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Brazil betting ban refund deadline October 5: MP 1.394
Withdraw by 23h59 on 5 October. After that, MP 1.394 voids open bets, routes balances by CPF to your own bank account, and makes Caixa the fallback.
Aposta Wire — Brazil's regulated betting market, on the record
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How long does a bet have to pay a withdrawal in Brazil?
Portaria SPA/MF 615/2024 gives a bet 120 minutes from your withdrawal request, and a separate 120 minutes to pay a prize. Both clocks, article by article.
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What happens to my money when a bet is suspended in Brazil?
Withdrawal-only under a precautionary measure, a 180-day cap on suspension as a penalty, the 2024 exit deadline: what each SPA act does to a balance.
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Resolução BCB 569, reviewed: the payments rail as the enforcement layer
The Banco Central added indicators of unauthorized betting operators to the fraud data-sharing regime. The obligations bite on 30 October and 1 December 2026 — neither has arrived. Reviewed as market infrastructure, not compliance paperwork.
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A juvenile court, not the SPA, ordered the nationwide Pixbet block
A first-instance court in Campina Grande ordered the nationwide blocking of Pixbet's platforms on 2 September and fixed R$4.7m in accrued fines, per Paraíba outlets. The regulator is a recipient of that order, not its author — though it had suspended the same brands itself three weeks earlier.
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Consumidor.gov.br or Fala.BR: one route keeps score, the other keeps a file
The betting segment on Consumidor.gov.br is populated — 161 companies ranked on complaints finalised in the past year — and the platform publishes how each of them answers. Reviewed as redress, against the ouvidoria route at Fala.BR.
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One form, every authorized bet: the central self-exclusion system, assessed
Since December 2025 a single gov.br request has closed a CPF across the whole authorized perimeter at once, and cut the ad targeting with it. Assessed as a consumer instrument, the architecture is right; the edges are where the harm sits.