Is 96M legal in Malaysia?

The answer in plain words

96M is not legal to use from Malaysia. No Malaysian authority licenses online casinos, and in October 2023 the Court of Appeal ruled that online gambling is an offence in Peninsular Malaysia under the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953 [6]. A licence from Curaçao, even a current one, would not change that.

96M is one of the brands most visible to Malaysians, through local payment options, a Bahasa Malaysia site and celebrity ambassadors. It also publishes more than many brands of its kind: a page listing its official web addresses, a licence page, and long terms that set out which countries it refuses. Those are fair points in its favour. What it does not publish is the name of the company you would be dealing with, and the licence it cites is one we could not find on the regulator's register.

How 96M presents itself to Malaysians

On 29 October 2026 the 96M gaming site, 96mya.com, offered accounts in ringgit and showed Touch 'n Go, Boost, GrabPay, DuitNow, FPX, card payments and cryptocurrency as ways to pay [3]. It ran in English, Malay and Chinese, and advertised 24-hour support in all three. Its brand site featured Sunny Wang as its brand ambassador for 2025 and 2026, and Jacky Wu on a sponsor page [1].

Its licence page says 96M is licensed to serve users across Malaysia and Singapore [2]. We did not find wording on its pages describing 96M as legal in Malaysia, which some other brands do. Its terms list the countries it refuses, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Australia; Malaysia is not among them, and the terms leave it to players to check their own local law [4].

A master licence belongs to Curaçao's old system, in which a handful of master licence holders allowed other businesses to operate under them. Curaçao has replaced it with licences issued directly by the Curaçao Gaming Authority, which publishes a register of the companies it licenses. The Gaming Control Board named on 96M's licence page is the authority's former name. Because the register lists companies rather than brands, a brand that names no company cannot be matched to an entry, and we found no entry for the master licence holder either [7].

The two different numbers are worth noting. The brand site gives 255/HF5. The text files behind the gaming site give 365/JAZ, the same master licence number cited by me88, together with a Malta address and the name of another brand. That suggests shared, white-label text rather than a licence written for 96M. The gaming site's settings also contain a Curaçao badge linking to a web address that, according to domain records, has not been registered at all; we could not confirm whether that badge is shown to visitors.

Official and unofficial addresses

96M's security notice says the96m.com is its only official address and warns about fake sites, naming 96mharimau.com and 96mlioncity.com as official channels too [1]. On 29 October 2026 the96m.com redirected to the96mofficial.com, registered in August 2026, while the games ran on 96mya.com. Other sites that use the 96M name and logo, such as 96mmalaysia.com and 96m.asia, appear to be marketing sites not run by the brand. If you are given a 96M link by an agent on WhatsApp or Telegram, or a local bank account to pay into, check the account on the police Semak Mule portal first. Our guide to spotting a scam casino site explains the other warning signs.

Safer-play tools

96M's site carries an 18+ age check and the logos of GamCare and BeGambleAware, two UK support charities. We did not find deposit limits or self-exclusion described in the terms we read. If you want to stop gambling or cut down, the help on our gambling help in Malaysia page is free and does not depend on any casino's tools.

96M's VIP programme

96M's gaming site lists six VIP tiers: Normal, Rose Gold, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and Royal [8]. The paid tiers required deposits of RM50,000, RM150,000, RM400,000 and RM800,000, with the page copy describing the first as RM50,000 "within a month", and Royal by invitation. Higher tiers carry a three-monthly maintenance deposit of up to RM500,000. Rewards include an account manager from Rose Gold upwards, higher withdrawal limits, daily rebates, upgrade and birthday bonuses and gifts.

A separate promotion, a tiered "rescue" bonus, is paid as a percentage of a player's net losses from RM10,000, with a turnover requirement of ten times the bonus within seven days. 96M says it may modify, cancel, suspend or terminate the promotion without prior notice, and we found no separate VIP terms. The page copy says 96M caps transactions "to keep a check on every player's gaming activity and promote responsible gaming", and describes account managers who "keep players' accounts active", a different aim from the one British rules set for staff handling high-spending customers, who must look for signs of harm. Our guide to how casino VIP programmes work explains the British rules on account managers.

What we did not check

We did not open an account, deposit, play or withdraw. We did not verify the testing-lab certificates 96M displays, and we did not search the Anjouan, Philippine, Isle of Man or Malta registers, because 96M claims no licence from them. We found no Malaysian news report or official action naming 96M, and no official source describes it as a scam. The legal background is in our guide to online gambling law in Malaysia. Nothing here is legal advice.

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