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Every year before football season, a magazine appears called "Football Betting Guide." It appears to be a legitimate magazine with the main goal of rating sports services (touts). It purports to help readers find the best sports touts and gives ratings for the "top ten" touts in the country.
Guess who puts out the magazine?...It's the same guys that run the tout services that are ranked as the best in the country. (They have at least two different services, maybe more.) The magazine is an out-and-out scam, published to trick people into signing up for these guys' tout services.
Most all Las Vegas insiders are wise to the scam. To their credit, the people at Gambler's Book Club in Las Vegas have exposed the rip-off and refuse to carry the magazine. Here's what Kevin O'Neill says about Football Betting Guide in his book, Football Betting's Cutting Edge:
"...One particularly heinous bit of malfeasance takes place with the annual publication of Football Betting Guide, which claims to rate the best handicappers in the business. It has all the trappings of a respectable publication and has enjoyed such success that it puts out an annual basketball publication as well. The problem is that the top...handicapping firms in the "Top Ten" have struggled to piece together 48% seasons for their customers but are owned by the same people who put out Football Betting Guide. This is an obvious scam that has been exposed by Sports Illustrated, Gamblers Book Club, and numerous others...One news dealer told me that they never bill him for the magazines, leaving him with nothing but pure profit..."
...By one way or another, the vermin who publish this ruse got my name and address and, sure enough, at the beginning of the 1999 football season their magazine came in the mail; - free and unsolicited, of course. Lo and behold, when I leafed through it. I discovered one of my very own articles. It was even by-lined by me! These scum-bags had purloined an article directly from this website, printed it in their rag and made it look as though I was one of their contributors.
Maybe they thought my name would add legitimacy to their shameful scam. In any case, I told my attorney to find out who was behind it. He's working on a lawsuit as I write this. I assure you, I have no connection with this band of scam artists, I want nothing to do with them, and the only way I would advise using their magazine is as toilet paper.
Guess who puts out the magazine?...It's the same guys that run the tout services that are ranked as the best in the country. (They have at least two different services, maybe more.) The magazine is an out-and-out scam, published to trick people into signing up for these guys' tout services.
Most all Las Vegas insiders are wise to the scam. To their credit, the people at Gambler's Book Club in Las Vegas have exposed the rip-off and refuse to carry the magazine. Here's what Kevin O'Neill says about Football Betting Guide in his book, Football Betting's Cutting Edge:
"...One particularly heinous bit of malfeasance takes place with the annual publication of Football Betting Guide, which claims to rate the best handicappers in the business. It has all the trappings of a respectable publication and has enjoyed such success that it puts out an annual basketball publication as well. The problem is that the top...handicapping firms in the "Top Ten" have struggled to piece together 48% seasons for their customers but are owned by the same people who put out Football Betting Guide. This is an obvious scam that has been exposed by Sports Illustrated, Gamblers Book Club, and numerous others...One news dealer told me that they never bill him for the magazines, leaving him with nothing but pure profit..."
...By one way or another, the vermin who publish this ruse got my name and address and, sure enough, at the beginning of the 1999 football season their magazine came in the mail; - free and unsolicited, of course. Lo and behold, when I leafed through it. I discovered one of my very own articles. It was even by-lined by me! These scum-bags had purloined an article directly from this website, printed it in their rag and made it look as though I was one of their contributors.
Maybe they thought my name would add legitimacy to their shameful scam. In any case, I told my attorney to find out who was behind it. He's working on a lawsuit as I write this. I assure you, I have no connection with this band of scam artists, I want nothing to do with them, and the only way I would advise using their magazine is as toilet paper.
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