I was approached by a user on telegram username: @markbaya
Why do you even consent to communication with strangers? Telegram is become an app for scammers, at times it seems to me that there are more of them than honest users.
He claimed to be VIP user on stake.com and have information on Russia and Ukraine table tennis that are fully rigged / fixed and he wasn't looking for advances, but I should pay him commission from any profit made. later on he sent me two picks and neither of them won, I asked him what had happened with his picks and as expected he blocked me, I could have lost my funds had I listened to him and he surely as hell would give back any refund.
We can say that your
telegram friend did not have luck with picks he send you, but be sure that he send those pick to someone else but with a completely different outcome. Let's say some people believed that way and maybe paid for some premium picks. You can read what is their modus operandi :
Step 1: Scammer Contacts 1000 Desperate people with a fixed match report with payment after win. And he will advertise his bid with attractive words like Sure Odds, 100% Guarantee, Max Bet, blah blah blah…
Step 2: Since the scammer is not asking for payment before giving the tip. Everybody will naturally be interested in trying out if he is a scammer or not.
So the Scammer would tell 500 People that Team A will win, while he will tell the other 500 that Team B would win.
And Guess what? – At the End of the day, there will be 500 very happy people would now trust our Scammer. And they would be happy to pay a sum of let’s say $50 as the promised fee to the Scammer.
Step 3: Approach the 500 People who won.
Now the scammer approaches these 500 people who won the last bet again. And tells that he has fixed matches today, but he wants upfront payment twice as last time as this is a Guaranteed match.
Repeat Step 2, Divide again into groups of 250 – 250.
Again there will now be 250 people, whom the scammer made rich twice. So their trust in the Scammer is now doubled.
So the Scammer can now happily ask them for more money for the next fixed match, and they might happily pay for it.
The Scammer will keep making money until he has a Single Customer Left.
So now you know, why there are so many Fixed Matches Reports you see on Facebook and whats the idea behind those.
The thing is really simple, it requires no financial investment and can be applied indefinitely. With the advent of social networks and crypto currencies, it has become even easier for scammers like this to do their dirty work.
