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Review: Tony Simmons

A reader tells me:

“I got a call on my mobile phone from him telling me that he was a good friend of Victor Chandler and that he received good inside information. However he wanted odds to £500.”

My reader was not at all hoodwinked.

“No way I said, I dont know you from Adam. He gave me the name of the horse which won and he then constantly pestered me for money, even threatened to bring in people who collect money for him. As i had not agreed to place anything on the horse i ignored his calls and for the moment all is quiet.”

A few weeks ago I got another email about Tony. At first I didn’t realise it was the same Tony Simmons because this reader says he has a ‘d’ at the end of his surname. But after hearing the full story, I realised the pattern of behaviour was exactly the same. He rang up another one of my readers, with the classic spiel about inside contacts. Again, my reader said ‘No way’. And again Simmons (or Simmonds!) offered a ‘dead cert’ tip. It was a freebie tip on the condition that my reader also placed a £50 bet for him at the same time.

My reader says:”I did £50 for him and the same for me. It came in at 7/1. I sent him £350 in cash to his address in Worthing.”

Simmons then wanted £500 cash to play with for the next 10 races. To prove his worth, he tipped another ‘dead cert’. It romped home at 9/1. From this my reader made another £560.

The next move Simmons made was to ask for an extra £250 to pay off his ‘insider’, who was apparently getting jittery. So on and on it went.

Thing is, my reader didn’t end up out of pocket. He broke even from the whole affair. But of course Simmons had taken pretty much all of his winnings without risking any of his own money.

I’m sure there were other people he rang whose ‘dead cert’ bets lost and WERE out of pocket – and damned furious about it too I imagine.

My advice is to ignore anyone who rings you out of the blue, even if they say you’ve been referred by someone you know.

This especially goes for share tipsters and betting tipsters. Boiler room frauds are on the increase. And this economic situation is bringing the snakes out of the long grass. So be careful!

Posted by Sophie on November 21, 2010. Filed under Betting & Gambling Opportunities,Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry