Gambling turns the World Cup into a "world sadness": someone loses tens of thousands of yuan in a few days, and pulling people can still get rebates

"World Cup, don't you play ball?" The office worker Xiaolu never thought that a word from a friend would make the originally happy World Cup viewing process extremely tormenting. The so-called "playing ball" refers to "online gambling". Every time the World Cup comes, there is always a group of new gamblers who can't help but be tempted into the gambling pit, some can still stop in time, and others are deeper and deeper.

"It doesn't matter if you play", lose three thousand at once

"We don't buy those special games, we buy wins and draws, so that it is more exciting to watch the game..." Xiaolu knows almost nothing about gambling, but under the lobbying of friends, he feels that "it doesn't matter if you play."

Just the two of them played ball "bored", and the friend then pulled Xiaolu into a "chat group" of dozens of people. To say that it is a ball chat, in fact, is a group of people who bet on the ball "sharing experience" with each other. Xiaolu remembers that in the days before the start of the game, many people said in the group that the opener should be a draw. After the opening, some people even posted a 10,000 yuan tie bet order.

"The opener host (Qatar) has never lost" "Ecuador is definitely strong in terms of odds, but Qatar is the dad of FIFA, can the son make the dad lose?" ”...... Similar remarks were rampant, and Xiaolu and his friends also bet on a draw, friends dropped 2,000 yuan, and Xiaolu followed 1,000 yuan.

And when the opener really started, especially when the opponent Ecuador was blown off a goal just after the opening, the friend told Xiaolu that "this game is stable" and "the referee has made a force". But when Ecuador then scored two goals in a row indisputably, Qatar trailed 2-0, the crowd began to scold, and friends couldn't help but scold. In the end, the score of 0-2 remained until the end of the game, and the 3,000 yuan of the two was lost.

The blow did not stop there, a day later, Argentina to Saudi Arabia was encouraged by others in the group, and friends reinvested 5,000 yuan to buy Argentina "win", and the path also dropped 2,000 yuan. Originally, I thought of "winning the game steadily, making a little back the blood", but that game broke out the biggest upset since the start of the game, and Argentina finally lost 1-2.

"Don't play, don't play!" In two days, 3,000 yuan evaporated in his hand, and Xiaolu regretted it very much, complaining about his friends and returning the group. Koji closed his hand, but his friend was a little "red-eyed", and then bought Germany to win in the German-Japanese match, and lost another 2,000 yuan.

The most ridiculous thing is that after the German team match, friends decided that this competition was too unpopular and should be "counter-bought", so they bet the latter 500 yuan in the next match between the strong team Belgium and the weak team Canada, and the result was Belgium winning 1-0. In just a few days, Xiaolu's friends lost nearly 10,000 yuan in gamble. And this loss is nothing in the "chat group", the person who lost 10,000 yuan in the opening battle, and then lost more than 40,000 in succession.

Betting on the ball is played too much, and the field is like match-fixing

Every World Cup, there are "newbies" like Koji who are drawn into the vortex of gambling. Some of them saw that the situation was wrong and quickly withdrew, while others fell deeper and deeper. A Zheng, a "veteran" of gambling, has 8 years of gambling experience.

Ah Zheng came into contact with gambling at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, when he was still in college, and he was also pulled into the pit by his friends. Unlike Xiaolu, who "throws" two or three thousand in one breath, because there was no serious work income at that time, Ah Zheng only dared to "play" with dozens of pieces of land, and then gradually got bigger and bigger.

At first, Ah Zheng bought the officially issued lottery, and slowly transferred to the online platform. On the platform, he discovered that there were so many ways to play the original gambling. Not only wins and losses, scores, the number of goals, but also red and yellow cards, the number of corner kicks, etc., and even whether a certain period of time can be scored or not.

It is precisely because of "many ways to play" that Ah Zheng's perspective on the game has also changed. Previously, he admired the skills of the players on the field and did not pay much attention to a few corners, a few cards from the referee. But with the betting, he began to pay more and more attention to the minutiae of the game, and less to the game itself. After gambling for a long time, he even felt that the performance of the players, including the referee's blowing penalty, was all manipulated by the "dealer", and the field was all match-fixing. The difference is simply that some people act well and some people act poorly.

Betting doesn't always lose, but even if you win a few handfuls, you will still lose later. Ah Zheng had thought several times that he would stop playing after winning this time, but he couldn't help but continue to gamble. Not only the World Cup, but also the small leagues of some remote countries, Ah Zheng will study and bet, and life is very tiring for a long time.

