Curaçao urged repeatedly to crack down on online casinos targeting Australians

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Many of the 1,000 gambling sites blocked by Australia’s watchdog were licensed on the Caribbean island, which has become a casino hub due to limited oversight

The media watchdog has repeatedly urged authorities in the tiny Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao to stop letting online casinos target Australian consumers as it blacklists more operators.

Offshore gambling companies have been banned from targeting Australians. A large portion of the almost 1,000 websites blocked by the watchdog were licensed in Curaçao, off the coast of Venezuela, which has become a hub for online casinos due to limited oversight.

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