Lately, I came across a very interesting topic that many communities have started talking about, and I was totally blown out. It’s about sports farms, which got exposed from many sides, this is a large betting platform, mostly known in Russia and Africa: 1xBet(also known here to be a scam). Apparently, they use players with fake names and misleading information to create more games for betting.
The dangerous part is that these players are required to score an exact number of goals, miss penalties or do other random things just to make sure the platform keeps winning against the majority of bets.
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Just because a lot of matches are played by relatively unknown players doesn't automatically mean there's any fraud involved. However, if the organizers really are using fake names, hiding the identities of the participants, or deciding the outcomes of certain moments in a game in advance, then that's a completely different story.
And you don't even need to fix the final result of a match to manipulate bets. It's enough to influence the number of goals, penalties, corners, or other events that bookmakers offer separate betting markets for. And for an ordinary bettor, it's practically impossible to tell whether a particular event happened by chance or was arranged in advance.
A bookmaker's reputation and suspicious videos alone aren't enough to prove specific accusations. In situations like that, the bookmaker or organizer potentially has much more information than the average bettor, and that's already a pretty good reason not to risk your money.
