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I find this very frustrating when i see people complain about their funding bank/provider account being banned because of gambling related activities. My younger just called me and told me his raven account was banned and he has been using it to deposit dollars in his gambling platform and also paying for subscriptions online. I want to get this clear.

Is it because of the gambling activities that got his account banned or it is because of the legitimacy of the funds that raven are more concerned about?

Is there any gambling platform that needs to be avoided?

Since i woke up we've been trying to contact their support for complaint and no response yet. Is there anyone with similar experience?

Are you talking about this Raven https://getravenbank.com/ ?

I look at their terms and conditions but it's not specifically mentioned that account will be banned if used in gambling. It did say this "we reserve the right to block and/or restrict your Raven Account on suspicion of illegal/fraudulent activities" so I checked the gambling situation in Nigeria. It seems only lottery, land-based casino gaming, and sports betting are allowed. Online games other than slots are deemed illegal. He must have deposited to an unregistered or online casino.

The customer care of the banking service provider should have told him the reason why his account was banned. Since you have contacted the support group I suggest you should wait patiently for their response. But the usual reason for this kind of action is if the bank suspects that the customer is using the account for any illegal activities. Maybe they suspect that he is using it for money laundering or to clean up illegally acquired funds. Another reason might be because he has gone contrary to the provision of the terms of service.

I personally do not have any experience getting banned because I only used e-wallet that supports the gambling platform other than that could be risky. But I think the bank will send some notice for you to know what had happened on your account and what you should do to fix it or if not, your brother had to contact them or visit any branch to fix the issue. I think banks has it on their terms about "do's and don'ts" specifically using accounts on a gambling platform.

Not yet on bank but on local exchange, it was already banned that's why I'm already using now the binance p2p. As per TOS on our local exchange, funds coming from and going to gambling platform is prohibited, but I never mine it, I just continue using it until one day I was surprise my account was already banned.

sometimes, even if an online platform allows our transactions despite it's already against the TOS, that doesn't mean they'll allow it forever. So we should be aware of the risk and be ready to accept once our funds are frozen.

He must have gone against either the bank or casino ToS, and this is why one must be careful with everything that involved money online so that you don't get deprived of your funds on these centralized platform.

The only thing I know that they will tell him was that he has used his account for illegal/fraudulent activities because that is what will make them ban your account with every right. since you said that you have contacted the customer care of the casino, you should give them more time for them to respond to you. Tell your younger one to also go to his bank and lay the complain so that they will let him know why it happened like that.

If in your country gambling is strictly prohibited, why should your little brother use a local bank account and not use crypto which is much safer in my opinion than using a bank account, in my country gambling is very illegal so I never try to gamble with my bank account because I'm worried about what what happened to your sister also happened to me, when the government regulates a law prohibiting gambling, of course they will be able to freeze our bank accounts or block them.

I can't give any advice because we also need to know about the laws in your country because it is impossible for the bank to just block your sister's bank account if there are no legal problems or actions that are considered illegal so that happens to your sister. I think he should go to the bank to get a direct explanation to avoid communication errors.  ;)

No experience yet and I won't have to use a local bank account to transact onward to gambling account, it should already look cumbersome as it is involving third party. I would rather use crypto and directly sent to a gambling account from wallet.

However, the simplest reason may be that the account has been flagged for either illegal financial transaction only for you guys to provide that otherwise. The reason that an account will be banned is if you have to go against the ToS and mostly an account suspected for fraud. So you have to prove your innocence on that, hopefully your brother is the only one making use of the account because sometimes when transactions are being done by intermediaries, they can be reported.

Your brother/sister should've gotten some reason or something for why their account was banned. They just don't willy nilly ban an account without any reason or forewarning. Personally I think it's along the reasons of VPN or something really.

On a side note I'd like to ask is the legitimacy of your funds something illegal or something? Otherwise, why would you even include it as a reason for them to be concerned about? I highly doubt your funds being used in gambling is a reason, and unless your funds are indeed from somewhere illegitimate, then I don't think those are reasons you should particularly be concerned about.

Never experienced this kind of thing let alone gambling using a bank to deposit there, I prefer crypto much safer than using conventional banks.

Is gambling banned in your country? See the casino tosses that are played how the conditions are required if your sister bank account is blocked then there may be illegal funds that are suspected so the bank/gambler blocked it.

I don't know what casino site you are playing, but hope to get a response sooner and you will know the real problem.

If you have been in crypto casinos for a long time why not suggest to these casinos instead of using banks for deposits as a third party?

Does your country prohibit gambling activities? I come from a country where gambling is prohibited but I used to make deposits using my bank account and never had a problem with it. However, I saw the news in my country that the government is planning to block bank accounts suspected of being used for gambling activities.

If you come from a country that prohibits gambling then the reason why your little brother's account was blocked could be because of gambling activities, but if your country legalizes gambling then I'm sure that's not the reason.

The same with others I have not experienced this kind of tragedy yet as I have never used a bank account or anything that is controlled by the government for my gambling habits. Sorry for your brother's loss of account. Are there funds left there before they banned him? Or did he make sure that he depleted all the savings before that happened? Did the bank try to contact you first before the ban?

About your questions.
Try to read the terms and agreements first. Some banks offer services to deposit in gambling but some don't which means your account is blocked if they prove you are doing it.
It should be written there but if not, try to contact them first before making an account with them. I suggest using digital wallets instead, this industry is more open to deposits and withdrawals on gambling platforms because they are not listed as banks. Most of the money there comes in and out and some digital wallets are also promoting gambling games so do check them out and don't forget to read the terms again. It's better to be sure first.

I think these is depends on the policy of your bank & laws on your country.

Could be, the casino you're using get seized and the police get every data customer. Theck track the transaction and leading to your account + they can requested the bank for blocking any bank with transaction flow from the casino.

How about asking on the bank first ? what the reason behind the block. Since you already asking, maybe wait 1-7 days.

