On Thursday, the Guardian revealed that the industry was harvesting people’s data to target low-income gamblers and people who had stopped betting. “This incentivises such tipsters to only put up losers, yet no self-respecting punter would knowingly follow the advice of a losing tipster,” he said. This ensures they earn from their followers’ losses once they purposely recommend that they gamble on bets that are likely to lose. It has been alleged that one prominent tipster advised his followers to make 57 consecutive bets which lost. Such tipsters, who work from home, frequently recommend accumulator bets that experts say represent bad value, and entice their followers by posting fake graphics of their wins.

Source: The Guardian September 01, 2017 18:42 UTC