{"id":134656,"date":"2026-07-24T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/134656\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:21:13","slug":"report-raises-seven-betting-irregularity-notices-from-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/134656\/","title":{"rendered":"Report raises seven betting irregularity notices from World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

International advisory firm Group of Copenhagen has \u201craised seven notices relating to possible match manipulation from potential betting<\/a> irregularities identified in the 2026 men\u2019s World Cup,\u201d according to Millar & Whitehead of THE ATHLETIC. The full report has not yet been published, but a summary of its conclusions has been\u202freleased by the Council of Europe.\u202fSources noted the in-game notices to raise potential irregularities were: <\/p>\n

The red card shown to South Africa MF Themba Zwane in the 84th minute of his side\u2019s tournament-opening game against Mexico.Prediction market Polymarket receiving $4.8M on markets \u201cfor Spain not to defeat Cape Verde in their group-stage game,\u201d which ended in a goalless draw.The \u201cthree-and-a-half-minute delay from the video assistant referee (VAR) team to disallow a goal\u201d from Spain F Ferran Torres in its 4-0 win over Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Sources noted that the findings also detailed how Polymarket \u201copened a market on July 2 asking, \u2018Will Folarin Balogun play against Belgium?\u2019\u201d — the same day the USMNT F was shown a red card against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Round of 32. Sources noted that the Group of Copenhagen\u2019s report said that \u201cno other such markets were opened for the other 14 players who were shown a red card during the tournament — none of whom had bans suspended.\u201d The Group of Copenhagen\u2019s operation was conducted in coordination with FIFA\u2019s Integrity Task Force, which on Tuesday published findings saying \u201cthat \u2018no suspicious betting activity or indications of match manipulation in connection with any fixture\u2019 had been identified across the entirety of the competition.\u201d On Wednesday, however, the Group of Copenhagen \u201cdetailed that seven \u2018yellow notices\u2019 were raised within its own monitoring\u201d (THE ATHLETIC, 7\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n

LOOK OUT FOR SCAMMERS: In Boston, Aaron Pressman wrote cybercriminals during the World Cup got \u201ccreative to steal from … fans who just wanted to buy their favorite teams\u2019 merchandise.\u201d In one case, online ads for Adidas\u2019s blue and green World Cup soccer cleats \u201clooked legitimate — because they were.\u201d But when unsuspecting consumers clicked on the pictured $270 shoes, they \u201cended up on the sites of criminal hackers instead of the e-commerce stores that placed the ads.\u201d The hackers \u201cinfiltrated the websites of the stores and redirected consumers\u2019 clicks to their own look-alike site\u201d then \u201cstole payments for cleats and other merch — which were obviously never delivered — and sold consumers\u2019 credit card numbers and personal information on the dark web.\u201d The \u201ccrooks not only hacked into the stores, they also hoodwinked web providers to host their fake sites, complete with payment processing and merchant accounts with credit card companies.\u201d The thieves were also \u201cusing AI in World Cup scams,\u201d utilizing \u201cbasic, free AI chat apps to help craft more convincing fake emails and social media posts and translate their pitches into different languages\u201d (BOSTON GLOBE, 7\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International advisory firm Group of Copenhagen has \u201craised seven notices relating to possible match manipulation from potential betting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[108,14218,133,10778],"class_list":["post-134656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-copenhagen","tag-copenhagen","tag-gambling","tag-soccer","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116974930224962520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}