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Betting Scam: A Popular Type of Fraud

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Beginner 8 min read For: General public interested in online safety and scam awareness.

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This video details a sophisticated scam involving fixed sports bets, where scammers impersonate helpful individuals on social media to gain trust and eventually defraud victims of hundreds of thousands of rubles. The narrator shares his personal experience of being targeted, explaining the psychological manipulation and technical steps used to extract money.

[00:02]
Introduction to Scams

Scammers use various methods to steal money, including a technically cunning scheme that can defraud people of hundreds of thousands of rubles.

[01:08]
Initial Contact

A person named Dmitry contacts the narrator on VKontakte, asking about a group called 'Experienced Trader' that the narrator is supposedly a member of, though he never subscribed.

[02:00]
Building Trust

The scammer engages the narrator by asking for advice, pretending to be a newbie. The narrator records voice messages and provides guidance, spending time to help.

[03:18]
Delayed Follow-up

After a month, Dmitry re-engages, emphasizing the need to stay connected and flattering the narrator as a unique person.

[04:09]
Introducing a Third Party

Dmitry introduces a story about meeting another person, Daniil, who supposedly has access to fixed matches through a football agent.

[05:04]
Psychological Manipulation

Scammers target weak points like children and job dissatisfaction. They create fake conversations to trigger emotional responses.

[06:22]
Proof of Earnings

Daniil provides screenshots showing profits from fixed matches, including instructions and payment proofs, to build credibility.

[08:51]
The Hook

The victim is asked to pay 100,000 rubles for a forecast. The narrator initially thinks Dmitry is naive and tries to warn him.

[10:30]
Fake Win

Dmitry claims to have won 420,000 rubles from a 15,000 ruble bet, changing his communication style to appear excited and successful.

[12:31]
Confirmation of Scam

The narrator finds a comment online with identical phrasing used by the scammer, confirming the scheme is widespread.

[13:22]
Research on Scam

Searching 'fraudulent matches' reveals many victims losing 100,000 to 250,000 rubles. The scam involves paying for a forecast, then additional fees.

[15:21]
Escalation of Fraud

After paying for the forecast, victims are told to use a foreign bookmaker via cryptocurrency, then asked to pay a 10% tax on winnings (e.g., 160,000 rubles).

[17:33]
Technical Failures

Scammers claim technical issues and demand repeated tax payments, draining victims further. One victim lost 260,000 rubles.

[18:54]
Conclusion

The narrator warns that free cheese only exists in a mousetrap; such offers are always scams. Victims often feel ashamed and don't report.

The video serves as a cautionary tale about sophisticated fixed-match scams that exploit trust and psychological manipulation. Viewers are urged to be skeptical of any unsolicited investment opportunities and to never send money to strangers.

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What is the initial amount scammers ask for a fixed match forecast?

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100,000 rubles.

08:51

How much did Dmitry claim to win from a 15,000 ruble bet?

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420,000 rubles.

10:43

What additional fee do scammers demand after the initial payment?

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A 10% tax on winnings, often around 160,000 rubles.

16:51

What method do scammers use to make the fake bookmaker account seem real?

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They provide a login and password to a website where victims can see their balance.

16:13

Why do scammers use cryptocurrency for transfers?

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Because it is difficult to track.

16:00

What psychological trigger do scammers use to manipulate victims?

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They target weak points like children and job dissatisfaction.

05:04

How long did scammers wait before re-contacting the narrator?

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Almost a month.

03:18

What is the maximum amount lost by a victim mentioned in the video?

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260,000 rubles.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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Psychological Manipulation

Illustrates how scammers identify and exploit personal vulnerabilities to increase success rate.

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Confirmation of Widespread Scam

Shows that the scam is not isolated but a common scheme with identical language used across victims.

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Escalation Tactics

Details the multi-step fraud where victims are asked for additional payments under false pretenses.

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Victim Shame

Highlights why many scams go unreported due to embarrassment, allowing scammers to continue.

