[WARNING] sportsbet.io are illegally allowing players from France

[bonjo90]

This is just to provide a warning to anyone playing on sportsbet.io, to carefully check that you are allowed to play on sportsbet.io as they do not perform adequate checks and are also allowing players from France to play on their platform DESPITE it being clearly against the regulations set out to them by Curaçao eGaming.

sportsbet.io Terms and Conditions:

3.3.       You are aware that the right to access and use the website and any products there offered, may be considered illegal in certain countries. We are not able to verify the legality of service in each and every jurisdiction, consequently, you are responsible in determining whether your accessing and using our website is compliant with the applicable laws in your country and you warrant to us that gambling is not illegal in the territory where you reside.  For various legal or commercial reasons, we do not permit accounts to be opened or used by customers resident in certain jurisdictions, including the United States of America (and her dependencies, military bases and territories), Australia, United Kingdom, Estonia, Germany, Netherlands or other restricted jurisdictions ("Restricted Jurisdiction") as communicated by us from time to time. By using the Website you confirm you are not a resident in a Restricted Jurisdiction.

Curaçao eGaming Excluded Territories

Under this license, apart from its own diligence and legalities, the license holder is not authorized to offer its services in the territories of USA, Netherlands, France, Dutch West Indies and Curacao. It is the responsibility of the licensee to be familiar with the local laws and requirements for the territories which they intend to offer their services. Before reporting such non-compliance, please make sure the license holder is not operating under multiple licenses, allowing the legal operation in the above regions.

You can access this page by clicking the Curaçao eGaming badge found on the sportsbet.io website.

Proof:

• I have been able to play on the sportsbet.io site recently whilst in France
• sportsbet.io Customer Support confirmed to me that players from France are accepted on their site

Hello,

We hope that this email finds you well.

We can confirm that It is not illegal for French to play on our site. Nevertheless, we advise you to ascertain with relevant authorities whether gambling is permitted in your territory.

Hope that we were able to answer your question.

Best regards,
Yuri
Sportsbet.io Customer Support Team

I also made AskGamblers aware of this recently and they updated their site to add France to the "Restricted Countries" section on the sportsbet.io AskGamblers profile page.

In relation to this part of the Curaçao eGaming website "Before reporting such non-compliance, please make sure the license holder is not operating under multiple licenses, allowing the legal operation in the above regions."

After using AskGamblers Curaçao section, I visited over 20 websites that also are licensed by Curaçao eGaming and can confirm that all 20 I clicked on restrict players from France.

Some sites are licensed by a difference license for French players, such as Cloudbet.com. They are licensed by Curaçao eGaming and E Gambling Montenegro, when you visit the site from france you are displayed with the Montenegro license and not the Curaçao.

sportsbet.io do not show any signs on their website that they are licensed by anyone else other than Curaçao eGaming, meaning they appear to be illegally allowing players from France.

If such a simple instruction from their regulator Curaçao is not abided by, I would suggest that you approach sportsbet.io with extreme caution if you are to gamble on their site. Unless sportsbet.io can provide clarification over this matter.

[logfiles]

How is this a scam, accusation. Of course, don't expect them to list all restricted countries. Sometimes you have to use your head after reading the ToS and before registering. If gambling is illegal in your Country then why would you go ahead and register? Did they force you to register with them?

They are clear with their Terms and Conditions

2. Binding Declarations

2.8.      You will not use our services while located in any jurisdiction that prohibits the placing and/or accepting of bets denominated in Bitcoin online, and/or playing casino and/or live games for and/or with Bitcoin;

3. Registration and Opening of Your Member Account
3.2.      We do not wish to and shall not accept registration from persons resident in jurisdictions that prohibit you from participating in online sports betting, gambling, gaming, and/or games of skill, for and/or with bitcoin.

3.3.       You are aware that the right to access and use the website and any products there offered, may be considered illegal in certain countries. We are not able to verify the legality of service in each and every jurisdiction, consequently, you are responsible in determining whether your accessing and using our website is compliant with the applicable laws in your country and you warrant to us that gambling is not illegal in the territory where you reside.  For various legal or commercial reasons, we do not permit accounts to be opened or used by customers resident in certain jurisdictions, including the United States of America (and her dependencies, military bases and territories), Australia, United Kingdom, Estonia, Germany, Netherlands or other restricted jurisdictions ("Restricted Jurisdiction") as communicated by us from time to time. By using the Website you confirm you are not a resident in a Restricted Jurisdiction.

3.4     When attempting to open an account or using the Website, it is the responsibility of the player to verify whether gambling is legal in that particular jurisdiction. If you open or use the Website while residing in a Restricted Jurisdiction: your account may be closed by us immediately; any winnings and bonuses will be confiscated and remaining balance returned (subject to reasonable charges), and any returns, winnings or bonuses which you have gained or accrued will be forfeited by you and may be reclaimed by us; and you will return to us on demand any such funds which have been withdrawn.

What exactly is so hard to understand from what the lines i have quoted above?

[acroman08]

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it's clear that the intention of the OP is not to warn but to smear the reputation of sportsbet.io (which is not new). the OP nitpicked the information that is favorable to him/her and ignores the other information.