What got him out of the gambling was a "big loss". In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Germany played South Korea in the group stage, he spent 30,000 yuan to buy Germany to win more than two goals before the opening, and the score was 0-0 at halftime, and he made up 20,000 yuan to buy Germany to win, in order to "in case the German team only wins 1 goal, don't lose too badly". But as a result, the German team actually lost that game. "After the game, my mind was confused. After several days, people were numb, and one day I went to sleep and dreamed that the German team had won, and when I woke up, I was confused again. ”

That gamble almost lost all of Ah Zheng's savings at that time, and the only thing he was glad about was that he didn't borrow money to gamble. In fact, among the friends he knows, there are many who borrow money to gamble.

After that day, Ah Zheng never touched the gambling ball again, and life was much easier. But in addition to his savings, he also disappeared from his passion for football, because he could no longer see the game through the eyes of a fan. Even now that a new World Cup arrives, he hardly pays attention to it, otherwise it will bring "painful memories".

Woo friends to gamble, and you can also get "rebates"

Where did all these online betting platforms come from? The reporter saw that in the post comment area of some sports forums, someone sent advertising links to gambling websites. Copy the link to your mobile browser and you'll be redirected to the app's download page. Next to the download button, it is also specially marked, "Do not use it with the National Anti-fraud Center App".

After downloading, because the "security level of the app" is unknown, you still cannot log in directly with your mobile phone. At this time, I returned to the download page and saw that the page also attached a tutorial on how to set up in the system and "trust" the App. After the setup is complete, the platform can log in. And if you want to bet, you also have to bind your personal bank card.

In addition to sending advertising links to let you bet on your own, there are also people who will advertise around in WeChat groups to "take you to bet". After the reporter entered a gambling group, the owner of the group privately sent a link to check the odds, "What to buy, hurry, I'm busy now." The reporter found that the link sent by the group owner could not be betted, and if you wanted to buy any ball, you needed to transfer money to the group owner.

There are also sports live broadcast platforms that have become a gathering place for gamblers, and even the anchors on the platforms are the ones who take the lead in gambling. "New friends welcome to join the group, there are various push benefits in the group..." According to the anchor's prompt, the reporter first added the QQ of the assistant, and the assistant guided the reporter to download another chat software on QQ, on the grounds that "it is not convenient to say on QQ, easy to be blocked." ”

This new chat software can also be used by setting "trust" in the system. Here, the assistant became "unscrupulous" and sent several online gambling platforms for reporters to download. At the same time, it was also told that after registering and recharging, the reporter has a promotion link, forwards the link to other friends, and after the other party successfully registers, the reporter can also get promotion rebates.

And when the reporter lied that he lost money on other platforms two days ago, and now he has no money to recharge temporarily, the assistant even recommended an online loan. "When you want to fill in the work unit when applying, pack it yourself, it's not very fake."

Tips from the police Do not click on unfamiliar links, beware of information being phished

As for the phenomenon of online gambling, as early as 2018, the Ministry of Finance, the Central Civilization Office and other 12 departments jointly issued an announcement saying, "It is resolutely prohibited to use the Internet to sell lottery tickets without authorization, and strictly investigate and deal with illegal online lottery sales by enterprises or individuals." The announcement also clearly mentions "cracking down on any form of illegal business activities such as online private lottery and online gambling carried out in the name of lotteries." "But under the explicit prohibition, online gambling platforms are still surging.

Wang Jia, a police officer at the Anti-fraud Center in Chaoyang District, Beijing, reminded that regardless of the addiction and economic losses caused by gambling itself, such online gambling platforms often contain risks. In the past investigation experience, the anti-fraud police have discovered phishing websites that impersonate gambling websites.

"Some sites can withdraw money when you start with small bets, and don't let you withdraw them after you make large bets." The system does not allow withdrawals for various reasons, such as improper user operation, abnormal account data, etc., but this is actually the operator behind the website is obstructing it, "He told you that he was troubleshooting the problem, and it would be mentioned in a few days, and then you would not be able to log on to the website." ”

Some gambling websites will rely on an app, but the app will set up a phishing backdoor to obtain the user's personal information and property information. "Especially those that don't have an app store and let you download it from your browser are the riskier."

In this regard, Wang Jia reminded that users must download the national anti-fraud app in the mobile phone, which has the function of identifying and warning some phishing apps. "Also, unfamiliar links must not be clicked, you think you are gambling, but in fact you are sending money to scammers."

As for the behavior of personal "betting on behalf of the reporter" encountered in the investigation, Wang Jia believes that the risk is also very high. "In one of the cases I encountered before, the subject saw someone send a gambling advertisement, saying that there was inside information that could help place bets. As a result, after transferring several times, the other party blocked the subject. ”

(Beijing Daily)