There are scammers in the world of sports betting. These people promise to help you “ruin” the bookmaker, but their only goal is to take your money. This is the first article in a series of exposés from The Championship about the ways in which swindlers deceive bookmaker players. In the following materials, we will analyze each method in detail.
Paid sports predictions with a guarantee of profit
There are many “cappers” on the Internet. These people sell sports predictions. Often, their advertisements and descriptions of groups in social networks are accompanied by beautiful figures – 70%, 80% and even 90% of exact rates, tens of percent of net profit when buying a subscription to forecasts. In all cases, this is a lie.
In the real world, even 10% ROI over the long run is an achievement.
There are also honest forecasters. They keep statistics, write down both wins and losses in it. More importantly, they don’t make unrealistic promises. But in most capper publics, fraud flourishes. Money – and sometimes big money – will be taken from you for the forecast, and after an unsuccessful outcome, they will stop communicating with you.
There is a special group of people in this category who sell postpaid forecasts. They take money only if the forecast is correct. Are you starting to feel trust? If so, think about this: in this case, you are risking money, and the capper on the other end of the wire is almost certainly pointing his finger at the sky. If you accidentally win, he will receive money from you, and if you lose, the forecaster will not incur any losses.
Conclusion: if a capper guarantees you a profit or a percentage of accurate bets, hides its statistics, deletes lost bets or does not warn you about the risk, this is a scammer.
Promotion of an account in BC
Have you chosen an office in the rating of bookmakers and think that your money is safe? Stay vigilant! Another popular type of sports betting scam is account promotion at a bookmaker. Usually scammers reinforce promotional advertising with a bunch of screenshots with millions of winnings. Don’t be fooled – it’s photoshop.
“Promoters” offer to increase the amount on your account to a certain mark. In case of success, you undertake to give the “capper” a percentage of the profits, and it can be 50% or more. But basically, the promotion of the account ends with the drain of the bank. And there is no refund of lost funds. Fraudsters usually warn about the risk in advance, but the price of this honesty is pennies.
Even if the “capper” manages to promote one account out of five, he will already make good money. The fate of the other four people who will lose their money does not interest him. And do not forget that transferring an account in a bookmaker to another person is prohibited by the rules of all bookmakers. So even luck can turn into losses.
Conclusion: account promotion is a 100% fraudulent sports betting divorce scheme.
Bucking up for sports predictions
Imagine the situation: you stumbled upon a really honest capper on the Internet who gives high-quality forecasts. But their cost is too high for you. This is where scammers appear from clubbing for sports predictions.
The scheme is as follows: you are offered to chip in and buy an expensive prediction. After that, options are possible: either the organizer of the clubbing will immediately disappear with your money, or still send you a forecast. My own, written in 15 minutes. And then it will also disappear as soon as one of the subscribers exposes his scheme.
Conclusion: by participating in a clubbing, you entrust your money to a complete stranger. He might be a scam… Wait, it looks like you’ve already lost your money!
Programs and bots for sports betting
The word “genius”! The unrecognized einsteins of sports betting have developed programs that allegedly determine winning bets by analyzing sports statistics and betting lines. And they are so inexpensive! But what really?
At best, you will download a dummy that will not improve the profitability of your sports predictions in any way. At worst, get a program infected with a virus.
An exception to the rule: programs that make it easier for you to analyze, for example, arb and margin calculators. Or arb scanners in bookmakers. However, really working services are so popular that their arbs “die” in a matter of minutes after their appearance – other players and bookmakers do not sleep.
Conclusion: do not blindly trust predictions from robots and sports betting programs. Moreover, do not buy sports betting bots for real money.
Win-win strategies in live and prematch
An old-fashioned scam that still works today is the sale of “proven” sports betting strategies. You will be offered a super-scheme, following which you will win against the bookmaker. Of course, you will have to pay for it.
Remember – humanity has not yet come up with a win-win strategy for sports betting and other gambling. There are many strategies, but in the end they are as unprofitable as bets on luck. Moreover, most strategies can be found in the public domain. But the charm and charisma of sellers do their job.
Conclusion: there are no sports betting strategies that guarantee profit.
Training surebets and middles for money
Yes, surebets and middles allow you to beat the bookmaker. Yes, you can make money from it. No, you shouldn’t start doing this – much less paying for arb training. Why?
With the development of betting technologies, surebets and middles bring less and less money. On the contrary, the risk of freezing the deposit and even losing investments for the arber is growing. In 2019, a more or less qualified job in Moscow will bring you as much as you earn on arb situations at the maximum – while risking large working capital on numerous accounts with online bookmakers.