These servers are gambling sites located in the Asia-Pacific region, have hundreds of mini-games, and also support video betting. In addition, many Apple mobile phone users often receive spam gambling text messages from email addresses in text messages.

Source: Beijing Youth Daily

Original title: "Venetian Macau" VIP cards are placed in the community. Apple mobile phone users have also been harassed by gambling website advertisements for a long time

How to send Venetian small advertisements to the doorsteps

Recently, many citizens have placed advertisements on their doors The "small advertisements" of online casinos were discovered. These servers are located in gambling websites in the Asia-Pacific region. They have hundreds of small games and also support video betting. In addition, many Apple mobile phone users often receive spam gambling text messages from email addresses in their text messages. Gambling websites are embedded in multiple apps linked to them and passed the review of the Apple Store in a disguised form.

Small advertisements for online illegal gambling have moved from online to offline, which is surprising. During the investigation, reporters from Beijing Youth Daily also found that these gambling websites not only conduct illegal gambling activities, but also induce others to join "agents" and encourage people around them to participate in gambling. Some lawyers pointed out that the method of developing offline agents falls under the "serious circumstances" of the crime of opening a casino stipulated in the criminal law.

"VIP cards" of gambling websites were sent to citizens' doorsteps

It was discovered that

small advertisements for gambling websites were stuffed at the doorsteps of citizens

A few days ago, Mr. Yang, who lives in Wangjing area, reported to Beiqing News reporter that he was in front of his house A "Venetian Macao VIP Card" was found on the Internet, with the card number 7003××××. The card reads, "With this card, you will get a free 58 yuan when you open a new account on the Venetian Macau website, and you can withdraw money if you win 800 yuan." He suspected that the card was for online gambling. “Online gambling actually promoted itself by entering the community offline and posting small advertisements.”

A reporter from Beiqing Daily logged in based on the URL on the card and discovered that the "Venetian Macau" website is indeed an online gambling website. Entering the website, various games such as lottery games, Mark Six Lottery, sports events, board and card games are involved, with hundreds of mini-game types in total. And words such as “government supervision, legal license” try to deceive users’ trust.

In the "Live Entertainment" section, you can participate in gambling through high-definition video, and the dealer is a beautiful woman. According to the platform introduction, users can experience an immersive experience through the camera and can also have close contact with the dealer. Sports betting includes popular sports such as football, basketball, cricket, motor sports and more. A reporter from Beiqing Daily saw that in the "Baccarat" game video room, there are multiple game tables with real people dealing cards online and guiding users to place bets. Users can directly participate in gambling through the video system. In another "live broadcast room", there are women online video chatting, performing, and guiding users to recharge and reward.

A reporter from Beiqing Daily found out through an online tool that the IP address and server of this website are located in the "Asia-Pacific region" and are not in China. However, the default language of the website is Chinese; its contact information is all commonly used domestic social software, including WeChat and QQ; its payment methods include bank cards, WeChat, Alipay and other commonly used domestic payment tools; the payees are also domestic accounts. The above information all proves that the final exit of the website’s funds is domestic criminals.

Investigation of gambling website advertisements received on Apple mobile phone

Gambling website payment account is a Jilin company

In a prominent position on the above website, it shows "Full support: WeChat, Alipay, QQ Wallet, bank card deposit. Deposit will be free." The words "2% discount, deposits will arrive in seconds" attract users to recharge immediately.

Beiqing Daily reporter tested and found that after registering an account, users can use the above channels to recharge. The other party's deposit account is a public account registered by the company, named "Jilin Citizen Haochen Food Equipment Co., Ltd." If you use online banking or Alipay channels to transfer money, you can directly enter the card number and enter it into the other party's China Merchants Bank account; if you use QQ wallet, Alipay scan code and other channels to transfer money, the system will display a QR code, scan it and transfer the money directly to the other party. Wallet; if you use WeChat to pay, the system will display a personal card number named Wang Mouping.Some people in the payment field said that the payees of WeChat and Alipay are individuals or another company. Unless there is relevant information to prove that they are illegal channels, WeChat, Alipay, etc. will not know that they are gambling payees.

A reporter from Beiqing News found in the Jilin Enterprise Credit System that Jilin Citizen Haochen Food Equipment Co., Ltd. was established on June 19. It was registered with an investment of 1.5 million from two natural person shareholders. Its business scope only includes the manufacturing of food production equipment parts and fruits. Manufacture of vegetable processing equipment and does not have any business related to the Internet.

Follow up

Apple mobile phones have received a large amount of gambling advertising information

During the investigation, a reporter from Beiqing Daily found that in addition to entering ordinary communities through small advertisements as a new form, this type of gambling website advertising has already eroded many Apple mobile phones. Apple mobile phone user Xiaojing showed her mobile phone to a reporter from Beiqing Daily. In the "Messages - Not in Address Book", there were dozens of spam messages with the sender being an email address, and more than half of the messages were related to gambling.

is like a text message "××国际, high odds of settlement in one minute, precise Beijing racing plan...". In addition to the text message, a picture is also sent together. The picture shows that you can directly click to download the APP to receive the bonus, and the download is an official Apple download. A reporter from Beiqing Daily clicked and discovered that the link indeed pointed to an App in the Apple App Store. However, the name of the App has nothing to do with gambling, it is called "×× Navigation-New, more efficient and practical"; its introduction is also "to provide more efficient, accurate and practical navigation for your life, leisure and entertainment navigation". However, after downloading and opening the App, you will find that the content of the App is a gambling software, which is completely inconsistent with the navigation and App introduction pictures and text.

