- 链接：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BwjRrioCNg
Football Index was a betting firm that branded itself "the football stock market". In March 2021, it announced it was going into administration. It may go down as the biggest scandal in British betting history, losing its customers tens of millions of pounds in what has been labelled a potential Ponzi scheme. Having had some of my own money in there, I wanted to find out, how did it come to this?
Welcome to the most expensive YouTube video I will probably ever make. We're taking a deep dive into how Football Index managed to get such a strong foothold in the market, making insane profits for some customers before it all fell apart. All of this with the Gambling Commission's approval.
If you are personally affected by the Football Index scandal:
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:30 The birth of Football Index
2:57 Play down risk, get more money
4:37 Create a social phenomenon
6:01 Create a sense of legitimacy
7:08 Promise wild returns
10:22 Discredit the criticism
12:33 Run off into the sunset
13:44 Conclusion
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