About Us
viabuy.com used to be the home of VIABUY, an account with a prepaid Mastercard. That product closed on August 10, 2024. Today the domain is run by viabuy.com, an independent publisher, and the site explains online casinos, starting with the part that matters most once you’ve deposited: what happens to your money.
What happened to VIABUY
VIABUY offered an account and a prepaid Mastercard. The card issuer was Dock Financial S.A. The product was discontinued on August 10, 2024, and accounts and cards can no longer be ordered here.
We kept the old product pages online as an archive, so former customers who come back to viabuy.com can see what happened instead of hitting a dead end. viabuy.com has no connection to Dock Financial S.A., to Mastercard or to the former VIABUY team. We’re not VIABUY, and we can’t access or help with old VIABUY accounts or cards.
What the site publishes now
viabuy.com now publishes online casino guides for seven markets: the United States (in English), Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Each section is run by its own language team, an author and an editor, and each one is written for its own market. The US pages aren’t a translation of the German ones, or the other way around.
Why there’s a US section
Online casinos in the US are regulated at the state level, and only a small number of states issue real-money online casino licenses. If your state isn’t one of them, any real-money casino site you sign up with isn’t licensed by your state. It’s licensed abroad, by a regulator such as the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) or the Curaçao Gaming Authority, or it isn’t licensed at all.
That changes what happens to your money. A site licensed abroad isn’t overseen by any state regulator. If a withdrawal stalls or an account gets closed, the dispute goes to the foreign regulator, not to anyone in your state. Our US guides are written for that situation: what to check before you deposit, and what you can and can’t count on afterward.
Why we follow the money
This domain used to belong to a payment card, so we look at casinos from the same side: deposits, withdrawals, identity checks (KYC), fees, limits and bonus terms. That’s an editorial choice, not an inheritance. It’s simply the part of a casino’s terms that decides whether you ever see your winnings.
So we read the cashier page and the bonus rules before we look at the game lobby. A $100 bonus with 35x wagering means $3,500 in bets before you can cash out, and we’d rather you know that before you deposit than after.
Who writes the US section
- Oliver Hartley, author. Oliver writes the US guides and casino pages, from bonus math to withdrawal terms.
- Rachel Moore, editor. Rachel checks every US page before it’s published: numbers against the operator’s terms, licenses against the regulator’s register, and dates. She also makes sure each page carries the 21+ notice and a responsible gambling line.
How we make money
We earn affiliate commissions. If you sign up with a casino through a link on our site, the operator may pay us. That can affect where a casino appears in a list, but it doesn’t change the facts we report, such as license, terms and limits, which we check against primary sources. Our editorial policy explains how this works, and how we review casinos sets out what we check.
Get in touch
Found a mistake or an outdated bonus term? Have a partnership question? Write to us through our contact page. And if gambling is starting to cost you more than you planned, our responsible gambling page is the place to start.