I haven't experience this as all my bank accounts are not enrolled online. I mean, I can view it online but I cannot transact like fund transfer, so I can say it's say for me being a person who constantly gamble. Nowadays, it's easier to use online wallets, so it's not a problem anymore to gamble online if the online wallet we are using is supported by the gambling site.

I have this online wallet which are regulated by the central bank, the same agency that are regulating the banks, I'm using it for online gambling and until now it's still active, so I have no problem about getting banned or anything related.

The best answer should come from the bank provider and ask them specifically what's the caused of the ban could be one of the reasons you mentioned or could be both, they should state right away when they stated gambling related activities because the subject is broad liked you mentioned.
Here in our country some banks are strict to linking your account on gambling platform but everything is clearly stated on their terms and if a bank allowed transaction to gambling platform they usually mentioned that the platform should be compliant I only used bank transfer once but I prefer Cryptocurrency deposit more convenience and more private, so I advice you to urge your younger brother to use Cryptocurrency.

I think you're brother most have gone against their rules, maybe because of the gambling activity that the account has been involved in, they're either suspected it to be fraudulent, which your brother needs to let them know, that's if he gets across to the customer service.
But at least they are supposed to do their own due diligence before taking such action on the account, or getting across to the customer to ask some questions as to whatever they suspect before going on to ban the account. I will advise to your brother should continue in trying to reach their customer service, they have a lot of explanation to make.

I have not experienced it but here in the Philippines we have an exchange site called coins.ph and in their terms and conditions that they implemented years ago, it is not allowed to send or receive funds to or from a gambling site.

as other members have already mentioned the most possible reason why the accounts were banned is due to breaking one of their rules. if you don't mind, would you update us when the getravenbank.com customer support replies to you and gives the reason as to why the account was closed?

No, I haven't as I'm used to crypto gambling platforms solely. And that is why other gamblers should also seek for crypto casinos to play. It's very annoying to have issues with banks and local regulators due to gambling. It consumes a lot of time, energy and potentially money from the person. The risk of playing at a dollar or local currency casino, when the activity isn't allowed in your jurisdiction, just doesn't worth the mental exhaustion you may suffer later, and sometimes to not make any profit at all.

Gambling has to be an entertaining activity which will bring pleasure and stress relief for the gambler. However, if you have your banking account blocked and money seized, the effect will be completely the opposite. It's like travelling during the Holidays to a precarious and miserable region: instead of relaxing and having fun, which are the main goals of a tourist on Holidays, you are going to have a lot of headaches, frustrations and negative memories once you come back home. The same way a tourist has to choose wisely where to travel, a gambler has to choose wisely in which platforms he is going to place his bets, premeditating the possible outcomes* of his decision.

*not outcomes of games' results, but outcomes of transactions: deposits, withdrawals; plus gambling status on his region, and potential consequences of receiving a transaction from a casino platform if tracked by local regulators.

that's why it's necessary to check whether gambling is allowed in your country or not. or how is the license your gambling platform, whether it is legal or not, because banks are very sensitive to all transactions carried out by their customers. they are concerned that the money transacted by their customers comes from illegal activities which are not in accordance with bank/state regulations which could threaten their operations.

and since raven is a digital bank, it seems they are more sensitive to matters related to gambling and activities that do not comply with their regulations that could jeopardize their license. and unfortunately, when your account is banned/blocked you can't access your money until the problem is resolved. therefore, you need to explain this problem until it is resolved to the bank.

I've never had a problem like that. It's just that when I try to make a deposit I always get a warning from the bank. This can happen because gambling admins carry out transactions very frequently so that their activities are suspected by the bank. But I also welcome the warning, because considering that currently there is a lot of fraud in online gambling.

And currently there are several countries that consider online gambling activities to be detrimental to society. Especially illegal gambling sites. So that the government, through the ministry responsible for this matter, carries out a clean sweep and also blocks accounts involved in online gambling activities.
And I think this is a good rule, so that illegal gambling activities can be limited. And in several related countries this rule has been implemented. However, in my opinion, before this rule is actually implemented in every bank, there must be a detailed explanation of the rule first, so that the bank can take appropriate action.

I have read few times peoples' bank accounts getting frozen because they were using crypto to gamble on online sites.
It may not be because of gambling directly and may be because of using crypto but yet it becomes a headache when bank accounts are frozen.
May be your younger brother faced a similar issue. In such cases, it's better to open a different bank account which is more crypto friendly.

I don't like to involve banks that are virtual for such kind of this stuff but why didn't make use of crypto instead like USDT for fast deposit to avoid this kind of headache because I'm not sure if they are going to give you sweet rate in conversion to local currency like P2P and also the big charges they will collect when buy and sell. I think the only answer to this is until you contact the said bank through the customer support like on the platform or Facebook and X


You should know better, there is a policy that guide every financial system and platforms and I think they gave you an condition to read and accept or reject but I guess you accepted. Try and go through the terms and banking policy, check whether allow gambling transactions or not. If it is too bulky, use CTRL + F to search for "gambling" or "gambler" perhaps you will get a lead from there as well but don't forget to ask customer supports.

Hmm, a really interesting story and I think I have heard couple of similar complaints from my friends but for myself, I haven't encountered such issue before. The recent one I had was a complaint from a close friend about his account ban on a popular local bookie here and I think for his own case he was actually guilty because he was an arbitrage bettor and I know to some extent most sport bookies and  casino frawn at such practices. Most times I think the fault is actually from the gambler as maybe they may have defaulted some rules of the casino that might have led to the account ban.

You should try asking your brother if there have been any means used to fund his Raven account recently that have been used by him before, or if there have been any payments made by him recently to any platform that might have been flagged unknowingly to him. I don't think any platform that allows its users to fund their gambling accounts through it can just wake up and ban the same account as a result of a service they permit.


