Handles, bookmakers, finances and other "each perform their duties", the number of commercial card merchants and other black production "escort"; all localities in-depth "net 2019" special action to crack down on online gambling
The flow of funds in a gamble can be in the millions, and the odds soar from 2 times to 16 times; It only takes about 2 minutes from betting to winning or losing in each game, 24 hours a day... If you switch to reality, this must be a casino scene full of people and silver bills, but under the operation of the niu niu herd online gambling team, players can participate in crazy gambling as long as they join the WeChat group.
At the end of each game, Venus Group will release a "profit and loss chart".
For "no withdrawal" situations that sometimes occur, the organizers will issue a notice to reassure gamblers.
The player is betting on the cattle herd, and the number is the bet amount.
Introduction to the way of play promoted by the cattle herd bookmaker.
From May 1 to 9, the Beijing News reporter went undercover WeChat "Cattle Cow Herd" and found a secret chain around online gambling: the bookmaker used the WeChat plug-in program to organize online gambling in the WeChat group by sending red envelopes, and the bets, contracting, settlement, etc. in the WeChat group were all responsible for the robot; in order to obtain customer sources, the bookmaker would use the "rebate" as a temptation to hire a "puller", and in order to avoid the ban on reporting and police pursuit, the online gambling personnel and WeChat plug-in sellers, the number merchants who sold WeChat signals, Card merchants of companies that sell bank cards and registered leather bags have formed a long-term cooperative relationship. In the upstream and downstream of online gambling, a black industrial chain with a clear division of labor has been formed.
Since January 22, the Ministry of Public Security has organized a nationwide special action of "Clean Net 2019". According to an article published on the official website of the Ministry of Public Security in April, as of now, a total of 10,611 cases related to various types of networks have been detected, and 11,058 people have taken criminal compulsory measures. Public security organs across the country have cleaned up more than 1.5 million pieces of information on various types of violations and crimes, and shut down more than 160,000 illegal online accounts. In response to online pornographic crimes, online gambling and other illegal crimes, the public security organs insisted on taking the initiative, quickly handling, and cracking down hard, arresting more than 3,280 people involved in the case.
2 minutes a game, a day of water hundreds of millions?
"I haven't lost hundreds of thousands, I'm not a veteran here." Agni (pseudonym), a veteran player of the cattle herd, told the Beijing News reporter.
Before coming into contact with the cattle herd, Agni had played a similar cow and cow game with friends in his hometown, "with up to three times odds, mainly playing with relatives and friends at parties." In contrast, the online gambling cattle herd is more simple and rough: "Grab the red envelope to see the cow several times, the cow several times doubled several times, and the size of the dealer." "The multiples of cattle and cattle range from 2x to 16x, which means that risk and temptation also multiply.
On May 4, a reporter from the Beijing News searched for major search engines and social platforms with Niu Niu as a keyword and found that there were many online gambling teams that organized Niu Niu games. After several online gambling "hand-in-hand" recommendations, the reporter entered the "Venus Group" that is rumored to be "stronger".
Compared with high-risk gambling odds, the way to participate in cattle herd gambling is very simple: pull the reporter to push the WeChat signal responsible for "finance" and the WeChat signal responsible for "pulling the group". "Transfer money to the finance, after the transfer is successful, enter the WeChat group through the pull group, and play directly."
On May 5, reporters were pulled into a herd of more than 450 cattle, and within minutes of entering the group, hundreds of WeChat messages jumped out. Most of them are numbers typed by the player placing a bet. A game takes only 2 minutes, in these 2 minutes, the first tens of seconds for players to bet, after the end of the bet, the dealer will publish a bet chart to confirm the players involved in the bet, after which the red envelope is issued for the player who has bet to click, and then calculate the multiple of the bull and cattle according to the number of red packets, and finally announce the win or loss result.
In the first game that the reporter entered, a total of 50 players participated in the bet, the dealer shook out the bull 10 points, only 8 players were larger than the bookmaker points, and the remaining 42 players all lost 10 times the amount of money they bet on. Among them, the player with the highest bet amount invested 11,100 yuan, but because the points were smaller than the bookmaker, he instantly lost 110,000 yuan of principal.
