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The search itself is the warning. Australians who reach for casinos “not on BetStop” are usually trying to reach offshore sites that fall outside the National Self-Exclusion Register entirely — because online casino games cannot be licensed in Australia at all, and BetStop only covers the things that can be. That makes every result on this page a description of a product the law prohibits, not a route around the register. Anyone reading this far because they have already excluded themselves and want to undo it should jump straight to the responsible gambling section below, where BetStop, the helpline and the support services live.

The data on this page is current as of 23 September 2026, verified against the ACMA’s published formal-warning register and the BetStop statistics page.

Why a “non-BetStop casino” is a different thing from a BetStop loophole

The phrase is doing two jobs at once and confusing readers because of it.

BetStop, launched on 21 August 2023 and run by the ACMA, lets a person block themselves from every licensed Australian online and phone wagering provider. Registration takes about five minutes, exclusions last 3, 6 or 12 months or for life, and once active the minimum is 3 months — an exclusion can be extended but not shortened, and a lifetime one cannot be reversed. As of 31 July 2026 the register held 67,480 total registrations, 41,290 of them active, with 38% of registrants having chosen a lifetime exclusion and 78% under 40.

None of that touches offshore casino games. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, tightened in 2017, makes it an offence to supply online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting to anyone in Australia, and no state or territory issues a licence for those products. What is licensable — wagering on races and sport, lotteries, keno — is regulated in practice by the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission, which oversees 52 of the country’s online bookmakers including Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes, and which operates with no full-time staff, meeting once a month in Darwin. So a “non-BetStop casino” is, by construction, an unlicensed offshore casino. There is no Australian register it could be on or off.

That gap is what an offshore operator relies on. No Australian licence means no BetStop coverage, no Australian consumer-protection regime, no AUSTRAC scrutiny and no complaints body. If a withdrawal is refused the player has no local recourse. The ACMA can, and does, direct Australian ISPs to block the site — and a blocked site can take a balance with it.

What the ACMA has done about offshore casinos

The regulator does not prosecute players — the IGA targets providers. Its instruments are formal warnings to operators and blocking requests to internet service providers. The running record shows what the prohibition looks like in practice.

By June 2026 the ACMA had asked ISPs to block 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites since the first blocking request in November 2019, and more than 230 unlicensed services had left the Australian market since enforcement was strengthened in 2017. The latest published round, on 26 June 2026, added 12 more sites to the block list: 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino. H2 Gambling Capital’s 2025 estimate puts annual Australian losses to illegal sites at about A$3.9 billion, with the share of gambling routed through legal channels falling from 74% in 2021 to 64%.

Formal warnings to operators are the public record this page leans on most. The ACMA has named, by operator and brand:

• Dama N.V., May 2022, covering Bambet, Dazard, Level Up, Rocketplay, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casinos;
• Dama N.V., March 2025, over Woo Casino, and May 2025, over Spirit Casino;
• Bamboo Media, July 2025, over Ignition Casino, and Consolutetish S.R.L. the same month over National Casino and Bizzo Casino — the latter first warned in 2022 against TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V.;
• EOD Code SRL, February 2025, over Instant Casino;
• Ryker B.V., April 2026, over Jackbit and CasinOK;
• Sterplay Holding Ltd, April 2025, over Casino Intense;
• Hollycorn N.V. for its Sky Crown and Blue Leo services, September 2022;
• and Pulsup Ltd, March 2026, over RocketPlay.

A warning is a notice, not a conviction. The ACMA’s pattern is to issue the warning, refer the matter to the referral list of ISPs that block on request, and escalate if the operator does not withdraw from the Australian market. The same operator has been warned more than once — Dama N.V. has now been named four times across 2022 and 2025 — which is what the cumulative figure of 1,751 blocked sites actually represents.

The legal landscape, plain

Three layers stack up, and each one punishes a different party.

The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 prohibits the supply, not the play. An Australian who opens an account with an offshore casino has not committed an offence. The operator has. From June 2024 credit cards and credit-related products — including digital wallets where credit is the underlying source — were banned as a payment method for licensed Australian wagering, with penalties of up to A$247,500 for operators who accept them. Legal deposit routes for licensed wagering are debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY; an offshore site asking an Australian for a credit card or a crypto deposit is signalling that it is operating outside Australian rules.