Funny enough, not all platforms send their customers news of their accounts being disabled. Some just disable it for no reason and assume you are aware of the whole situation that resulted in that, while others will just send you brief information. With respect to your account being disabled, the best way to always know about the entire thing that could lead to the ban is when you contact a customer support agent, and if they are friendly enough, they will tell you the reason for the account closure and a possible solution for the account to be unlocked.

Banks may have terms that restrict depositing any funds from gambling-related activity resulted into this ban.

If you are not aware of it, some crypto exchanges even have similar rules, for example if you deposit BTC or any crypto to coinbase account which is directly withdrawn from the casino's account then your coinbase account will be terminated.

This is precisely the reason why people use crypto. It's an excellent way to bypass these silly restrictions without having to worry about your accounts getting restricted or banned.

I had a similar experience with using a gambling provided that accepted card deposits long ago. I just made a tiny deposit and two days later my bank was calling me for questioning just because they realized that this provided should have been under sanctions AFTER approving my transaction... You have to be careful where you use your main bank account at. Nevertheless banks are quite stupid.

Though I do not have any experience with banks prohibiting my transactions, I have a personal experience with my local exchange, stripping the features of my account and degrading the level of authenticity by two (2) levels, thereby decreasing my overall withdrawals due to being affiliated with gambling.

In my local exchange, the admins questioned the origin of my BTC funds and I clearly explained to them that I get the proceeds from a signature campaign representing a gambling website. Surprisingly, they told me that anything to do with gambling is not allowed, therefore, I was told that majority of the features of my account will be restored once I address this issue.

Fortunately, the only solution to that problem is to use another exchange and transfer such funds from that exchange to my local exchange; or/and to use Binance as my exchange in case I need to convert my BTCs to our local currency.

That's your answer right there. Online gambling is not explicitly included in the bylaws that talk about legal gambling. And OP's kid just made the mistake of gambling in a gambling site which is considered illegal no matter how we look at it. the banking institution's not in the position to keep his business since that's going to cause them millions of dollars in lawsuits if they let this one thing pass. I say don't gamble beyond what's allowed. There's no real benefit to doing so anyway, since gambling's made in the first place with the premise that you're going to lose money, are you really that determined to lose your money that you're willing to get your bank account suspended? If you can't wrap your head around the logic behind gambling illegally just use that analogy lol.

At the end of the day, we're gamblers, not criminals. Don't do anything illegal, gambling or non-gambling related. Gamble within your means and within the expanse that your local jurisdiction allows. Tell that to your kid OP and next time, discourage him/her from gambling on such sites, heck discourage him/her from gambling at all clearly they have a problem for them to get noticed by the bank amongst the possible hundred thousands of users that they deal with on the daily lol.

No, I have never encountered a problem like this before. In fact, for a while, illegal betting was quite popular in Turkey and I also bet this way using a Turkish bank, during the period I mentioned many people who bet in this way were summoned by the police for a statement but I wasn't summoned for a statement in any way. Also, as I mentioned I didn't experience any problems with my bank account.

Additionally, although I have deposited money to some betting sites with Revolut in the last year, there have been no restrictions on my Revolut account. Of course, since I generally prefer cryptocurrency-based betting sites I haven't had any problems depositing money into betting sites.

Great. And yeah, even the e-wallets can get strict too in transactions related to gambling, not because they think gambling is money-hungry but because they are also aware that money laundering can occur too here. And there are so many illegal gambling sites right now. They don't want to get involved on their operations because they are afraid that they may get sued too by the regulators or the authorities.

So, it's important to read their terms and conditions first before you use them in your gambling activities. It's professional if banks will provide a reason, just in case they do something negative in our account, and we are lucky if they have given us another chance.

Could there had been something on phishing your younger was not telling you OP? I think the account has been on transaction tracks and was compromised because there could be some sorts of unwarranted/illegal transactions of the account via how the account is been funded and how the funds is being transacted out from the account.
I have seen situations where people hides there illegal indulgences with the formations of legalities such as scammers requesting for Bitcoin instead of the fiat from their victims with the use of crytop wallets that is not supported with KYC because they want to untraceable and anonymous.

It's probably the gambling expenses, if it's a constant funding in the gambling fund, the bank will definitely suspend your account until you've done some explanation that it's you who's doing all this stuff and that your bank account isn't compromised. Or you're not telling us everything about the bank transactions OP, that there's some suspicious activity going on that got your account flagged and banned, that's the other way that can get someone's bank account banned.

It seems like it. If someone managed to steal a credit card and had sometime before the victim realizes, they would try to buy valuable stuff as soon as possible for them to sell later, though, criminals have realized that doing so would make easier for law enforcement to find them and charge then with financial crimes, so what they do is try to use the stolen card to buy cryptocurrency on an exchange or in a casino, as much as they can so they can try to withdraw it to a wallet under the sole power/influence.
I would also like to add that using a card on gambling sites and betting could block them, depends on the terms of services of the bank itself. There are some banks which frown upon gambling in general, because the economical repercutions it can have on their clients, so they cancel and block when they detect their users are partaking in gambling.

I have read about the concept of Halal banking before, basically banks which are owned by Muslins and do not like to get their finances involved with warfare, gambling, pork production, etc. but I am not sure their common policies are to block those card used personally by their clients to gamble/bet.

Its not really new anymore on which most banks would really be that definitely be prohibiting gambling funds that would flow into someones bank account.Usually this is really something being that written or included into your terms and conditions on the papers or documents that you are signing up on which it is really just that right that you should really be that having that time on reading up with those terms on the first place
so that you wont really be that get shocked on the time that you would really be that able to experience those kind of prohibited or lock up with those accounts. For sure with these kind of lock up then the primary things which are needed by the banks would really be trying out to verify on where those funds came from and if they would be able to track it up that it do came from gambling then for sure you would be asked for some documents or whatever its been asked.

This is why it would really be that important that you should really be that mindful about using up your banks specially with gambling funds on which they are really that strict when it comes to this.
If you are really that making use of it then better be sure you would really be trying out not to make direct transfers from gambling sites so that you would really be able to
avoid out such situations that might happen into you.