The Beijing News reporter found that every game opened, there will be a huge amount of capital changes, which brings a surprising flow of funds, such as the reporter after participating in the first game to check the banker's capital record found that it earned 325,000 yuan in this game alone.
According to the "Opinions of the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Public Security on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in handling Cases of Online Gambling Crimes", the conviction and sentencing standards for the crime of opening casinos online, if the cumulative amount of gambling funds reaches 300,000 yuan or more, it shall be found to be "serious circumstances" as provided for in the second paragraph of Criminal Law article 303.
In an ordinary 2-minute game of the reporter's cattle herd, the bookmaker earned more than 300,000 yuan in gambling. If you calculate a game in 2 minutes and 24 hours a day, a cow weChat group can open up to 720 gambling games in a day, and the ideal capital flow will be hundreds of millions. According to the calculation of the 3 cattle herds of the "Venus Group", even if some robots are excluded from "childcare", the total daily capital flow of the group's cattle and cattle herds may still reach the level of 100 million yuan.
Lose tens of millions of dollars a month, some sell houses and some want to jump off the building
"There are girls who have lost more than four million, borrowed private loan sharks and can't pay enough to jump off the building; some bosses have lost tens of millions of dollars in a month, and even sold their houses." You don't know how many players lose to the police to commit suicide, or are forced to become 'accomplices' who pull people into the gang, and they must keep their hearts and lungs out of their hearts and lungs when working here. On May 1, a staff member of the cattle herd online gambling team told the Beijing News reporter.
According to the rules of the "Venus Group", the amount of funds bet by the cattle herd ranges from 50 yuan to 30,000 yuan per time. "Generally, those who bet 800 to 5,000 yuan are called intermediate players, and those who bet 5,000 to 30,000 yuan are called big players." Agni told reporters, "Some big players even embezzled public funds to play, delusionally trying to get rich overnight." ”
The desire to get rich has wrapped up many players in the cattle herd more and more deeply, Agni admits that he has lost 800,000 "record" in 5 days: "After joining the group, the money you charge is not money, it is a number, plus a little red envelope will stimulate psychology, even if the self-control ability is strong, it is useless." ”
The reporter found that in addition to the normal game wins and losses, Venus Group also deliberately set up a "reward activity": if the loss of more than 5,000 yuan on the day, you can return 2% of the funds.
"In fact, this money is to retain players, to give players the illusion of being able to 'turn over', so as to continue to invest funds." Agni told reporters, "The person I saw who invested the most lost 14 million yuan a month. At the peak, he won more than two million a day, but soon entered the group to play, began to lose, sold the house, and finally threatened to call the police penniless, and the hand gave him 50,000 yuan, and finally it was over. ”
Online gambling organizations: hand-holding, bookmaker, finance, etc. perform their duties
The Beijing News reporter's investigation found that the cattle herd online gambling organization has a complex structure and division of labor: only within the cattle herd, there are multiple roles such as bookmaker, contract maker, pusher, and single. Outside the group, there are also handlers who are specifically in contact with players, responsible for the finance of player recharge, and group owners responsible for pulling players into the group.
But these are only the online gambling personnel that players can access. "A large herd of cattle is divided into general managers, general managers, bookmakers, group owners, etc. in terms of organizational structure, plus the finance responsible for receiving and distributing gambling funds, the technology of running internal procedures, customer service to answer player questions, the pulling hands of solicitors, the support of the hot group atmosphere and the dog trust, responsible for the administration of internal management, and the number of group employees is often as many as dozens." On May 1, Fifi (pseudonym), who had worked for a cattle gambling organization, told reporters.
Fifi said that the closest cooperation with the cattle herd is the hand, the hand to bring it a source of customers, in order to attract the big puller, the cattle herd often do not hesitate to allow a high amount of water. "For example, if you are pulled into the Venus Group as a player, the Venus Group will grant the handle a 15% rebate, that is, 15% of the funds you make after each bet will be given to the puller, and the puller will reduce the rebate again in order to attract the player, and the final result is that the player pays 7% of the profit of each bet as a rebate to the cattle herd, but in fact this 7% is the salary of the puller pulling you into the group."
