That is the clear message from the International Centre for Sports Security (ICSS), the not-for-profit organisation set up in Qatar 16 months ago with a mission to drive out the criminals.

The ICSS chose London 2012 to hold the latest in several briefings designed to get its point across about the dangers of what it believes is becoming an epidemic.

To press home its point, the organisation produced video coverage of what reporters were assured was secretly taped live recordings of Asian fixers in operation.

"Every country does it," one of the alleged criminals is heard to say.

"We can't just be soccer players any more – we need to be smart.

"Let them score a couple of goals in the second half – don't tell anyone."

After the financial incentives were discussed, the fixer was asked: "What if they catch us?"

Mohammed Hanzab (centre) has warned of the dangers of a global match-fixing epidemic

His response was: "How can they catch us if they don't know what we did?"

ICSS President Mohammed Hanzab, who has gathered together a number of world experts in their field, said the video showed how serious the problem was.

"It should be frightening to anyone who loves sport, a wake-up call to all of us," Hanzab said.

"These types of revelations have become a flood.

"International sport is under unprecedented attack and together we must do something about it."

However laudable the ICSS' goals, it has no legally supported police authority to make arrests and undertake property searches, and, as such, fulfilling its ambitions will take some doing.

"It won't be achieved overnight – it's a long-term process," admitted Lord John Stevens, the former British police supremo who has been involved in a number of sports corruption cases and is one of the ICSS' key advisers.

"It will have to involve sports federations and international policing agencies."

Lord John Stevens serves as chairman of the ICSS advisory board

Chris Eaton, the ICSS director of sports security, insisted the video was genuine and those featured were "real criminals fixing sport who are arrogant and dangerous".

Although there have been some successes, such as the ongoing sanctions in Italy, Eaton suggested there was too much apathy at Government level when it came to tackling the issue and the ICSS was going through the mechanics to try and prevent fraud.

"What is lacking is the collective commitment of governments to appreciate the global gravity of the problem and to respond," he said.

"International organised crime is having a cash fist.

"This is a trillion dollar industry and [it] cries out for limits and control."

Antonio Conte (right), coach of Juventus, was recently banned for 10 months following an investigation into football match-fixing in Italy

Eaton refused to comment further on his startling revelations last week that a World Cup finals game in 2010 may have been fixed, an allegation fiercely denied by FIFA, world football's governing body.

But he declared: "FIFA is doing a lot in the field of integrity... [but] there is lot more that needs to be done, not just in football but other sports.

"Unmistakably this is an acutely global problem and needs global solutions.

"Match-fixing has been going on for many years but is now almost out of control.

"Fixing sports results is endemic in some areas and more deeply entrenched than some have the courage to acknowledge."

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