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Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

The Wall Street Journal reports that Polymarket paid at least 10 influencers over the past several months to post videos in which they pretended to win hundreds...

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Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

Polymarket paid influencers to film fake $900K winning bets; 70% of 1,105 videos reviewed were fabricated on cloned sites. This fraud—plus $40M arbitrage extraction and 25% wash trading—signals governance failures that challenge enterprise DeFi confidence and market legitimacy.

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domenica 21 giugno 2026·theverge.com
That viral clip you saw of someone winning big on Polymarket was probably fake
Polymaket paid people to post videos of them winning $900k, but in reality they would have lost $166k.
domenica 21 giugno 2026·techcrunch.com
Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets | TechCrunch
Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that were not real.

Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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That viral clip you saw of someone winning big on Polymarket was probably fake

Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets | TechCrunch

Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets | TechCrunch

Polymarket paid creators to stage fake winning bets on dummy sites: WSJ

Polymarket paid influencers to fake huge wins, WSJ reports

Did Polymarket advertise fake profitable bets?

WSJ: $1.9M in Fake Bets Propped Up Polymarket Creator Videos - "The Defiant"

Polymarket paid creators to stage fake winning bets on dummy sites: WSJ

Polymarket paid influencers to fake huge wins, WSJ reports

Polymarket: Angeblich seit Monaten irreführende Werbung von Influencern

Did Polymarket advertise fake profitable bets?

$1.9M in Fake Bets Drove Polymarket Hype: WSJ - Decrypt

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WSJ: $1.9M in Fake Bets Propped Up Polymarket Creator Videos - "The Defiant"

Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off