Yuyuan Liu Guirui, Extreme News Reporter of Chutian Metropolis Daily
The Qatar World Cup is being held in full swing, and the fans are immersed in the carnival of the football feast. At the same time, the news about gambling also comes out from time to time.
It goes without saying that gambling is a serious hazard. It is not uncommon to lose all your savings and even sell cars and houses to repay debts. Hu Jie, 26, now works in a small company in Jiangsu Province. When he was in college, he lost 15000 yuan in tuition due to gambling; Duan He, a 33 year old Ningxia native, gambled for 8 years and finally had to sell his house to repay his debts.
Two agents of gambling websites told Jimu News that it only cost 35000 yuan to build a gambling website. In order to ensure customer activity, they will rebate their "water money" to customers to attract more gamblers.
"As the saying goes, 'Ten gambles and nine loses', we are advised to stay away from gambling," said Yuan Li, a 41 year old community policeman.
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College Students Lose All Their Tuition Due to Gambling
In 2018, Hu Jie was a junior in a domestic university. At that time, he was a member of the school football team and a middle back. His favorite player was Ramos of Real Madrid.
Not only did he play football well, but Hu Jie was also favored by the college basketball team because of his excellent height and athletic ability. On the court of the school, you can always see his active figure.
Hu Jie, who should have had a smooth life in college, changed his life path in May 2018 because of gambling.
One day, when Hu Jie was playing a single player game, he suddenly met a checkpoint. As usual, he searched the Internet for clearance strategies.
The advertisement popped up at the bottom of the website attracted his attention. "XX team has designated a gambling partner, and you are waiting for a variety of gaming modes to play." To this day, Hu Jie still clearly remembers the slogan of the gambling website.
Previously, Hu Jie also had cases of his family's destruction and death due to gambling. His mother often told him not to take part in gambling.
"At that time, Real Madrid was about to participate in the Champions League final. I think it would be OK to bet only 200 yuan? It would be a big deal to save food for a while." Hu Jie told Jimu News. He immediately registered an account on the website, and soon an agent added his WeChat.
The agent introduced the odds for Hu Jie in detail, and said that Hu Jie only needed to tell him what he wanted to buy and how much to buy, and then transfer the money to him, leaving the rest to him.
"Different from what I thought at first, I was afraid of being cheated," said Hu Jie. But on second thought, it was only 200 yuan, and even if he lost it, it would not be a problem. Therefore, he chose to bet on Real Madrid to win and transferred the money to the agent.
A few days later, the final began and Real Madrid beat Liverpool 3-1. Three hours after the game, the agent gave him more than 400 yuan.
At that moment, Hu Jie felt that he was making money. "I think as long as I don't gamble like other people, there will be no problem," he said.
At the invitation of the agent, Hu Jie joined a gambling group. In addition to more than 50 agents, there were more than 400 "gamblers" in the group. Although the Champions League has just ended, the 2018 World Cup is coming, so the crowd is always in full swing.
"When will the odds table come up?" "How will you bet on the opening game? Have you got a big shot?" "I bet on Portugal in the focus war between Spain and Portugal!"... The dialogue among friends quickly swipes the screen. Hu Jie seldom participates in group chat. He thinks he is different from these people. "They are gamblers, but I am a smart 'businessman'."
Hu Jie was very lucky. He bet on the Russian team in the opening game of the World Cup, and 200 yuan became 700 yuan. Then he bet the result of the Sino Western Portuguese War, and 200 yuan became 1600 yuan. In the knockout phase, he successively marched against France and Uruguay
Hu Jie's appetite is growing. In the 1/8 final, Spain played Croatia. He felt that Spain was sure to win, so he put the 7000 yuan won before, plus the 3000 yuan living expenses, on Spain. Unexpectedly, Spain lost to Croatia on penalties.
"I felt my heart twitching all the time," Hu recalled. He wanted to earn more money, but the problem was that he had no capital.
After a fierce ideological struggle, Hu Jie decided to cheat his father. He lied that the school has developed a new tuition payment system, which can pay the tuition for the next semester in advance. Without asking, his father remitted him 15000 yuan of tuition fees for the next academic year.
After getting the money, Hu Jie began to ask people in the gambling group how to bet next. It was also at that time that he met Duan He, a gambling friend.
The time will soon come to July 11, 2018, when Croatia will meet England in the semi-final. After careful analysis, they thought that the Croatia team with many veteran players was at the end of their tether, so they bet all their money on England to win.