The pages of this application include lottery games, live video, electronic games, sports events, etc., guiding consumers to engage in online gambling. However, in the most conspicuous position of the App, its advertisements read: "Is it too risky to gamble by yourself? Join an agent and earn millions!" "Comprehensively upgrade the pyramid agency model, and get rebate commissions every day" and so on. After communicating with customer service, we found that on the one hand, customer service guided Beiqing News reporters to recharge and experience the game. On the other hand, they encouraged Beiqing News reporters to join "agents" and mobilize more relatives and friends around them to recharge, so as to easily obtain commissions. "As long as you recharge, you can upgrade your agency. I will help you generate your own invitation code in the background. After the upgrade, you can also manually adjust the agency commission rate in the agency center." The other party said.

However, when a reporter from Beiqing Daily registered according to his prompts, he was prompted that the invitation code of the other party had expired. At this time, the other party said, "The app you are using is our branch. If you download our main app, that one will have customer service." Later, the other party guided the Beiqing Daily reporter to download another software. In other words, the same group of people have more than one platform to carry out this type of gambling activities.

Explanation of doubts

Why Apple phones always receive text messages from gambling websites

Similar to Xiaojing, user Ms. Yin often receives various types of spam messages sent to her email address, including gambling, high-quality imitation goods, fake certificates, etc. "I have two mobile phones at the same time, one Android system and one Apple system. It's strange that the Apple system often receives this kind of information, but the Android one doesn't. Why is this?"

An industry insider told the Beiqing Daily reporter, " Your personal information is likely to be sold on the black market. They use the accounts of these target users to send you iMessage messages. This message is not sent through text messages, but is sent through traffic, similar to emails. "According to reports, there are currently. Specialized simulation request software can send such information in batches, and they can also be sent directly through Apple devices, such as computers, mobile phones, etc. More importantly, "Apple attaches great importance to user privacy. Apple has no right and never reads the content of messages sent by users on the server side, so it cannot supervise users through content. In other words, Apple will not use iMessage because of If there are words such as 'gambling' in it, the information will be blocked."On the contrary, for information sent through SMS, the three major domestic operators can set up spam blocking systems. Information with similar words as illegal information will be directly blocked by the system and cannot be delivered to users.

So is there any good way to block this information? According to the industry insider, users can block it through settings such as "Settings-Information-Filter unknown senders". Once set, the system will turn off iMessage notifications from non-contacts and categorize messages separately as "filtered messages." You can also select "mobile phone number" in "Send and Receive" instead of email address, because many people find users through email addresses. However, this may also "accidentally kill" some normal content messages sent by non-contacts. According to reports, users can also click "Report Spam" at the bottom after receiving spam information to delete the information and feedback the data to Apple.

"Apple is also studying relevant methods. The spam filtering part will definitely be better in the future, but now it is too difficult to solve this problem due to some privacy clauses." Industry insiders also reminded users, "You can also use third parties The software is set up and blocked. But you have to be careful, because when they are filtering information, they essentially mean that they are also reading your iMessage. "

The sound

is a "serious case" for gambling websites.

With the investigation. Going deeper, Beiqing Daily reporters were pulled into different WeChat groups by customer service staff from multiple gambling websites. Many people in the groups were discussing their "results."

Regarding the investigation by Beiqing Daily reporters, a lawyer said that these institutions and individuals who opened online gambling websites have actually constituted the crime of "opening casinos." In 2010, the Ministry of Public Security and others promulgated the "Opinions on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Handling Online Gambling Criminal Cases", which stipulates that any person who uses the Internet, mobile communication terminals, etc. to transmit gambling videos and data, organize gambling activities, and meets any of the following circumstances shall be classified as The act of "opening a casino" stipulated in Paragraph 2 of Article 303 of the Criminal Law: establishing a gambling website and accepting bets, establishing a gambling website and providing it to others to organize gambling, acting as an agent for a gambling website and accepting bets, and participating in the profit sharing of a gambling website .

Any behavior such as “recruiting lower-level agents for gambling websites and having the lower-level agents accept bets” shall be deemed to be a “serious circumstance” as stipulated in the second paragraph of Article 303 of the Criminal Law. The Criminal Law stipulates that anyone who opens a casino shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or 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.

Tips

The public security organs continue to promote the crackdown on online gambling

It is understood that the public security organs have clearly reminded the general public that using WeChat and other online platforms to gamble is illegal. If the standards for criminal filing are met, criminal liability will be pursued according to the crime of gambling and the crime of opening a casino.

According to Public security agencies in various places focus on, crack down on and deter criminal activities that use sports betting, illegal lotteries, online game platforms, etc. to open casinos, and effectively maintain a good social security environment and national economic security.

It is understood that in recent years, the Ministry of Public Security has continued to promote the "broken chain" operation to crack down on cross-border online gambling crimes, guiding local public security agencies to accurately crack down on and continuously detect a number of major gambling-related cases. Since last year alone, we have supervised and directed local public security agencies to uncover more than 7,000 criminal cases of cross-border online gambling, dismantle 3,100 criminal gangs, seize and freeze 11 billion yuan of gambling-related funds, and dismantle more than 270 illegal underground banks, online payment and other gangs. , strongly squeezing the space for gambling illegal and criminal activities.At the same time, we will actively work with relevant departments to deepen source governance, strengthen industry supervision, promote targeted prevention and control measures for the normalization of online gambling, continuously strengthen publicity and education guidance on gambling bans, and guide local public security agencies to deliver safety through the national community police "Five Advances" series of themes Publicity, anti-gambling publicity week and other activities deeply expose the harmfulness and deceptiveness of gambling illegal crimes, and actively create a good social atmosphere that rejects gambling and opposes gambling. (Reporter Wen Jing)