Quote of the Day

“Unlike the corrupt practices referenced by those diplomats in Sofia, the actual result of a sports game has become semantic to cyber-criminals. There is no need to fix a game, when you can dupe a gambler in to betting with your site. If the gambler makes a losing bet, he loses what he wagered. That’s gambling. But if he wins the bet, cyber-criminals don’t care. They can charge an extortionate percentage of the win to make the pay-out, or refuse to pay-out completely. Match-fixing becomes irrelevant when the criminal just takes your winnings anyway.”—attorney Nick Wooldridge, on match-fixing in Eastern Europe.