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How scammers almost got me

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The fake friend technique exposed

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The fixed match scam revealed

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How they milk victims for more money

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[00:02] lot of scammers now, all these nasty people who call you on the phone, introduce themselves as bank employees or employees of a mobile operator and want to steal your money, in fact, there are many different ways to

[00:15] scam people out of money, and today I will tell you about one such technically cunning way how scammers deceive people at once for hundreds of thousands of rubles, and this is exactly how they tried to deceive me, in this story about how they tried to deceive me,

[00:29] at first there was nothing bad, a person wrote to me, as many others write, I thought, Well, I'm helping a person, everything is fine, the person asked for advice, I gave him this advice, then it turned out so that I thought they were trying to

[00:42] explained that no, this is not how you should do it. What are you talking about, but all this time they were trying to deceive me myself, and this is not a standard scheme with a telephone scam, these are professionals who influence people, look for their weak points, and then when

[00:56] you have already fallen for the hook, they use all their resources so that you do not understand for sure that you are being deceived until the very last moment, friends, if you have encountered scammers, write about I think it will be interesting for others to read how it was in the comments

[01:08] and most importantly it will be useful to read this, perhaps thereby you will save someone from losing money. It all started with the fact that a man named Dmitry wrote to me on VKontakte and asked about some group I am a member of, like, is

[01:21] this group normal? Although I don’t remember such a group, I didn’t subscribe to it, it’s called an experienced trader. Okay, I go to look and it turns out that I am really subscribed to this group. Although I repeat, I didn’t do this, I look at

[01:34] Although I repeat, I didn’t do this, I look at

[01:48] you yourself understand everything is obvious. Not understanding the catch, I answered Dmitry that the group is [ __ ], I did n’t subscribe to it, that I unsubscribed from it and simply told the man not to trust anyone in any groups.

[02:00] Let him believe better himself, apparently at that very moment when The person saw that I was ready to talk, the work began. A very short and very useful integration. The most profitable deposits can be found on the Fin Services portal. There is a

[02:12] link to it under this video. There is also a promo code under the video with Services up to 23.3% per annum. Go take a look. You will definitely find something interesting for yourself. Pay attention to what

[02:26] words are used. How they try to manipulate people. The only person who answered me is you. You are such an interesting conversationalist. I don’t want to lose you. was already some strange moment about the personal page here.

[02:40] This person wrote to me from a different page, but these two pages are absolutely identical. However, in my messenger, these are really two different dialogues. Why is this done? I don’t know. And to be honest, I don’t understand now.

[02:53] Initially, the person pretended to be a newbie who just wants to get advice and started asking basic questions like where can I learn, maybe what books to read? In such situations, I usually try to help people. I recorded

[03:05] several voice messages for him, spent my time, told him what information. Where can I get what books I can read and which ones? In general, I took the first steps, I spent time on the person, I thought I was doing a good deed, and the most interesting thing in this situation is that

[03:18] the guys didn't start working closely with me right away, they waited almost a month, and only after a long time Dmitry wrote to me again, "We are friends in this situation, it's easy for you and me to lose each other, so don't forget to subscribe

[03:31] to the social networks that are convenient for you. Under this video there is a link to YouTube, VK, RBE, and Telegram, where I post every day, and don't forget to like this video in support. Thank you. Then the messages begin, which

[03:43] again try to highlight you as a unique person. Listen. Hello, how are you? I found myself in a very strange situation and I hope that you can help me figure it out. Whoever I contacted, no one knows anything,

[03:55] that you say what happened anyway. But if you remember? Yes, I treat this person as a newbie who asked me for help. It is quite logical that about a month later he wrote to me again

[04:09] to ask or tell something, and then the story begins about how this fake Dmitry met some guy in the group, just like me. Dmitry wrote to him himself, that is, the guy did not want anything from him, because of this, Dmitry immediately realized that

[04:22] the person is sincere and honest, but you and I know that there is a catch here. I the guys are working competently, all the correspondence matches the dates, in fact, if you look at the screenshots, you will see that everything is clearly

[04:37] chronological, both old correspondence and new correspondence are clearly set everywhere, everything is fine, as if everything is as it is, our false Dmitry turns to a new character, Daniil, asking him approximately the same questions.

