China News Service, Beijing, March 21st (Guo Chaokai, Zhang Ziyang) In June 2020, the Nanchang Public Security Bureau of Jiangxi Province successfully cracked a huge cross-border online gambling case after nearly a year of coordinated operations, involving tens of billions of yuan in gambling funds. The source of this case came from a popular movie-"The Wandering Earth".
The pirated film and television resource network of "BT Movie Paradise" not only has a large number of pirated film and television resources, but also intensively implants the domain name of a cross-border gambling website in the movie clips it provides.
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Pirated movies lead to genuine gamblers, and gambling websites show strange operations
To say that the hottest movie of 2019, "The Wandering Earth" is definitely indispensable. It turned out to be the box office of major theaters in one fell swoop, and "The Wandering Ball" has also become the talk of the streets.
Pirates will naturally not let go of such a hot movie. In February 2019, the Public Security Bureau of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province began to track down the pirated resources of "The Wandering Earth", a pirated film and television resource network called "BT Movie Paradise" Get into the sight of the police.
According to investigations, the website not only has a large number of pirated film and television resources, but also intensively implants the domain name of a cross-border gambling website in the movie clips it provides. The domain name and related advertising slogans are cyclically played in the movie in the form of subtitles.
In the face of such "unkind" behavior, the police have only one word: investigation.
Fang Minghui, deputy head of the Internet Security Detachment of the Public Security Bureau of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, who was in charge of investigating the case, recalled, “We followed up and found that a suspect Huang had been in contact with overseas gambling companies for a long time. On the one hand, he made website traffic and waited for website traffic. After it was done, he sold it to gambling websites. On the other hand, he uploaded some illegal film and television videos, and planted some gambling website advertisements in the film and television videos to induce Internet users to click on registration and participate in cross-border online gambling.
Stealing movie resources to spread has violated the creator’s intellectual property rights, and has also planted a large number of gambling website advertisements to commit multiple crimes.
This wave of operations is simply crazy "testing the waters" in the illegal zone.
Upon detecting that there may be a larger criminal network behind the infringing website, the Party Committee of Nanchang Public Security Bureau attached great importance to it and immediately mobilized elite police to set up a task force to tackle the tough problem.
In this investigation, it is necessary to follow the vines and to remove the roots.
In the crackdown of this case, traffic service providers who promoted gambling websites, technical service providers who accelerated services, and payment service providers who were responsible for fund transfer were all eliminated one by one.
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Gold diggers go to sea incarnate crime and beat workers, gambling freedom with their youth
After receiving instructions for joint operations, the Public Security Bureau of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province gathered elites from various departments to proceed simultaneously from personnel research and judgment and fund analysis.
Huang Bin, a police officer from the Donghu Branch of Nanchang City, who specifically investigated the case, recalled, “A lot of information meets every day, often discussing cases together in order to achieve information sharing. Two months later, he finally revealed the identity of an executive of the gambling group. , And then captured him in the country."
Has already achieved the position of the top of the gambling website, will it bring a lot of clues?
It was thought that the arrest of the criminal would become the key key to the investigation of the case. I didn't expect that this key would only open one of the links in the criminal chain, but the glimpse of the criminals was enough to expose the extreme cunningness of the criminals.
"Overseas gambling groups have a very strict organizational structure. They never use their real names. They all use aliases, and even some corresponding, real, and such social media. They can’t add to each other. They can’t use it during working hours. Do some chatting or other operations on your personal mobile phone."
The captured executive revealed very little information, and the case-handling personnel can only continue to shed light on the matter and investigate the matter a little bit in every detail.
"After we caught him, we conducted a detailed inspection. We found that there was a person named Xuan among his related persons, and then collided with our previous information. Seizing the limited clues, we immediately rushed to Liaoning Province Fushun City and Shenyang City further confirmed the identity of'Xuan' through three days of work, and then arrested another senior executive of the gambling group in Shenyang."
The second, the third, the fourth... In the continuous follow-up investigations, it was not until the executives of the fifth gambling website were arrested that the case had a major turnaround!
After the interrogation of the fifth executive, the framework of the gambling website became clear, and the subsequent investigations entered the fast lane.
