7 Ways To Spot Bad (Or Dishonest) Tipsters

Here at SureWin we like to be as transparent as possible about our tipsters and services. Unfortunately though there are some in the industry who are far less trustworthy. Here are 7 ways you can spot a tipster who shouldn’t be trusted.

There Is No Mention Of ROI

For those that don’t know, ROI stands for Return On Investment. Any kind of positive ROI means a profit has been made, any kind of negative ROI means a loss has been made.

So what makes ROI so important? Well it gives context to profit figures.

Any tipster can brag about having made 250 points profit last month but there is no context to that and in some cases a tipster who made 20 points profit last month is actually performing better. This is because ROI takes stakes into account, as well as profit.

That tipster who claimed to have made 250 points profit might have staked 2000 points to make that profit. That would make their ROI 12.5%. Decent enough but perhaps not as great as was implied by the profit of 250 points.

Conversely that tipster who made 20 points profit might have only staked 50 points to generate that profit. That would give them an ROI of 40% meaning a lot less risk has been taken to make that profit compared to the tipster who had an ROI of 12.5%.

The best way to compare one tipster with another is to look at their ROI as at the end of the day, this shows how much profit they are making relative to how much they are staking. A tipster might be claiming 1000 points profit in a year but if that is an ROI of just 3% then after fees and perhaps not getting top price on every bet it’s unlikely the followers are actually making any money.

On SureWin the ROI for all tipsters is made clear on every page relating to tipsters or tipster performance.

They Constantly Boast About Returns In Monetary Amounts

Applying a monetary amount to points returns can be useful - we even do it on SureWin. However it does have to be realistic.

Some tipsters will tell you how much profit you’d have made if you staked £10 per point, £20 per point, even £50 per point. But if they are tipping say 30 points worth of bets a day who is really staking £1,500 on these tips, betting £50 per point, to win this made up monetary return? The answer to that is no one.

If they were really betting these unrealistic amounts one bad week could end up costing the member £10k+, and during a winning run their bookie accounts would all be heavily restricted very quickly.

This is another reason that Return On Investment is the overriding metric most tipsters should be measured upon.

There Are No Reviews Or Testimonials

Every tipster wants to be told how good they are and they’ll be keen to share any positive reviews or testimonials on their website and/or social media pages.

If a tipster doesn’t seem to have any reviews or testimonials that is a clear warning sign - it means they haven’t even bothered to make any up!

We have hundreds of testimonials for our tipsters on SureWin and we certainly wouldn’t have had the energy to write that many fake ones!

The Stakes On Their Betslips Are Huge

You might see tipsters on social media bragging about big winners with winning slips that have huge stakes on them.

If anyone has even one winner at odds of 3/1+ with a stake of more than £500 their accounts are going to be restricted by the bookies very quickly.

So if a tipster is repeatedly showing winning slips with massive stakes on then there is a 99.9% chance they are photoshopped slips which clearly makes that tipster untrustworthy and best avoided.

They Claim ‘Info’ On A Regular Basis

Tipsters who are constantly claiming ‘info’ are best avoided.

Firstly most of them are just making it up and tipping market movers and/or very short prices as supposed info. Many punters get sucked into the lure of ‘info’ as they think it is guaranteed winners but the reality is very different.

Many of these so called info tipsters are also just recycling some of the quotes from our services Trainers Quotes and From The Stables. This information does genuinely come from the trainers direct to us but the trainers are never telling us “this one will win” because the trainer never really knows this.

We’ve had to ban several ‘customers’ from these services who were simply selling our information on as their own ‘info’ service.

They Try To Direct You To Links For Bookmakers

Generally speaking, any bookmaker link posted is going to be an affiliate link. Bookmaker affiliates make money from the losses of any customers they refer.

So why would a tipster, who is supposed to be helping people take money from the bookie, want to get a piece of the bookie’s profits?

The answer to this is they either know their tips aren’t profitable to follow, or even worse, they are actively trying to get their followers to lose money so they can profit through their affiliate deals with the bookies.

At SureWin we only mention the bookies by name and don’t send any traffic direct to the bookies. We want our followers to be winning as much money as possible from the bookies and even during any losing periods we are not benefitting from any of those losses.

They Have New Social Media Accounts Full Of Fake Followers

You’ll see lots of adverts for tipsters that seem a bit too good to be true.

Firstly it’s worth clicking on the account or social media page and seeing how long ago those pages were created, or how many times they have changed the page name. Pages that are 6 months old or have recently changed names shouldn’t fill you with confidence about following them.

You might be impressed that they have thousands of followers but it is very easy to buy followers. Take a look at the names that are following them and you’ll probably find lots of foreign sounding names - a sure sign they’ve been buying followers.

And finally take a look at what sort of engagement they’ve been getting with their social media posts. If they’ve got thousands of followers why is no one interacting with their posts? If there are just a few likes or comments then check out who is making them and be wary of profiles with fake sounding names and profile pictures that don’t have a real photo of a person. Most interaction is probably being carried out using dummy accounts from the tipsters themselves.

So there you have it. These are the main things to look out for when on the hunt for a new tipster.

At SureWin we’re always on the look out for up and coming tipsters who would benefit our customers. So if you follow a tipster who isn’t on SureWin who you think offers an excellent service then please contact us admin@surewin.co.uk to give us more details about the tipster in question and we’ll see if we can bring them on board.