I cheated the scammers, why do you arrest me?" A strange case happened in Cangnan, Zhejiang Province. So far, no one knows who called the police. After graduating from university, Zeng had a stable and decent job, but later he felt that the salary was too low, so he chose to quit and start his own business. He never expected that he would lose millions in the end, but Zeng was not discouraged. In order to make money, he set his sights on gambling websites.
Zeng did not want to make a comeback through gambling. He knew very well that online gambling was a scam. The staff of online gambling would manipulate the odds in the background, gradually enticing gamblers to increase their bets until those who participated in online gambling lost their entire fortunes.
Zeng was very smart. Since the website staff could operate the odds in the background, could he also use a Trojan horse to quietly control the background and change the odds? After all, Zeng was a person who dared to resign and start a business. He was very decisive and did what he said.
Later, Zeng found his computer-savvy accomplice Zhou, and the two began to study the feasibility of "stealing money" from gambling websites. At first, they found two overseas gambling platforms to experiment, but as expected, they failed and lost a lot of money.
But this did not dampen their enthusiasm. Failure is the mother of success. Zeng and Zhou drew nourishment from this sentence and finally successfully mastered the core technology. They got the wool of the gambling website for the first time, and they couldn't stop after that. Not only did they wool the wool of the website themselves, they also recruited several employees to open a "branch" and everyone wooled together.
After the police arrested the two men, they found out through investigation that they had illegally gained more than one million yuan in that year, averaging about 100,000 yuan per month. At present, the local police said that the details of the case are still under further investigation.
1. After the incident, some netizens were discussing whether it was Zeng's subordinates who chose to call the police because they were dissatisfied with Zeng's management or because the spoils were not evenly distributed, or whether it was the gambling website that found someone was fleecing them and reported Zeng and others for fraud? Was someone defrauding our gambling website of money?
Of course, some people speculated that Zeng and Zhou had an internal conflict and finally chose to call the police. In fact, from a legal point of view, no matter who it is or what the reason is, as long as a crime is discovered, they have the right and obligation to report it.
According to Article 110 of the Criminal Procedure Law, any unit or individual who discovers a criminal fact or a criminal suspect has the right and obligation to report the case to the public security organ, the people's procuratorate or the people's court.
2. Gambling is illegal, which also leads to another topic: does Zeng et al.'s behavior of stealing money from gambling websites constitute a crime? There are different opinions on this. First, Zeng et al.'s behavior does not constitute a crime, because gambling funds are not protected by law. Since gambling funds are not protected by law, Zeng et al.'s behavior of stealing money from gambling websites does not pose a social hazard, so they do not constitute a crime.
But unfortunately, this is only a theory. This reason is generally adopted in practice. Regardless of whether the gambling money is protected by law, as long as the perpetrator illegally possesses or seizes it, it constitutes a crime.
Second, Zeng et al. committed the crime of theft. Theft refers to the act of stealing a large amount of public or private property for the purpose of illegal possession, or with other circumstances.
This opinion holds that Zeng and others used Trojan programs to quietly control the website backend and change the odds, which is a theft.
The judicial interpretation stipulates that stealing 1 million yuan for the first time is a “special amount” and the offender may be sentenced to more than 10 years’ imprisonment or life imprisonment and may be fined or have his property confiscated.
Third, Zeng et al. committed the crime of fraud. The crime of fraud refers to the act of defrauding a large amount of public or private property by fabricating facts or concealing the truth for the purpose of illegal possession.
This opinion holds that the gambling website did not know that the backend odds had been changed by Zeng and others, and fell into a misunderstanding, paying Zeng and others a large amount of money. The actions of Zeng and others met the constituent elements of the crime of fraud.
According to the judicial interpretation, fraud of 1 million yuan also falls under the category of "extremely large amount", and the sentence is also more than 10 years of fixed-term imprisonment or life imprisonment, and a fine or confiscation of property. Finally, this incident tells us that we should never get involved in online gambling, because in essence, online gambling is fraud, and the so-called odds are actually controlled by humans, not random at all. What do you think about this? Pay attention to hot issues and discuss the human heart and the law.
