The internet is awash with tipsters and systems, all claiming infinite wealth, once in a life time offers, guaranteed profits etc, I’m sure you get the idea.

The main problem is that there are so many that the average punter does not know which to choose and so will either not bother or sign up to many of them only to find that the vast majority were very disappointing to say the least and will probably give up for good or, if they have more money than sense, continue to search for the rest of their life wasting more money than they will likely ever make.

This short guide will tell you how to spot the services/systems that scream out SCAM and how to find the ones with potential.

There are two things you should look for when joining a service, if they don’t have one of the two things stated below, do not under any circumstances at all bother with them. Just click the red cross on your browser and move on!

The very first thing you should look for is whether or not they proof their bets to an independent source such as ourselves or the Racing-index etc, there are plenty about that are free for racing services so if a racing service really does make good profits they will want to proof their bets!

However if they are a sports service there are not many proofing sites available except for ourselves which not many people know about yet, and two others, one which charges a fee and another which is only useful if you are a member of their paid club as the results and proof is not available to the general public for free.

In a situation like the above you should look for the second thing which is FREE TRIAL. If they offer a free trial this means it is very likely they are honest and want to prove this to you by showing you at no cost!

However this is not as trustworthy as proofing and there are a few things that can make a free trial a perfect way of scamming people. However don’t worry as you can read about them as well as how to avoid them, below....

1.       The 1^st most common is using the offer of a free trial simply to get a person’s email address which they will use to spam you as well as sell on to other also dishonest services for a price, or maybe swap them for a like for like list.

The Daily Donkey service is a prime example of such a scam in our opinion as their profits do not match their profits on the site at all but they look so great many people will give them their email address just to get the bets. The reason the profits do not match is because they use SP and the actual price is often a hell of a lot higher, they know this but use SP anyway. A child could lay horses to SP and make a profit, but factor in commission and the difference in price and you will usually make a loss.

2.       The 2^nd method of using a free trial to scam you is to send you different bets to those that are being sent to other members. This way some people will get winning bets and some people will get losing bets, those that make a profit during the free trial will likely sign up and those that don’t, may not, but either way some people will be happy, others won’t. MAX REDD of Redd Racing has been caught doing this in the past. If you are approached by him or anyone promoting his services, ignore them.

A Free trial is still a good way of seeing how honest a service is even with the above two scams being used. If you are worried about spam simply open a new email account and use it solely for the purpose of free trials.

If you are worried about falling foul to the con used by people like Max, then you can either sigh up with a few different email addresses or get a few friends to also sign up. To be honest though it is not often tipsters use that scam anymore, and most services will also have results posted on their site as well as giving you a trial so all you need to do is check that the results and odds that you are getting are the same as those on the site. You only really need to be wary of that particular scam if they offer a trial but don’t show results on their website.

And that’s it as far as we are concerned. If a service does not offer a trial and/or proof their bets do not even consider giving them a chance because there is no excuse at all for not doing one or the other.

If you can find a service that proofs their bets AND gives a free trial then we would highly recommend you take them up on the offer of a trial as they are very likely a decent service.

NOTE: There are bound to be some honest services that don’t proof or offer a trial out there but it is just not worth anybody’s time or money going through all of the bad ones to get to the good ones. If an honest service wants to get noticed they should proof or at least offer a trial, if they don’t it is unlikely they will be around long. We at BSUncoverd do however make a point of approaching tipsters that don’t offer free trials or proof to see if they will let us sample their service for a review and/or proof them, if they oblige then it shows they are likely worth a look but most services simply ignore us as they likely don’t want to get caught out.

OTHER TRICKS OF THE TRADE

There are other methods a service may use to make you sign up without offering a trial or proofing, please do not fall for them. Not all will be scams but without proofing or a trial to back up the below methods or at least install trust, they are worthless and should be treated as such

The first most common is to put a banner or large statement on their site telling you that it is a once in a lifetime deal and unless you sign up soon the offer will be gone and you will have lost out, or some such sentence. The only thing you are likely to be losing out on is your wallet being emptied! Once in a lifetime offers are always scams in my experience and the so called once in a lifetime offer usually returns within a few days of it ending, or never ends! It is simply a very basic sales technique.

Another way is to post a screenshot of their Betfair statement showing either the profits they have made or sometimes even a few days worth of bets (Which are nearly always to small stakes)

It is very simple to make a fake Betfair statement, all you have to do is use photoshop or even Microsoft paint will do in most cases, and alter the image. Or you can even in some cases right click on the statement and view the source code, then save the source code to your computer, open it in notepad and edit it to show desired profits then save it as a web page and take a screenshot of that. This is a little trickier to do and does not always work but can be done. Also there are those that will back to small stakes and take a screenshot whenever they have a good run.

Last but not least let’s not forget the most basic method of all, used on nearly every site, good and bad, which is to show customer testimonials. Any idiot can write a testimonial and say it was from someone else, and any idiot can also open a few email accounts and email testimonials to their selves and take a screenshot of them.

Even testimonials in the form of a video do not mean anything as they can easily be done by friends or customers whom they have bribed (See our SportsBettingChamp review for a prime example of this!).  We advise testimonials are taken with a pinch of salt.

I hope you have found this article useful and please feel free to join our forum and voice your opinions or email us with your own thoughts.

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Matt