Online gambling "Pig Killing Bureau": 10,000 yuan to build 3 days online, using pornographic live broadcast to lure gambling
These gambling platforms use overseas servers to solicit customers through social software advertising, pornographic live broadcasts, and offline development of "agents". Some gambling platforms have more than 100,000 online gamblers. A promoter of a gambling platform said that these websites are "killing pigs", which can control winning or losing through the background.
Recently, many netizens complained that some gambling websites solicited customers to lure gambling, and even used pornographic live broadcasts to attract traffic. A reporter from the Beijing News searched a complaint platform and found that from August 1 to 20 alone, there were more than 90 complaints about "online gambling platforms" involving dozens of gambling websites and apps.
A reporter from the Beijing News found that these gambling platforms use overseas servers to solicit customers through social software advertisements, pornographic live broadcasts, and offline development of "agents". Some gambling platforms have more than 100,000 online gamblers.
A promoter of a gambling platform said that these websites are "killing pigs", which can control winning or losing through the background. And it only takes 3 days to build a gambling website or app. "The website charges 10,000 yuan and the app costs 50,000 yuan."
In recent years, public security departments have also continued to crack down on online gambling. From February 28 to June this year, within 3 months, public security agencies across the country cracked 257 cross-border gambling cases, arrested more than 11,500 criminal suspects, destroyed 368 gambling platforms, and found more than 229 billion yuan of funds involved.
Worked as part-time job and was lured into a gambling platform, losing all the money to buy a house in one year
From the initial cautious betting of 5 yuan and 10 yuan, after getting stuck in it, he took the recharged gold coins as "numbers" and threw out several thousand yuan. Mr. Cui from Inner Mongolia told the Beijing News that in less than a year, he had lost 290,000 yuan in savings on a gaming platform called "Five Million".
Mr. Cui is 40 years old and works in a private company in a banner in Inner Mongolia with a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan. At the beginning of 2019, he saw on WeChat that someone posted a part-time advertisement of "helping the platform brush traffic, 50 yuan per order". With the mentality of adding an income to the family, he added his WeChat friend.
Part-time content is to place bets on the betting app "Five Million". Mr. Cui tried to download the app and found that the process is not complicated. The other party will charge his registered account regularly, and he only needs to place bets in the game according to the amount given by the other party. If you operate for 1 hour a day, you can get a part-time fee of 50 yuan.
"Is there such a good thing?" Mr. Cui said that he easily earned more than 1,000 yuan in part-time fees in the first month, and his bets helped the other party earn tens of thousands of yuan. Mr. Cui, who never plays cards or buys lottery, is a little moved. In the part-time group formed by recruiters, he saw that the part-timers had recharged themselves, "making money almost every day."
The first time I charged 3,000 yuan, I lost it all in three days. "It's very unhappy in my heart, I want to get the money back." Mr. Cui recharged another 10,000 yuan, intending to get back the capital and place a big bet, but after winning a few hands, he quickly lost it all.
"The gambling thing hooked me like a hook. If I lose, I want to make a profit." Mr. Cui said, after a year of intermittent, he lost all his savings. "290,000 yuan, I planned to buy a suite and let my children go to school in the city, but now they are all gone."
On August 20, a reporter from the Beijing News logged in to the gaming platform named "Five Million" according to the website provided by Mr. Cui. After downloading the platform, the platform showed that the platform was still operating normally, but it had been renamed "Aile color".
There are various betting games such as lottery, video, chess, and sports on the platform. There are at least more than 10 games in each category, and a large number of players are betting on each game.
The reporter noted that in the platform activity column, there are also rebates such as sign-in courtesy and daily lottery draws. The rule is that only if the betting amount reaches 12888 yuan on that day, will you get a chance to draw. The "Love for Chinese Valentine's Day" activity requires that users use a bank card to recharge 50,000 yuan within the period of the activity and receive 5% of the "gift."
A reporter from the Beijing News found that there are many similar gaming websites. The reporter retrieved statistics on the Ju Complaint Platform. From August 1 to 20, there were more than 90 complaints about "gambling" on the platform, involving dozens of gambling websites and apps. The complainant disclosed that the amount lost was from 5,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan. 500,000 yuan.
Open pornographic live broadcasts to lure bets, bet 150,000 at a "table"
Since such gambling platforms are not compliant, they often use social software to post advertisements to solicit customers.
Mr. Zhou, 26, of Nanyang, Henan, was lured into the Macau casino gambling platform in social software last year. In more than half a year, with a monthly income of more than 2,000 yuan, he maxed out 6 credit cards, cashed out 200,000 yuan, charged them all into the gambling platform, and then lost all of them.
"At that time, I was in a madness, thinking that money is just a number." Mr. Zhou said that he has not been able to repay the loan so far, and he started looking for a job again after six months of quit gambling.
Recently, a reporter from the Beijing News found that there were hundreds of gambling games on the "Macau Entertainment City" platform where Mr. Zhou lost money. The platform has six recharge channels, including bank cards, WeChat, and Alipay, with rechargeable amounts ranging from 200 yuan to 5 million yuan.
For each game, the bet amount varies. Among them, "Sexy Baccarat" can bet with a minimum of two yuan and a maximum of 10,000 yuan per hand. There are more than 10 "gambling tables" in the three game rooms at the same time. The page shows that the smallest table also has more than 70 players participating, and the "gaming table" with the largest number of players and betting amount has more than 2,000 people at the same time. Place a bet, and the total bet amount is more than 150,000 yuan.
Mr. Zhou said that if the number of online players displayed on the platform is true, the platform will have at least tens of thousands of online players every day. The customer service of "Macau Casino" confirmed Mr. Zhou's guess to the Beijing News reporter, "Our platform has been online for 8 years and we are all real players. There are tens of thousands of real players participating every day."