Hu Jie was disappointed again. He finally woke up, and he had already fallen into the abyss of gambling. He should have had a smooth college life, so his life trajectory has changed dramatically. Now, he works in a small company in Jiangsu.
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Resign and gamble, and sell houses to repay debts
Hu Jie wakes up, but Duan He continues to sink. In his own words, he was the "ultimate dog gambler" at that time.
Duan He started gambling in 2014. Unlike Hu Jie, who only gambled on "winning or losing", he also gambled on the score.
"I usually gamble on foreign websites because they play more games," Duan said. The odds of gambling are much higher. If you guess a game correctly, you can sometimes win hundreds of times.
On his first bet, Duan He spent 4000 yuan on an unexpected bet and won 26000 yuan. Within three months, he won 290000 yuan.
"Normal work is very tiring, and you may not earn so much money in 10 years," Duan He said. At that time, he was like a puppet controlled by an invisible hand, thinking only about gambling. He quit his job that many people admire and became a professional gambler.
"Gambling almost every day. Especially during the opening of the five major leagues, it is all night combat every day." Duan He said. In order to gamble, he spent a lot of time, not only studying the team lineup, but also analyzing the performance of players.
At first, Duan He did win some money. But soon, he began to win and lose. Unconsciously, his 100000 yuan deposit was emptied.
"When I had no money, I thought I could use credit cards," Duan said. In the following month, he applied for 11 credit cards to borrow money, combined with various online loans, and raised a total of 400000 yuan for gambling. He decided to win back everything he had lost in half a year.
As soon as he changed his previous mode of betting thousands of yuan, he began to bet hundreds of yuan at a time.
To this day, Duan He has forgotten how much he lost. He only remembered that the balance of bank card was decreasing day by day, and the repayment bills of credit card and online loan were increasing.
By the start of the 2018 World Cup, his debt had reached nearly one million yuan. "Borrow another 300000 yuan for the last fight." Duan He decided.
But in the end, like Hu Jie, he lost again.
In order to repay his debt, Duan He had to sell the house his parents bought for him, and confessed his experience of gambling to his parents.
Now, he works in a private enterprise in his hometown. "I hate myself and gambling," Duan He said regretfully.
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Community police have a gambler's brother
Yuan Li, a 41 year old community policeman, has witnessed many times the gamblers' loss and regret.
Yuan Li's younger brother also gambled and lost 100000 yuan that his parents gave him to raise his children.
"I blame myself for not controlling my brother," said Yuan Li. Since then, he has hated gambling even more, and has been studying and promoting anti gambling knowledge, hoping that fewer and fewer gambling victims.
"In fact, in the end, you lose," Yuan Li said. Every World Cup year, there will be a peak of online gambling. The data shows that in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the global gambling amount reached 10 billion euros, of which 60% of the incremental gambling capital came from the mainland of China; By the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, illegal overseas gambling websites had absorbed 1 trillion yuan from the mainland of China.
Yuan Li introduced that there are generally two modes of gambling: one is called "settlement on behalf of others", as Hu Jie participated in; One is called "underground bank", as Duan He participated in.
The method of "settlement by proxy" is relatively simple. It is basically the same as ordinary casinos, but it turns chess and cards into football. This kind of gambling is a platform that attracts agents at all levels, and then the agents form a social group, publish gambling information in the group, and then chat about transactions privately. The gambling capital is remitted to the banker's account by the agents through various channels, from which the agents draw a part of "labor fees". In this way of transaction, the makers and others mainly seek profits by pumping water, gambling, fraud, etc.
"Due to the characteristics of low threshold, high return and zero cost, the 'clearing for others' model has gradually become the mainstream in online gambling," said Yuan Li.
The "underground bank" mode is relatively complex, which usually appears in gambling websites and APPs. The banker sets up a gambling website running synchronously overseas, and then the domestic agent sends the invitation code and website link to the customer. After the customer registers and logs in, the customer exchanges RMB into virtual currency according to the exchange rate, and then exchanges chips with the banker to gamble. At the time of settlement, the dealer will exchange the chips into virtual currency to the customer's account, and then the customer will sell them on the virtual currency platform, and finally convert them into RMB.
This kind of transaction is very complicated, but because of its strong concealment, many gamblers with large funds will choose to gamble in this way.
