Please Help Stop the Oddsmaker.ag Scam

Oddsmaker.ag is one of a small handful of online betting sites to achieve a rating of F on the SBS Rating Guide, which is the rating I (prop) assign to outright scams. It’s important that players realize www.oddsmaker.ag is the flagship site of Futurebet (AKA: iGaming Solutions *IGS* / Gametech) which is a software provider and gambling operator that has stolen millions of dollars from casino users, poker players, and sports bettors over the past decade. You can learn all about them in my Oddsmaker Review which is a must read for anyone considering depositing with this toxic company.

Calling Sports Betting Affiliates to Action

Informing potential victims of the Oddsmaker scam is something I’ve been doing for many years. You can read a thread I started at 2+2 on the topic 5-years ago by clicking here. This scam group once again made headlines this week, this time due a complaint my most respected competitor SportsbookReview.com fielded involving a player who had his $45,000 oddsmaker.ag balance unjustly confiscated. I challenge everyone in the gambling industry promoting Oddsmaker.ag to spend 7:31 watching the video below. Please know affiliates promoting Oddsmaker are the leading fuel behind this scam. They might pay well, but know those affiliate payments are the results of players like the one in this video being scammed, in this case out of his entire life savings.

In the video above the full story of this players experience is shared and at the end you can hear him describe his feelings on the matter. His words are as follows: “I’ve lost thousands of dollars betting sports, thousands, but in 21 years I’ve never got stiffed by an offshore book. I had so much money in that account, at this point I had already talked with OSGA who told me that they might say I’m a professional gambler and keep my money. And I’m scared to death that if this happens this is going to ruin my life! I was in an extreme panic situation. Every night I’m on the computer for hours trying to find one game that I think would lose. It’s almost my whole life savings. In fact, I’ve actually borrowed money. I’m actually $6,000 in debt. These people not only took all my money, they’re probably giving me a death sentence. Because I haven’t been able to eat or sleep for days, and I’m shaking all the time and my insides I feel like someone’s trying to poison me.”

September 2012 Update: Perhaps due to the high amount of negative publicity this theft brought Oddsmaker.ag: Several months after the fact the player agreed to a settlement in the above mentioned $45,000 dispute. It is highly unlikely he was a paid in full, but some settlement was reached. We don’t suspect this would have happened had it not been for the negative press.

The second video I encourage you to watch is one Justin7 posted on YouTube 10 months ago, which explains the way oddsmaker.ag operates; that video is embedded below.

Please understand no matter how you attempt to justify it, promoting Oddsmaker.ag to others is no different than acting as the scam artist yourself. You’re causing financial harm to others for your own gain. If you were not aware of the level of scam involved here, as difficult as it might be, know the reason the pay was so high was because your were working as the promoter/agent of an elaborate scam site that spends over $1 million per year on marketing seeking new victims. Please, Please, Please accept this and stop robbing from the online gambling industry.

How Players Can Help

Even if you’re not a gambling affiliate and feel sympathetic to Paul and the others scammed by Oddsmaker.ag and other Futurebet Sites, you can still help. Some ideas are sharing reports of the oddsmaker scam on facebook, or twitter. You can also start a blog at blogger.com and cover the news. You can warn friends, post on forums, email sites promoting oddsmaker.ag asking them if they are aware that they are promoting a scam to unsuspecting players. I’m sure you can come up with other ideas as well.

Important Oddsmaker.ag Links

Here are some of the top pages covering the oddsmaker.ag scam that are worth linking to, tweeting, sharing on facebook, or Google +1 etc.

• History of Oddsmaker.ag – This is the SBS internal oddsmaker page that provides a detailed overview of their history.
• SBR Oddsmaker History – This is an excellent page containing summaries of all news stories Sportsbook Review has ever posted about the Oddsmaker.ag scam.
• SBR Future Bet Page – This is the same as the above but it contains summaries of all stories SBR has posted about oddsmaker.ag parent company Futurebet.
• Gametech Poker Blacklisted – This is the page by OPS that covers the poker side of the Futurebet Scam and blacklists oddsmaker.ag sister site Oddspoker.
• Casinomeister Rogue Pit – Here you can show that Casinomeister has added Oddsmaker to their Rogue Pit due to no payment / no response.
• BMR Rates Oddsmaker Scam – Bookmakers Review gives Oddsmaker.ag a rating of S which stands for “Scam”.
• Worst Sportsbook of All Time – Here you can see Sportsbook Review rated Oddsmaker the Worst Sportsbook of all time.
• Oddsmaker Promo Blog – Gambling Affiliate Kevin of TheSportsGeek.com purchased an Oddsmaker.ag promo code blog in order to redirect the players to a more legitimate option over scam site Oddsmaker.ag.
• Oddsmaker Marketing – Here you can see SBR claims Oddsmaker spends more than $1 million per year on marketing in order to find new victims.
• Oddsmaker Ripoff Report – Here you can find Oddsmaker complaints on consumer advocacy site RipoffReport.com.

You can also search any online search engine for terms like Oddsmaker.com complaint, Oddsmaker.ag warning, Futurebet scams and similar terms to find more scam reports worth linking to, sharing, tweeting, facebook liking and the like. Additional you can create new content on this topic by posting on blogs, websites, article directories and forums. We at SBS are challenging the entire gambling community (players, affiliates, operators, suppliers, freelancers, employees, etc.) to do something, really anything, to help warn others that www.oddsmaker.ag is a scam site fuelled by large marketing budgets and dishonest gambling affiliates.