":"Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Proxous Advanced Solutions Limited, Spin Oasis, Fab Spins, RB Carnival, The GoGo Room, Velvet Spin, Zenith Slots, Slots of Wins, Latinbet24, Hell Spin, Sky Crown, Blue Leo, Wolf Winner, Bizzo Casino, Wabo88, Ozbet88","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), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.8), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Market Share","query":"How will the continued blocking of offshore operators by ACMA impact the GGR and NGR of licensed, compliant operators within the Australian iGaming market?"},{"label":"Supplier Due Diligence","query":"What enhanced due diligence and governance frameworks are B2B software suppliers, such as Proxous, implementing to mitigate regulatory exposure from clients operating in non-compliant jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156,158],"tags":[6093,23911,4138],"class_list":["post-33706","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","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706","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=33706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33710,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706\/revisions\/33710"}],"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=33706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}