Gaming firms 22bet and 1xBet suffered serious money losses during the Christmas season.
Some Nigerian gamblers had placed their bets on huge odd games and won.
The two sites immediately disabled withdrawals and instead of releasing the money after Grand Auditing, they refunded the stakes instead.
All these after asking for my ID card, first and last digits of my ATM card, picture of my face and our chat to prove I'm not impersonating and now it's utility bill and bank statement. E remain occupation of my grandparents
— Sporting King (@sportingking365) January 2, 2023
SportingKing365 who gained over 50k subscribers on Telegram and another 30k on Twitter in a span of two weeks became famous after correctly predicting 3 correct scores in the FIFA World Cup.
Tomorrow:
?? 1 – 0 ??
??????? 1 – 2 ??— Sporting King (@sportingking365) December 9, 2022
The gang of gamblers lead to massive losses by the gaming firms due to their big odds, and big stakes and also sharing with their huge number of followers on Telegram and Twitter.
This incident just shows how gambling is dangerous and one should gamble responsibly.
Some won over 10 million Naira, that is about Sh2.5 million; now calculate that by a thousand more. The 1xbet and 22bet actuarists are seeing broke bank accounts.
It is the discrection of gambling firms to release or not release money.
In Kenya, Betika has had such behaviors as written in the article below.
Gaming site Betika caught deleting high winning, low stake slip
22bet sems to have lost big and is also issuing some hard to do and weird requests.
One of my followers just draw my attention to this. I think we should stop using 22bet then. pic.twitter.com/xwnSzLYQQI
— Mr Bond (@mremrebond) January 2, 2023
The Nigerian punters are now gearing up for a big massive PR nightmare for the two bookies 1xBet and 22bet.
Most are saying they should stop investing in Nigeria, if scams is what they are capable of.
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