The Beijing News reporter found that on multiple social platforms, they can contact the "puller" who publishes cattle and cattle advertisements, in order to get the return of cattle and cattle profits, many pullers continue to tap customers, including attracting acquaintances, and "lurking" into other cattle and cattle to add gambler friends and then private message contact to "dig the foot of the wall". In this regard, the "puller" who brought the reporter into the group specifically warned the reporter to "turn off the function of adding friends from the group after entering the group, or no one will make trouble."
In addition, in order to save costs, many cattle herds have adopted the parallel approach of hiring pullers to solicit dead wages and using rebates to attract external strength to pull hands. For example, Venus Group often publishes advertisements saying "recruit strength to pull hands", "you have strength, I have credibility, 24 hours waiting for the bosses to come".
Fifi said that Venus Group is one of the "more reputable" of the major online gambling organizations. "There are many domestic cattle and cattle gambling organizations, the reason why this 'reputation is good' is because it is relatively strong as a veteran online gambling organization, first of all, it gives more rebates to the handlers, and secondly, some players may encounter the situation of not giving players money when asking for money in small cattle herds, and here in Venus, even if you win millions in ten minutes, if you want to take money and leave immediately, he will immediately transfer money to you."
The Beijing News reporter undercover multiple gambling groups found that there have been many online gambling organizations that have "rolled up the money and run away" of players' money for various reasons, such as the "Purple Dragon Team" that ran at the end of 2018, which caused many pullers to complain about "no strength and no credibility".
But in Fifi's view, as long as you gamble in the cattle herd, it is difficult to say "credibility". "According to my understanding, Venus Group has been operating for about 5 years, it was called Haidilao at the earliest time, operating in China, and was almost dropped by the Internet police and forced to 'run away'." Later, they moved to Manila, Philippines, changed their name to Universal to continue to engage in cattle and cattle betting, and finally changed their name to Venus Group, and developed three cattle herds of Venus, Universal and Mingmen. And the player only knows the name of the cattle herd, does not know the name of the owner of the cattle herd, so for the cattle herd online gambling organization, even if it is 'run' once, as long as the name is changed to improve the rebate welfare, it will still make a name again. ”
Fight against the ban frequent group changes, consuming hundreds of Micro Signals a day
The Beijing News reporter's investigation found that all the Micro Signals controlled by the bookmakers in the cattle herd will be replaced frequently.
This is because the cattle herd completely uses the WeChat plug-in program to run automatically, the roles of contracting, pushing hands and other roles are basically robots, and the finance is also controlled by the robot to automatically reply. Whether it is online gambling or the use of WeChat plug-in programs, it is prohibited by the WeChat team, which may lead to suspension processing, so the cattle herd can operate normally, and it must reserve enough trumpets.
In addition, online gambling behavior can also easily lead to the limitation of the function of the cattle herd itself. For example, in the cattle herd where the reporter is located, on average, a new WeChat group will be changed every day to gamble, and whenever this happens, the group owner will post a message and @ everyone to "change the group".
According to the reporter's observation, the WeChat accounts of the online gambling organizers are very easy to be blocked, and in only two days when the reporter participated in the cattle herd, there were 5 bookmaker accounts in two groups that were banned. Once the group owner is banned, the player can contact his own handle to add the group owner after the change of number, and can be pulled into the new group again. Because the puller itself does not directly participate in the pull group, its WeChat signal is relatively difficult to be blocked, and even if the account of the group owner and the bookmaker, the contract is blocked, it can be directly changed to the small number to log in.
In the view of Agni, it is not troublesome for players to enter the new group, "it only takes a few minutes, each player has a number and password in the system background of the cattle herd, even if the player's WeChat signal is blocked, a new number can still be played." ”
Fei Fei told the Beijing News reporter that the large cattle herd changes hundreds of WeChat signals a day, "In addition to the bookmaker account on the surface, each cattle herd will more or less have a robot trust, they are also controlled by the bookmaker, in order to stir up the atmosphere in the hot group, create an atmosphere, but also to help the bookmaker grab a more suitable point of the red envelope." ”
On May 9, the WeChat team told the Beijing News reporter that the cattle herd "robot" belongs to a kind of WeChat plug-in program, and these plug-in software achieve the purpose of batch or automatic operation by simulating the use behavior of natural persons, and belong to the network black and ash production of evil means and tools. "Plug-ins" are generally used to engage in various malicious acts, and gambling is only one of the directions of use. At present, the red envelope cattle cattle gambling found, both people manually send messages to organize, but also the use of automatic software that is, "plug-in" for organization, no matter what kind of organization, gambling is a violation of the WeChat account use of norms, for this, WeChat will be seriously dealt with. Through user complaints and security strike model identification, the WeChat team will handle accounts that confirm participation in gambling and organize gambling accordingly, including but not limited to functional restrictions, account bans, permanent suspensions, etc., and relevant gambling groups will also be banned.
