Fans of horse race betting will often spend considerable sums of money to get supposed inside information and tips. Recently a friend of mine, Jason contacted me to tell me about an experience he recently had. Fortunately Jason quickly grasped what was happening and did not lose any money as a result but some people may not be so lucky.

The first thing that happened was he received an unsolicited email, obviously he was on some horse betting e-mail list. The basic story in the email was that the sender ran a horse racing syndicate of owners and that he had access to some very special information. All you had to do was reply to the e-mail and he would send you the name of a sure fire winner completely free.

Just out of interest Jason replied and by returned received the name of a horse which he then backed for £20 at 9/4 and surprise, surprise it won. He then received another email offering a dead cert for the next day providing Jason would pay the sender the odds to £20 when the horse won. What he was actually asking was for Jason to add £20 to his bet and then send the winnings for that £20 to the tipster. So if that horse won say at 5/2 Jason would have to send him £50.

Because he was already in profit from the previous day Jason decided he would give it a go. The only problem was that he was going to be out all day so he asked for the information to be sent to his mobile phone. When he got the horses name Jason put £40 on the tipped horse. That represented £20 for himself and £20 for the tipster.

The horse ran and finished 4th well beaten by a 25/1 shot. Jason is not the sort of person to be upset by such a setback but imagine his surprise when he got home. There on his computer was an email from the same guy tipping another horse in the same race.

This is a scam which has been around a long time. How it works is that the tipster selects a race where there are only 2 or 3 horses that have a real chance of winning. You then send out emails offering the free tip. Suppose 300 people take up this offer, 100 get the name of the first possible winner, the next 100 the second and the rest the 3rd horse’s name. Providing all goes to plan at the end of it 100 people will have received the name of the winning horse.

To those winners they then send the second email offering a “dead cert” if they will put £20 on for them. Now assume 60 people respond you just repeat the process. Now the tipster has 20 people who are going to pay him the odds to £20 when the horse wins. Assuming it wins at 3/1 then that is a nice £1200 for the tipster for sending out a few emails. In Jason’s case I think the guy must have come unstuck because I am sure that he did not include a 25/1 shot amongst his selected horses.

There are plenty of tricksters offering the earth to horse race betting fans, just make sure that you do not get caught by this obvious con.

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