Sounds Fishy

Collie D

I sometimes look the through the jobs section of the Racing Post purely out of interest. One that caught my eye a couple of weeks ago was somebody lookingf or people to place bets for them as the advertiser couldn't for some reason or other. Was half-tempted to ring the number but it was one of those UK 1800 freephone jobbies that we can't access in the Republic. How dodgy does that sound?

Robin1982

Its a well-known scam.

Collie D

As in give me your account details and I'll send you the money to place the bet? an you elaborate?

scojones

Why would the RP allow scams in their adverts?

Collie D

Good point, sco but what I was also wondering was that if it's someone banned from betting there was aobvioulsy some kind of reason and wondering why the RP would allow that either

knighted

legitimate business-well nearly -its a simple 'scam'

they dont send u the money ,u put roughly 20 euros on for them and send them the winnings ,the deal is u can have as much on urself for urself -

heres how it works -they get 100 gob****es responding to the advert ,then they pick a day ,say saturday ,look for a race with 10 runners and give 10 people the first horse ,ten people the second horse and so on -this means that only 10 people out of the hundred people will get the winner .if those 10 people had put on 20 euros each at 4/1 thats about a grand they have to send to the advertisers -out of the 90 losers they will be told that something went wrong and wait for the next one 50% will see it as a scam but the rest will follow like sheep meanwhile another advert has atracted in another 100 or so people and the numbers swell for the next race giving them a bigger potential return thru the multiples -so simple but so effective


now if any members or lurkers want to place bets for me please get in touch cause i have a holiday to pay for soon and need someone else to pay for it so i can sit on the beach for free -lol

my only handicap is having morals

mdwexford

thats the best scam ever, top class

Collie D

Thanks for that, knighted. Can't believe anyone would fall for it in fairness but then again they say there's one born in a minute. I'm sure that a lot of people if asked to say stick a hundred on a winner and it came in at ten to one would pocket the winnings. Not like you're ripping off a mate who you know is good for the money should the bet lose. Ah well, some people are idiots.

Was just curious, wondering was it a Graham Bradley (not sure of the name??) type figure or a jockey/trainer looking to lay horses.

knighted

wasnt it lester piggot when asked if his horse would win told the person it would pis s in -then walked a hundred yards and told the next person it hadnt a hope -when questioned on this he told the interviewer it was simple -one person will think im a genius and the other will think im a fool -

50/50 really isnt it

that original scam is around donkeys years and is or used to be run by a few jockeys agents in england -most of them are also responsible for the info passed to these tipping lines ,and when u think of it they could have five of there own jockeys riding in the one race-jamie goldsteins father used to have one ,and i always wondered where he got his info from lol

still think the best scam of all is them tipping lines -the last refuge of the desparate -if they tip a loser the mugs ring up the next day again to listen to the excuse -free money lol