BetKing sponsors kenya football , is it a publicity stunt ?

[fiulpro]

https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/betking-sponsors-football-kenya-federation-sportpesa-still-out/

Apparently Betking is sponsoring the Kenya football federation but Sportpesa Withdrew all sponsorships which actually supported local football teams .

As per the new deal, BetKing, a legal sports betting operator, will offer $11.1 million for the rights to represent the league. The FKF will be referred to as BetKing Premier League and each club will receive payments worth KES8 million per year in instalments

Good thing :
-They are supporting the female league which is mostly overlooked

-By doing this they are extending their business to more people which is legal betting.

What do you guys think ? Should more betting sites and companies make a reasonable investment in popular sports , not only reasonable but responsible because as I see they are focusing on women and second tier teams..

This could mean it's giving the business a positive review.

P.S. Thank you so much for educating me about the scam , therefore I do think we have something more to discuss here :-

So BetKing Doing this must be a part of a big plan where they try and clear their image and at the same time scam more people for the long run , but 11 million$ is a lot ! Where are they getting all this money from .

I found this on Google :

The publicly proven BetKing scam (betking.io) offers a BKB fantasy token ICO where investors become part of the casino and bankroll! ... Investors sent valuable crypto currencies and received a certain number of the 100,000,000 issued BKB fantasy

But the thing is , I saw online and there are many websites out there related to BetKing , this can be just a vicious circle where more scammers use the name of the scammers themselves to scam more people.

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They might be trying to improve their image ??

Am really sorry for all the people who got scammed , I do hope you guys can leave your opinions and reviews here which would prevent future Investors to engage in such activities that might cause them to loose a lot of money .

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[LoyceMobile]

Betking scammed me for $700. There's no way they have 11 million to spend.

[BitcoinTurk]

First of all, I want to say that I have not seen many positive comments about the service you mentioned.  Also, it is useful to know at the end that since the football league you mentioned belongs to the small country, there is a possibility that the bets made with match-fixing and similar events will affect the match result.  For this reason, I do not recommend you to use the service you mentioned or bet on the matches in this league.

[electronicash]

First of all, I want to say that I have not seen many positive comments about the service you mentioned.  Also, it is useful to know at the end that since the football league you mentioned belongs to the small country, there is a possibility that the bets made with match-fixing and similar events will affect the match result.  For this reason, I do not recommend you to use the service you mentioned or bet on the matches in this league.

the article could just be a stunt by betking. they have been accused many times in the forum and did an ICO as well that god knows how it turned out. its very unusual for a scam to get into an article that surprisingly get an $11M deal.

i would be be surprise if betking will also have a dispute over taxes like the previous sportpesa. FKF better make sure of this deal and ask for show money. 

[romero121]

https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/betking-sponsors-football-kenya-federation-sportpesa-still-out/

Apparently Betking is sponsoring the Kenya football federation but Sportpesa Withdrew all sponsorships which actually supported local football teams .

As per the new deal, BetKing, a legal sports betting operator, will offer $11.1 million for the rights to represent the league. The FKF will be referred to as BetKing Premier League and each club will receive payments worth KES8 million per year in instalments

Good thing :
-They are supporting the female league which is mostly overlooked

-By doing this they are extending their business to more people which is legal betting.

What do you guys think ? Should more betting sites and companies make a reasonable investment in popular sports , not only reasonable but responsible because as I see they are focusing on women and second tier teams..

This could mean it's giving the business a positive review.

Rather than directly getting into large scale investment, it might have planned to enter the platform through second tier teams. If things go stable, automatically it'll focus on the next level of sponsorship. Sportsbet initiated the plan sponsoring for a football league, and it's success might have made betking go for it.

[bhadz]

AFAIK Betking has an issue and scammed people from the forum. There were feedbacks left on Dean's account. Before sponsoring, they should pay more attention to those people that they've brought inconvenience to make this news more reliable.

[alani123]

Seeing that it's Kenya, I think it's more likely that the actual amount spent on the league is a lie and part of a publicity stunt.
I.e., pay some officials in charge a gross sum, in turn they lie about how much you spent and you get off with some great advertising.

However, promotion of companies in a league's name isn't uncommon at all. In Greece the league licences its name to a company each year for a sum of money. From 2007 to 2017 the top league was named after the national betting company, and then 2017 2019 leagues was named after a water company that became a sponsor! Even a team did it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthi_F.C. and also had a car manufacturer's name in its crest for a few years. It's good advertising for the companies and good money for the teams to utilized.

IDK if this case is true in terms of the amounts, sounds like not, but Kenyan league could sure use some money and it would do good if managed right. Not unlikely that there was a sponsorship but I think the level of the amount sounds a bit much though.

[stadus]

I think I'll consider this a good news if I don't know the reputation of BetKing in the forum, but no.. a scam site always have a dark reason behind the action. For those who don't know about the site, they can check the account in the forum - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=565024.

[Twinkledoe]

I think I'll consider this a good news if I don't know the reputation of BetKing in the forum, but no.. a scam site always have a dark reason behind the action. For those who don't know about the site, they can check the account in the forum - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=565024.

Exactly! For those that don't know their history, their move is great! However, a lot of us here in the forum know the truth about their profile. So I am assuming it is only a publicity stunt, maybe to rectify their bad reputation. But they need to address first their old issues before spending a lot of money to some sports team.

[johhnyUA]

Betking scammed me for $700. There's no way they have 11 million to spend.