"We spent nearly two months researching and judging a lot of information about their organization, funding, etc. Two months later, when the time was right, we closed the net. We focused on arresting their team leaders and staff. After the capture, they confessed to the facts of online gambling crimes.” Luo Jian, deputy director of the Donghu Branch of the Nanchang City Public Security Bureau, Jiangxi Province, recalled the entire process of research and judgment, emphasizing the collection of criminal evidence and personnel connections. Seventeen important leaders have been arrested in the online gambling case. In the face of conclusive evidence, all suspects confessed.
This group of overseas gold diggers who became "criminal beating workers" were arrested one by one in accordance with the law.
According to one of the website executives who was arrested and imprisoned, Liu Mou explained that the loss of freedom has happened since contact with gambling websites.
Some of these people were deceived by false recruitment information with high salaries abroad. After arriving in the local area, their passports were confiscated, their freedom was restricted, and they began to engage in illegal and criminal activities for criminal groups such as cross-border gambling and telecommunications fraud.
Others have dreams of getting rich and gold rushing overseas to engage in illegal activities and become part of criminals. Faced with the temptation of money, they try to trade their youth for freedom.
In the end, financial freedom was not realized, but personal freedom was lost early.
After investigation, the gambling website is headquartered in Southeast Asia and has nearly 200 employees. It has created 6 domestic gambling websites that specifically organize gambling by people in China through the Internet.
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The entire chain of gambling websites collapsed
"The case used an inconspicuous pirated movie promotion link, stripped the cocoon, penetrated layer by layer, expanded and dug out a huge online gambling criminal group hidden overseas, and realized the entire chain of personnel, capital, technology, and promotion. Chain detection." Wan Kai, deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Public Security Department, commented on the case.
Under the unified command of the Jiangxi Provincial Public Security Department, the "4.30" extraordinarily large cross-border online gambling case entered the stage of closing the Internet.
According to investigations, the gambling website is headquartered in Southeast Asia and employs nearly 200 people. It has created 6 domestic gambling websites that specifically organize gambling by people in China through the Internet.
Adopt the development of domestic network agents to attract domestic citizens to become gambling members, according to the ratio of RMB to the gambling score of the website 1:1, provide a third-party payment platform and other methods for recharge and withdrawal, and conduct online gambling in the form of gambling scores Settlement.
A cross-border online gambling group that uses illegal network link promotion, relies on the development of domestic network agents to absorb domestic gamblers as members, and uses third-party payment platforms to recharge and withdraw cash is gradually emerging...
The gambling group has a strict organizational structure and a clear division of labor. The monthly advertising costs alone exceed 3 million yuan, and it has successively developed more than 200,000 gambling members.
When a large amount of traffic flows in, a key technology is needed.
In the crackdown of this case, traffic service providers who promoted gambling websites, technical service providers who accelerated services, and payment service providers who were responsible for fund transfer were all eliminated one by one.
These criminal chains are intertwined, each link of the investigation will lead the results to the criminal group behind the scenes.
The heads of gambling websites hidden overseas think they have used superb technology to build a big net for making money, but they do not know that they are affected by it. They use pirated film and television websites to promote them, but they are found in their nests.
Greed is not enough to swallow an elephant, and greed will ruin your life for a while
Up to now, the "4.30" cross-border online gambling project has arrested 17 members of criminal syndicates, handled more than 60 illegal gambling personnel, frozen more than 780 merchants involved in payment platforms, more than 600 bank cards, and eliminated 3 illegal payment platforms , The funds involved in the case are as high as tens of billions.
In this huge criminal network, many criminals have embarked on the path of crime in the final analysis because of one word: "greed."
The workers were greedy for money and went to Southeast Asia. They left their hometowns like walking on thin ice, and finally went to jail for nothing.
Pirates are greedy for traffic and steal a large number of popular movie resources. It is never expected that the Huangliang Mengpo website will be blocked.
Gambling websites are greedy for users, and they do not hesitate to use all means to attract gamblers. The larger the plate shop, the easier it is to show their feet, and they will eventually be uprooted and quickly go to an end.
The biggest victims are many gamblers.
It is also because of greed, greedy for quick money, credulous gambling sites to trick advertisements, get rich and become bankrupt, and dreams become nightmares.
Whether it is the vested interests of each chain, or the vast number of gamblers who ultimately pay for the gambling website.
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