This post is for reference for the account promoting the
AdkinsBET sportsbook that appears to be scamming their clients. The service was launched here on November 17
th, 2020. Since then there have been six scam accusation. The first one, which was posted in December appears to have been solved. Between January 11 and January 16, 5 more appeared. Some DT members feel that the accusations bear merit, and have thus red-tagged the main
AdkinsBET account.
Here's a list of the scam accusations I've found on the board:
[SOLVED] Adkinsbet scammed me 66.3mbtadkinsbet.com scam 0.555 BTC! help!Adkinsbet.com PURE SCAM!SCAM!!! AdkinsBet scammed me for amount of 196 mBTC in completely blatant wayAdkinsbet .com scam 210mBTCAdkinsbet SCAMAnn Thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5290408.0Bitcointalk.org Profile Link:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2882335
But, this thread isn't so much meant to discuss the scam accusations. Each has it's own thread, and the accuracy of the accusations yours to evaluate. No, this thread is mostly about the accounts currently wearing the AdkinsBET signature and avatar.
The same day the Ann thread was posted, a signature campaign was launched:
Signature Campaign Thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5290386.0Spread Sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EPsU9S6tea_gJvYQPU0wcobnSLH5uFuaK8UhDG-FQ8Q/edit?usp=sharingBut apparently it only ran for one week. On the first day of the second week of the campaign the manager posted this announcement:
PSA:
Effective immediately this campaign has been put on Hold. Adkinsbet informed me today that they have been under extensive DDos attacks and as such they want to pause the campaign until they've been able to solve all the issues and secure the website. Hopefully you all understand and I apologize if this seems to come out a bit late.
I believe the campaign will continue from next week which means that all of you can who are currently in can take part then again, for now you can remove your Signature & Avatar though.
Despite the fact that the signature campaign ended after a week, and hasn't been active since, there are eleven high ranking accounts that continue to wear the AdkinsBET banners. Mind you that only two of these accounts were selected for the campaign, and the other nine have never been paid to advertise for AdkinsBET.
My suspicion is that all of these accounts (with the possible exception of
Savemore) are accounts that were purchased by AdkinsBET for the sole purpose of promoting the service. There seems to be a pattern with the accounts. Notice that most have had their passwords changed in August or October of 2020, just a few months before the service was announced. Most seem to have similar posting styles. And most have been active within the last week.
It seems quite odd to me that all these high ranking accounts would promote, for free, a service that has been found to have valid scam accusations. All of these peculiarities only bolster my suspicions. Only someone planning a scam would buy a bunch of high ranking (one green-trusted) alts with the intention of using them to promote his service. That alone seems shady enough for a red-tag.