A license seal in a website footer is an image — anyone can copy it. What matters is whether the regulator itself lists the operator and the exact website you are using. This check takes a few minutes and is the single most useful thing you can do before depositing.
1. Find the license claim
Scroll to the footer or the “About” / “Terms” page. Note down three things: the regulator named, the license number (if published) and the company name of the operator. A casino that names no operator and no license number has already told you something.
2. Go to the regulator directly
For the Philippines, the regulator is PAGCOR (Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation). Type pagcor.ph into your browser yourself — do not follow a link from the casino's own site, which could point to a look-alike page.
- Look for PAGCOR's published lists of licensed operators or gaming websites.
- Check that the operator name matches the casino's terms.
- Check that the website domain you are on is the one listed — clone sites often use a near-identical domain.
3. Check our license database
Our license database records, for every casino we track, which regulator source we checked, the result and the date. “Verified” means we matched it to an official source and link to that source. “Unverified” means the claim has not yet been confirmed — it is not an accusation, but it is a reason to check yourself.
Red flags
- A seal image that does not link anywhere, or links to a page on the casino's own domain.
- No operator company name anywhere in the terms.
- A license number that does not appear on the regulator's site.
- Agents asking you to deposit to a personal GCash or bank account instead of through the casino cashier.