The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 passed Parliament on 19 August 2026. Its advertising and inducement measures commence 1 January 2027, so they are law with a future start date as this page goes out, not yet in force. The bill does not licence online casino games; it tightens what licensed wagering operators can advertise and what inducements they can offer.

Tax sits on top of all of this. Recreational gambling winnings are not assessable income under section 6-5 of the ITAA 1997 and losses are not deductible, except where the ATO treats gambling as a business carried on by the taxpayer — a model case the ATO defines, not a route most readers will meet.

The responsible-gambling side, treated as the first thing a reader should know

This section is the part of the page that has to come before any operator write-up, because the only legal reading of “non-BetStop casino” involves real risks that the offshore product was built, in part, to bypass.

BetStop is the only nationwide exclusion mechanism for wagering in Australia. Registering takes about five minutes online. Once active, every licensed Australian online and phone wagering provider is required to refuse the registration, block new account creation and stop marketing. A person can nominate someone they know to support them while excluded. The exclusions are 3, 6 or 12 months or lifetime; the minimum is 3 months and it cannot be shortened.

For anyone whose exclusion is the reason they are searching this page, three things matter and they all say the same thing. BetStop does not cover offshore casino games because offshore casinos have no Australian licence. The exclusion is a record held by the ACMA; what stops a registered person from playing at an unlicensed site is self-discipline, not the register. The clearest way to extend BetStop’s reach is the bank-side blocks that several Australian lenders have built.

Westpac’s gambling block works at card level and refuses authorisation on transactions carrying the merchant category code ‘Betting/Casino Gambling’ for eligible personal credit and debit cards. ANZ’s gambling transaction block, switched on in the ANZ app, blocks gambling transactions made through a digital wallet such as Apple Pay on an eligible card, not just the physical card — and it requires a 48-hour waiting period to remove, with the bank warning that not all gambling transactions will be blocked and some non-gambling transactions may be blocked in error. Apple Pay and Google Pay are not consumer-fee systems: Apple charges no fee for use in stores, online or in apps, and any surcharge the customer sees comes from the merchant’s card-processing fees, not Apple. Transaction limits and PIN requirements for Apple Pay purchases are set by the card issuer or merchant, not Apple. The Reserve Bank of Australia’s July 2025 review proposes removing surcharges on eftpos, Mastercard and Visa transactions, explicitly leaving American Express outside the scope — so an Amex deposit is the surcharge the proposal does not touch.

Bank-side blocks are not a substitute for BetStop. They are an additional layer, and they vary in what they catch. The cleanest way for someone who has excluded themselves to extend the exclusion’s reach to the offshore market is to combine BetStop with a gambling transaction block on every card they hold, and to close any account they have already opened with an offshore site.

For anyone reading this page because they are worried about their own gambling rather than searching for a new casino, the right number is 1800 858 858 — the National Gambling Helpline, free, 24/7, with web chat at Gambling Help Online. Financial Counselling Australia and Gambler’s Anonymous run alongside it.

The shortlist, framed as a description of the ACMA’s record, not as a recommendation

What follows is not a ranking. It is a list of brands the ACMA has itself acted against for offering prohibited services to Australians. Each write-up names the operator and the date the ACMA published the formal warning, plus the licence the site displays — because whatever licence a casino claims, online casino games are not licensable in Australia. No bonus terms are reported because the only sources for them were affiliate marketing pages, which the ACMA has also been blocking.

The table collects the same material at a glance. Brands appear in the order the ACMA has acted on them, most recent first; for brands the ACMA has warned more than once, the most recent action is shown.

The “Subject support” column reflects what gambling-industry listings report about each brand — deposit methods, withdrawal routes, support contacts — and is not the operator’s own claim. A dash means no such listing was found in the consulted set, and the brand is presented on the ACMA record alone. Several operators carry multiple warnings from the ACMA across different years; the most recent warning is the one this page uses as the table’s headline date.

The pattern in the table is more useful than any single row. Dama N.V. appears against four of the eleven brands. Consolutetish S.R.L. and TechSolutions share a second. The same operator shells multiple sites, the ACMA acts against the operator, and the brand line-up changes underneath. That is the shape of an offshore market where the product is illegal at the point of supply.