On August 20, according to clues provided by the complainant, a reporter from the Beijing News downloaded and entered a gambling app called "Rose". The page shows that there are more than 100,000 online players in the chess category alone.
Different from other gambling platforms, in the "rose" app, in addition to gambling games, there are also pornographic live content. Approximately 30 anchors broadcast live online, with tens of thousands of viewers.
In a live broadcast room watched by 56,000 people, the female anchor wears sexy underwear, performs large-scale actions, and constantly interacts with the audience in vulgar language to induce rewards. The amount of gifts ranges from 0.1 yuan to 1988 yuan. .
The Beijing News reporter observed that pornographic live broadcasts were conducted on the platform almost 24 hours a day, and popular anchors could get a reward of 10,000 yuan a day. On the live screen, the opening information of the betting game and the news of the players' bets are simultaneously broadcast.
A gambling platform builder told the Beijing News reporter that pornographic live streaming is an emerging channel for gambling websites to entice viewers to participate in gambling, and gamblers can also use recharged money to reward anchors.
In addition, a person who has worked as a gambling platform promotion specialist introduced that pornographic websites are also a major source of traffic for gambling platforms. Some large gambling platforms have even built a one-stop "color net-gaming" platform to divert each other. .
"MLM-style" promotion, agent soliciting recharge for profit
The Beijing News reporter's investigation found that in addition to relying on pornographic live broadcasts, most gambling platforms will develop "agents" to attract customers by developing offline and recharge rebates.
The above-mentioned "Rose" platform page shows that gamblers can win three-thousandths of the betting turnover by wooing others to register and recharge. On the "Macau Entertainment City" platform, the advertisement of "Hot Recruitment of Agents, Dreams of Making One Million a Month Come True" appeared on the homepage.
A gambling platform called "Rakuten" divides the amount of gamblers' recharge into 9 levels, including bronze, silver, gold, star diamond, and ace. The higher the recharge amount, the higher the commission for the promoter. The platform also introduces the promotion methods of "how to become a boss" on the page: add WeChat and QQ groups to post messages in batches; use forums and post bars to post promotion; find various self-media, Weibo celebrities, and websites with traffic Cast advertising, etc.
An "agent" of a gambling platform told reporters that starting from 2019, he became an agent of the "Parisian" gambling platform. In the early days, he could get 40% rebate for soliciting recharges. That is to say, if gamblers recharge 10,000 yuan, he The commission can be 4,000 yuan. Half a year later, because of his good performance, the family raised his rebate from 40% to 50%.
The background data sent by the agent to the Beijing News reporter showed that he has developed 8 agents to help him pull gamblers. "The agents below can also develop agents. I also have homes above, top-level agents, and can get at least 70% of the rebate." The agent said that in addition to developing offline, he has to get a "big family." Last year he brought a gambler to the platform to participate in the gambling, and the other party lost 500,000 yuan.
Being the "agent" of the gambling platform has become a means of making money for many people. A person who had participated in casino operations in Macau introduced to the Beijing News that in order to become the top agent of the platform, he still needs to pay the platform. In August this year, he paid 800,000 yuan to a gambling platform to get the top agent. Permissions.
Backstage screenshot of gambling website: Pre-set draws and set odds. Photo courtesy of respondents
10,000 yuan, 3 days to build a website, background control wins and loses
"With such a high rebate, the platform will definitely'kill the pig'." The above agent told the Beijing News reporter that some gambling platforms make money by calculating odds, while others directly control winning or losing.
A reporter from the Beijing News undercover entered a social group of a “gambling website”. A gambling website builder who claimed to be a company in the Philippines sent several links to the website “built by his own company”, including the aforementioned Inner Mongolian Mr. Cui. 290,000 yuan of betting platform.
He revealed to reporters that the cost of building a gambling website is only 10,000 yuan. If you want to embed live licensing and pornographic live broadcasts into the site, the price ranges from 20,000 to 50,000 yuan, and it only costs 3 yuan from construction to online operation. day. If a gambling website is to be made into an app, an additional 3,000 yuan is required.
In addition to helping with the construction, the other party also said that the company can preset lottery draws and control wins and losses in the background. Another builder in the group also said that according to the odds calculated by the platform, the guests will lose if they play for a long time. "You can kill as you say."
The Beijing News reporter noted that such gambling websites have been repeatedly investigated and dealt with. In 2019, the Ministry of Public Security supervised and handled more than 7,200 criminal online gambling cases, arrested 25,000 criminal suspects, and seized and frozen more than 18 billion yuan of funds involved in gambling. At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Public Security also launched a special rectification action.
According to the official website of the Ministry of Public Security, since the deployment of a special meeting on combating cross-border gambling on February 28, the Ministry of Public Security has deployed public security agencies across the country to act quickly. As of June, local public security agencies have detected 257 cross-border gambling cases and arrested criminal suspects. More than 11,500; 368 gambling platforms and 148 technical teams were destroyed, and 187 payment platforms and underground banks were destroyed.
In July of this year, the Jiulongpo District Bureau of Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a message on cracking down on cross-border online gambling. It was mentioned that online online gambling is often set up by bookmakers, using pre-calculated odds, internal and external collusion, and app plug-ins. And other means, so that participants "every gambling will lose."
"Kill the big, pay the small," and "backstage cheating" are common routines on cross-border online gambling platforms. Criminals modify the winning rate through the background, and win or lose depends on computer control. Some gamblers can see that other players win money on the platform, but they don't know that it is the illusion of winning money disguised and created by the backstage through technical means.
Reporter Cheng Yalong