BetKing sponsors kenya football , is it a publicity stunt ?

[mirakal]

Per this thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1842538.0), Betking scammed 4.7 million usd, I'm just wondering why until now they are not in jailed if there is a solid evidence?

[Twinkledoe]

Reading above posts again, it seems that betking.com is a separate entity from betking.io. Their existence is longer than betking.io. I sent an email to betking.com to check about their connections. Let's see what will be their reply.

Good. We hope that betking.com can clarify if they are part of betking.io or not because, as we know that betking.io is made a problem for some members. I hope after you get a reply from them, you can also share here so we can know what their answer.

But if betking.com and betking.io have the same management, then they can scam so many people.

So I received a reply from their customer support. I sent email to -cs@betking.com as seen from below contact list
https://www.betking.com/help/general-help/contact-us/





Received also an email that my ticket has been resolved.



So they are 2 different companies. Seems betking.com is legit.

[danherbias07]

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,  

First thing that came into my mind was that too.
Could they really have scammed a lot of people and made this huge amount?
Yeah it must be reason behind it.
Do they think they are Robinhood or something?
Robbing people just so they could do good at the end to satisfy their hunger for popularity or worse, to scam more which will deposit higher amounts.

They should first clear their name.
Perhaps there are still other users out there who are just not talking about same scam attempts.

[wxa7115]

As some people have stated this is most likely an attempt to try to clean their image after the scam they performed in the forum, while it may seem odd they are investing that much money the truth is that most likely they are planning to recover that money by scamming even more people down the road.

I really hope it does not happen but taking into account how successful they have been at scamming people from their money it is possible they have thought this very thoroughly and they will be able to get away with it again tarnishing the image of this market even further in the process.

[mirakal]

Reading above posts again, it seems that betking.com is a separate entity from betking.io. Their existence is longer than betking.io. I sent an email to betking.com to check about their connections. Let's see what will be their reply.

Good. We hope that betking.com can clarify if they are part of betking.io or not because, as we know that betking.io is made a problem for some members. I hope after you get a reply from them, you can also share here so we can know what their answer.

But if betking.com and betking.io have the same management, then they can scam so many people.

So I received a reply from their customer support. I sent email to -cs@betking.com as seen from below contact list
https://www.betking.com/help/general-help/contact-us/





Received also an email that my ticket has been resolved.



So they are 2 different companies. Seems betking.com is legit.

I think you should not ask them if you want to get the right answer.. no scammers will admit publicly that they scam people.

Don't expect this answer, "Hey that's us, we scammed people back then, CHEERS!"

The consensus of the people here is this site is the same with betking.io.

[johhnyUA]

As some people have stated this is most likely an attempt to try to clean their image after the scam they performed in the forum, while it may seem odd they are investing that much money the truth is that most likely they are planning to recover that money by scamming even more people down the road.

The problem, is that amount of people outside forum is far larger than here. So even if you're a scammer, you can hype on such things (i doubt that they paid to this football clubs. more like they paid to journalists) outside forum and you will look good in the eyes of majority. They even don't know that bitcointalk exists.

[Mahanton]

Reading above posts again, it seems that betking.com is a separate entity from betking.io. Their existence is longer than betking.io. I sent an email to betking.com to check about their connections. Let's see what will be their reply.

Good. We hope that betking.com can clarify if they are part of betking.io or not because, as we know that betking.io is made a problem for some members. I hope after you get a reply from them, you can also share here so we can know what their answer.

But if betking.com and betking.io have the same management, then they can scam so many people.

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I think you should not ask them if you want to get the right answer.. no scammers will admit publicly that they scam people.

Don't expect this answer, "Hey that's us, we scammed people back then, CHEERS!"

The consensus of the people here is this site is the same with betking.io.

No dumb will really admit out into their mistakes or issues in the past thats why its not really that reliable in regards to their responses.We know on how shitty do become Betking is when we do talk into this forum.
They have unresolved accusations of scamming out users or investors and everytime betking do make up some headlines then i cant blame of on the negative impression around for such company.
They should really need to fix things up if they do like to withdstand into this industry but for me it is really hard to patch it up.
Ive been waiting for Jollygood's reaction again on this one. 

[MCobian]

I am very sure this news is not true, which is impossible with BetKing's bad reputation. Sponsoring Kenya Football in numbers
fantastic money, I doubt BetKing has that kind of money. It's possible that BetKing paid journalists to spread this news, and if
they do that to clear their names. I am sure their goals will fail, because the members of this forum are numerous and everywhere.
Surely there will be victims from BetKing who are trying to prove their decay. Really shameless BetKing.

[TimeTeller]

I am very sure this news is not true, which is impossible with BetKing's bad reputation. Sponsoring Kenya Football in numbers
fantastic money, I doubt BetKing has that kind of money. It's possible that BetKing paid journalists to spread this news, and if
they do that to clear their names. I am sure their goals will fail, because the members of this forum are numerous and everywhere.
Surely there will be victims from BetKing who are trying to prove their decay. Really shameless BetKing.

Based on Twinkledoe's post regarding betking.com reply, BetKing.com is not connected with betking.io.
And looking at their creation date, betking.com has long been in the business before this betking.io surfaced.
So I guess, if representative from betking.com can post here to clarify this matter, that would be much appreciated.

[danherbias07]

I am very sure this news is not true, which is impossible with BetKing's bad reputation. Sponsoring Kenya Football in numbers
fantastic money, I doubt BetKing has that kind of money. It's possible that BetKing paid journalists to spread this news, and if
they do that to clear their names. I am sure their goals will fail, because the members of this forum are numerous and everywhere.
Surely there will be victims from BetKing who are trying to prove their decay. Really shameless BetKing.

