Life & Style | 3 days agoNigerian online sports betting platform, SportyBet, has faced intense criticism over its refusal to pay customer winnings, citing “foreign interference” and “fake odds.” However, IT, betting, and cybersecurity experts have dismissed this claim as unfounded. The experts say SportyBet’s statement is to deflect blame following media reports of deliberate account restrictions and unexplainably withholding winnings from customers A cybersecurity expert at Amazon, Micheal, pointed out that SportyBet’s use of Cloudflare makes it impossible for third parties to create fake odds. “From my observation, the betting operator uses Cloudflare. Cloudflare protects websites from man-in-the-middle attacks. It prevents third parties from putting unauthorized content into your website– which in this case would be creating fake odds as they have claimed. But since Sportybet uses Cloudflare, it is impossible.” A 15-year iGaming and Sportsbook veteran Artem, stated that it’s impossible for any syndicate to feed fake odds into the system. He said “Honestly I can’t imagine how any syndicate could do that in general. The odds are being provided by huge international sportsbook providers, most of them have people monitoring the security and fixed games round the clock. But even then the people don’t have any influence on what’s coming from the provider, so it’s impossible for anyone to feed “fake odds” into the system and even attempting that wouldn’t help much in my opinion.”“Reading the response, I think the possibility of an external entity creating fake odds in the sportybet platform is very very low. Very low.” Also sharing his view , An IT professional with over 12 years of experience, Franklin Ugwu said the possibility of an external entity creating fake odds on the SportyBet platform is “very, very low.” “It is impossible for anyone to create odds on their platform without having the password or access to the backend. Unless the operator is claiming collusion with members of its own team, it’s just a very unlikely event and in fact– it is impossible since the Sportybet employees themselves don’t even have access to the odds as they come from big international suppliers through API connections and any attempt to alter that would have logs that would show any infringement.” A sports betting influencer, Tunde noted that it’s common for multiple users to bet on the same odds, especially when following tipsters on social media. His words: “I don’t think it’s unusual for many users who do not know each other to bet on the same odds. On twitter for instance, there are tipsters, many of whom are influencers for these same sports betting companies, who post bet codes for their followers to copy. This can easily make 10,000 people who don’t know each other bet on the exact same matches every single day. The response from Sportybet sets a very dangerous precedent in the Nigerian betting industry: What’s stopping any bookmaker from claiming every win is from fake odds not created by the company? What happens then?” Our Correspondent reports that this situation highlights the importance of clear communication and robust consumer protection measures within the online gaming industry The experts are of the views that the onus remains on SportyBet to provide fair treatment for all their customers.

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Disclaimer: this video is for educational and entertainment purpose only from my opinion for Im not in anyway a financial advisor or promoting gambling alw...