世界杯期间赌球？请三思！

四年一届的国际足联世界杯（FIFA World Cup）正在中东地区的卡塔尔举行, 在32支球队正在展现精彩球技、奋力争夺大力神杯的同时，一些不法分子却利用球迷的“胜负欲”趁机推出各类网络博彩、非法赌球等违法生意。

Judicial and public security authorities have tightened their ongoing crackdown on gambling and fraud related to soccer matches and reminded the public to guard against such risks during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Scammers often lure others by advertising that they know inside information about the World Cup, then invite the speculator to join a chat room on the pretext of receiving guidance from experts if they pay certain fees.

In another trap, scammers capitalized on the mentality of soccer fans seeking to place bets before the World Cup and sent links with Trojan horses via mass text messages. People who clicked the links triggered the viral program, leading to the theft of money attached to their phone numbers.

People who take part in gambling may be detained for a maximum of 15 days and fined up to 3,000 yuan.

Those who organize or profit from gambling shall be sentenced to imprisonment of no more than three years along with a fine.

People who organize or open a casino shall be given a maximum of 10 years' imprisonment and be fined.

Apart from opening physical casinos, acts including transferring gambling videos and data through the internet or mobile communication terminals, establishing gambling websites to accept bets or for others to organize gambling, acting as an agent for a gambling website and accepting bets, or participating in the profit sharing of a gambling website, shall be regarded as the act of opening a casino, according to the judge.