The person in the case claimed that the online shopping platform launched by the company is an innovative e-commerce marketing model that conducts physical sales, but only uses "lottery" to stimulate customer consumption——
Gambling website wearing an online shopping platform "vest"
Comics/Yao Wen
On January 25, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued the “Regulations on the Handling of Cybercrime Cases by the People’s Procuratorate” and 11 typical cases of procuratorial organs advancing cyberspace governance. The case of people opening a casino" was selected.
"This case was listed as a special operation of the Ministry of Public Security's'Jingwang 2018' special operation. It was prosecuted in January 2019 and judged that month. Subsequently, similar cases began to appear in various places, and the procuratorial organs and public security organs in other regions continued to learn from us. ', to communicate and discuss professional issues in case handling.” Recalling the case sponsored two years ago, the prosecutor handling the case frankly said, “The “originator” of this new type of crime can be brought to justice, and it will be helpful for handling similar cases. Experience, it's an honor!"
camouflage
In contact with Zhang Mouyong in the process of handling the case, one can feel that this person has a lively brain and a good way of speaking.
"I started my business when I was in my early 20s and tried many online shopping mall projects." Zhang Mouyong, born in the 90s, has been groping for many years in the field of e-commerce.
Because he can be said to be good at using his brain, he soon had a group of employees who had sincerely followed since the beginning of his business, and established Xiamen Chongyi Investment Consulting Co., Ltd.
The company has an operation center, investment promotion department, finance department, planning department, personnel department, etc., and another business department, namely the first market, the second market, the third market, and the eighth department, which look decent.
"In the first five or six years, several e-commerce projects did not show any improvement, were tepid, and did not make much money. Since money is not profitable, you have to think about'innovation', which is actually through online shopping. Gambling in the name of, this was the end of June 2018 to launch the'E-Tao Warehouse' App." Zhang Mouyong said that the so-called "online shopping platform" specializes in the sale of tea, wine, jade and other commodities.
Jade, red wine, etc. are all high-premium items, and the selling price on the platform is astonishingly high, tens of thousands of dollars at every turn.
What's more suspicious is that after a customer places an order on the online platform, the customer service will recommend the customer to continue the "repurchase upgrade" with the purchased goods-that is, by betting on the size, the lottery results of the "Chongqing 时时彩" will be determined simultaneously Win or lose, draw every 5 to 10 minutes. If the customer wins the bet, they can withdraw 1.6 times the "repurchase" amount of the purchased goods. If they lose, they can get the purchased goods but cannot return the goods.
This "innovative online shopping platform" has become the company's successful "transformation".
Within two months of operation, it attracted customers to place orders for more than 8.1 million yuan.
within Temptation
What is the magic of the platform, which can attract a lot of fans in a short time?
"Brother, my name is Weiwei, add a friend?" The bored Amin suddenly received a friend request.
Looking at the other's head, she is a young and beautiful woman.
Within a few days, Amin and "Weiwei" had become siblings, and the two of them humbled each other every day.
"Brother, accept the red envelope. I have made a small amount of money these days, and come to honor you!" Amin asked curiously, only to know that "Weiwei" was buying something on an app called "E-Tao Warehouse". Made money.
"Everything is bought everywhere. Why don't you try this? I may receive a big red envelope from my brother in a few days..." Under the encouragement of "Weiwei", Amin quickly downloaded the software, and then Like a demon, from 10 in the morning to 2 in the morning, "shopping" with my mobile phone.
At first, it was just a few hundred yuan to place an order. Later, some people added Amin as a friend on the grounds of "knowing the loopholes in the shopping platform and being able to know the lottery data in advance", packing tickets to make Amin make a lot of money.
Seeing that the first few orders only win or not, in order to return Ben Amin's order amount from a few hundred yuan to a few thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan... In less than a month, 120,000 yuan has gone and never returned.
There are many people who are deeply "poisoned" like Amin.
Xiaoyuan also ran into her intimate "sister" and became a customer of the mall under her strong recommendation.
Xiaoyuan's madness is worse than Amin's.
During the two weeks he spent in the mall, he frequently placed orders, and even once placed an order every 10 minutes within 8 hours. On that day, he bought more than 100 bottles of Chilean red wine worth about 10,000 yuan in dozens of times. Every time I participated in the "repurchase" without exception, the final loss was millions of yuan...
Secret
In fact, "Viwei" are all big guys, "repurchase" is essentially a gambling ratio. From beautiful encounters to the inside story of the draw, everything is "arranged."
Those chatting with customers are all employees of the company's business department.
On the first day they joined the company, they received training from the company to master a set of skills.
After taking up the job, the company issued the pre-opened chat job number. These big men began to pretend to be women, starting with sweet talks, and step by step attracted by "shopping to make money", "the mall has repurchase activities" and other reasons. Customers go to the mall to shop and participate in gambling.
Big shoppers like Xiaoyuan and Amin are usually called high-quality customers, and they are the company's focus on maintaining.
For the "Xiaoyuan", the company specially set up an arbitrage group to attack them.
After the team members became their friends, they claimed to know the loopholes in the app, or could get the lottery results in advance, pretending to offer paid help, using the gambler mentality of the "Xiao Yuan" to make them want to stop, and even bet on their entire net worth.
In fact, you can check the market price of things in the mall. Most of them are tens of hundreds of dollars of cheap items, but the price is 10 to 40 times the original price. "Repurchase" is not difficult to see that the essence is gambling. Gambling website.
"Assume that two items with a purchase price of 10 yuan each are sold at 100 yuan in a shopping mall. Customers buy two items for 200 yuan and both participate in the bet. When the probability of winning or losing is 50-50, one win is 1.6 With 160 yuan in double odds, the platform still made a profit after losing 10 yuan in one time. The company makes money for sure.” Zhang Mouyong confessed: “The customers of the mall understand this truth too.”
"Malls are just innovating the model, in fact they still sell goods."
"Regarding the repurchase model of bet size, it is just a lottery to stimulate consumption."
"The platform sells physical goods, so it is not a gambling platform."
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When the platform was seized, all 25 suspects refused to plead guilty.
The procuratorial organs, through the screening of platform promotion methods, operating models, profit methods, etc., determined in accordance with the law that the mobile App platform built by Zhang Mouyong and others did not conform to the normal operating methods of legally selling goods for profit, and its essence was the "online mall". Pretender", soliciting gamblers to conduct online gambling activities.
In the end, the court sentenced Zhang Mouyong and other 25 defendants to imprisonment ranging from three years and eight months to four months in detention for the crime of opening a casino, and fined them.