Original title: Gambling websites drain the development of agent gamblers through social platforms
"Search the browser and buy the game while watching" "Safe and reliable"... During the World Cup, a large number of gambling platform advertisements were spread on common social networking platforms, pirated film websites and other channels, which made it impossible to prevent, and even lured many gamblers who were eager to "get rich overnight" to bet on their top up.
Recently, video reporters from Nandu and N found many online gambling platforms with many playing methods. You can not only choose to guess the win or draw, match scores, but also the time of the first goal, the number of free cards in the game, the offside situation of players and other gambling methods. There are platform agents to develop lower level gamblers by recharging and issuing benefits. According to the platform, if the agent successfully introduces the new agent, the introducer can also enjoy the commission commission of the introduced person.
In the black industry chain of online gambling, gambling platforms, multi-level agents and retail gamblers are linked. A gambling agent told reporters in Nandu that some gamblers bet through him, and he made profits by taking a commission. But there are also some agents who choose to "eat" gamblers' bets, that is, they do not gamble on the gambling platform, but privately "swallow" and become their own bankers. However, the risk of "eating" gambling funds is very great, and agents may have huge profits, or they may eventually be unable to afford to pay and run away at any time. "Agent betting to make profits is nothing more than encouraging more people to bet and encouraging them to bet more."
investigation
The agent asks gamblers to uninstall anti fraud software after leaving a gambling website on the social platform and joining the group
During the World Cup, a number of social platforms became the main positions for promoting gambling websites. Some netizens left the website of the gambling platform on the social platform for drainage through obscure expressions. In pirated film websites, there are also frequent advertisements popping up on gambling websites, claiming to be official cooperation platforms to attract users.
Recently, a reporter from Nandu found that many people posted posts and videos to discuss and predict the World Cup and posted their own lottery tickets on such platforms as Post Bar, Tiao Yin and Little Red Book. Among them, netizens said that they had added several gambling groups and that the odds of sports lottery were too low. In some posts and video message areas, you can still find gambling advertisements or gambling website addresses such as "search in the browser, buy games while watching", "buy or watch live broadcast for free, safe and reliable".
The reporter from Nandu found several online gambling platforms through the above channels. Later, Nandu reporters entered one of the promotion groups of the gambling platform and found that there were 60 or 70 participants, and new people were constantly entering the group. After joining the group, a platform agent guides new people to register one by one and promises to register with benefits to develop offline gamblers.
The reporter from Nandu noticed that in the group chat, although the agents attracted gamblers with the slogan of "Play on the safest platform and don't be deceived", when some participants reported that the gambling website was blocked by "anti fraud app", the agents said that they could only uninstall anti fraud software. There are also slogans such as "World Cup designated betting brand" on the gambling website to win the trust of gamblers. A number of gambling platforms carried out activities of recharging and welfare for the World Cup on their home pages. In addition to football, basketball, tennis and other sports games, the platform also includes video games, fishing, chess and card games for selection.
In football betting, the betting interfaces of some betting websites are divided into three types: "rolling ball", "today" and "morning". The corresponding players can bet while watching the game, bet on all the events of the day, and bet on the upcoming events in the next few days. In addition to satisfying gamblers in various time periods, these gambling platforms have a variety of playing methods. Gamblers can not only choose to guess the win or draw, big or small balls, match scores, etc., but also some platforms have multiple gambling methods, such as the first goal player, the first goal time, the number of game cards fined, and the offside situation of players.
"There are many ways to play." A player who took part in gambling through an agent told Nandu reporter that various gambling modes have also become a way to attract gamblers. "In addition to the whole game score, you can also bet on who will kick off first, the number of corner kicks, the number of red and yellow cards shown by the referee, the score in the first half, the size of the score, and the number of single and double goals, all of which correspond to different odds."
pattern
Gambling platform "absorbs" multi-level agents to attract new customers and earn commissions
In the black industry chain of gambling, the gambling platform has become a banker, and through multi-level agents, more junior gamblers have been constantly developed.
The reporter from Nandu found the demand for recruitment agents on several gambling websites. When registering as an agent of a gambling website, two staff members successively docked and guided the operation of the agent's backstage. The reporter from Nandu noticed that the agent can keep track of basic statistical data such as the number of lower level members, the number of first deposit members and effective new members at any time through the background, and can also learn about the betting of lower level members in each game.
