OK, now I am gonna be sincere and say that this is another dimension to or of betting scam I really never knew existed at all, I mean what the f**k 🤦, no wonder when I was still in some sports betting groups on telegram, many a times the admin will give out some free games predictions, most of us will bet on the game, and at the end of the day, some will win while others will lose.
It's one of the oldest tricks in the book about tipsters, they've copied this from early scams with stocks, back in the 20s and 30s when everyone was eager to invest. Now with the internet and anonymity behind a telegram account, you don't even need to run a single instance of this, you can have them ready one after the other so by the time you finally flop and nobody believes you anymore the other is in full swing.
What the admin used to do was tell us that there is a new game available, and that as many that are interested to bet on it, should indicate it and he will send the prediction as private message to the persons, majority of the time, the group is always locked possibly because he doesn't want who suspect his activities to come forward to complain about it and possibly warn other.
Which is a bit stupid, isn't it?
I mean who stops you when you find out the tip to spread it in a 200k + channel?
The only way to actually trust someone on tips is to follow them on a website that publishes their entire history, on professionally made ones you can see everything. Not that I recommend, just an example:
https://www.olbg.com/best-tipstersLook at this guy's history, he's clearly in profit but you can see, everyone has bad moments, 4 months in green and then 10% loss in August.
I did make some $ following a guy here but he started pissing me off by betting only on 5 and 6 grade handicap races that I just hate.