Only adults may gamble, and the activity brings risks of indebtedness, withdrawal from other people and addiction. What follows is an inventory rather than advice; the detail for each country sits on that country's version of the site.
Helplines Revolut itself lists
| Country | Service | Number |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | GamCare, National Gambling Helpline | 0808 8020 133 |
| United Kingdom | Gordon Moody | 01384 241292 |
| United Kingdom | Gamblers Anonymous UK | 0330 094 0322 |
| Ireland | National Gambling Helpline | 1800 753 753 |
| Italy | National gambling helpline | 800 558822 |
| Netherlands | AGOG information number | 0900 2177721 |
| Spain | Federación Española de Jugadores de Azar Rehabilitados | website |
| Portugal | Instituto de Apoio ao Jogador | website |
| France | Adictel | contact by email |
Numbers for Germany and Finland appear on other sources we have not yet confirmed against the services themselves, so they are left to the country versions rather than published here unchecked.
Two controls inside the Revolut app
The gambling block stops card payments identified as gambling through merchant category codes. Accounts are opened with it off. Enabling it works at once, no route exists around it while it stands, and switching it off again runs to 48 hours.
Its limits are worth knowing. It covers card payments only, so bank transfers and payments through third party apps are outside it. Nor can it reach a merchant whose gambling activity is filed under some other code.
Separately, any merchant you have already paid can be blocked individually. Five such blocks may stand at once, across no more than three merchants in a rolling month, and two names are exempt: Apple and Google.
Card settings are not gambling controls. A lock on card-not-present payments, or contactless turned off, still leaves both digital wallets able to pay.
National self exclusion schemes
Each country runs its own, and a registration does not travel across a border. In Great Britain that scheme is GamStop, free to join, shutting online gambling accounts and apps to the person registered. The Netherlands has Cruks, Germany has the LUGAS and OASIS systems, and the other versions of this site list the scheme for their country.
If someone else is affected
A block you set on your own account has no effect on anyone else's. Where the difficulty concerns another person, the helplines above take calls from family and friends as well, and GamStop allows a partner to register so that their details cannot be used to gamble.
Sources
- Revolut help centre, gambling support, read 13 November 2026.
- Revolut help centre, how the gambling block works, read 13 November 2026.
- Revolut help centre, how to block and unblock a merchant, read 13 November 2026.
- Revolut help centre, card security settings, read 13 November 2026.
- GamStop self exclusion scheme, read 13 November 2026.
18+ only. Nobody under 18 may gamble.