Lack of information. Better not to assume right away that it's because of gambling-related activities.

We can't just speculate things here or create a story without valid points. There should be a specific reason for that. Aside from that, if the bank account was banned or locked, it should notify their users on their registered email or phone number. What does the email say? Is the reason for the ban being mentioned there?

Come back here and share with us what the customer support told you.

Banks are prohibiting any gambling transaction in our country, and this is why we are not using this directly and even when accepting crypto, there’s still a chance for you to get investigated and your account will be freeze. Banks are quiet strict when it comes to this one and you can’t do anything about it because its their policy and your only choice is either to follow it or you will start looking for alternative so you wont experience the same problem.

Its’s more on about your whole transaction and I’m sure those bank will still investigate and will not just ban your account without any reason. Some casinos don’t have the bank feature though and I can say that this can be a good option as you will not be tempted to use your bank accounts instead you’ll use your crypto wallet to do the transactions. Make sure to know the policy and terms and conditions before you register, so you can know if it can work with your or not.

I don't have any experience with this yet, but it sounds like if you're from a country where gambling is illegal, trying to transfer money from your local bank account to a gambling site could potentially get your account blocked.  Banks likely monitor for these types of potentially illegal transactions. 

Personally, I tend to stick to crypto gambling platforms as I find them safer than dealing with traditional banks.  With crypto there's no central authority that can freeze your account if you run into issues.

If your bank account does get blocked, try talking to your bank first to plead your case.  Explain why you tried transferring to a gambling site, apologize, and ask politely if there's any way for them to reconsider unblocking you. Remaining calm and constructive in that conversation will go a lot further than getting upset at the bank employee who likely didn't set the policy themselves.

Lesson of the day, always read terms and conditions of any platform you plan to use, either it's online banking or casinos, unless there is no deposit of money involved, if you are going to risk money on any platform its wise to do your own diligent research first.

I have never seen this happen to anyone around me before since I don't use Fiat for gambling, and right now in my country banks are really misbehaving, doing anything the feel like with customers fund and others so many people are getting wiser, moveinh money out of bank accounts into Bitcoin and stable coins, it keeps getting worse and worse.

If your account get blocked you are to reach out to tell and solve the problem out, they should be able to unlock it and accept your apology, it's not as if they will never return the money you have worked your whole life for, they just want to take their rules very serious.

There could be two considerations to this in my thought. The first one is that, it is either the bank suspected a fraudulent activity or they are warned by regulators not to deal with such casinos (it is not everything that is being revealed). Either way, the bank should effectively communicate with their customers to advise them appropriately.

The second consideration is that, since it is the USD we are talking about, the conversion issue might be the reason here. There are banks that are suffering from USD liquidity, and if they must continue to honour such transactions, they will be compelled to pay the USD equivalent to the beneficiary bank account. For this, they can decline. Still, they should have communicated the reason for the declined transaction to him.

However, it is not too late, the bank is the only one that can shed accurate light on this. Your brother should take it up with them.

I never experience being banned in my bank and I don't want to experiencs it either. It's a bank responsibility to inform their customers the reason why they got banned so that client will become aware of things that may be violated, This is the first time I heard that banks has been banned in conjunction of gambling activities but it's normal if a person doing online gambling while connected to a bank unless there's a illegal activities detected to a transaction history.

But sometimes if in a country that prohibits gambling and considers it an illegal act, I think it is possible to freeze bank accounts where the government cooperates with the bank to block any transaction related to illegal acts prohibited by the government, we also do not know about the law that is in the country of the OP and his sister, is it illegal or legal? because the OP didn't explain it in detail in this thread so there are still few other reasons that make sense.

If it is indeed prohibited in the country and considered illegal, I think we all know that the blocking and banning of bank accounts may be used for large transactions in gambling until they are frozen or suspended, but if you want to get a more detailed explanation, don't ask on this forum but directly just ask what the problem is at the bank to know more about the real problem.

Banks will always work with the government to protect an out flow of their local currency, so they will block suspicious activity on your account. There are capital control restrictions and this gets reported to the government, if people regularly transfer money to international services, without following the guidelines for cross border transfers.

Gambling operations are also used by money laundering syndicates to "clean" dirty (criminal) money, so Banks will monitor those transactions and even block money that are going towards these kinds of sites.  ::)

Bitcoin is border less...  ;)

Since I discovered cryptocurrencies, it is my favorite medium to use in funding my casino account. I always pick this option because I know how erratic the internet network is in my country and I would not want to be have any issues or even a delay in funding my casino wallet.
If can use crypto in a casino rather than Fiat,

Firstly, it depends on your local laws.

If your local laws makes room for gambling as a legal event then it is obviously not a direction to consider. It is a bank account and the last time I checked, accounts are more into chaos because of the inbound transactions and lesser because of outbound except in obvious cases of fraud.

He should locate the bank's customer care office(r) and lodge complaints, a walk-in visit will be better than an online form filling as the delay time may not be friendly.

I haven't experienced it, but can you share more information about the story?

1. Is your younger brother directly using fiat to gamble?
2. Is your younger brother use CEX to buy cryptocurrency, gamble it, withdraw and cashout through CEX?

These are two different scenarios, if your younger brother directly use fiat to gamble, then I won't be surprised since it's more obvious than you convert it through cryptos.

I think the issue is with Raven and not the gambling platform. It is possible they do not allow gambling activities and just noticed upon their routine check. I don't think it is the legitimacy of the funds because the chances of using illegal funds is slim.

What I feel is a weakness of Raven in this case is closing the account without notice. The right thing to do is to send an email explaining why they have to close the account. The best line of action is contacting their support like you have done and wait for what they will say is their reason for their action.

If you go through comments in this forum, you will see many gambling platforms that have acted in a way that is unprofessional. The best is to use reputable gambling platforms that have stood the test of time with unparalleled transparency.

