the term is at least nothing like this with which Switzerland belongs to the excluded countries.
Can I legally play totesport casino from my country?
From the U.K., yes. Outside the U.K., as every jurisdiction has different laws, it is up to each player to ensure that they are not in breach of the laws of the jurisdiction that they live in. You may want to contact your local authorities to clarify the law where you live. Additionally, totesport actively screens players trying to log-in from jurisdictions outside the U.K. using player details and geo-identification software and does not accept attempts to gamble by residents of jurisdiction where on-line gambling is not permitted (for information, these currently include the following countries; USA, Israel, Netherlands Antilles, Cyprus and Estonia). If you experience difficulty in logging-in, it may be that your jurisdiction does not permit gambling, in which case you can contact us for confirmation by e-mail.
@Marie2473
1. documents posted
2. desposit
3. play
4. payout
5. get money
6. desposit 2 hour later
and now closed and my deposit is gone
That's bullshit. It is TOTESPORT that will be blocking the login, not the home jurisdiction of the player. They have made a commercial decision to exclude Switzerland recently, and without notice, and are trying to blame the Swiss authorities for players suddenly finding access to the website blocked.
If Totesport were blocking Swiss players, they must have KNOWN that as far as they were concerned, it was illegal for them to accept the bets, so they should have had the country listed.
The non-exhaustive nature of the list is for when it is the COUNTRY concerned that has an overnight change of policy, and has started asking ISPs to block the sites, or banks to stop the transactions, all unbeknown to the operator.
Since when do operators concern themselves with enforcing the laws of the PLAYERS country. If they did, there would never have been a US market in the first place, as the authorities made it perfectly clear that they considered the activity illegal, even though the laws were vague. There are MANY countries where the activity is considered illegal, but operators will ignore these laws if they are not enforced, and will certainly not lose customers they don't have to. Some operators are determined to flout UIGEA to serve the US market, yet all have this term that expects the player to "check with their local authorities" whether it is legal to play. They are DELIBERATELY conspiring with US players, processors, fronting companies, etc in order to flout UIGEA regulations, even when they have lost $Millions to DoJ seizures granted on the basis of the activities being illegal.
WHY therefore have they folded so readily at the non-threat of a piece of "legal advice" that it is technically illegal to take bets from Swiss players, yet the lack of enforcement has not made it difficult to offer "service as usual" to Swiss players.
It is though there has been some kind of unofficial "off the record" pressure applied to Totesport that has scared the $**t out of them enough to do a knee-jerk overnight reaction resulting in Swiss players suddenly finding themselves locked out overnight with no prior notice.
If it really WAS illegal to accept these bets from Swiss players, they could find themselves having to REFUND all past wagers, as these too would have been illegal, and thus void in law.
If you break the law, you do NOT get to keep everything you gained from this prior to getting caught. ALL proceeds that derived from the illegal activity are forfeit, usually to the courts, or returned to the victims.
This also means that Swiss players who WON are technically liable to return the winnings to Totesport, but this is even LESS likely than Totesport voluntarily returning all moneys taken from Swiss players.
It might be worth getting an opinion from an expert in Swiss law as to where players caught up in this stand, and whether Totesport should have known from the outset that they were acting illegally.
I don't buy all the bullcrap about having to geolocate IP addresses etc, as I am sure all Swiss players would have entered "country of residence = Switzerland" upon registration, and this would have been confirmed when documents were submitted and verified.
It seems part of a pattern that has operators exploit loopholes and legal "grey areas" to get more profit, but when someone lights a legal fire under their ass they run, leaving players floundering and wondering what happened to trust, and sometimes their MONEY.
None of this helps make this market sector look HONEST, and this in turn makes it easier for more and more countries to take note of Amercia's lead, and try to drive it out, replacing it with locally regulated "monopoly" operations.