As for the frequent replacement of WeChat groups by cattle and cattle, the WeChat team said that it is possible that the organizers of gambling groups have found that the group has been restricted in function, but they have not been blocked, and in order to avoid affecting gambling, they will be punished for changing groups.
Black production "escort": number merchants, card merchants "responsible for after-sales"
Due to the need for a large number of new WeChat signals, as well as the need for leather bag companies and bank cards for anti-tracing, online gambling bosses have become one of the most popular "strength customers" among black upstream number merchants and card merchants.
Fei Fei told reporters that the WeChat id purchase of Venus Group is provided by its "technology department", and the vast majority of the ways to provide it are purchased from the Internet except for a small part of its own production. "Generally, the WeChat signal for 'childcare' is to buy new numbers, and these numbers will be blocked for one day; while the group owner, the general manager, the financial and other numbers need to be used for a long time, and they need to buy the old number." Whenever Tencent is strictly banned, the price of these WeChat accounts will rise, generally speaking, the price of 'childcare' number is 25 to 40 yuan, and the price of the old number such as the group owner is 350 to 500 yuan. ”
In addition to the WeChat signal that needs to be directly contacted with the player and friends, most of the WeChat signals controlled by the bookmaker are controlled by the WeChat plug-in program, which they call "robots".
Previously, the Beijing News reporter had contacted WeChat plug-in black industry practitioners, and the other party said that it only needed 4500 yuan to purchase a set of plug-in programs that could control ten WeChat signals at the same time to add friends, forward and other operations. However, for the online gambling industry, the plug-in program needs to achieve more complex functions and the price is more expensive.
According to the WeChat red envelope opening casino case heard by the Wujin District People's Court in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, in July 2018, the local police arrested 31 people involved in online gambling, one of whom said in an interview with the media that he used robot software to pump water according to 3% of the gambler's profits, which was automatically pumped by the robot. Robot software is constantly updated and upgraded, before the monthly use fee of 4,000 yuan, the new version of the software is 2,000 yuan per day, the other party only gives the right to use, will send statistical content to WeChat, "The other party is a Fujian person, specially to install software here with us." ”
In addition to purchasing WeChat group control software and purchasing WeChat accounts, online gambling practitioners also need to purchase bank cards and leather bag companies for money laundering.
The Beijing News reporter was told by the other party when contacting the finance of the cattle herd that it was necessary to transfer funds to the bank card provided by the reporter, and the reporter found that the bank card number was the public account of a local company.
"There are a lot of registered companies like this, all of them are leather bag companies. In fact, there is a special black industry engaged in the bulk registration of leather bag companies and the sale of these shell companies, and cattle and cattle can use these leather bag companies to launder money. On May 8, a former public security organ personnel who had cracked down on the relevant black industry told the Beijing News reporter, "These bank cards transferred by online gambling players are basically bought by black industry personnel online, it is not a real name, and the process of transferring funds from the company to the black industry boss will go through many layers of bank jumps, and it is difficult to directly trace it." ”
On May 9, a reporter from the Beijing News contacted a card merchant who sold "public accounts" and "Alipay four-piece sets". The other party said that the price of its sales to the public account was 8,000 yuan for 6 months, and said that "if there is a problem, it is responsible for after-sales".
"If the player transfers the money directly to the boss's account, once the player loses the money, it is easy to find out who the boss is, so it is necessary to use a fake bank card number for money laundering." Fifi told reporters, "The card merchants who dock large online gambling groups are also very powerful, the two are long-term cooperative relations, and some of the card merchants I know of docking large cattle and cattle can even provide 'insurance' for the cattle and cattle dealer, that is, once the bank card provided by the card dealer is judicially frozen, it will pay 50,000 to 100,000 yuan to the cattle herd." ”
Involved in the crime of opening a casino, many places have deeply cracked down on online gambling
As for the gambling form of using WeChat red envelopes for online gambling, there have been a number of litigation cases on the Internet showing that it violates the Criminal Law and belongs to the "opening of a casino" as stipulated in the second paragraph of article 303.
