editor's note
At present, the World Cup in Qatar is in full swing, and the fans have started a feast of football carnival.
At the same time, news about gambling also appeared in the newspapers from time to time.
There were rumors before that people in Hangzhou, Zhejiang and Zhanjiang, Guangdong jumped to their deaths after losing money from gambling. Although the police promptly refuted the rumors, many people were aware of the serious harm of gambling.
It is not uncommon for people to lose their savings due to gambling or even mortgage their car to sell their house.
Recently, political and legal agencies in many places have released information, exposing the illegality and harm of gambling, calling on the public to refuse gambling, and pointing out that there are a lot of scams in gambling.
The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Commission also published an article titled "Don't Let Gambling Ruin Young Cadres". Many cases are thought-provoking.
How do people learn about gambling?
Why "ten bets and ten losses"?
How should the wind of gambling be rectified?
With these questions, the reporter conducted a survey interview.
□ Reporter Han Dandong
□ Our newspaper intern Wang Yitian
Won!
With the whistle of the referee, the World Cup group match, the Japanese team defeated the German team with a score of 2:1.
Seeing this result, Mr. Yuan from Shanghai Changning jumped up excitedly—he was right!
Before the start of the game, Mr. Yuan discussed the game with his golfers in the social group. The golfers agreed that the powerful German team would win, and they all bet on the German team to win.
Seeing that the odds of the Japanese team getting higher and higher, Mr. Yuan thought to himself, what if the Japanese team wins?
With the idea of giving it a try and making a small bet for fun, he bet 50 yuan on the Japanese team to win, and sent the predicted result and bet amount to the group owner.
When the group owner transferred the winning money to him, Mr. Yuan suddenly regretted: I should bet 500 yuan or 1,000 yuan. I should not bet on the outcome, but on the score. The odds of betting on the score are much higher. The predicted score should be 2:1.
Mr. Yuan told the "Rule of Law Daily" reporter that he joined this social group through an online post bar.
The reporter noticed during the investigation recently that on various online platforms, many people post information about gambling to lure fans to participate in online gambling. There are also social group chats pretending to be fan communication groups, and they engage in "underground casinos" before the game starts. .
The so-called online gambling refers to the behavior of people using the results of football, basketball, volleyball and other games, players and related facts to gamble through the Internet.
Every World Cup, there is always a group of people who can't help being tempted into the pit of gambling. Some people can stop in time, while others are getting deeper and deeper.
According to Handeli, a professor at the Hebei Judicial Police Officer Vocational College, as a new form of gambling, online gambling is more covert. Crackdown efforts to purify the network environment.
Mysteries hidden in the fan base
Internet gambling is highly concealed
On November 25th, when a reporter checked information about the World Cup in an online post bar, he received an unfamiliar message. A netizen sent an emoji of "Is anyone there?" followed by a QR code that read "World Cup Exchange center".
The other party said that this is the fan group of the World Cup, where they can chat about the ball and predict the score.
After the reporter entered the group, the group owner sent 3 pictures, which showed the handicap and odds of the game between Tunisia and Australia, including half-court goals and correct scores (referring to the selected winning ratio in a match). Number of bets) and the odds of over and over balls.
It turned out that this is a gambling group.
Group member "Xiaocai Songnai" said in the group that what he bought yesterday was fully compensated, and today he prepared 500 yuan to buy Tunisia to win. Another "jianm" said that he lost 2,000 yuan yesterday and wanted to see how the group friends bought it today. .
When the group members were discussing, the group owner sent a group announcement, "The group is only for exchanging experience, if necessary, you can add me to send odds."
Then the reporter received a friend application from the group owner, and the application note said "Private chat for buying balls, it is easy to be blocked in the group". Winning odds and correct odds.
In the group, someone asked if there was an app to place bets on. The group owner replied that he was a buying agent, and that his bookmaker was in China, and the price was charged according to the online market.
The reporter's investigation found that this form of gambling is the "settlement on behalf of" model, and there is also an "underground bank" model.
The method of "settlement on behalf of" is relatively simple, basically the same as that of ordinary casinos, except that chess and cards are turned into footballs.
This type of gambling is that the platform itself sits on the bank, builds a gambling platform, recruits layers of agents, and then the agents form a social group, directly post gambling information in the group, and then chat privately for transactions. The gambling funds are generally transferred to the dealer through various channels. In the account, the agent will draw a part of the "labor service fee" from the gambling funds.