[04:50] send us correspondence in all details, a huge number of messages, and in this correspondence they are probably trying to touch on your weak points, and of course, the first topic on which they begin to work is children and work, read how they talk to each

[05:04] other, this is exactly the point I want to voice to you. Children are the flowers of life, this is definitely the truth. I don’t really do anything, I don’t work, I live for myself. I recently went to a temporary job, very good, as it turned out, but this is more of a

[05:17] temporary pill than stable job That is, if this story was read by a person who has children and a terribly unloved job, he would have been triggered by this message in any case, but the nuance is with me they didn’t guess, I don’t have

[05:30] of course, in response, the most stupid message comes, well, that’s right. And what kind of temporary income maybe I can do this, really, this is how two strangers communicate, maybe I can

[05:44] do this tomorrow I’ll be driving around the city and I’ll see some guy in the most expensive car in the traffic Taya for about 30 million so I’ll go up to him, knock on the window and say, man, how did you make money, maybe I can do this too, and

[05:57] naturally the guy will tell me all the secrets, offer, lay out his schemes and say, the dialogue between strangers consists, we usually communicate like this, we are all Russian people, big- hearted. Well, naturally, hoping that you are

[06:10] reading the correspondence, they begin to work through such phrases that it is very easy in principle, this can Every conversation is designed to make you think, "Damn, I need that too, and I can do it too."

[06:22] Daniil decides to hit him with a heavy weapon in a conversation, and why tell him anything? It's inconvenient and time-consuming if you can provide proof. He offers to send Dmitry screenshots, which he should review. He basically

[06:35] takes these screenshots. Please, on the screen. If you don't go into details, in this correspondence you will see the most cringeworthy story about how some person writes to some football agent who allegedly

[06:47] deals with closed clubs and fixed matches. And thereby sells these bets, sells the opportunity to bet on that very closed match. They have special conditions for a closed club that must be followed. Everything

[07:01] is done according to the rules. Everything is not just like that. This is not some kind of fly-by-night operation. In this correspondence, of course, there are detailed instructions on what to do, how to do it. Proof of earnings,

[07:13] screenshots of payment, are required, the fact that we earned money, after all, why all this for the sake of millions, sitting at home earning money and making big money, of course. The dialogue ends with the person being incredibly happy with the situation and can't

[07:26] wait for further work. Then we talk about our story with False Dmitry, naturally, after Daniil provided these screenshots in Dmitry and Daniil's correspondence. Dmitry was so surprised and they started communicating like two absolutely

[07:41] normal men. One writes to the other. This is enchanting, this is incomparable. I always thought it was a lottery, but look. This is just unique fantasy. And in the end, he

[07:53] tries to ask Daniil some questions, to which he replies. I'm not persuading you of anything, I'm not forcing you. You wrote to me yourself, so there is no fantasy here, this is absolute reality. A message from the series: God, I can't

[08:07] sleep, I thought about this all night. Is this really possible? How can I do the same? Can I write to this Agent, to which you receive the answer: No, no need. Let me find out everything myself. I'm trying to simply convey to you with this light acting the

[08:23] mood with which I read all this. You see, for me, this looks very, very strange. I don't believe that people actually communicate like this in their lives. Two strangers. People communicate completely differently here There is no live

[08:36] dialogue And yet, wait now, I'll find out from the agent and write to you if it is possible to funniest and most suspicious is just beginning further, because all this time I thought that they were trying to deceive a person for 100,000 rubles, exactly 100,000 rubles He was

[08:51] offered to pay to get a forecast for a fixed match, but everything turned out completely differently I still don't understand the point of this story at all I explained to the person that this is 100% a scam and you shouldn't fall for it

[09:05] If you have such an inherent desire to spend 100,000 rubles just to spend them, then do it beautifully but don't feed the scammers A rather strange story began here because, when I said that this was a

[09:18] scam, Dmitry began to dissuade me and give arguments that no, this is normal, because he, like a true Sherlock, checked everything, checked all the matches, all the dates, everything matches exactly and, in the opinion of our Dmitry, it is impossible to predict this and fake it

[09:32] too now The funniest thing is that I understand I myself behaved like a fool because I did not understand that they were trying to deceive me I thought that Dmitry was a real person but just a very naive guy and I tried to help him and protect him from

[09:47] this whole story But I will honestly say I did not understand at that moment that the victim is me The worst thing in this situation is that really many naive people fall into such traps of scammers and send them their money further Of course,

[10:01] our cheap movie that we saw earlier conversations from the series I despaired I behave like a child and as a result I find out information that Dmitry whom I am still trying to dissuade Answers me I still decided to take a risk Suddenly this

