[albionmadandy92]

Seems to be more of these floating around, for instance came across this last night. Of course it could be codswallop, but when you see people 'fixing' matches for customers it does make you wonder, especially if championship matches are listed too.. https://www.facebook.com/ManipulatedFootball thoughts?

[Salopbaggie]

Seems like total B/S to me. The obvious question is, if your information was 100% accurate why would you share it and on facebook?

If your info was that accurate, you would just sit back, keep quite and keep taking the profit, rather than risk it all to make a few quid selling the info to others, driving the odds down and risk prosecution for something that is illegal in most if not all countries.

I reckon this kid is just trying it on, and lets face it who is going to complain about trying to buy dodgy betting info? You'll see on his FB page it is a closed public group, so only the posts that he wants get seen by all, so no danger of disgruntled people posting anything negative about how poor his tips were.

If anyone is thinking about paying this guy before you do, for £500.00 I can let you have the winning numbers of the next 20 spins of the roulette wheel at your local casino. Just include the name and address of your local casino with your payment and the numbers will be sent by return.

[albionmadandy92]

Seems like total B/S to me.  The obvious question is, if your information was 100% accurate why would you share it and on facebook?

If your info was that accurate, you would just sit back, keep quite and keep taking the profit, rather than risk it all to make a few quid selling the info to others, driving the odds down and risk prosecution for something that is illegal in most if not all countries.

I reckon this kid is just trying it on, and lets face it who is going to complain about trying to buy dodgy betting info?  You'll see on his FB page it is a closed public group, so only the posts that he wants get seen by all, so no danger of disgruntled people posting anything negative about how poor his tips were.

If anyone is thinking about paying this guy before you do, for £500.00 I can let you have the winning numbers of the next 20 spins of the roulette wheel at your local casino.  Just include the name and address of your local casino with your payment and the numbers will be sent by return.

Still seems like a large number of people that have liked the page though, i know what you are saying but because there's so many of these 'groups' around im just not sure they would all be picked up by police. I'm not saying i'm gormless enough to pay the person but it does seem to be a suspiciously large following...

[Luke_East_Baggie]

You can buy liked pages easy enough. People sell pages with likes to pretty cheap for people in order to con other people or drum up business. They reckon there's hundreds of thousands of "fake" accounts on facebook. All you have to be is a guy half decent with a computer, get 2k email addresses, get them to like a page (One that says "I like nice flowers" - or even the buyers preffered name of the group) sell the page to someone, who then owns the page, changes the page name to "OMG AMAZZING BETTING THINGS" put's a few photoshopped images up, and away you go. That would be small scale easily to do too. Probably buy a page for £50, probably find one or 2 morons thinking they are going to win millions and take their money.

I do think there's probably fixing in a small percent of some of the more obscure leagues - the chinese or indian leagues where there's hardly any interest, but as said before, no one is going to relay that info on the cheap - or to "just anyone"

[albionmadandy92]

I agree with you about people buying pages, thats fair enough. However, i believe there is plenty of scope for match fixing in the premier league. I know players are paid huge amounts which may be a deterrent for fixers, HOWEVER, the fact that the bigger teams get all the decisions, the fact no manager can say a bad word about the premier league brand without ending up with a fine, seems a little fishy in itself. You only have to read Declan Hills book 'The Fix' to see how much the underground betting market is worth in SE asia, and they'd be bawling to fix a premier league match if it hasn't happened already. Plenty of potential for fixing in the EPL, just noone has the balls to make an accusation as they will end up in trouble for doing so.