128Casino is an Asian-facing online gambling portal that first launched in May 2012. The site provides players with a variety of betting options including mobile, live casino, sports, poker, slots and more. Software and live dealer providers include Live 22, Gaming Soft, 918 Kiss, 1S Casino live dealers, and Allbet Gaming for mobile.

Perhaps due to their focus on Malaysian customers and the laws there, the site has a history of re-directs since they launched. A random sampling shows that web crawlers were redirected from the registered URL more than 95% of the time over the last five years. The current dot-com URL redirects to another top level domain name as of today. Although it's not clear if the site is a white label, owned and operated by the same people, or simply someone who has lifted the logo - there also seems to be a "Version 2" of the site.

Under the Useful Tools icon, players will find alternative links with several variations on the name as well as DNS unblockers for Windows, Android, and Apple. The practice is fairly common for casinos server gray or black markets. We see it in eastern Europe, and China. In Malaysia, the government has launched policing campaigns in collaboration with local telecoms and Interpol.

That's all fine and well and we make no judgments about a company's right to do business nor a governments assertions and action to prevent it. However, the site claims to be "powered by" First Cagayan Leisure & Resort Corporation (FCLRC) in the Philippines. It is possible that their customer service is certified there or that one or more of their gaming suppliers are registered but it is impossible to know if the casino is licensed as they don't reveal their operating corporation. The good news is that they've been around for half a decade and would likely have appeared on the list of unlicensed sites that claim they are by now.

Software and Games

Players can access games for instant play on any device or operating system. There is also an active Download icon. We will only review the instant play version here.

The site is available in English. Players logging in from Asia may have more options. Before creating a free account, players are greeted with an image slider showing current bonuses and promotions. The website designers have taken a lot of liberties in their creatives with promotional images lifted directly from Mr Green as well the iconography of a recent Realtime Gaming (RTG) slot related to Chinese New Year.

The intellectual property rights violations don't stop there, however. In the 918Kiss suite of slot games, we see direct rip-offs of Playtech, Microgaming, and RTG slots, such as Triple Twister. These games may be "authentic" and mirrored from a site licensed to provide the games, but we find it a stretch to believe that Microgaming, if none of the others, would allow their slots to be played in a restricted jurisdiction.

Bonuses and Promotions

The site offers a variety of player incentives including those for New Members and VIPs. There are also sections for Deposit, Rebate, and Special.

Banking and Customer Service

Support is available via email and telephone as well as through several social media applications.

The banking section claims to process deposits in 1-3 minutes and withdrawals in 10-30 minutes. The supported payment methods listed include Maybank, Public Bank, CIMB Bank, and Hong Leong Bank.

Pitfalls

Potentially false claims of licensing, testing certifications, and gaming association memberships. Bait and switch or possibly pirated or otherwise unauthorized slots.

The Final Word

Malaysian players may have no choice other than to do business with opaque and possibly untrustworthy casinos if they want to gamble and bet online. Gambling concerns that choose to service the market may have no choice but to stay non-transparent and use redirects, DNS unblockers, dedicated virtual proxy networks, mirrors, etc. to deliver their product. Perhaps due to their practice of redirects and obfuscation, there is currently no up to date reliable information to be found on the search engines about customer satisfaction after a reasonably in-depth search.

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