Today we got an email from secret betting club and wanted to share it with everyone reading the blog again great advice and am more and more pleased its I joined them by the day the quality of information available by them is fantastic:
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Inspired by some dodgy dealings I uncovered this week (more about shortly) today I have put together a list of some of the most common dodgy tipster practices to watch out for.
Varying from the outright scandalous to the somewhat dubious, it's a quick rundown of what you as a punter need to be aware of before you join any tipster service (and a bit on what you should expect a good tipster to do!)
My thanks must also go to those of you who contributed to this list via our Twitter & Facebook accounts with your own suggestions.
Dodgy Tipster #1 - Selling Other Peoples Tips As Your Own
The 'inspiration' for today's article comes in the form of the very dodgy tipster discovered this week, who is selling off the exact same tips from another genuine expert as their own.
The dodgy tipster (let's call him Malky Mackay) had seemingly signed up for the genuine experts tips (henceforth known as Vincent Tan), liked what he saw and decided to flog these tips under his own steam.
Malky sent out a suspicious looking email advertising his new site, a member asked us to check it out and so we duly did. Lo and behold, what did we spot? Identical tips as to those we at SBC have received from Vincent Tan for nigh on 12 months!
Now we know Vincent Tan is genuine as we have been performing due diligence on his service, investigating his results and working closely with him in advance of a full SBC review in the near future.
At the moment I can't reveal too much as its being investigated but it highlights the care you have to take when you get an email out of the blue promising the earth. It might look great but as I understand it - there is a very good chance that Malky's 'tipping service' won't be around too long...
Dodgy Tipster #2 - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow On Social Media
As Leon on the SBC Facebook page pointed out yesterday, tipsters that only use Social Media for their tips can also be a breeding ground for scams. As he commented "Most Facebook pages/Tipsters have a dozen pages and none keep records of the losers or have a staking system"
He is spot on that we need to be careful here as its all too easy to set up a new Facebook page or Twitter account, put up a bunch of tips and if they win - great, if they lose, just delete it.
This happens regularly especially with bets like accas, which are hugely popular on Social Media. All you need do is simply create 10 accounts on Twitter or Facebook, put up a slightly different version of an acca on each one and boom, one of them will probably come good each weekend.
It's one reason we only proof or review tipsters who actually have a genuine website (not just a Social Media account) and who have at least 12 months of results to work with.
Dodgy Tipster #3 - Claiming To Have 'Inside Information'
It's the oldest trick in the book - claim to have 'inside information' about tips guaranteed to win and ask for people to stump up the cash in the hope of getting in on the action.
The sad reality is that even if there is an element of people who do get inside info on certain horses to win a race - they are never going to share it with a stranger, no matter how convincing they sound or how much they charge.
In all the years working at SBC, we have discovered not one genuine 'inside info' based tipster worth bothering with. They almost exclusively are all-mouth-no-trousers types with one goal - to fleece you of cash.
It's perhaps best summed up by Davy on Twitter who said about his tipster pet peeves.. "as an ex tipster myself, it'd be the bare faced lies. Saying we were walking the track or quoting our stable insider. All rubbish." Quite!
Varying from the outright scandalous to the somewhat dubious, it's a quick rundown of what you as a punter need to be aware of before you join any tipster service (and a bit on what you should expect a good tipster to do!)
My thanks must also go to those of you who contributed to this list via our Twitter & Facebook accounts with your own suggestions.
Dodgy Tipster #1 - Selling Other Peoples Tips As Your Own
The 'inspiration' for today's article comes in the form of the very dodgy tipster discovered this week, who is selling off the exact same tips from another genuine expert as their own.
The dodgy tipster (let's call him Malky Mackay) had seemingly signed up for the genuine experts tips (henceforth known as Vincent Tan), liked what he saw and decided to flog these tips under his own steam.
Malky sent out a suspicious looking email advertising his new site, a member asked us to check it out and so we duly did. Lo and behold, what did we spot? Identical tips as to those we at SBC have received from Vincent Tan for nigh on 12 months!
Now we know Vincent Tan is genuine as we have been performing due diligence on his service, investigating his results and working closely with him in advance of a full SBC review in the near future.
At the moment I can't reveal too much as its being investigated but it highlights the care you have to take when you get an email out of the blue promising the earth. It might look great but as I understand it - there is a very good chance that Malky's 'tipping service' won't be around too long...
Dodgy Tipster #2 - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow On Social Media
As Leon on the SBC Facebook page pointed out yesterday, tipsters that only use Social Media for their tips can also be a breeding ground for scams. As he commented "Most Facebook pages/Tipsters have a dozen pages and none keep records of the losers or have a staking system"
He is spot on that we need to be careful here as its all too easy to set up a new Facebook page or Twitter account, put up a bunch of tips and if they win - great, if they lose, just delete it.
This happens regularly especially with bets like accas, which are hugely popular on Social Media. All you need do is simply create 10 accounts on Twitter or Facebook, put up a slightly different version of an acca on each one and boom, one of them will probably come good each weekend.
It's one reason we only proof or review tipsters who actually have a genuine website (not just a Social Media account) and who have at least 12 months of results to work with.
Dodgy Tipster #3 - Claiming To Have 'Inside Information'
It's the oldest trick in the book - claim to have 'inside information' about tips guaranteed to win and ask for people to stump up the cash in the hope of getting in on the action.
The sad reality is that even if there is an element of people who do get inside info on certain horses to win a race - they are never going to share it with a stranger, no matter how convincing they sound or how much they charge.
In all the years working at SBC, we have discovered not one genuine 'inside info' based tipster worth bothering with. They almost exclusively are all-mouth-no-trousers types with one goal - to fleece you of cash.
It's perhaps best summed up by Davy on Twitter who said about his tipster pet peeves.. "as an ex tipster myself, it'd be the bare faced lies. Saying we were walking the track or quoting our stable insider. All rubbish." Quite!
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