[10:17] will change my life To be honest, this situation did not worry me very much say that I was very sincerely worried rubles but gave and gave People learn from mistakes

[10:30] Okay Therefore, in general I have concluded for myself that my attempts to help this person are over at this stage and come what may, they have scammed him. And [ __ ] him, but then a miracle happens, we couldn't expect anything else. Dmitry writes to me again,

[10:43] joyful and excited, and tells me that of course he won. And not just some amount, but 420,000 rubles, despite the fact that he only bet 15 unique coefficients, unique incomes, just a fairy tale, a dream, do this

[10:58] every day and you wo n't have a headache at all, naturally, as you can see in the screenshot, the person's manner of communication changes greatly, and the polite Dmitry who wrote about the extravaganza and amazing phenomena changes dramatically and

[11:10] begins to write, this is just Piz, I won, I don't believe in you. Although, in general, I wrote to the person, Well, Okay, I won, and that's cool. Naturally, at this moment I understand that something is wrong here, and discussing it with my wife, we laugh. I say, all that remains is

[11:24] offer to participate in this scheme to make money. But the most surprising thing is that he doesn't write to me about this, he writes to me many more times but doesn't offer. After all, I have to myself. I have to go to meet him myself so that

[11:38] later he would say the cherished phrase But it was you who asked me In general, the scam works according to a completely standard scheme, I don’t ask Dmitry about anything But he once, then twice, then three times sends me a message himself where he begins to

[11:51] tell that everything turned out great, everything went smoothly without any problems, there were no problems with withdrawing money, his account was not blocked, he boasts about how he bought expensive gifts for his wife And many similar messages that are

[12:04] trying as much as possible to show and prove to me how wonderful he now lives, what a importantly That all this went without any problems at all and there is no deception and how amazing and enchanting it is that this is

[12:18] possible Then, seeing my monosyllabic answers, Dmitry apparently realized that he couldn’t deceive me, but without revealing He decided to leave without saying goodbye After some time Or rather, yesterday, when I was writing the script for this video, I decided to write to

[12:31] Dmitry and ask Well, how are you? You’ve probably already become a millionaire there, to which I received a very confident answer Hello Grisha, but not a millionaire, but I feel good, then a situation occurs that made me I'm

[12:44] on YouTube, some video, honestly, I do n't even remember which one, and I went to the comments, and one of the first comments that was popular, I saw that a woman was writing about a similar scam scheme and asking her to shed light on it. And most importantly, the words

[12:57] that she inserted there from the squeak just word for word repeat the words that False Dmitry wrote to me. That's when I realized for sure that this was not some kind of individual scam and it turns out to be a working scheme. And at that moment, I learned

[13:09] how prepared these scammers are, because I didn't fall for this hook and didn't know the full beauty of this deception. Then, in fact, the deception is much more technical. Then they start working at full capacity and

[13:22] scam people out of hundreds of thousands of rubles. Naturally, I became interested in understanding this situation. I entered "fraudulent matches" into a search engine and what do I see there? What a nightmare it turns out that, according to this scheme, people are simply scammed in batches, some for 100,000

[13:37] rubles, some for 250,000 rubles, and the scam occurs when a person transfers their money, allegedly paying. This forecast is just beginning, and the work is much more complicated. Let's look at several options with different sites, what

[13:51] people write about, what is the essence of this scheme, some genius with supposedly big connections in the sports world knows where two teams are playing a fixed match and offers to name the exact score of the game for money, for those who do not watch sports, it may seem like Well, the

[14:03] two teams agreed and played the desired result, what is so special about this story, screenshots are also provided for proof with amazing profits, where a person earns 380,000 rubles while betting only

[14:16] 9,500 rubles at the moment. I thought about playing along and saying that I also want to earn money this way, but the need for this disappeared after I looked. There are so many such stories on the Internet for a long time, many people have done this for me and the saddest thing is

[14:29] people did this not because they wanted to know what would happen next in order to tell you about it, but because in fact they fell for it and lost their money. Here we see one of such cases, Sergey writes about fixed matches,

[14:42] how scammers scammed me out of 100,000 rubles, and we see there The same story, another of such articles, how I was scammed with fixed matches on football on 240,000 rubles Here's another one Look at