"No matter what mode, there will be the situation of the dealer pumping water." Yuan Li said, "For example, there are two teams, you and your friends each throw 100 yuan, and the team you support wins, and your friends' money belongs to you. But the dealer will not work in vain. They will set the odds of 2 to 1.9. No matter who wins, you can only get 190 yuan instead of 200 yuan. The remaining 10 yuan is water money, which is taken away by the dealer. "
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Uncover the operation mode of gambling websites
On December 1, the reporter randomly clicked into a gambling website. The page shows that users can bet on football, tennis, basketball, baseball, chess and cards and other fields. The reporter chose the football section. There are World Cup matches between Brazil and Cameroon on the page for betting. Cameroon's odds are 0.86, Brazil's is 0.94, and Cameroon has accepted the hemisphere.
The reporter noticed that the odds of the platform were not fixed, but changed in real time until the end of the game.
Through online recharging, the reporter bet 100 yuan on Brazil.
On December 3, the game ended, Cameroon defeated Brazil 1-0, and the reporter bet 100 yuan on it.
How are gambling websites built and operated?
An agent of a gambling website named "Bruce Lee" told reporters that it is not expensive to build a gambling website. If you only gamble on the World Cup, you only need 5000UDT (a blockchain virtual currency, 1UDT is about 7 yuan). After the reporter pays the fee, he can start looking for agents who will help the reporter update the odds in real time.
"The subsequent profits are all yours," said Bruce Lee. As long as it is properly operated, such a gambling website can earn considerable profits. After one of his clients set up a gambling website, a large number of agents were recruited. Almost every agent had nearly 500 clients, and his client earned tens of millions of yuan a year.
An agent named "Sifang" introduced that his gambling team had about 200 agents. Participants can make their own bets on the gambling website by obtaining the login account and password of the gambling website through the agent. The agent will grant the betting quota to the participants according to their capital strength. The stronger the capital strength, the higher the betting quota.
"Sifang" said that they mainly have three ways to make profits: first, according to the betting amount of the participants, they are entitled to a proportional commission; The second is to draw 10% of the total monthly betting amount of participants; The third is to draw 2% from each bet of participants.
"Sifang" said that in order to maintain the stability of the customer group, improve the activity of the gambling website, and attract more people to participate in gambling, the agent will sometimes yield profits and return the "water money" that could have been earned by itself to offline and gambling personnel in the form of WeChat red envelopes.
Both "Bruce Lee" and "Sifang" claim that it is safe to ask them to set up gambling websites or become agents. "It is difficult for domestic police to find overseas websites."
Yuan Li said that online gambling often involves both domestic and foreign countries, and it is really difficult to investigate and collect evidence. In the relevant cases he has been exposed to, the proportion of dealers is generally 3% to 5%. Therefore, as long as the gambler continues to gamble, the final result of the gambler is negative, because they cannot always win.
"As the saying goes, 'Ten gambles and nine loses', we are advised to stay away from gambling." Yuan Li warned.
(In order to protect the privacy of the respondents, the names in the article are pseudonyms)
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In China, gambling in any form is not allowed by law. According to the seriousness of the behavior, it is punished according to the Public Security Administration Punishment Law and the Criminal Law.
According to Article 1 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in Dealing with Criminal Cases of Gambling, organizing more than three people to gamble for the purpose of making profits, with the accumulated profits of more than 5000 yuan or the accumulated gambling funds of more than 50000 yuan or the accumulated number of gamblers of more than 20 people, it belongs to the act of gathering people to gamble as stipulated in Article 303 of the Criminal Law; According to Article 2, the establishment of a gambling website to accept bets for the purpose of making profits belongs to the act of opening a casino as stipulated in Article 303 of the Criminal Law. Therefore, the private dealer who opens a gambling outlet is suspected of gambling crime and casino crime, and can be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years' imprisonment and a fine.
According to Article 2 of the Notice of the Ministry of Public Security on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Dealing with Illegal Gambling Cases in 2005, participation in gambling activities in overseas casinos via the Internet within China shall be punished in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Law on Administrative Penalties for Public Security. According to Article 2 of the Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in Dealing with Criminal Cases of Gambling, acting as an agent for gambling websites and accepting bets constitutes the act of opening casinos as stipulated in Article 303 of the Criminal Law. This means that the relevant domestic agents may be suspected of the crime of opening casinos, with a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment and a fine.
It can be seen that online gambling violates the law and is even suspected of criminal offences. The prohibition of this in our country's law also takes into account that gambling will have a huge impact on individuals, families or society, and has great social harm. The World Cup and other competitive sports have touched the hearts of many fans, but entertainment contests must rely on legal means, and never touch the legal red line while excited.
