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==Betfair outside the United Kingdom==
Although the bulk of its customer base is in the UK, Betfair offers its services in a number of countries. Betfair currently does not accept customers and/or credit card numbers from the [[United States]], where online gambling is legally proscribed. Being the leading bet exchange, Betfair
Betfair admits customers from [[Australia]] but it has not been marketing its services there. Betfair is well known in Australia because of negative publicity from the racing industry and the bookmakers. With the exception of [[Tasmania]] the [[Australian state]] governments have not welcomed betting exchanges with open arms. The state racing boards fear that betting on horses to lose will cause corruption whilst reducing revenue especially for the [[Totalisator|TAB]] services. The mainland states have warned that Tasmania (which accounts for a fraction of horse racing in Australia) could become a pariah if its deal with Betfair proceeds. Some Australian states (such as [[Queensland]]) have banned their citizens from placing bets on exchanges, although gathering evidence to enforce such laws is difficult if not impossible. These states are now considering introducing tougher prohibitions and finding ways to make these bans easier to enforce. As of 2005, the [[Government of Australia|federal government]] has declined to intervene, stating that gambling policy is a matter for states to deal with under the [[Constitution of Australia]]. Betfair launched in [[Tasmania]] in 2006.
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Betfair also offers its services in [[Canada]], where its legal status is somewhat uncertain. The [[Criminal Code of Canada]] effectively prohibits private individuals from operating an online gambling website in Canada. The [[provinces of Canada|Canadian provinces]] are permitted to offer [[sports betting]] and all provinces do through the [[Sport Select]] program, but offering single sports betting (Betfair's forte) is prohibited even to the provinces. On the other hand, an individual placing a bet (even a single sports bet) from within Canada to a foreign website is ''not'' violating the Criminal Code. As a result, Betfair's services are considered to be [[grey market]] in Canada - no laws are broken when a Canadian bets with Betfair, but the Canadian courts could not likely be used to resolve disputes either. In addition, not all Canadian credit cards can be used to deposit money with Betfair. This is because the credit card departments of some Canadian financial institutions are intertwined with American firms, meaning Betfair cannot be certain of the nationality of the card number.
Users in Italy are frequently able to utilise the exchange that Betfair offers as a new URL is registered and traffic is redirected each time the Italian government identifies and blocks the previous address: http://www3.betfairpoker.com/ http://www2.betfairpoker.com/ http://www1.betfairpoker.com/
Betfair supports Chinese users as well. In addition to creating several mirror sites, (http://car.be888.com/ http://www.be888.com/) a shell payment service has been created for the purpose of facilitating transactions originating within China: http://8pay.net/
An SSL VPN is also provided for users in Dubai
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