“Sexy lotus officers, online dealers, glucose online, sun entertainment, Venetian” If you have ever received a harassing text message like this, doing everything to entice you to click on the link. If you clicked in curiously ……
I advise you not to do this – if you do click into these links, you may become a wisp of light in the black hole that is the online gambling industry, and finally be sucked into nothingness, the end is invariably a broken home.
The internet is not a place outside the law, but there are always places that are difficult to be regulated, in these shadows, illegal elements build a huge underground network world, a source of nourishing a black industry – telecommunications fraud, money laundering, pornography, personal information dumping, piracy film and television, etc., the most knocked bone sucked marrow is the network betting.
Perhaps you may have heard some of the legends of online gambling, but you may not think that the source of these spam messages and the so-called legend of riches, many of them come from the distant Philippines gambling city – the capital city of Manila.
This Philippine gambling city, which began to take shape around 2001, is where the current giant companies were founded. Initially, it was more of a small workshop model, with four or five laptops in an apartment building to set up an online gambling site, and the business grew bigger and bigger thanks to the rapid development of the Internet in mainland China at the time.
In 2003, the company known as First Cagayan was the first to obtain a legal online gambling license, was listed in the United States, and was headquartered in Cagayan province in the northern Philippines, under the management of the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority.
Pagcor was established in 2016, and this new agency officially announced that it could issue online gambling licenses and defined companies without a Pagcor license as illegal, and the agency also had the power to revoke their operating status. President Rodrigo Duterte even pushed Congress to recognize the legality of online gambling in the Philippines in the form of legislation, and the gaming companies were completely cleansed and brought out of the gray area to an unprecedented legal status.
Who is Pagcor with so much power? The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) is a 100% government-controlled corporation of the Office of the President of the Republic of the Philippines. Yes, you read that right, 100% government-controlled.
It has three main roles.
① Regulates, authorizes and licenses the gaming industry, including lotteries, cards, and the Internet.
② Generate revenue for the Philippine government’s social citizenship and national development programs.
(iii) Promote a thriving tourism industry in the Philippines. Most importantly, regulated online gaming companies pay it an annual regulatory tax of 5%.
Pagcor has now issued only 57 licenses, but there are far more than 57 online gaming companies in the Philippines. The mystery is that the licensed internet gambling companies are using the mall pavement distribution model to directly land a large number of small and micro gambling companies in Manila.
This is very similar to the domestic travel agency model, the entire gaming building is a large shopping mall, all the offices are used to lease the store. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a lot of money to use the facilities inside the mall.
In the past few years, with the legalization of local online gambling, Manila has quickly emerged as a gambling city. The most important thing is that in addition to online gamblers and gambling money, there are hundreds of thousands of “vegetable farmers” supporting the operation of this gambling city. The online gambling industry jargon called “spinach” also known as “planting”, employees are called “vegetable farmers”.
The internet gambling industry is also labor-intensive, and it requires a large number of “vegetable farmers” to solicit gamblers online to keep the whole bureau running. It is said that there are at least 30w Chinese people in Manila who are engaged in spinach related industries.
The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are looking for a lot of money, but you can’t find a lot of people who are looking for a lot of money. Work experience does not have any requirements.
This is a strong attraction to most “small town youth” who earn less than 5,000 a month on the assembly line in coastal factories and are eager to make a name for themselves.
It is said that there is also the so-called school-enterprise cooperation, part of the domestic secondary school or even college technical school in the case of unknown, for the headhunting company to provide a large number of cheap manpower, illegal online gaming industry derived from the headhunting company, also earn a lot of money. It is always rumored that a head of five thousand yuan agency fee, in fact, just the tip of the iceberg, if the headhunting company can help to dig to the executive or technical bull, then generally can be divided into 25-30% of the annual salary.
In addition to the owner of the online gaming company, the main staff composition can be simply classified as promotion, agents, technology.
The main component of the internal bottom staff is just mentioned “small town youth”, or just graduated college students, where they will carry out “two shifts system”, to learn to use the computer at the same time login 10 QQ or WeChat, using these social networking software in the group of self-questioning. They learn to log in to 10 QQ or WeChat computers at the same time and use these social networking software to ask and answer questions in the group and post lottery winning information to create a “master” persona.
Once the identity is created, then send all kinds of lottery prediction results in the group, to lure the group of friends to follow the master to play together, ten points of the lottery, the master will “guess” 7-8 times the results, short of two or three days, more “raise” a week, people die for money, birds die for food. The result of the game will be a lot of money.
