The management system of betting company SportPesa seems to have failed in taming fraudsters using their platform to con unsuspecting gamblers which turns out to be an insider job and a strategy well known by the company officials. Personal Data breach not on compliance with data protection.
Calls by gamblers to the company to put into place mechanisms to bar scammers(who gamblers are not aware are the same people they calling) pretending to work for the company have proven futile. Reason being, this is done with the knowledge of Sportpesa.
The scammers use different phone numbers almost similar to sportpesa landlines and are said to have ‘hacked’ into the SportPesa firewall system through the aid of crocked SportPesa Company IT department employees.
In some cases, scammers even go to the extent of photoshopping the SportPesa website to make it look real. The main aim of photoshopping is to convince people they are dealing with SportPesa. Once they retrieve your number from the weak system, they send you bets which they claim are sure bets. They claim they have insiders working with SportPesa who always manipulate the bets from their customers to match the wrong bets.
Proxy owned Fixed matches sites owned by Sportpesa
One scammer sent the following SMS to a gambler who sadly fell into the trap and lost thousands of shillings, “Hi just an explanation of what happens behind the scenes, I deal with a guy who works with SportPesa, winning is possible if you deal with him.
He will manipulate the system so that the bet goes through, very simple.” They claim that “Our team of dedicated professional soccer analysts and teams who finance match fixing have a task to choose the club that cooperates to be bribed. Since our 8 years of experience, these sources give the greatest guarantee of victory because they cooperate directly with the clubs and can easily motivate the players to set the game.”
Another site, “Best Fixed Matches” also claims to have SportPesa fixed matches. On their website, they claim that “With an already established betting network, and with reliable information from our collaborators we can provide you with info about fixed matches from 4 continents, including Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia.”
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