RocketPlay

RocketPlay was warned by the ACMA in March 2026 against its operator Pulsup Ltd for the Australian-facing site Rocketplay.com.au. Dama N.V., the operator behind the brand internationally, had already been warned by the ACMA in May 2022. What gambling-industry listings carry for the brand is the deposit-method list rather than bonus terms — and the deposit-method list is the more important of the two for an Australian reader because credit-card and crypto deposits are the markers the IGA flags. Verdict: a brand whose Australian-facing site is already the subject of an ACMA warning published this year, against an operator previously warned over the same product — which leaves very little distance between a search result and an enforcement action.

Level Up Casino

Level Up Casino is one of the six Dama N.V. brands the ACMA named in its May 2022 warning — Bambet, Dazard, Level Up, Rocketplay, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casinos. Industry listings for the brand describe withdrawal routes more than they describe deposit routes, which is the inversion of what an Australian-facing listing normally carries and the inversion the ACMA’s blocking record partly explains. Verdict: a four-year-old formal warning on file against the operator, no new action in the consulted set, and the brand sits in the same operator portfolio as RocketPlay, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casino — meaning the ACMA’s view of the operator carries across the whole shelf.

Woo Casino

The ACMA warned Dama N.V. over Woo Casino in March 2025, naming the brand alongside Spirit Casino a month later. The operator had already been warned in May 2022 across six brands. Woo Casino’s row in the ACMA register is the clearest example of an offshore operator absorbing a warning and continuing to accept Australian traffic. Verdict: a fresh formal warning less than two years old, the same operator as RocketPlay, Level Up, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casino — so any framing that treats the brands as independent understates what the regulator’s record actually says.

Spirit Casino

Spirit Casino is the second 2025 Dama N.V. warning, published in May 2025, two months after Woo Casino. The two warnings came within a single quarter and against the same operator, which suggests the ACMA was tracking the brand portfolio rather than a single site. Industry listings for Spirit Casino are sparse; no deposit or withdrawal detail was found in the consulted set. Verdict: the same operator record as Woo Casino, with no listing-side detail to soften the picture.

National Casino

The ACMA warned Consolutetish S.R.L. over National Casino in July 2025, in the same round as Bizzo Casino. Industry listings for National Casino carry the most Australian-facing detail in the consulted set — payment routes, support contacts, regulator names — and they do so by describing Australian-facing infrastructure rather than by carrying an Australian licence, which none of the brands hold. Verdict: the better-documented listing in the table, but documentation is not the same as legitimacy, and the ACMA’s view of the operator is on file from 2025.

Bizzo Casino

Bizzo Casino was the subject of two ACMA formal warnings. The first, in 2022, named TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V.; the second, in July 2025, named Consolutetish S.R.L. The brand outlived the change of operator and surfaced again — the offshore shelf is replaceable in a way the Australian regulator cannot be. Verdict: a brand the ACMA has now warned twice, against two different operating companies in three years, and the kind of operator turnover that explains why an ACMA warning does not always end a brand.

Ignition Casino

The ACMA warned Bamboo Media over Ignition Casino in July 2025. Ignition’s poker-tilt product makes it a different shape from the slots-and-table operators elsewhere in this list, but the ACMA’s view of the underlying service — supply of prohibited interactive gambling to Australians — is the same. Industry listings for Ignition carry no deposit or withdrawal detail in the consulted set. Verdict: a brand warned against a year ago, with no Australian-facing payment detail to evaluate.

Instant Casino

The ACMA warned EOD Code SRL over Instant Casino in February 2025. Industry listings for the brand describe PayID-style instant transfers — a route the Australian Payments Plus service offers through Osko, where bank-to-bank transfers between participating Australian banks settle in under a minute, 24/7, whether addressed to a BSB and account number or to a PayID. PayID-based instant transfers are available at more than 100 Australian financial institutions, more than 25 million PayID identifiers were registered on the New Payments Platform by April 2025, and paying to a PayID shows the account-holder name before the transfer is sent — AP+ warns that being asked to transfer to a PayID on an illegal gambling site almost certainly means a scam site. Verdict: the most interesting payment-side overlap in the table, and the one a reader should be most careful about — PayID is a real Australian rail, and seeing it on an offshore casino’s payment page is a sign the operator is targeting Australian bank accounts specifically, which is the conduct the IGA prohibits.

