Fighting gambling crimes in cyberspace

(Baothanhhoa.vn) - Recently, although the crime and gambling situation in the province has been controlled, it is still potentially complicated. Especially, in the current period of strong development of information technology, gambling and gambling activities tend to take advantage of cyberspace to carry out, causing new difficulties and challenges for State management and crime prevention.

Police arrested a group of people organizing gambling over the internet.

To proactively combat gambling in general and gambling and organizing gambling on the internet in particular, the Criminal Police Department, Provincial Police has advised the Party Committee and the Director of Provincial Police to direct the professional departments of the Provincial Police, the police of communes and wards to coordinate with functional agencies to promote propaganda, education, and dissemination of laws to raise people's awareness of the harmful effects of gambling on life, economy , social order and safety, and that gambling in any form is a violation of the law. At the same time, mobilize people to actively fight, denounce crimes, participate in supporting functional forces to clean up the area, maintain security and order in the locality.

In addition, the police force coordinates with functional sectors to strengthen State management in the fields of information technology, telecommunications and related fields; inspects and guides enterprises providing telecommunications and internet services in the area to strictly manage internet subscribers, mobile phones, eliminate junk SIM cards, and prevent subjects from using them to gamble in cyberspace. On the other hand, coordinates with banks in the area to promptly detect, combat, prevent and strictly handle acts of money laundering from gambling and gambling activities; strictly controls electronic payment activities, the leasing and borrowing of bank accounts to receive and transfer money from gambling and gambling activities through websites, online games, etc.

In addition, review and make a list of business establishments with conditions that have a high risk of potential gambling crimes to proactively prevent and combat the formation of complicated gambling dens, causing public outrage; strengthen administrative inspection work in areas with complex crimes and social evils. Proactively grasp the situation, methods and tricks of criminals, gangs, locations and dens of organized gambling and online gambling to synchronously deploy professional measures to promptly detect, combat and handle subjects organizing gambling and gambling on cyberspace and acts of violating the law on gambling, especially professional, large-scale gambling rings, gangs and dens, causing public outrage.

Since the beginning of 2025, the police force in the province has arrested nearly 10 cases of gambling and organizing gambling over the internet. Typically, on April 10, 2025, the Criminal Police Department, Provincial Police fought and eliminated a group of scammers who appropriated property on the internet by playing Sic Bo games led by Bui Anh Trung, born in 1996 in Hanoi . The method of these subjects was to use bank accounts, fake Sic Bo game software and fake bank application software, then use Facebook accounts to livestream to attract and entice viewers to participate in Sic Bo with the promise of winning and transferring back to them an amount 10 times the amount they transferred. However, when the players transferred money, the subjects took possession and blocked all communication with the players...

In order to resolutely combat this type of crime, the police force in the province continues to strengthen the work of monitoring, inspecting, detecting and promptly handling websites, links and applications related to gambling and gambling organization activities in cyberspace. At the same time, closely coordinate with relevant agencies to exchange information, support investigation and handling of related cases; propagate, educate and raise awareness among the people about the consequences of participating in gambling and organizing gambling in cyberspace. Along with that, deploy peak periods of attacking, suppressing and destroying criminal lines and gangs operating in gambling and gambling organization. Effectively carry out the work of receiving and handling denunciations, crime reports, and recommending prosecution related to gambling and gambling organization activities. Timely detect and strictly handle gambling and gambling organization...

Article and photos: Quoc Huong

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