Xinhua News Agency, Harbin, May 17th Title: Perspective of a Extraordinary Online Gambling Case
Xinhua News Agency "Xinhua Viewpoint" reporters Chen Cong, Yang Xuan and Hou Ming
Recently, the Public Security Bureau of Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province successfully destroyed a mega-gambling criminal gang and found out that the funds involved were more than 1 billion yuan. It is reported that the gang set up an online gambling platform in 2016 to attract gamblers all over the country, and the crime time was as long as 7 years.
Criminal gangs arrested in mega-online gambling case.
"After a cross-border gambling criminal gang supervised by the Ministry of Public Security was destroyed, as required, we tracked the relevant information of more than 10 people involved in Jixi City. In January of this year, it was found that one of them had an abnormal capital flow, and many thousands and hundreds of dollars of funds were transferred out, and the time was in the middle of the night. " Yang Wenhao, the captain of the research and analysis brigade of the new network-related crime investigation branch of Jixi Public Security Bureau, said that this clue became the key to uncover the mega-online gambling case.
Following the flow of funds shown by this clue, more than 140 bank cards involved and a huge online gambling gang surfaced.
"We formed a joint arrest team to take action against the suspects." Yu Dan, deputy director of the new network-related crime investigation branch of Jixi Public Security Bureau, said that the joint arrest team was divided into two ways, and 26 suspects were arrested. Nine computers, 95 mobile phones and 62 bank cards were seized on the spot, and more than 23 million yuan of assets involved were seized according to law. Chen Mou, Huang Moumou and other criminal suspects confessed to the crime of participating in online gambling.
Yolanda, the captain of the second team of the new network-related crime investigation branch of Jixi Public Security Bureau, said that Chen Mou, the number one criminal behind the case, is from Fengshun County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. He is 43 years old and used to run his parents’ factory and run Internet cafes, tea houses and other businesses.
According to Chen Mou’s confession, in 2016, he heard that online gambling can make a lot of money, so he found Huang Moumou, the second principal in this case, and jointly planned to buy the terminal equipment needed to build a gambling platform. Later, Chen Mou recruited classmate Zhang Moumou and a neighbor to jointly prepare the mobile phone, computer, bank card, WeChat, Alipay account and rental house for the gambling platform. When the public security organs carried out the arrest, the gang only had more than 10 customer service personnel.
Chen Mou confessed that he made illegal profits of more than 12 million yuan in seven years. With the increasing gambling funds, the income of customer service staff of criminal gangs has been increasing, from the initial two or three thousand yuan per month to about 10 thousand yuan this year.

On April 5, the suspect was escorted to Jixi. (Photo courtesy of the respondents)
Yang Wenhao said that some customer service staff confessed that they had been cooks and taxi drivers before, and they joined the gang in order to make more money.
The seemingly easy game is actually manipulated by the backstage "Golden Finger"
The police investigating the case told reporters that the new online gambling game is very tempting, and criminals can manipulate the probability of winning or losing through the background.
Every step of the online gambling gang’s crime is precisely designed. The first step is to obtain a large number of mobile phone number information by illegal means, and then attract gamblers to participate in online gambling games by means of short messages, telephone calls, etc., with beautiful women chatting, huge rebates, and making money by swiping bills as bait.
"The promotion mode of the gambling platform at the beginning of its operation was mainly to carry out deception by purchasing personal information and sending mass mobile phone text messages. This method is more traditional, but it is very effective. " Yang Wenhao said that his words include "downloading a wealth management software to earn pocket money" and "playing fishing games can easily withdraw cash". After someone "hooked" the link to download the App, the customer service staff contacted and communicated with the gambler to guide them to enter the gambling game.
"There are relatively few types of online gambling games involved in this case, mainly including ‘ Fishing ’ ‘ Animal paradise ’ Etc., are very simple and easy to operate, attracting a large number of gamblers. " Yang Wenhao said.
"The core of this gambling game is to exchange gambling money for the game chip ‘ Points ’ Buy the opportunity to fish with guns in the game. If the gambler hits, he can win the corresponding ‘ Points ’ Then exchange it for cash. " Yang Wenhao introduced that this "fishing" game has no technical threshold.
"Gamblers will taste a little sweetness at first, but with the increasing investment, customer service will quietly use ‘ Goldfinger ’ — — ‘ Fishing ’ The difficulty of games is divided into four levels: simple, normal, difficult and dead, and the difficulty level can be adjusted in the background. " Yang Wenhao said that because the probability of winning or losing the game is manipulated by online gambling gangs, the total winning rate of gamblers who gamble for a long time is only 5%.

This is the crime tools and cash involved in the case seized at the arrest site. (Photo courtesy of the respondents)
Yang Bing, political commissar of the new network-related crime investigation branch of Jixi Public Security Bureau, said that similar online gambling routines are highly consistent: it is easy to get started. At the beginning, by setting a "simple" difficulty level, gamblers will win a few games; After being addicted, there will be a case of losing all the gambling money.
Strengthening source control to curb network-related crimes
Why can this gang continue to commit crimes for seven years?
According to the police investigating the case, the new online gambling has formed a complete industrial chain. Overseas servers and websites, domestic gambling sites, brokers’ websites serving gamblers, customer service personnel, third-party payment companies, various gamblers, etc. constitute the industrial circle of online gambling.
Jixi City Public Security Bureau has a clear hierarchy and well-organized criminal gangs. According to reports, criminal gangs are divided into pulling strings and customer service. Among them, Chen Mou and Huang Moumou, as managers, share the spoils according to the profit ratio. The customer service staff joined through the introduction of acquaintances, specifically responsible for the transfer of gambling funds, recharging virtual chips, and contacting gamblers. Customer service personnel rent residential houses as work dens, with three shifts and 24-hour online.
It is understood that the micro-signals and Alipay accounts used by the criminal gang’s customer service staff change on average once a month, and there is no correlation between different accounts. Their personal life numbers such as mobile phones and WeChat are separated from their work numbers. When the police arrested, they found that the customer service staff did not bring their own mobile phones with them. "Just the day before the suspect was arrested, the customer service workplace has just been replaced." Yolanda said that they are also very cautious about the choice of the workplace. The rooms next door and the upper and lower floors of the venue are generally uninhabited, and no one will open the door when knocking at the door. They remind each other to open the door through WeChat.
"To curb online gambling and telecom fraud, source control is the most critical." Yang Bing said that Jixi City has set up a joint conference office to crack down on telecommunication network fraud, controlled the "two cards" of mobile phone cards and bank cards, and controlled the opening of cards by outsiders and high-risk personnel to curb the occurrence of network-related crimes.
According to industry insiders, telecommunications, network information and other departments and institutions have stepped up inspections to identify, discover and block gambling apps and websites through technical means. "It is not difficult to block it in time. The key is to form a joint effort of government departments and banks, telecommunications and other institutions." Public security police in many places said.
The public security department reminded that the public should pay attention to protecting personal privacy, and at the same time constantly improve their awareness of prevention and anti-fraud ability, and stay away from all kinds of fancy gambling temptations. When you find that you are induced to enter the game, you should call the police in time to avoid property losses.