For example, the first-instance criminal judgment of the Jiedong District People's Court of Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, on the opening of a casino by the People's Court of Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, shows that in June 2016, the defendant Cai X, together with co-defendants Cai X2 and Cai X 3 (both of whom have been convicted), used the WeChat software of the mobile phone to establish a WeChat group nicknamed "AA Cattle Herd" in Jiedong District, Jieyang City, and organized the members of the group to set up a bet in the form of the sum of the 2 digits after the decimal point of the weChat red envelope amount stolen by the banker. The court held that the defendant Cai Mou, for the purpose of making profits, ganged up to use the Internet, mobile communication terminals, etc., to control and manage the WeChat group by inviting personnel to join the WeChat group, gambling by grabbing red envelopes, setting up gambling to organize gambling, obstructing the order of social management, the circumstances were serious, and his behavior had constituted the crime of opening a casino.
Zhang Xuemei, procurator of the Wujin District People's Procuratorate of Changzhou City, has publicly stated that China's Criminal Law stipulates: Whoever opens a casino shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined.
The Beijing News reporter found that due to the convenient way of participation, the game time is fast, the odds are extremely high, and the amount involved is often larger. The official website of the Huayin Public Security Bureau in Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, has published a case saying that on March 8, 2018, a WeChat red envelope gambling case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security had 35 suspects involved in the case arrested, 5 people were chased online, and the police seized more than 160 mobile phones, more than 70 bank cards, 4 computers, 2 monitoring equipment, and 1 POS machine, involving nearly 100 million yuan in gambling funds.
Fei Fei told the Beijing News reporter that in order to evade the arrest of the domestic police, many online gambling organizations moved to Manila, philippines, but they are still engaged in business that attracts Chinese gamblers online.
In July 2018, a reporter from the Beijing News went undercover into an online gambling company in Manila, the Philippines, which was backed by local gambling giant Soler Oriental Group.
"After that incident, many bookmakers were so strict that mobile phones and bags could not be brought into the office. However, due to the large number of local gambling practitioners in Manila, moving to Manila is still a better choice for domestic online gambling groups, but these gambling organizers are Chinese, and the pit is also Chinese, which is terrible. Fifi said.
Wang Yingwei, secretary of the Party Committee of the Cyber Security Protection Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, said at a press conference of the Ministry of Public Security on March 7 that it is necessary to strengthen international police law enforcement cooperation, especially to carry out concentrated crackdowns on prominent cyber criminal gangs and dens hiding in Southeast Asia, such as hacker attacks and online gambling.
At present, the "clean net 2019" special action has been carried out in depth throughout the country.
Since the beginning of this year, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau has cracked down on all kinds of prominent illegal crimes on the Internet, cracking more than 2,000 cases involving various types of networks in the first quarter and arresting more than 2,200 suspects involved in the cases. In the special operation, the network security system of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau focused on cracking down on hacker attacks and sabotage, infringement of citizens' personal information, network black production, online pornography, gambling and drugs, and other network-related crimes, cracking more than 50 main investigation cases of network security, arresting more than 390 suspects involved in the cases, and seizing more than 3,200 network crime tools. More than 1,200 clues related to network-related cases were detected and transmitted, and together with relevant units, a number of network-related cases such as online fraud, online gambling, online drug trafficking, and online crimes were cracked, and more than 530 suspects involved in the case were arrested.
Tencent said it banned more than 3,000 gambling or plug-in accounts in january 2019. "The amount of WeChat red envelopes is random, and the means by which gambling organizers win money is not to make the red envelope appear more wanted points, but to make the organizer win money by setting different odds, or even the fraudulent form of gamblers winning money without paying prizes, so as to achieve the purpose of profit." Please polish your eyes, don't believe the lies prepared by gambling organizers, and don't take chances and participate in it with the psychology of getting rich overnight. ”
Beijing News reporter Luo Yidan