This type of transaction mainly seeks benefits by pumping water, gambling, and fraud.
At present, "settlement on behalf of others" has gradually become the mainstream mode in online gambling due to its low threshold, high return, and zero cost. Fans only need to tell the agent what to buy and how much to buy, and the rest will be left to the agent. .
The "underground bank" model generally appears in various gaming websites and apps. The dealer builds a synchronously running gaming website overseas, and then the domestic agent sends the invitation code and website link to the user. After the user registers and logs in, the RMB is exchanged according to the exchange rate. Exchange it into virtual currency, and then use the virtual currency to trade with the dealer to exchange it into chips for gambling.
When the user finishes gambling and settles, the chips need to be withdrawn, and the banker converts the chips back into virtual currency and transfers them to the user's account, and then the user sells them on the virtual currency platform, and finally converts them into RMB.
This transaction method is very cumbersome, but because of its strong concealment, many "big money" gamblers will choose to gamble in this way.
The gambling app website is complicated
Betting transfers all in one place
Ms. Wang from Cangzhou, Hebei also gambled through the "settlement on behalf of" model.
Before the game between Japan and Germany, "2:1, 500 yuan", she transferred 500 yuan to the other party, and the other party replied "received", and an online betting was completed.
"I bet 4,000 yuan before and after the start of the World Cup, and I have lost a little. I know that gambling is bad, but every time I think I can win money, I can't help it." Ms. Wang said.
Is it really so easy to participate in a game of online gambling?
In an online post bar "World Cup Bar", many fans post to discuss the game.
The reporter noticed that there are a lot of content about gambling, "I am going to bet 5,000 yuan on Australia to win, is there a chance?" "Buy Argentina or Mexico to win"?
In the comment area, some netizens said that they had bought a certain team to win, and some netizens analyzed the probability of winning.
The reporter noticed that some comments were numbers and symbols that people could not understand. After inquiry, it turned out that these numbers and symbols were connected together, and then the Chinese characters were removed, and it became the website of the gambling website.
After opening the URL with a browser, the reporter found that this is a gambling website called "Bo Yi Bo", and there is also a pop-up prompt to download the "Bo Yi Bo" App.
In this website, if users want to participate in gambling, they need to register an account first, and then they can choose "Bo Yi Bo Sports", "Bo Yi Bo Chess" and "Bo Yi Bo Lottery".
Then recharge, click on the corresponding content, and you can bet.
When the reporter browsed the website, the post bar account on the mobile phone received a private message, and a user named "Descent into the World" asked the reporter "Do you want a platform?"
Then a social account was sent, saying to add friends to discuss in detail.
After the reporter added him as a friend, the other party was very straightforward. He immediately sent a website link and told the reporter to open it with the browser that comes with the mobile phone. After registration, he can play. I have used it for several years. After recharging, I have some questions Customer service is fine.
According to the link provided by the other party, the reporter opened the gaming website named "Opel Entertainment". On the registration interface, it was impressively written that the sponsoring partners were "Juventus official regional partner" and "Leicester City official partner".
The layout of the website is almost the same as that of "Boyibo".
In the column of company introduction, it claims to be an overseas company with a legal license issued by the European Malta MGA and the Philippine government (PAGCOR), registered in the British Virgin Islands, and is a legal company recognized by international industry associations.
In its recharge and withdrawal interface, users need to uniformly use virtual currency for transactions. The type of virtual currency is "USDT", and the exchange rate is consistent with the US dollar. At the same time, they can also choose "TRC20" and "ERC20" two transfer protocols.
There are many ways to choose RMB payment channels for users, all of which can be paid.
"Avatar King" told reporters that he chose this type of gaming site because of its stability. Although the process is cumbersome, there will be no "running away".
Although the "settlement on behalf of" mode is convenient, when a gambler bets heavily on an upset team, the agent may collect money and "run away", and they insist that gambling is illegal. Gamblers dare not disclose it and can only eat Dumb loss.
The reporter saw in an online post bar that some bar friends often shared a picture with words such as "Weibo Sports, an app that all bar friends use, website WB10.VIP, real-time live broadcast, second confirmation of betting, virtual Stable coin deposits and withdrawals arrive in seconds", etc.
These kinds of posts are sent by one or two levels of trumpets, most of which are gambling website addresses.
There are also people who post "make a private chat in a social group".