The same. They've stolen my bounty reward. So i have doubts about people which too greedy to pay their workers for advertising (and we are not talking about their scam ICO where investors lost their money) but ready to spend so big amount of money for charity and football.

[chaser15]

My question, is this Betking in the topic is the same as the Betking that do some irregularities in crypto?

Betking.com, the one in the topic, doesn't support crypto. Betking.io is the one that does have negative reviews.

Might be Betking.io use other domain so that it can be dragged by the popularity of Betking.com? AFAIK, website name can be registered as same as long as they are using different domains?

Can someone clarify this or I'm totally wrong here?

[Baofeng]

Nah, just another publicity stunt for BetKing here, there reputation precedes them and most likely wanted to restore some in crypto community by supposedly supporting female league.

[hulla]

Firstly, we still need to be sure if the gambling site in subject does sponsored the Kenya football because they are once accused of scam and site which such record shouldnt be trusted.
With that been said, it will be nice if esport gambling site especially crypto related gambling site also join the league of corporations that sponsor football  and others sport to gain more awareness

[7788bitcoin]

My question, is this Betking in the topic is the same as the Betking that do some irregularities in crypto?

The same site that conducted an ICO and the owner owe many users in this forum huge amounts of money even though he comes here and makes some remarks that he will be refunding everyone but it looks like he is yet to repay users here including Loyce.

Not sure whether they are able to pay that kind of money to sponsor the team but with their reputation i wont be surprised if they cancel the deal and i have seen it with 1xbet another shady site.

[FinneysTrueVision]

My question, is this Betking in the topic is the same as the Betking that do some irregularities in crypto?

The same site that conducted an ICO and the owner owe many users in this forum huge amounts of money even though he comes here and makes some remarks that he will be refunding everyone but it looks like he is yet to repay users here including Loyce.

Not sure whether they are able to pay that kind of money to sponsor the team but with their reputation i wont be surprised if they cancel the deal and i have seen it with 1xbet another shady site.

The Betking that did the ICO isn't the same casino that's sponsoring the football team. They share the same name but have different domains and are totally unrelated.

[freedomgo]

My question, is this Betking in the topic is the same as the Betking that do some irregularities in crypto?

Betking.com, the one in the topic, doesn't support crypto. Betking.io is the one that does have negative reviews.

Might be Betking.io use other domain so that it can be dragged by the popularity of Betking.com? AFAIK, website name can be registered as same as long as they are using different domains?

Can someone clarify this or I'm totally wrong here?

I was also curious so I did some quick search.

My conclusion, I think they are the same, look at the ANN thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5119013.0, you can see a crown, and their website, https://www.betking.com/sports/s, you can also see the same crown.

this https://betking.io/ is not a gambling site anymore, it's more like an advertisement platform.

[TimeTeller]

My question, is this Betking in the topic is the same as the Betking that do some irregularities in crypto?

Betking.com, the one in the topic, doesn't support crypto. Betking.io is the one that does have negative reviews.

Might be Betking.io use other domain so that it can be dragged by the popularity of Betking.com? AFAIK, website name can be registered as same as long as they are using different domains?

Can someone clarify this or I'm totally wrong here?

I was also curious so I did some quick search.

My conclusion, I think they are the same, look at the ANN thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5119013.0, you can see a crown, and their website, https://www.betking.com/sports/s, you can also see the same crown.

this https://betking.io/ is not a gambling site anymore, it's more like an advertisement platform.

This betking.com has their TM-mark on their name. Whereas, the questionable betking.io has nothing in it.

     
https://www.betking.com/             
                     


 https://betking.io/                                                                                           

betking.com is asking for details that are only asked by pure fiat-based casino. So no crypto here.



I think this site is different from the betking.io account, which are still resolving issues from their customers.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5241045.msg54540211#msg54540211

[LogitechMouse]

I have seen many people posted here being scammed by BetKing but I don't think that the people there are aware of it and they don't really care with those scammed people TBH. Its sports so they will support it even though it is just a publicity stunt.

[Wexnident]

My question, is this Betking in the topic is the same as the Betking that do some irregularities in crypto?

Betking.com, the one in the topic, doesn't support crypto. Betking.io is the one that does have negative reviews.

Might be Betking.io use other domain so that it can be dragged by the popularity of Betking.com? AFAIK, website name can be registered as same as long as they are using different domains?

Can someone clarify this or I'm totally wrong here?

I don't think so. I couldn't really find any proper source for them being different, but I looked up both of their websites in simplywhois, and Betking.com is a LOT older than Betking.io. Betking.com was made back in 2001 and .io was made in 2015. If we were to consider Betking.io using another domain to avoid their mess back then, then shouldn't be the .com site younger? Well, there's a chance that Betking.com made Betking.io for purely crypto transactions/bettings but that would also be questionable since I see no need to actually separate them.

I also found this

We are looking to raise investment so we can develop more products including our own provably fair casino games such as blackjack, slots and roulette.
Funds will also go towards developing a sports betting platform, poker software as well as a host of other gambling related products and services.

It was in the Betking.io ANN thread, and if it says that they're just going to develop a sports betting platform, doesn't that mean that it really isn't them?

[Darker45]

Betking scammed me for $700. There's no way they have 11 million to spend.

Or your $700 might have already formed part of that $11 million. And because they must have scammed a good deal of people, they have already accumulated that huge amount to try to build back their image in the crypto gambling industry. Which is futile. The ghosts of the past will haunt them no end until appeased.

And for Kenya Football Federation, they better ask for the check and have it cleared first before going any further with the deal. That should be the only way to deal with BetKing. Better safe than sorry.