It depends on your local government also and how strict they are. The amount that you try to withdraw from a gambling site or exchange is also important; if you stay below a certain amount (couple of 1000$), you will not get flagged and have no issues but it is always good to be careful.

The bank I am using is not having anything that says I can't deposit funds from casino or the source of funds can't be related to gambling but since we are talking about crypto gambling, you are not going to deposit the winnings to bank accounts, to cashout the place you deposit is exchanges where it becomes tricky so read the ToS completely to avoid your account getting banned.

For the safe option, you can pick p2p platforms that don't have restrictions and also your bank can't flag your funds coming from crypto and gambling.

As to answer your question, is there any gambling platform that needs to be avoided?
When gambling, it's important to read the terms and conditions carefully and assess the website's readability as some websites may be fraudulent, copycats, or other issues.

Is it because of the gambling activities that got his account banned or it is because of the legitimacy of the funds that raven are more concerned about?
The bank does, however, have a certain level of protection. Perhaps your younger brother has taken action against accounts that breach the rules of the website or game, particularly gambling, which may be subject to legal limitations. In addition, in order to prevent any problems down the road, your younger brother and other people must read and abide by the terms and conditions of their financial service providers. As for myself, I have never been blacklisted. I haven't personally been banned from any websites because I have only used other money transaction that work with the gambling platform. Gambling revolves in money and luck though.

Not a permanent block or ban but in past I had problem with my skrill for withdrawing my gambling funds. If you don't know, Skrill was the most popular payment platform to get money to and from your bank and into and out of gambling sites. Paypal was always problematic and many gambling sites didn't supported it.
I had money from different sources and my bank in the skrill account, I deposited some amount to a popular gambling site to bet for the world cup. I made a decent profit and withdrew it to my skrill. It went without an issue but there were trouble from skrill on getting it to my bank as I had mixed my gambling euros to non-gambling euros. With months of trouble, I redeemed my cash but stopped using skrill.

I had no experience like that because I never use my bank account to send money to casino accounts. I play 100% using cryptocurrencies and I keep my bank account an my bitcoin separate so that nobody can link my identity to my bitcoin. I see this as an integral part of both being in crypto and gambling, despite none of these two being banned in my country. Politics change and what's legal one day can become illegal the next and I don't want my government to know how I spend my free time. It's not their business.
If you're having trouble with a bank, I guess there's not enough competition for them in your country and they think they can do anything and not care about their clients. When there's a lot of competing banks, the situation changes.

It’s not about gambling platform you need to avoid but rather you should check your bank account policy about their stand about gambling activity. Some bank doesn’t allowed their customers to receive funds from gambling especially if your country doesn’t allowed online gambling.

This is the danger of using a centralized platform such as bank because they can freeze your account indefinitely if you failed to fully read their terms.

This was what first came to my mind, most banks are aware of gambling and they even have that features on their banks app to for funding the platforms, I don't think any bank will make gambling to close an account unless the bank is of situation if the government has restricted people from gambling, in such situation, the bank see your gambling as breaking of law which can put them into trouble but as the Opay claims, they have been using it before and all of sudden, they suspended the accounts but no reason was attached to why they suspend the account.

It is possible that the brother has used the account for another thing that broke their law which is why they suspended the account or it is possible that they banned the account because they recieve money that was more than what the account can recieve. I have seen accounts locked immediately if the bank suspected an account reeive more than the limit they gave them and they don't upon the account until you provide an additional documentation before they can unfreeze the bank account.

Do you play on crypto casino sites? what country are you from, if your country legalizes gambling then you will be able to get your money but if your country legalizes gambling then it will be difficult for you to get the money, but why do you have to make a withdrawal directly to your bank account, you should use an exchange to safeguard your money.  Several banks have joined the anti-gambling campaign because there are many rumors spreading that money laundering is quite common on gambling sites, so banks quite often freeze money from gamblers who make withdrawals, but if you want to try asking the bank, please do so, you have to bear the risk.

It depends on your local bank regulations, whether deposits from banks to gambling platforms are allowed or not, because what I know is that banks are always sensitive when there are gambling activities so they can block your bank at any time if caught.

Many countries have made regulations about gambling where they prohibit people from making deposits through banks, so maybe that's what the OP is experiencing where he is hampered by regulations.

This is why it is really that always important that you should really be that wary about those terms and conditions on the time that you are opening some bank account. You cant really just that simply ignore out with those simpliest detail specially when you are signing up some contract or agreeing terms on which it would really be that relevant and important that you should really know on what are  the things that you are signing in.
If you do see that into those terms that your local bank does prohibit out gambling funds or related on where it do originated then it would really be just that right that you shouldnt really be crediting it out with
those funds but on the time that you had just missed out on reading up these terms then its your fault not theirs.

For sure it would really be needing up some requirements if ever the bank would really be that locking up your account. You would be needing to comply and answer all of their questions
on which this would really be likely the case that would be asked out or would happen. This is where you would really be able to realize that you must
not skip out on reading at least on what are the things been stated with those pile or papers. lol

We can't say for sure what is the exact reason given how there could be many factors that could cause such decision. I'm not sure if it'll work but you could try pressing them about this. In addition, the questions they'll be asking (if any) could give a hint as well, for instance if they ask about a particular activity of your bro, you could look into that.

Personally, I've never experienced such. Luckily in our place, closing of accounts typically doesn't mean you money will be seized as users are given opportunity to get their money out. Nevertheless, it's still recommended to have a separate fiat account for activities that could be in a gray area for some custodial services like crypto, gambling etc. -- I suggest looking into neobanks ;D

Banks and payment companies gotta watch out for fraud and make sure they follow all the rules and regulatory compliance.  So when your bro was using Raven to fund that gambling site that wasn't licensed, it raised some red flags.  Raven likely assumed he was doing something shady or illegal.  they gotta cover their own butts, and your brother should've read the fine print and realized he couldn't use Raven like that.  