Based on Twinkledoe's post regarding betking.com reply, BetKing.com is not connected with betking.io.
And looking at their creation date, betking.com has long been in the business before this betking.io surfaced.
So I guess, if representative from betking.com can post here to clarify this matter, that would be much appreciated.

I tried to dig more and this is what I found.
Betking.com
https://dailypost.ng/2019/02/26/jj-okocha-congratulates-betking-1st-anniversary-leader-sports-betting-industry/


Betking.io
https://www.ventureradar.com/organisation/BetKing/f0f17a49-8d41-4b3e-a7a2-db514232de44


It could be that Betking.io was created first.
Need to dig more. We cannot just ask them about this because they could lie through their teeth.

[iTradeChips]

Well I last invested with Betking a long time back and also withdrew my investment after deciding that I need to put my eggs on a different basket and it is not worth my time and energy to continue with the said project. They are being tagged as scammers by so many people and now they still have the courage to use the same name in their dealings in other countries. I am not sure what made them decide to use the same name but for the so called investors and those who still "trust" betking, then you need to think twice or many times before making decisions in investing all with them.

[Kasabus]

Ive been waiting for Jollygood's reaction again on this one. 

Hell yeah, he created a thread about betking exposing their scam, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4751127.0... and there are others actually like loyce where his alts also posted in this thread saying that he himself got scam. If there are clear connection of the 2 sites, it would be nice to see some doubts of some posters here will be gone.

[swogerino]

I think that even they maybe different companies,the fact that they used the same name as a scammer company is not a really good indication of who they might be.Personally based on the experience here in the forum which I have seen a lot of scam accusations against Betking I would be afraid to join such company even if they sponsorship a league from a poor country like Kenya.

[mersal]

Sponsorship if for the publicity there is no doubt in that but why they choose Kenya which is popular too? If they really wanted to sponsor with such huge amount they can be a part of most football league sponsorship so they get better attention.

[pikkie]

Sponsorship if for the publicity there is no doubt in that but why they choose Kenya which is popular too? If they really wanted to sponsor with such huge amount they can be a part of most football league sponsorship so they get better attention.

I think it will be even greater when gambling companies work with several countries that hold soccer matches because they will certainly trigger others to open betking and learn in full and can even do gambling on betking.

[plvbob0070]

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It's just simple for them to say that the two sites are not related just to hide what happened in the past since betking was involved in scam accusations. But we're still not sure if they are saying the truth or not. It's better for them to make some public clarification about the issue because it will just affect their image since they have the same name, and the other one has a negative image. If they don't want to get involved in issues like this (if they are not really connected), they should make it clear to everyone.

[Becky666]

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.

Almost every active member on this forum understand what their actions was when they scammed forum members, basically, this information should be view as a means of them trying fixing their problems with those involved. Maybe they were approach to clean up their dirty from the public before going into the sponsorship.

This forum is popular, sure, a lot of members know about their reputation, but I think that would not stop a project from still operating, I've seen some gambling sites here where their forum account is negged tag but they are still into operation.
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Though, the industry has not been fair enough when it come to justice, BetKing by now should have been closed down because of several scams they have  carried out. Its time we stand up against these scammers no matter where they come from and be prosecuted according to the laws of the land.

Those gambling platforms which later rectified their issues should be exonerated; but those without remorse to their victims shouldn't be allow to go free without the laws having it course. All the gambling platforms I have gamble so far are base on forum feedbacks, those individuals who still use scam platforms should always blame their selves for any thing that happens.

[pilosopotasyo]

It's just simple for them to say that the two sites are not related just to hide what happened in the past since betking was involved in scam accusations. But we're still not sure if they are saying the truth or not. It's better for them to make some public clarification about the issue because it will just affect their image since they have the same name, and the other one has a negative image. If they don't want to get involved in issues like this (if they are not really connected), they should make it clear to everyone.

In fact they should sue the site and do something to take down and the site that tries to imitate them merely announcing it will not help, they should do something or else they will continue to receive complaints and they will have to address and clarify this over and over again.

[mirakal]

It's just simple for them to say that the two sites are not related just to hide what happened in the past since betking was involved in scam accusations. But we're still not sure if they are saying the truth or not. It's better for them to make some public clarification about the issue because it will just affect their image since they have the same name, and the other one has a negative image. If they don't want to get involved in issues like this (if they are not really connected), they should make it clear to everyone.

In fact they should sue the site and do something to take down and the site that tries to imitate them merely announcing it will not help, they should do something or else they will continue to receive complaints and they will have to address and clarify this over and over again.

Honestly I think this site should be taken down already if they are related with Betking.io.
Obviously Betking.io scammed investors during the ICO, so I guess some of the investors can find a way to sue the site Betking.com if they are related.

This site that we are talking is a licensed site, according to them, so it's easy to go after a licensed gambling site.

https://www.betking.com/help/general-help/about-us/

BetKing is currently licensed by the Lagos State Lotteries Board, Anambra State Gaming Company and holds a sports and gaming license issued by the Osun State Government. In addition, BetKing is licensed by the National Lotteries Board.

CAN WE VERIFY THAT?

[btc78]

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

With this comparison it looks like they are different company but why does a one company will use same name from the very questionable and scammer name of company?
meaning their advertising team do not make research before using this name?because i believe that the scammers  name has been around for years while this one is just newer?
anyway maybe i'm wrong but this is a question that must be answered.