How to spot a faked capper record on Whop

A capper is someone who sells picks. Their record, the list of picks and results, is the product's only evidence, which is why it is the thing most often dressed up. A Whop listing can show a clean record and a confident description. None of that is checked by the platform on your behalf. The checks below are the ones a buyer can do in a few minutes.

Seven signs

• The record is a screenshot. An image can be cropped, edited or built from a spreadsheet. A text post with a hash that you can recompute cannot be fudged the same way.
• There is a percentage and no count. "71% this month" could be five of seven. Ask for the number of picks and the prices.
• No prices. A win at -250 and a win at +180 are very different results. A record without odds does not show what the wins were worth.
• Units with no definition. If a unit is never stated, +20 units means nothing. See what a unit is.
• The period starts and stops at convenient points. A record that begins on a hot week and omits the weeks before it has been trimmed.
• Losses are rare in the visible history. At normal prices, a run of fifteen unbroken wins is unusual enough to explain.
• Old posts go missing. If last month's posts are gone and nobody can explain why, treat the record as incomplete.

The one check that settles most of them

Ask where each pick was published before kickoff in a form the seller cannot edit afterwards. A published hash is such a form: the seller fixes the pick as a fingerprint first, and reveals the pick and a secret salt afterwards, so any change to the fixed fields would produce a different fingerprint. If the seller has no equivalent, then no part of the record can be audited, and the right response is to treat it as a story. What makes a record checkable goes deeper.

What a checkable record looks like here

BetsBeats posts, in The record on Whop, a hash for each main pick before kickoff and the result after the final: verdict, score, hash and salt. Losses are posted with the same layout. You can check any day at betsbeats.com/verify. That does not prove the picks are good. It shows that, for the days you can see, the pick was fixed before kickoff and has not been changed since.

A note on screenshots of your own

The same weakness applies to the screenshots you take. A screenshot of a sealed post is useful to you because you know when you took it, but it is not proof to anyone else. That is fine, because you are not trying to convince anyone. You are trying to protect yourself from changing your own mind after the result. Date your screenshots in a file name, store them together, and compare them with the result post once the game is settled.

If you find a record on Whop that fails several of these checks, the practical step is to skip the purchase. There is nothing to be gained from arguing with a spreadsheet. Everything here is for adults aged 21 or over, and every pick can lose.