Polymarket reportedly paid people to post fake videos of themselves placing bets

据报道，Polymarket 曾付费雇人发布虚假投注视频

According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselves placing fake bets and celebrating fake wins on social media. WSJ identified over 1,100 deceptive clips and talked to creators who, despite not stating as such in their videos, confirmed the company paid them to create the clips.

根据《华尔街日报》的一项调查，Polymarket 一直在付费雇人拍摄自己进行虚假投注并在社交媒体上庆祝虚假胜利的视频。《华尔街日报》识别出了超过 1,100 段此类欺骗性视频，并采访了相关创作者。尽管这些创作者在视频中并未说明，但他们证实了该公司确实付费让他们制作了这些视频。

The videos posted on social media look legit at first, but there are subtle clues that betray them as fraudulent. For instance, when examined closely, one clip shows someone visiting “poiymarket.com” rather than polymarket.com. According to the Journal’s investigation, none of the bets placed in the over 1,100 videos it reviewed were real. In 118 videos, the creators were shown reacting to winning bets totaling almost $900,000. But in reality, those bets would have lost $166,000.

这些发布在社交媒体上的视频起初看起来很真实，但其中存在一些暴露其欺诈性质的细微线索。例如，仔细观察会发现，其中一段视频显示有人访问的是“poiymarket.com”而非 polymarket.com。根据《华尔街日报》的调查，其审查的 1,100 多段视频中，没有任何一笔投注是真实的。在 118 段视频中，创作者表现出对总计近 90 万美元的投注获胜感到兴奋，但实际上，这些投注总共会亏损 16.6 万美元。

Since the Journal started asking questions, many creators have scrubbed the videos from their accounts, and Polymarket has taken down sites like “poiymarket” which were used as part of the ploy.

自《华尔街日报》开始介入调查以来，许多创作者已经从其账户中删除了这些视频，而 Polymarket 也已关闭了诸如“poiymarket”等被用作该骗局一部分的网站。