The major reason why many people get scammed is not because they were careless but because of their never ending love to become rich overnight. Even in the crypto world, a lot of people easily get duped because they want to become rich overnight.

When you talk about fixed matches, people get duped of their hard-earned money when they aim to double their earnings by taking risk in putting their money in fixed matches. There are a lot of charlatans online using dubious means to swindle money from people. These charlatans are always on Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and Telegram offering fixed matches for a cheap price. They operate by sending unsolicited messages to random people and screenshots of already won tickets and wait for people to fall for it. Sometimes, they cover the bet slip serial number and their picks asking for money before they reveal it. The number of odds determines the price. You can see it from the screenshot below.

These guys are everywhere, especially on Facebook deceiving people with fixed matches that don't exist. They use Facebook more than any other social media because Facebook is designed to edit and change more setting to your preference. What they do is post different predictions of half/full time bets but this matches are usually posted by making their page offline, so that even if you subscribe for notification about their page, you won't get any update. For instance, they predict the halftime/full time results of a match in multiple times, so when one prediction clicks, they delete other loosed matches leaving only the prediction that was right on their online page.

Sometimes, they can show you their winning bet slips and video of them staking on a match with large odds so that you can be convinced. This is what they do on a regular basis just to make you believe that fixed matches are real and a lot of people have lost big time.

I have been duped been duped by these guys on a telegram channel that claimed to supply 100% fixed football matches every single day. These guys have various prices for certain odds. For example, they may charge $300 for “premium subscription”; $100 for "regular subscription" and so on. While you're still thinking of whether it's real or not, they draw you closer by uploading fake screenshots and edited betting slips that will make you fall.

I can vividly remember how a guy was actually begging me to subscribe in order to get fixed matches. I told him I would pay him if he could give me the first game for free and watch if the result would go as predicted. He didn't agree and till now, the bastard is still sending fake fixed matches broadcast to deceive gullible guys.

After paying the subscription fee of, let's say $100 for 60 odds. When it's time to get your fixed matches from them, they will give you an excuse saying “Hello happy subscribers. We just got a message from our sources that there won't be 100% GUARANTEED fixed matches for today, hence, we've booked you till tomorrow". When you wait till the following day, they will still send you repeated message and that's when it will dawn on you that you've been scammed. When you disturb them or ask for a refund they block you. 

If you are lucky, they could send you fixed matches that will never win. If you complain that you lost they ask you to pay half of what you paid earlier to get another fixed matches with 100% guarantee. A lot of people have fall got his scam and will always do, all in the name of doubling their earning.

Greed has ruin many in betting and one needs to be very careful. The most surprising thing is that some of them even work with bookies in generating cloned fake betting tickets to show winnings. Below is the screenshot of how a friend was actually defrauded 

I have once fallen victim of this scam through greed, so I want my experience to be a lesson to fixed matches freaks. Although, you might have been lucky to have won bets through this, but you need to be very careful

I'm not trying to say that fixed matches don't exist, they do but I'm very sure that the information is rarely ever exposed to the public. Most of the fixed matches you see online are scam. They give you fixed matches that the players playing the match do not even have the slight idea of how the match will end.

To make it in sports betting you should put greed aside and see football betting as a business. Even if you make as little as 10$ daily, you could still make something tangible at the end of the month instead of loosing huge out of greed. What matters is what you want at the end of the month and not what you want to earn today.

You are better off with free tipsters online. Stay off greed

I drop my pen at this juncture

I don't know if this makes sense to someone.