Jackbit

The ACMA warned Ryker B.V. over Jackbit in April 2026, in the same round as CasinOK. Industry listings for Jackbit carry no Australian-facing payment detail in the consulted set. Verdict: the freshest ACMA action in the table alongside RocketPlay, against an operator with no other formal warning on file in the consulted set.

Casino Intense

The ACMA warned Sterplay Holding Ltd over Casino Intense in April 2025. Industry listings for the brand carry support-contact detail and AUSTRAC-aligned material more than deposit-route detail. Verdict: a single formal warning in 2025, against an operator not warned elsewhere in the consulted set.

Sky Crown

The ACMA’s formal warning to Hollycorn N.V., published in September 2022, covers Sky Crown and Blue Leo. Industry listings for Sky Crown carry no Australian-facing detail in the consulted set. Verdict: the oldest entry in the table, against an operator whose other brand (Blue Leo) appears in the same warning — and a reminder that a 2022 warning is not a closed file, since the ACMA does not formally mark a warning as resolved.

What the ACMA’s blocking rate looks like as a number

The arithmetic this page can stand behind is the ACMA’s blocking-rate over the period since the first blocking request in November 2019.

The running total of blocked sites at the most recent published round, on 26 June 2026, was 1,751. The first blocking request went out in November 2019. Between November 2019 and 26 June 2026 sits roughly 79 months, which gives an average of about 22 blocked sites per month, or just over one every 36 hours, across the period.

The result is a band rather than a single number. The blocking rate varies round by round — the 26 June 2026 round alone added 12 sites, which is more than half a month’s average landed in a single request — and earlier rounds had different sizes again. The right framing is roughly 20 to 25 sites per month across the period, with single rounds that can add a dozen in one week, and the rate has not visibly slowed since the 2023 credit-card ban on licensed wagering. That last point matters: the law has tightened on the licensed side, and the enforcement record on the unlicensed side has not thinned in response.

The condition on the figure is straightforward. It counts sites the ACMA asked ISPs to block, not unique operators, and not sites that later dropped Australian traffic voluntarily. The “more than 230 unlicensed gambling services” figure cited alongside counts services that left the market, which is a different denominator from blocked sites and not directly comparable. Both are ACMA-published numbers; neither is the ACMA’s count of Australians gambling offshore, which the regulator does not publish.

What the payment side looks like for an Australian reader

Three payment facts cut through the marketing and are worth knowing regardless of which brand a reader is looking at.

The Interactive Gambling Act’s 2023 amendments banned credit cards and credit-related products for licensed Australian wagering from 11 June 2024, with operator penalties up to A$247,500. The same restriction constrains gambling use of linked digital wallets where credit is the underlying source. By the end of 2025 Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay transactions collectively accounted for around 45% of all card payments in Australia by number — which means a third of the card taps in the country go through a wallet that may or may not carry the credit restriction downstream, depending on the underlying card.

A licensed wagering operator takes debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY. An offshore casino asking an Australian for a credit card or for crypto is signalling that it has not built to Australian rules — and the ACMA has built its blocking record around exactly that signal. PayID-to-PayID transfers show the account-holder name before the transfer is sent, and AP+’s own warning is that being asked to transfer to a PayID on an illegal gambling site almost certainly means a scam site. The mechanism that makes PayID useful in a domestic setting is the same mechanism that makes it useful to an offshore operator: a fast, named, Australian-bank-to-Australian-bank rail, with no credit-card intermediary and no international gateway.

Bank-side blocks are the cleanest reader-side control. Westpac’s card-level block on the merchant category code ‘Betting/Casino Gambling’ refuses authorisation before the transaction completes; ANZ’s app-level gambling block does the same and adds a 48-hour waiting period to remove, with the bank’s own caveat that not all gambling transactions will be blocked and some non-gambling transactions might be blocked in error. Neither block is a substitute for BetStop; both are layers that catch what BetStop does not because offshore casinos are outside the register.