In the prompt sent by the platform customer service to the reporter in Nandu, it emphasized "to be a low-key agent, and insist on using a contact method to contact us." "If someone else adds you through mobile phones or asks if you are an agent, please pay attention to fishing and fraud prevention." In addition, another platform staff also introduced the recent promotion activities to the reporter in Nandu, for example, The agent develops 5 effective active users in the current month, that is, the user can enjoy 55% of the commission when the accumulated recharge or flow reaches a certain amount in the current month. At the same time, for every new effective user during the activity, the agent can enjoy the gift reward. In addition, if the new agent is successfully introduced, the introducer can also enjoy the commission commission of the introduced person.
With regard to how to promote new products, the above staff said that agents can try to convert in the twitter and quick review areas. As long as the gamblers registered on the platform through the promotion link shared by the agent, they are the subordinate members of the agent and can earn promotion commissions. In addition, agents can send top up bonuses for subordinate members through the "escrow" system of the platform to attract users.
Different from the agents employed by journalists in Nandu who earn commissions by channeling money, there are also agents who mainly draw commission by betting for gamblers.
The gambling agent Liu Hui (a pseudonym) introduced the above-mentioned agency model to the reporter from Nandu. He said that before the game, the agent shared the odds of the game and various playing methods with gamblers for reference. Gamblers will choose the bet option and pay the wager, and familiar gamblers may not even pay the wager in advance. Agents will help customers place bets on the gambling platform, usually in screenshot mode to confirm the betting situation with gamblers. At the end of the game, they will settle with gamblers. They may settle one game at a time, one day at a time, or one week at a time. If you are a familiar gambler, the agent may directly provide the account number of the gambling platform to gamble on your own, and give each gambler a different "quota" according to their economic situation.
Make a profit
An agent eats the gambling money and runs away at any time if he can't afford it
"To make a profit on agent bets is to encourage more people to bet and encourage them to bet more. Because the income of agents basically comes from the dealer's' commission return '. The more commission you want to return, the more money you want to gamble," said Liu Hui, a gambling agent.
Liu Hui told the Nandu reporter that his gambling agents usually have two ways to make money. Generally, they simply act as agents for gambling, and some agents may choose to "eat" gamblers' bets, that is, they do not bet gamblers' money on the gambling platform, but privately "swallow" the money and become their own banker. Once the gambler loses the contest, the agent can take the money alone. If the gambler wins the prize, the agent must pay the corresponding bonus. However, the latter is extremely risky, and the agent may profit from it or run away at any time because he cannot afford to pay.
When it comes to the upper and lower level industry chain of gambling, Liu Hui believes that the industry chain may be like "pyramid selling". "The higher level has set certain rules for the lower level, such as the number of points returned for commission and the frequency of payment. The lower level just wants to draw more people to participate in gambling, and can also have its own lower level. The goal is always to let more people gamble, with more money." He added, The lower level should also complete the task in time and report to the higher level. In case the agent's own gambler "reneges" or "walks away", these losses should be borne by the agent himself.
He believes that, unlike agents specializing in network promotion, more customers of his type of betting agents are friends and relatives around him. For gamblers who place bets through agents, they can "buy white wolves with empty hands". "Because not every gambler needs to pay the money first, everyone has a certain degree of trust." He said that if gamblers place bets on gambling websites, You must recharge first.
"The World Cup is coming, and everyone pays more attention to it, so friends also gamble." Chen Wen (alias) saw everyone playing during the World Cup, and he also gambled with the mentality of playing. Chen Wen said that the reason why he chose to bet with a gambling agent was that he felt that the odds were relatively high, which might bring huge profits. During the current World Cup, he won about three times
In this regard, Zhao Liangshan, a senior partner of Shaanxi Hengda Law Firm and a well-known public welfare lawyer, pointed out that according to Article 70 of the Law on Public Security Management Penalties, "those who provide conditions for gambling for the purpose of making profits, or participate in gambling with a large amount of money, shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and shall also be fined not less than 500 yuan but not more than 3000 yuan ". Ordinary gamblers may face administrative penalties, such as fines and detention.
