Similarly to what some people did on other forums, I've decided to do publish one very important post to all bettors (especially high-rollers) visiting this forum in order to warn all of them of a large potential scamming group operating here.


Let's start by saying that me, and many of my contacts, who are serious people and big investors like myself, including people from various countries like Serbia, Croatia, Israel, Slovakia, Poland to begin with, have gotten to know one of the people who was advertising his services on this forum a while ago. He was supposed to offer his services for the Croatian football leagues to us, but eventually he began talking about fixed matches and how he is the 'connection' to some guys who actually fix tennis games, and since we got to trust him after a while and check him that he is reliable (as a tipster), we all decided to take this bet and in total we bet at least 50k euros (that I know of, he might have given it to other people) before the game in all possible ground-based and online bookies where we could take the bet. The odds on that bet dropped by over 0.5 within a few hours all over the web. The player that was supposed to throw the match (his close friend, and partner was her manager, allegedly, and the coach knew about it as well), actually won it in 2 easy sets. On Betfair about 100k was placed before the match on her loss, but as soon as the match started and odds were extremely high on her, some people jumped on it and very soon about 4 times more (400k) was placed on her win. Someone just wanted better odds. Well, I know who that someone is, and now, just like some other investors did in their case when the money was lost (although his issue is different but in general we're talking about the same guys here) I am about to publish all the details here for everyone to be aware of and notify us if they ever had anything to do with those people, so more big losses can be avoided.


Once again, everyone can wonder why we took the bet? We are aware it was a mistake, and I can say we consciously placed big money on it and even though that person promised us at least half the money back after the game was over and we suffered losses, we decided not to go and look for them in person even though we don't expect any money to be returned, as such a loss isn't big for our standards and we prefer to reveal the details in public, but we rather want to warn everyone else out there to stay away from these guys, or if they happened to have some similar situations with them, inform everyone else about it in here.


So, let's start with that thread that got everyone started in the first place.


http://forum.bettingadvice.com/showthread.php?t=63248 If the link is not allowed, let's say just it is from one other very large betting forum where the guy first wrote, you can get that from me by PM.


There, you will see a guy advertising himself as a tipster, he is about 19 years old only, not in any way experienced but he seemed knowledgable enough.


His details:


Name: Josip Lazeta (La˛eta)
Age: 19 (born March 19th, 1992)
Nationality: Croatian
City: Zrnovica (ˇrnovnica)
Postal code: 21251
Address: Don Rafaela Radice 30 (also number 60 on the same street is the alternate address)
Mobile number that he used (no longer active most of the time at least): +385989407844
Home number: +38521472287


Studies computer science in Split.


Email address (one of many) and MSN: jopa1903@hotmail.com
Skype name: josip.lazeta


Since he didn't have the money to pay back (and couldn't get it from the guy I will mention below), he went even further and tried to offer us some 'inside info' for free from Croatian lower leagues, like 2nd or so. Of course we knew by then he was a joke.


He guaranteed for his close friend who was supposed to be manager of some female tennis players, such are Ivana Lisjak, Zec-Peskiric, some Slovakian players, all from top 200-300, and with the deal with their coaches/parents, they were arranging matches allegedly. They all of course asked for some percentage after the bet would've been won, but in the end they took much more as you noticed.


Details about his connection and the guy who refused to pay back the money:


Name: Duje Pivcevic
Nationality: Croatian
City: Kastel Gomilica (near Split)
Address: Vukovarska 22


His activities:


-Sports management student at college Aspira in Split, Croatia
-Federal football referee for Croatian lower leagues (4th, might be even in the 2nd by now)
-Long time sports manager of players (details above)


Listed here: http://kondicija-rehabilitacija.com/...suradnici.html
Samples from few games he refereed at (Pakostane-Rudar, croatian 4th division): http://www.zadarskilist.hr/clanci/12...lova-pakostana
(Zmaj-Velebit, croatian 3rd division): http://www.markopolosport.net/index....news&Itemid=50


He can also be found on Hajduk's Poljud stadium on Thursdays usually between 6-7PM when he has meetings with other refs, at least that is how it was last season, now since he has been moved to a higher division, meetings might be at another time.


Many of other investors that got involved in this and lost money are also members of this forum, and I can ask them to write here with no problem. Also, Josip kept promising at least 4-5K but after he paid 1K after the match, he disappared. He sent that money from MB address of a guy named Ivan Ermut, so do keep out for that name as well.


So, the money is not an issue, this happened about 6 months ago, but we have the necessary proofs to take this even to WTA or whoever is in charge of such stuff, to take these guys down and easily get them to jail in Croatia, including betting slips, email conversations, text messages, but for now we will just keep it at this forum to serve to others as a big warning.


Feel free to provide feedback.