Going forward, read the terms of service for payment apps really carefully.  Make sure you know what you can and can't use them for before transferring money.  And dont try to sneak things past the system because they're always watching for rule-breakers.  Sorry you both learned this the hard way.

People would really be just that only be tending to read up those terms on the time that they would be experiencing these issues but they havent done it earlier but rather in the late case which this is typical.
Banks are highly centralized and regulated on which they would really be following on what the government been ruled out and for them to avoid up to involved into some mess then they would really be that
strict on imposing those rules and conditions on which it would be passed up into it customers or users.  They would really be always that be close monitoring into those possible money laundering correlated kind of actions
on which on the time that they've seen something then it would really just that normal that they would be having those approach or actions to be made on.

This is why it would be always recommended that you should really know on the things that you've been doing. This is why on the time that you are tending to make use of a service or into those banks
then it would be always that wise that reading up those regulations will really be that necessary.Being aware and knowledgeable on things will always be having
that kind of advantage.

More possibly the bank ToS because it has nothing to do with the terms of casino since it was the bank that banned @OP's younger brother.  I don't know any bank that banned an account due to gambling in my place.  As far as I know, it was the use of cryptocurrency exchanges and depositing them directly to the bank that triggers the temporary ban.  Certain requirements are done like KYC and video interview to be able to unfrozen the account.


Mostly the bank probably detected a fraudulent activity but the bank should give a notice why the account was banned.  I think your younger brother @OP is not telling you the whole story.

I have not had such experience with Banks or funding platforms before with reasons been that I founded my gambling wallet too often or anything of such, but then it's possible thing as this happens especially when these things run into some uncommon huge amounts without proper or solid unsuspecting sources.

Seme times it could be that your brother might have gone against the banking or funding platforms terms of usage or other variables, it aswell could be that he violated a rule that caused them to place sanctions on his account and that's why it's always very important and necessary you read all these terms and conditions on gambling platforms and other platforms before you get engaged with them enough to entrust good fund so as to avoid situations as this, when reading this terms I'd you notice any ambiguity, then you leave the platform or call the attention of someone else to help you understand what's stated there.

When it comes to these situations then im not really that too careless on doing something that violates out specially on banking transactions and this is why i do barely connect out with my bank accounts on crypto
related transactions to avoid some potential headache in the future. Banks would really be that normally be strict when it comes to those kind of transactions which might really that connect for possible money laundering.
We might not really be that doing such thing but it cant really be that ignored by these institutions and this is where those rules that had been set upon on which it is really just that normal that they would really be strictly be monitoring and if they have seen one of those who violate then it would be normal that there would be lock up.

Just like the rest been saying that once locked up then interrogation would happen on asking about that particular issue or violation. We dont know if these cases would really be
resolved out or not but pretty sure it would really not that simple situation that you would be needing to resolved.

As far as I know, so-called licensed casinos (not cryptocurrency ones) are accepting deposits from all banks, with no exceptions. I think it's actually quite common for banks to prohibit anything related to cryptocurrencies. One or two banks here have banned any deposits or withdrawals towards Binance and a few other exchanges as well. It's frustrating because they're not actually banned by law, so I don't understand why they're prohibiting transactions and why they have authority to do that—their bank, their rules, I guess.

I once had my PayPal account limited due to receiving multiple transactions in a short period of time. They requested that I prove the legitimacy of the funds, so I'm guessing the OP's brother is a similar case.

I have never had an experience like that, but perhaps there is activity that the bank suspects, so they block your brother's account. Perhaps the bank doesn't allow its users to deposit money on the gambling platform, so the bank blocks your brother's account. There are many things that banks can do with someone's account. You should continue to ask the bank or your brother as the account owner to find out what happened.

If gambling is prohibited in your country, it goes without saying that one should not deposit money into gambling platforms. The bank will block them if they use their bank account to deposit money on the gambling platform. How is this case progressing? What happened to your brother's account?

There's nothing we can do if banks would be freezing up our accounts and this is the cons when using up centralized platforms on which it would really be giving out that kind of possibilities on getting locked up once you have missed or violate something. I can say that it is normal since they are highly been regulated by the government on which means that they would really be that having that monitoring in terms of those money laundering kind of possible transactions on which they would really be that handling out those possible trnsactions and would clarify it out as the owner of the account.
If they have blocked it then you dont have any options but to go and asked out on how to unblock but for sure be prepared into those questions and requirements which it might be asked out.

What you should know is that every gambling or casino site has their rules and regulations, have you also checked if they banned the country of your residence most at time some casino or gambling site do include countries they don't operate on and when emake account they will allow you to do that but after which you finished making the account and deposit they won't allow you to make withdraw rather they will freeze the accounts.

The questions asked will definitely focus more on the gambling platform used and why you have to make a deposit to the prohibited platform. After all, if it is prohibited, why use a bank account, because now there are still many options you can choose to deposit money on gambling platforms. There are many E Wallets that can be used or can use the services of other people to avoid these violations which result in our own bank account being blocked.

I'm personally not a fan of fiat-based online gambling platforms for various reasons, and I would prefer cryptocurrency gambling platforms instead, mostly because of the ease of making deposits and withdrawals without any problems. However, I think it should depend on whether gambling is legal or illegal within the region the person is living in whose account has been banned because if gambling is legal, both gambling platform and bank or service provider should have no issues.

However, if gambling is banned and there are rules or regulations by the government against it, the bank has all the right to take action if they find people making gambling transactions using their bank accounts. Sometimes, gambling might be legal but some financial service providers might not allow using their accounts for it, reading their terms of service might help know the reason.

I've got friends that have multiple times closed their bank accounts due to gambling activities. Always check the TOS of the bank if you're going to open an account.

Most of them are infavor of having funding our betting accounts so before you do so directing your money from casino to your bank account. Don't do it straightly.

Use another platform where your money is going to go through before directly depositing or withdrawing from a casino.