Zhao Liangshan stressed that online gambling agents are organizers of illegal gambling, or carry out profit-making activities based on illegal gambling. They may face the above administrative penalties, or be suspected of opening casinos, and may be prosecuted for criminal responsibility.
Uncover secrets
The dealer can master the odds of the game. Gamblers can only "gamble ten times and lose ten"
As for the mode of online gambling, the Public Security Management Detachment of Guangzhou Public Security Bureau introduced to reporters in Nandu that there are two main forms of online gambling at this stage: one is the "prize pool" or "underground bank" mode. Gamblers bet directly on gambling websites and apps. This type of investment costs a lot, and the authenticity of websites and apps is difficult to distinguish. However, due to its strong concealment, many "big money" gamblers and small bookmakers will choose this way to gamble. The other is the "settlement on behalf" mode. Gamblers place bets by transferring money to the banker or through an acquaintance agent. Because of its low threshold, zero cost and other characteristics, this type has gradually become the mainstream mode of online gambling. Most individual gamblers choose this gambling mode.
According to the police, online gambling has industrial chains such as website system construction and maintenance, gambling attraction, agency betting, and gambling capital exchange, which are mainly through the return of water, pumping, and gambling links in the process of gamblers' participation in gambling, or direct fraud to seek benefits. In online gambling, each dealer can accurately control the odds of the game through dark box operation, and attract gamblers to place crazy bets with high odds. Gamblers will only "gamble ten times and lose ten".
Recently, the Guangdong police successfully beat up a huge gambling gang that opened online casinos and organized cross-border online gambling. At the beginning of September this year, Jieyang police mastered an important gambling clue, so they immediately transferred a capable police force to set up a special team to check and dig the clues. After nearly three months of hard work, the task team sorted out a huge gambling gang that used Qatar World Cup to play illegal online gambling, and initially mastered the basic information of the gambling gang's core organization personnel, structure, agents and its main activity locations.
According to the police investigation, the gambling gang is a family style gambling criminal gang headed by Mr. and Mrs. Zhuo, with more than ten relatives and friends as the core members. Their gangs are linked by family relatives, with clear hierarchy, strict organization, and strong anti investigation awareness. Their top shareholders are secretly connected, and they use money laundering gangs to launder gambling money in an attempt to evade the investigation and attack of the public security organs. They employ website technology developers to set up gambling websites, provide online gambling accounts to attract netizens to participate in gambling, and profit from it. The gambling website adopts a pyramid like hierarchical structure, which is divided into six levels from top to bottom, namely the so-called "head office, branch office, shareholder, general agent, agent and member". During the World Cup, it placed advertisements on multiple online sports live broadcast platforms to attract money. At the same time, the website platform also takes the acquaintance introduction mode to develop relatives and friends as offline, forming a criminal chain of opening online casinos with interests tied.
On December 6, the special case team gathered the police force and rushed to Jieyang, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan and Shanwei in five routes to launch a unified network closing operation. It captured 48 criminal suspects involved in the case, seized 146 computers, laptops, tablets, 561 bank cards, 221 mobile phones, 8 POS machines, account books and documents, and 923100 yuan in cash, and frozen about 45 million yuan of funds involved in the case, We successfully solved this huge cross-border online gambling case.
Platform Action
Dithering: 60000 illegal accounts were banned during the World Cup
Recently, Douyin released the Announcement on Cracking Down on Gambling Fraud during the World Cup. Since November 1 this year, the platform has banned 64513 accounts involving gambling diversion. At the same time, Tiao Yin combed and announced ten common gambling fraud behaviors, including cheating gambling, downloading registered phishing software, counterfeiting fraud, buying football lottery, lying about selling star jerseys, gambling "pig killing plate", etc., and called on users to improve their awareness of network security.
Popularize the law
Article 70 of the Law on Administrative Penalties for Public Security
Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, provides conditions for gambling, or participates in gambling for a relatively large sum of money, shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and shall also be fined not less than 500 yuan but not more than 3000 yuan.
Various playing methods
Guess the win and draw, big and small balls, match scores, the first goal player, the first goal time, the number of game cards, players offside, etc.
Acting for profit
1. Gamblers make profits by betting on the ball through agents.
2. Some agents choose to "eat" gamblers and make their own bookmakers. There may be huge profits, or they may eventually be unable to afford to run away at any time.
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