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nick

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Aug 29, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/29/99
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I have posted on and off on this group for three years,
recently i have begun to be bombarded with emails from
tipsters.
Today i recieved this message

Ref.: All new members.
There is no longer password protection on the official web site. We have
temporarily moved the access number to a new location.
Receiving this mail confirms that we have received your annual subscription
charge, thank you, you will now have access to the private line.
The number is issued at http://homes.arealcity.com/mti


Of course it was a trick by unscrupulous tipsters to lure me to their
web page. When i went to the page this is what i found

Please Note, If you have been sent a email confirming your subscription,
please ignore as it is incorrect, you have been charged nothing.
Isiris,
Henry Rix,
Mark Winstanley,
Willie McFarland,
Patrick Newman,
Ray Goldstein,
Peter Sandrovitch,
SL Hamilton, and
Winning Line.
The above tipsters are online daily.
We now list all private, account and maximum bets for each tipster.
We apologise for the number change.
The duration still only lasts approximately 2 minutes daily, depending
on the amount of tips given out by the listed tipsters, the new number is

?????????
Calls to this number still cost £1.00 per minute.
mt...@hotmail.com


I found this all very annoying, for several reasons.
Firstly they have obviously lifted my email address from
my postings here
Secondly , they used a trick to entice me to their website
where they advertise a phoneline.
They are clearly underhand and devious and anyone who fell
for this and phoned the tipsters deserves to be ripped off.
They are so blatently untrustworthy that only a complete
moron would trust a word they had to say.
It just illistrates how shady and disreputable some of these so
called tipping lines can be
nick



Face

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Aug 29, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/29/99
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Dear Nick
If you require free tips goto http://www.face.mcmail.com I give
free Saturday tips which I update on Friday night, I also have paying tips
which I charge £10 per week if no tip wins then the £10 rolls over to the
next week, I have nearly 200 members and have had no complaints, I do not
try to trick people into going to my site, if you had a £1 bet on every
selection you would be showing a profit of £541.15 for 119 tips given.

regards FACE

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Roberto

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Aug 29, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/29/99
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and the result of nick's posting is another posting from a tipster!


Roger Standing

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Aug 29, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/29/99
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Couldn't one of the many prosperous tipsters that seem to be around start a
new ng uk.sport.tipping and leave us in peace?

Roger

Terry Collins

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Aug 29, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/29/99
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Roberto wrote in message <37c91...@newsread3.dircon.co.uk>...

>and the result of nick's posting is another posting from a tipster!
>
It made me smile and remember the bit from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid where the sherrif gets a crowd up to try and organise a posse and some
geezer tries to sell
the crowd a bicycle!

I still wouldn't trust a tipster though!

Terry

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Phil Love

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Sep 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/3/99
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I see this site you mention as now been stopped due to fraudulent use !!

Roger Standing

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Sep 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/3/99
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It seems that somebody has been a spoilsport!


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