Blacklisted Online Casinos

Why Do Casinos Get Blacklisted?

Our review desk publishes a monthly roundup of everything it found that month, with the pattern behind each finding: Scam Watch #1 covers the seven Malaysian brands we checked in three weeks, none of which published a licence number we could look up. Two of those seven sit on our watchlist rather than this blacklist — CM2 and Oyen333 — because we found no evidence of player harm, only that there was nothing about them we could verify. We do not blacklist a brand for theft we cannot document, but we do not recommend depositing at either. Gempak99, reviewed separately on 11 August, joins the watchlist on the same basis — it calls itself a licensed platform while naming no regulator, and its own footer states that it does not offer gambling services at all. Jackpot108 joins it for a different reason again: on 14 August we could find no Malaysia-facing Jackpot108 operator at all, only Indonesian rupiah and Bangladeshi taka funnels, with several of the pages ranking for the brand turning out to be redirects planted on unrelated third-party websites. SpinCity99 is the newest watchlist entry and the most instructive, because it is the one brand here that does publish a licence claim you can check: its lobby footer names a company, a Curaçao master licence and the number #1168/JAZ. On 18 August we checked it, and the licensor named — Gaming Curaçao — states on its own website that it ceased operations on 18 August 2024 and that every seal it issued was rendered inactive that day. Emas44 joins the watchlist on the same day and takes that pattern one step further: its licence number is real and the Anjouan register records it as valid, but the register also records the single domain that licence covers — and it is not Emas44’s. A licence you can look up is only worth what the register actually says about it. JQK joins the watchlist on 20 August as the inverse case: eleven Malaysia-facing domains carrying one logo, publishing four different welcome-bonus rates and three different minimum deposits between them, and naming no regulator at all in text a reader can see. Where a brand publishes several versions of its own terms, none of them binds. MyTown33 joins on 21 August for the reason none of the others did: we followed the Register button on the site its brand searches land on twelve times, and it reached JM8, 12Joker and 711kelab — four times each — and MyTown33 not once. Its footer carries the same defunct Gaming Curaçao seal as SpinCity99’s, minus the licence number. A sign-up button that does not lead to the brand advertising it is not a terms problem; it means the page you researched was never the thing taking your money. Gardenia888 joins on 24 August, and it is the first entry where the brand name is the only thing holding the estate together. Eleven domains carry it; four of them no longer respond and only two are distinct live sites, on different registrars and different CDNs. The livelier of the two calls itself the brand’s “official link” and routes all thirty-seven of its buttons through one shortener, which across twenty-five resolutions reached JM8, 12Joker and 711kelab and Gardenia888 never. Neither live site names a regulator or publishes a licence number at all. When a brand cannot tell you which of its own websites is real, no answer it gives you about anything else is checkable either. JQK, MyTown33 and now Gardenia888 turned out to share one back office, and tracing it produced a map — fourteen sites at publication, fifteen as of 24 August — that explains several entries on this page — see the doorway-network investigation.

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