Legal Concerns: Are Online Casinos doing something illegal in Costa Rica?

Online casinos are not committing a crime under Costa Rican law either by hosting their servers with restricted access in Costa Rica, or by calling or e-mailing their customers overseas to ensure accurate transactions and enhance their customer services for the following reasons:

1. No Costa Rican citizen who lives in Costa Rica can place a bet on an online casino becasue all Costa Rican IP addresses are blocked from accessing the sites.
   
   
2. The games or subjects of bets do not take place physically in Costa Rica.
   
   
3. Online casino transactions take place in another country, not in Costa Rica.
   
   
4. Technically speaking, what online casinos do in Costa Rica is to manage their software to ensure that their transactions are properly assessed and enhance their customer services.
   
   
5. It is not a crime to call overseas to assist on a bet according to Costa Rica law, and therefore, it is irrelevant whether or not gambling is illegal in the country where the casino is calling to assist on a bet.