The popularity of online gambling platform have been on the increase for a while now thereby creating several arguments between them and the physical outlets in terms of which is the best. There was an incidence I saw on twitter this money that made me decide to create this post so anyone who is bent on using physical shops should be cautious.
According to the tweet and the victim narration, he bet the game in a physical shop and won N16,700,000 (~$13,500) but the agent of the shop refused to pay him even after the betting company from their head office instructed him to pay. Not that the company did not pay the agent, they paid but the agent refused to pay him saying that someone else have come to withdraw the money. He approached the court only to get N3,000,000( $2,400) out of the total winning and was asked to go and look for the people that withdrew that money. Normally, when there is winning, the only way to withdraw is to tender the ticket to the agents who will take the ticket before paying the winning. So I do not know how someone will withdraw the winning of another and what the person used to make the withdrawal. I think the agent wanted to steal the entire money but due to the pressure from the court, he has to return part of it. I see this as a warning on the dangers of greedy agents in physical gambling platforms.
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https://twitter.com/General_Oluchi/status/1782027404027797716This is a very unfortunate incident on the victim, but then, there are a few corrections you need to make, offline casinos are different from betting agents, betting agents are just individual persons that the sports book gave licenses to operate in areas where the sports book company can't reach or operate in.
so, in this case, we can't really say that the victim placed his bet on the really offline casino, but rather, he used the services of an offline betting agent.
Though on the other hand, I still understand the message you are trying to pass, and I still see it as valid, because the same bet the victim placed offline, he or she could have also placed the same bet online, and if he had placed that bet online and won, there wouldn't have been any case of another user withdrawing his winning, or a betting agent trying to steal from him.
Anyways, this is just one one those things, betting online have always been better than betting offline, because, in online betting, you don't just enjoy privacy, but you also enjoy security of your funds since it's only you who manages your account, and there are no issues like lost tickets, or torn or worn out tickets.