[14:56] the scam on fixed matches in VK how I was deceived by 200,000 rubles what is the point why people are deceived for such large sums because initially if you read these articles people tried to deceive for 50,000 rubles now over

[15:09] time the price has increased because of inflation naturally inflation is everywhere and now for a fixed match they ask 100,000 rubles but Where do such sums come from how people are deceived for a quarter of a million Let's not take up much of your time about

[15:21] what is happening Further I will just briefly tell you if suddenly you fell for this trick and agreed to participate in this scam, then you are sent to a certain football Agent with whom you communicate, they explain to you all the rules of a

[15:33] closed club and say that you must transfer 100,000 rubles you make a transfer in the amount of 100,000 after which they send you information on what to bet on What you need to do But the most interesting thing then is that allegedly one of the

[15:48] club members violates the rules here Because of this closed club, the Agent urgently has to change the rules of the closed club and now, in order not to be caught, they start placing bets through a foreign bookmaker.

[16:00] need to use a cryptocurrency transfer, which is very tricky, because tracking it is a big problem. But your money is already with the agent, so they start leading you further, they say it’s not a problem. Don’t worry. We’ll do everything for you now.

[16:13] Your money is supposedly transferred to a foreign bookmaker, they give you a login and password. You can even go to the website of this company, enter your login and password, and you’ll get to your personal account where your money is in place. Everything is calm. You still think

[16:25] that everything is OK. In the end, you place a bet at this bookmaker and, of course, you win. Naturally, you see that you have a huge amount in your account, you won everything. The odds are crazy. One of the people won

[16:38] 1,600 rubles. Naturally, everything there is in foreign currency, but when transferring to rubles, 1,600,000 rubles is just a fairy tale. He thinks everything is fine, can you imagine? You find out that You won almost 2 million, and what could be wrong here? You're still very

[16:51] happy and believe everything. And they tell you, but you won. Accordingly, according to the laws of the country in which you placed a bet, you must pay a 10% income tax. Many people have no questions, because supposedly everything is

[17:03] can log into the personal account of this bookmaker. Yes, I see there that I earned money, and accordingly, people think, well, okay, that's it. A person goes and we're talking about now is one of the scenarios. This is the story I

[17:18] from a credit card. Please, never do that. You participating in various fornications with borrowed funds is the worst thing you can do. So, the person bet money for the first time, taking money from a credit card. And

[17:33] now he withdraws another 160,000 rubles from another credit card to transfer them, supposedly to pay taxes. The person still doesn't understand that he is being scammed, and then it happens that some kind of technical failure occurs. Because of which it is

[17:46] not possible to pay this tax, in addition to the 100,000 rubles that the person paid for the forecast, in addition to the money that he placed in the office itself, in addition to the 160,000 rubles that he sent to pay the tax on his profit, they

[18:00] begin to tell him that technical problems occurred, something is wrong there, in short, damn, you have to pay the tax again, but all this is [ __ ], but you earned 1,600, you need to drop another 160,000, there are some complications. There they are, these 160

[18:12] fine and the person goes in and really sees that yes, in the account, in addition to this money, there is another 160 of some kind already. This whole story is okay. But when the person was offered to pay 160,000 rubles again, he

[18:25] why. In the end, he spent exactly 260,000 rubles, or rather, he didn't spend it, but lost it. That's roughly how it is in this situation, they start milking you until you lose. Scammers if a person dropped another 160,000 rubles, but so far there are no such cases for

[18:41] about this. Probably, after people stops, and the worst thing is that such situations are revealed publicly in isolated cases very often to people. Unfortunately, it's just terribly embarrassing

[18:54] to talk about it, and many such terrible stories remain unsolved because of this, people often don't know about all these scams. And there are very, very many of them, remember, friends. Free cheese is only in Shilovka, and all similar stories

[19:07] are immediately definitely a scam, even if someone somewhere in the world has fixed matches and make money on this. You never know, anything could be possible, but they obviously won't offer this to some stranger for

[19:22] 100,000 rubles. People make money on these kinds of schemes themselves. If they do, I'm not an even exist, then people probably make money on them themselves. But they definitely don't VKontakte groups. Be careful, friends, don't fall for the tricks of scammers.

[19:37] Be smarter, use your brain, and remember the most important thing, friends. Be healthy and most important thing, friends. Be healthy and attentive, see you soon.

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