I have that happen to me before but it was not a bank, but a local exchange. To sum things up, I deposited some money from my gambling account to this exchange. They asked me for a lot of evidence on whether or not I have the capability to deposit such sum, and even though I showed them the winning slip and the transaction ID from that gambling provider, they still proceeded in banning my account that still has some couple hundred dollars sitting on it.

Some banks or exchanges are very sensitive when it comes to receiving transactions that originated from gambling platforms. I don't know what's the deal with it, but more often than not it's just their AML policies kicking in and you have to be compliant in order to clear you of any suspicions they may have on you and continue working with that bank/exchange.

Based on personal experience, I have never had direct contact with a bank or financial service provider that explicitly prohibits gambling activities. However, certain financial institutions may have established policies that restrict gambling-related transactions. This is primarily done to thwart unlawful practices or protect customers from potential financial harm. So it is possible that certain banks or financial service providers may choose to implement policies that limit or inhibit gambling-related transactions. To achieve this, they may employ the use of advanced algorithms or technology to monitor and intercept payments associated with online gambling platforms or any other activity related to gambling.

Regarding gambling, I would rather recommend that we not act rashly by always reviewing the policy of the particular bank or financial service provider regarding it first.

solution you can use crypto currency to gamble. when entering the bank the money that enters is money from the crypto exchanger so not money from gambling. so your bank account is safe.
That is also if in your country the rules are very strict.
because usually what is baned is the account of the bookie, not the gambler.

I haven't had a similar experience, but I know of a number of friends who have this kind of experience. And it's not either the gambling activities or the legitimacy of funds; it's actually both. Financial institutions are cautious when dealing with gambling funds. Gambling funds are more or less perceived as illegitimate. Gambling, after all, is not really acceptable as a fund source. That's why there are financial platforms which don't allow deposits coming from gambling platforms. It's best to read the terms and conditions first.

I checked the whole discussion to see if you updated this thread for any response coming from your younger brother's bank provider and you have not updated us, the only valid answer should come from the bank provider because they are the ones that flagged your younger brother account, there's a violation of their terms that is why the account was banned, and it's a different scenario for every account, I have not experienced this in my bank provider because I have read their terms and they do accept transaction from casinos that are regulated, so its better to get an update and post it here or read the terms and see if your younger brother missed something that got his account banned.

If I'm not mistaken, there are exchanges that are questioning the fund that came from a gambling site or even the withdrawals, better to confirm this to the support of the exchange that you are going to use before you proceed to avoid any inconvenience. I've experienced before about the bank questioning my source of income, and that was during the last bull run, maybe they become more strict and for sure they already know that crypto transactions exist.

      -   In the first place, if you are hesitating about a casino here in the crypto business, the only thing to do is very simple: do not continue gambling in the casino that you doubt.

You should be in a casino where you feel comfortable playing. Now, when you say that you have a problem and that you are not immediately given answers to your concerns with them, just be patient and wait for them to answer your questions.

In my case I have not had any, but I think it is because my deposits in bookmakers are small and not very frequent. Also when I can I withdraw, so it is not only money that goes to the casino, there is also money that comes back.

But in general the algorithms of the banks consider casinos as risky, and depending on your behavior patterns they can for example deny you a loan or charge you more expensive than if you did not gamble in casinos.

Yeah, that's actually the solution but the thing is. Many of us are using bank to deposit through it for our gambling accounts and then upon withdrawal, the same process goes.

There are countries that have banks that are very strict with their policies and always check and ask their depositors where the money came from. If you answer that it's from gambling, you'd better be careful with your mouth because that's a red flag for them and might not allow you to continue that transaction.

I have never heard of such, although it might be that I haven't seen a gambler that have bet over and over and over again even with people's money and borrowed money too, or some of the addicted gambler that I have seen have not gambled up to this extent.
However, my government aren't thinking of some better positions to place most things, what I am trying to say is that, they haven't thought of a way to help Gambling addicts to reduce their gambling habits but they frustrate the Bitcoin investors by making is hard to buy Bitcoin directly from their bank accounts.

We can't tell you the reason as we don't work with the bank to know their etiquette but your brother can write the customer care to know why his account was banned and if it's because of him using it with a gamble sites, you should tell us so we can avoid the banks too when gambling. I haven't heard anything bad about the banks so I don't think they want to scam him by locking him out of his account therefore he should follow up the matter and he'll get solution.

I can't remember the last time I used fiats for gambling, I always use Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency and I only gamble on crypto casino as there are alot of things that fiats casino do that I don't like. If you deposit big amount of money through fiats, your account would be flagged, kyc will be requested and when you don't provide a convincing identity and source of income you can lose your account.

Banks might be strict, but it doesn't mean there's no way to get your funds back. I guess the banks already give an instruction to your younger brother, now did he tell you about the instruction?

This isn't really serious, but it becomes serious if you're live in a country where gambling is forbidden.

I know how the law in my country related to gambling activities, it is strictly prohibited so I always try to avoid using bank transfer for my gambling activities. I did it few times years ago but now the law becomes stricter due to the new rules where the government may ask the bank is there are accounts that are connected to online gambling activities. In the past, the banned/blocked accounts are those accounts from the casino side not from the gamblers but now it seems to be different in my country. All accounts no matter the account is associated to casino or owned by gamblers, the account can be banned/blocked. We should know the terms in the bank as well as the law by the government, better to avoid bank transfer for gambling activities if the situation is similar to where I live.

If the central bank of the country didn't give banks the directive to disallow gambling, I don't see why a bank would restrict it. It will only amount to cheating itself because the customers of casinos will move their business to another bank. Banks are in for the business, which is why I know that there is more to this case. And of course, good or bad, banks would give reasons for the decline, but not in all countries as services are not the same everywhere.

As it is, if they are living in countries where gambling is forbidden, the OP wouldn't have bothered himself to ask this question. He must have known that it was because of that. And I don't know the person that gambling would be banned in his country and would still be using a bank account to fund it. This is why they move to cryptocurrency. However, certain casinos could be prohibited.