What the offshore product looks like as a proposition

Strip the licence badge away and the product on offer is a casino that the regulator has named as prohibited, run by an operator the regulator has named as breaching, paid into via rails the regulator has restricted for licensed wagering and outside every Australian consumer protection regime. The offshore shelf changes brand line-ups faster than the regulator can name them: Dama N.V. has been warned four times across 2022 and 2025; Bizzo Casino has been warned twice under two different operating companies; Consolutetish S.R.L. was named in July 2025 over both National Casino and Bizzo Casino in the same round. Each warning targets the supply, not the demand, and an Australian player is not at legal risk — but an Australian player has no local recourse if a withdrawal stalls or fails, and an ACMA blocking request can take the site down with a balance on it.

The pitch the offshore product relies on is range, not safety. A wider game library, a different bonus shape, payment methods that look like the ones a player uses at home. None of that changes the regulatory position; none of it gives the player a complaint route in Australia; none of it places the site under the BetStop register the player has already excluded themselves from. The reader-side math is that an offshore casino is not “off BetStop” the way a different Australian licence would be off BetStop — it is outside BetStop the way a product no Australian regulator licenses is outside every Australian register. That is the substantive answer to the question the search implies.

Where to get help

For anyone whose reason for reading this page is gambling-related harm, the support services sit outside the operator shelf and are listed here because they are the only part of this page that genuinely fits the question underneath the search.

The National Gambling Helpline is 1800 858 858, free, 24/7, with web chat at Gambling Help Online. BetStop — the National Self-Exclusion Register — is at betstop.gov.au and takes about five minutes to register; once active, exclusions are 3, 6 or 12 months or lifetime, with the 3-month minimum and no shortening. A registrant can nominate someone they know to support them while they are self-excluded. Bank-side blocks on eligible cards are an additional layer and do not need an exclusion to be turned on. Financial Counselling Australia and Gambler’s Anonymous run alongside the helpline and BetStop.

For anyone who has already excluded themselves and is reading this page because they want to undo the exclusion — that is not possible. The minimum is three months. A lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed. The page is not a route around that.

Frequently asked questions

What is BetStop, and how is it different from a casino ban?

BetStop is the National Self-Exclusion Register, run by the ACMA and live since 21 August 2023. It binds every licensed Australian online and phone wagering provider, and registering takes about five minutes. A casino “ban” in the everyday sense is something else — a voluntary cooling-off period with a single operator, or a bank-side transaction block — and neither has the nationwide reach of BetStop.

Does BetStop block offshore online casinos as well as licensed wagering sites?

No. BetStop’s reach is defined by licensing: it covers licensed Australian online and phone gambling providers. An offshore casino has no Australian licence, so the register has nothing to bind it to. An Australian who has excluded themselves via BetStop has not, by registering, blocked themselves from offshore sites — which is why bank-side gambling transaction blocks and self-exclusion with each offshore operator matter alongside it.

How long does it take to register with BetStop?

About five minutes, online, at any time of day. Once the exclusion is active, the minimum period is three months, and the registrant can extend but not shorten it. A 12-month exclusion can be extended before it ends; a lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed.

Can someone remove themselves from BetStop before the minimum period ends?

No. The minimum exclusion period is three months and the exclusion can be extended but not shortened while it is active. A lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed at all. The only route around the exclusion is to wait it out, and the longer the exclusion the longer the wait — the register is built to make the early window the hardest one.

Where can someone get support if they are worried about their gambling?

The National Gambling Helpline is 1800 858 858, free and 24/7, with web chat at Gambling Help Online. BetStop is the nationwide self-exclusion register. Bank-side gambling transaction blocks on eligible cards are an additional control. Financial Counselling Australia and Gambler’s Anonymous run alongside the helpline and BetStop, and a GP can refer a patient to specialist gambling treatment services.

Is any online casino legal in Australia?

No. Online casino games, online pokies and in-play betting are prohibited under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, and no Australian state or territory issues a licence for them. What is licensable is wagering on races and sport placed before the event, lotteries and keno. An offshore casino displaying a Curaçao or other overseas licence has no Australian licence because no Australian licence exists for the product.

Written by the editors at Casino Ratings Info.