The World Cup Football Tournament will be unveiled on the 20th of this month. Illegal gambling groups have recently promoted it, attracting Hong Kong people's betting.
According to the Sing Tao Daily report on November 17, the Anti -illegal Gambling and related financial crimes of the Asian Horse Racing Alliance has always paid attention to illegal gambling activities. Recent research shows that illegal gambling groups have tried to use the World Cup to expand the market.Recently, it has adopted a more active strategy than ever in terms of marketing and publicity to lure Hong Kong people betting.The gap between the portals is placed on the windshield of the car, recruiting new gamblers by fishermen's sources.
Illegal gambling websites also absorb gamblers through preferential discounts, such as setting up more attractive odds than Hong Kong Jockey Club, providing convenient ways to open account opening and color, and provide credit to gamblers.Betting, post -payment.
Studies show that 79%of those participating in illegal gambling are betting on illegal gambling websites, and the dealer's establishment website is becoming easier. Among them, 73%of the websites are set up using ready -made software, and it is not very professional.Knowledge; in addition, it is also easy to open an account on the website, and the method of settlement and betting is becoming more and more diversified, including electronic payment tools and cryptocurrencies.
In addition to using the bank account cross -border remittance, the illegal gambling dealer also uses virtual currency to transfer money to money. The latter's transaction method is difficult to trace, which makes the gambling group have no possibility to suck gamblers.
As illegal gambling group actively absorb gamblers through various ways, and 70%of the current World Cup event is held from 6 pm Hong Kong time to 12 am.The bet amount will increase from HK $ 30 billion (about S $ 50.206 billion) in the 2018 World Cup to 40 billion Hong Kong dollars in this year. It is expected that Hong Kong people will lose at least HK $ 2 billion to illegal gambling dealers.