The bank system in many countries was not good,because the government always influenced the banking sector.This was the biggest problem in many countries created to the gamblers.If the gambler bank account was credited with 10,000$ at a time,the bank will check the bank transactions.If the transaction was made because of the gambling business,then the bank will do two things.One is they freeze the money and report to the government to get taxes for the transaction.Second is they will do the bank of your bank account and steal the money in your bank accounts.Then you need to file a case in the court and do some legal proceedings to recover the money.

I also got into trouble with the bank before and they suspected me of using criminal money, ironically it was a P2P transaction with a woman and then she was arrested for using money is inappropriate for any flagged online gambling activities. But the problem was resolved quickly when I declared specifically and they did not want to bother me further because I was just a passerby.

For some countries, gambling regulations are not always acceptable, so controlling money transfer activities through banks is also an understandable action to prevent money laundering activities, although there are risks. There are disadvantages, but imo, if people don't do anything wrong, just go directly to the bank to resolve the problem, it will be much faster if solve online/phone.

Yes, as long as OP's sister doesn't feel that something has been violated, it's best to go to the bank to get a real explanation about reopening a bank account that was banned because of gambling. If she really wants to withdraw money from the bank, she should be able to resolve it properly with the bank because it's possible. There are third parties or governments who actually block gambling transactions because of legal regulations as an illegal act.

Of course, this case will look serious if gambling is illegal in his country because in my place there was also a similar case but he didn't have much money in his account so he left the money and left his account because he felt he had carried out a gambling transaction, which in my country is very gambling. prohibited due to illegal actions.

That's how the bank implement the AML policy in their bank that's why don't get surprised if something like that to happen since they also need to verify where the money came from especially if you are not known for depositing huge on your bank account. But if they know you are doing some huge transaction legally on their bank I don't think they ask this question since maybe they think that what you are doing still in line with legal transactions. I'm not pro bank since I'm into crypto and a gambler but I don't think they stole money from their depositor since their business might get ruined for that and they are been well monitored by local policies.

But I don't know on other banking system in some country so they need to know the terms of the bank they want to hide their money, so they can avoid getting questioned that's why its better to make all slow in gambling especially if their banks doesn't allow them to transact using the money what they earn from a casino.

It may be both, banks do not want their client to use their platform as a means of funding a casino because they complied with their central bank, and some central banks prohibit linking to casinos because of money laundering issues, you have to confirm if this is the case and if possible ask them if the ban is permanent so you use other banks or platforms to fund the casino you're playing

No problem with the gambling platforms it's the bank that you need to ask if they allow linking to gambling platforms.

Perhaps that's what gamblers should avoid, who still often use their bank accounts to deposit money into their gambling accounts and also withdraw their winnings. If your country allows gambling, it is not a serious problem. But if you are in a country that prohibits gambling, you can get sanctions from banks and the government because you have violated the regulations.

When someone deposits money and withdraws a large amount of winnings, it will make the bank feel suspicious and will investigate your account. Therefore, they should look for other solutions rather than being subject to sanctions from the regulator. So far, people who gamble using crypto have used crypto, so they don't need to use their bank accounts.

As i understand this, the we are talking about the fiat money here, as when the fiat money reaches the bank, they may checked that the money has reached to bank through a gambling channel and due to this they may have restricted the account.
Special care shall be taken in places where the gambling is prohibited and even in places where gambling is allowed, we should also check and read the terms and conditions of the bank and provider account too, to know if the bank allows the money transfer from the gambling and bookies.

This is for fiat, yeah. Actually with the huge number of depositors the bank has, they will not be able to check every transactions of their depositors. Only if there's an investigation or complaints regarding the user will they act upon.


This is very important, we should be responsible to follow the simple rules from our banks. Normally, it'sjust a general law that is guiding it's depositors with their transactions, anything that is illegal is something that should be avoided, because, you are right, when gambling is illegal in your country and you tend to deposit in a gambling site, your account will be tag for violating the law and your funds will be confiscated and you'll not be safe from lawsuit, it's you versus the government which the government normally win.

Casino usually use a regular account from proxy employees to transfer or receive funds from players since most of the casino operates internationally which means they don’t have any capability to open a bank account for their company to name under it. With that said, There’s no way for the bank to track the funds that it came from gambling unless the transaction is marked by the sender as gambling funds.

You’re right that user should read bank terms and also it’s common sense that bank will not allow it if the country law itself doesn’t allowed gambling.

I always bypass to directly withdraw crypto to my bank account from the exchange of my choice.I use a "man in the middle" service (I know this mostly relates to network attacks) but in here I am talking about these three steps,1 withdrawing money to my wallet from my crypto casino,2 then I deposit to an exchange online which use semi automatic or automatic transfers to my VISA card and not to my bank account,since VISA card has a limit daily of 10.000 dollars then I am safe as I never have the chance to get that huge amount of money daily and 3 I wait for money to come to my VISA card which of course is linked to my bank account yet the bank does not know that the money comes from a crypto casino.

In fact, there are various ways that can be done so that the activities we carry out in gambling are not known by the government for every transaction we make.
If you use fiat casino, there is an official service or platform which is also digital wallet and on the gambling site there will be an admin who can help customers deposit or withdraw money directly into the digital wallet.
This transaction will read like normal transaction in general involving two people or transaction between users of the platform so that it is impossible to suspect or detect that the transaction was carried out with gambling site.
If you use crypto site, it will be even easier and of course you will understand the various ways that every gambler can use in transactions with crypto gambling sites.

But I don't think the bank will ever suspect users who have history of depositing large amounts of money as long as the amount doesn't reach fantastic figure, if it is very large amount, they will probably only be asked for additional tax.
This is what happens in my country, if an account user has deposit limit or balance of large amount, then tax will only be applied, the amount of which can still be said to be quite small.
They don't care what you did to get that much money as long as you don't have bad history like criminal or have history of fraud or anything that violates the law.