[aioc]

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it's clear that the intention of the OP is not to warn but to smear the reputation of sportsbet.io (which is not new). the OP nitpicked the information that is favorable to him/her and ignores the other information.

I don't see any scam allegations here I expect an amount, screenshots of the conversation but all I see are copy paste materials and inadequate information we don't have a section on gambling reputation yet to discuss this issue it's better that this be taken on the gambling sections, warning are for those Cryptocurrency that are launching a crowdfunding or ICO but not on an existing gambling site.

[btc_angela]

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it's clear that the intention of the OP is not to warn but to smear the reputation of sportsbet.io (which is not new). the OP nitpicked the information that is favorable to him/her and ignores the other information.

Not the first time that we have hear from a newbie smearing another exchanges reputation and this has been the cycle in the last couple of months, including Sportsbet.io that really created a lot of stir in the community. So for now, it looks like he is out to damage the reputation of Sportbets, just saying.

[marlboroza]

It might be problem when someone wins big and they decide to follow ToS (like some gambling sites are doing it with players from US), just keep losing, don't win too much and you will be fine.. /s

[Myleschetty]

I don't understand the purpose of the OP message since the site terms and conditions are stated clearly which is meant for all their users must read and follow in other to prevent loss of funds. So, I don't see that as a fault from their ending.

[logfiles]

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By the way, you still have a negative feedback on their profile regarding a case in 2017 which looks like it was resolved despite the accuser attempting to perform double spending and failing to verify his KYC. He returned his initial deposit of 15 BTC.

Id like to thank this community for assisting me in recovering my stolen funds, I honestly thought I would just be ignored or only get 1 or 2 replies. But I am overwhelmed by the support offered by some of the people in this forum. Hopefully when this is over I can offer a few of you a reward.

OP - your deposit of 15btc has been returned, pls see tx: https://blockexplorer.com/tx/5b327205888be7cb3fdb5f5e371a565de9cd1e1ed6ab28c38832e1c52b30df97

Please confirm you have received it.

Cheers,
sportsbet.io

I am just alerting you in case you didn't know how the case ended

[Arcas]

By the way, if I go to their site from a proxy in France, I will be blocked. If you are blocked, isn't it your responsibility if you still create an account yourself via a detour?

[bonjo90]

Clearly most of the replies above do not understand the content of my post. Let me summarise the reason for my post.

• Gambling companies must be licensed and regulated
• Gambling companies must follow the terms set out to them by their regulator
• sportsbet.io is licensed and regulated by Curacao eGaming
• Curacao eGaming speciically state, that sportsbet.io MAY NOT allow players from France.
• sportsbet.io allowed me, as a player, from France, using no VPN, located in France, to play and wager bitcoin
• This is breaking the terms that they HAVE to abide.
• Everyone else I could find, that is also regulated by Curacao eGaming, blocks players from France. When you visit the website you are immediately blocked.

I understand that sportsbet.io can not list every single country, but Curacao eGaming specifically state a handful of countries. sportsbet.io should at least block these countries.

This was a warning for anyone who may be from France and possibly using sportsbet.io. Also a warning that sportsbet.io are clearly not following the rules of their license and players should proceed with caution as this raises red flags.

By the way, if I go to their site from a proxy in France, I will be blocked. If you are blocked, isn't it your responsibility if you still create an account yourself via a detour?

I was able to play, without a VPN. I am from France. When you visit from France, are you blocked? do you receive a message? Maybe this is a sportsbet error. Clarification is required.
Thanks

[gosha@e-coin]

Clearly most of the replies above do not understand the content of my post. Let me summarise the reason for my post.

• Gambling companies must be licensed and regulated
• Gambling companies must follow the terms set out to them by their regulator
• sportsbet.io is licensed and regulated by Curacao eGaming
• Curacao eGaming speciically state, that sportsbet.io MAY NOT allow players from France.
• sportsbet.io allowed me, as a player, from France, using no VPN, located in France, to play and wager bitcoin
• This is breaking the terms that they HAVE to abide.
• Everyone else I could find, that is also regulated by Curacao eGaming, blocks players from France. When you visit the website you are immediately blocked.

I understand that sportsbet.io can not list every single country, but Curacao eGaming specifically state a handful of countries. sportsbet.io should at least block these countries.

This was a warning for anyone who may be from France and possibly using sportsbet.io. Also a warning that sportsbet.io are clearly not following the rules of their license and players should proceed with caution as this raises red flags.

By the way, if I go to their site from a proxy in France, I will be blocked. If you are blocked, isn't it your responsibility if you still create an account yourself via a detour?

I was able to play, without a VPN. I am from France. When you visit from France, are you blocked? do you receive a message? Maybe this is a sportsbet error. Clarification is required.
Thanks

This is a famous trick from sportsbet.io
They only block peopleif they want to. They do not care about the rules about the license. The reason they want to allow players from French is so they can scam more people like they did before.
If you deposit and lose, you will not get your money back. but if you win, you have violated the terms and they give you ony the deposit back. these company is with 1xbit the biggest scamsite on the forum