After the reporter commented at the bottom of the post, the other party immediately sent a private message asking the reporter to follow each other, and then sent a social group QR code.
In this social group called "World Cup Exchange", the group owner claims that he is an agent, and those who want to gamble can chat with him privately, just need to note the purchase, and the group owner will send real-time odds.
The reporter's investigation found that those who are deeply involved in online gamblers basically "ten lose out of ten bets".
Many people who participated in online gambling posted screenshots and chat records of gambling on social platforms, from full of confidence to losing their money, and some people were heavily in debt as a result.
Some people lose everything even if they win.
Some fans bought balls on some websites or apps, but they didn’t know that some platforms were a scam. They spent real money to recharge and won the bet, but if they wanted to withdraw cash, they would never succeed.
Many fans found that in the end what they played was just a "numbers game".
Internet gambling is extremely harmful
Multi-party cooperation to rectify unhealthy trends
"Currently, online gambling adopts websites, apps, social groups, etc., which are convenient and concealed. Organizers generally use the MLM model to operate efficiently, and present new features such as expansion, younger age, and online and offline integration." Shanghai Kai Yuan Law Firm lawyer Yang Qian said.
He pointed out that online gambling is different from traditional offline gambling. It relies on Internet technology, and teenagers account for a large proportion of the hundreds of millions of Internet users in my country. This undoubtedly provides convenience for teenagers to participate in online gambling, and teenagers themselves are curious It is relatively heavy, and its own awareness of prevention is relatively weak, so it is easy to fall into the quagmire of online gambling.
Yang Qian pointed out that compared with traditional gambling, online gambling involves a wider range of activities, and the amount of gambling involved is larger. When people fall into the vortex of online gambling and cannot get out and there is a major deficit in funds, they may obtain funds through illegal activities, which in turn breeds money laundering and theft. , robbery, fraud, homicide and other illegal crimes.
At the same time, online gambling also seriously affects the financial order, threatens national economic interests and financial security, and causes a large amount of capital outflow, disrupts social security management order, endangers the normal development of the Internet industry, and affects social harmony and stability.
Chen Litian, deputy dean of the School of Criminal Justice of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, said that online gambling violates the Public Security Management Punishment Law and the Criminal Law.
For this illegal act, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Security Management Punishment Law, depending on the circumstances, the person shall be detained for less than five days, or more than ten days, or less than fifteen days, and may also be fined alone or concurrently.
If it constitutes a crime, according to the specific behavior, it will be convicted and sentenced for the crime of gambling or opening a casino, with a maximum sentence of ten years in prison.
According to the public information, the reporter found that in recent years, many people have participated in gambling with the mentality of "playing and playing". Starting from 50 yuan and 100 yuan, they continued to increase their betting intensity, and eventually not only lost their savings, but also lost their money. Cars and houses, and high gambling debts.
Some public officials do not hesitate to use their positions to commit crimes in order to pay off their gambling debts.
How to rectify the unhealthy tendencies of online gambling?
Handley suggested that positive publicity be the main way to publicize the harmfulness of gambling; at the same time, increase the intensity of crackdowns, punish severely according to the law, purify the network environment, and be vigilant at all times for online illegal and criminal acts of domestic and foreign collusion.
Yang Qian believes that the current main problems are: online gambling involves domestic and foreign countries, and the combination of setting up servers overseas and domestic development agents makes it difficult to manage servers set up abroad according to Chinese law; The work is difficult.
Internet gambling crimes are extremely harmful to my country's economic security and social stability, and the people hate them deeply, so we must always be unremitting in cracking down on them.
"The public security organs should take the initiative to optimize the investigation, strengthen cross-domain cooperation, improve work efficiency, and promote the adaption of the investigation mechanism structure to the dynamic development characteristics of Internet gambling crime cases, so as to timely and accurately crack down on Internet gambling crimes and effectively control the spread of such cases. In addition , because online gambling is not restricted by time and region, a gambling website or a gambling social group, gamblers may come from different provinces and cities. Departments such as taxation should strengthen communication and coordination, and explore a cross-regional joint law enforcement mechanism, so as to improve the crackdown and case handling efficiency." Yang Qian said.
The interviewed experts called on the public to stay away from online gambling in their daily lives. They must not bet blindly with the illusion of getting rich, let alone participate in gambling on illegal gambling platforms. Otherwise, they may lose everything financially and be suspected of breaking the law legally. , in the end the gain outweighs the loss.