This means that the fish is hooked, the next is to collect the net, jargon called “kill the pig”.
The actual fact is that the actual people who are in a position to get a good deal more than just a few of these people are not going to be able to get a good deal more than just a few of them. The actual fact is that the actual people who are in a position to get a good deal more than just a few of these people are not going to be able to get a good deal more than just a few of these people. The majority of the agents in the country, and the promotion of the same, is also to take the persona to build the route, in our northwest home eighteen line county can hear their existence.
The increasingly prosperous network gaming industry also requires a large number of technical personnel, daily online gaming game design, development, maintenance, which requires a large number of highly educated technical personnel to complete. I have a friend who is a technical project leader within the domestic it industry and has often received messages from headhunters asking him if he would like to come and work in Manila, offering salaries that are several times higher than those in the country.
The huge demand for manpower has resulted in close to 50,000 “white people” entering the Philippines every year, most of whom are going abroad for the first time, or even flying for the first time, basically with tourist visas, and most of whom do not speak English.
This massive influx of “white people” has also given rise to a whole new industry in the Philippines – customs bonding.
The market price for pre-departure bonding ranges from 3,500 to 7,000 pesos (about 500 to 1,000 RMB). The agent will collect your passport information in advance, and the agent will earn a certain amount of money, and the rest will be given to the immigration office.
Upon landing, you will be picked up at the gate with a sign and instructed to fill out an entry slip, followed by a tour leader who will arrange for you to go to a special counter for entry procedures, just like a tour group. If something happens to go wrong and enter the immigration “black room” do not worry, there will be someone to organize the “rescue”, the price is divided into “half an hour golden rescue period” and outside the price, if you miss the If you miss the half-hour golden rescue, then the price of retrieving people will be doubled.
The same as the insurance off bound together with the blackout and whitewash business. Gaming companies can ban “haters” from entering the country if they are willing to pay for it. The blacklisted people also do not need to rush, after the blacklisting as long as they are willing to pay money to cleanse. For a fee, you can be “cleared” from the immigration blacklist system. Currently, the cost of clearing a list can be as high as $7,000.
Once on a business trip to Manila, the taxi driver and I were talking and would point to the building not far away and say: Many many Chinese, work here, work it, but no good English, for the average Filipino they do not care what it is, IT and online gambling, there is no difference to them, maybe The only difference is whether the English is good or not.
And there are some local Filipinos who complain that the Chinese have raised the rental prices of their houses, saying that the Chinese neighbors who move in tend to be loud and spiteful.
At the same time, poor English has created a huge “ecosystem”, as tens of thousands of people need to live, and hundreds of KTVs, hot pot restaurants, late-night stalls, milk tea stores, barbecue stores, Chinese restaurants, hairdressers, and even “peripheral girls” have been incubated around the gaming buildings in various districts. “.
There was a travel agent who sent out a circle of friends, cautioning over the gold rush peripheral women, dress needs to be neat and relatively conservative, otherwise they are deducted, fishing for people to spend extra money, very magical, but real. If you happen to pass near the building during their commute, you will see tens of thousands of Chinese “falling from the sky”, as if you were in some industrial park in the Pearl River Delta or Yangtze River Delta.
The more direct impact of spinach on Manila is the “housing market,” and in the eyes of investors, the online gambling industry has opened up new opportunities for Manila real estate. In Manila’s large and small housing exchange groups, there are often buyers’ agents asking to rent entire floors of entire condominiums as staff quarters.
It is not uncommon for a condominium to change its name several times and be passed around by the drums, but even so, the place is still crowded with people who are afraid of missing out on the wealth express.
The huge gap between the rich and the poor caused by spinach has created a unique landscape in the capital city of Manila, with high-rise buildings vermilion on one side and various shacks built out of tin on the other.
The world is bustling with profit, the world is bustling with profit. The face of temptation, can adhere to the principle of not too many people, more people are lost in their own desires, unable to extricate themselves.
“This is a bunch of big crooks with small crooks here to cheat”, an old Manila Chinese once said to me. The big bosses are drunk on paper and are afraid of the stronger crackdown by the Chinese police over the years, while the “small town youth” who have traveled thousands of miles to foreign countries to seek gold are most afraid of going back to the past and working mechanically in the noisy factories all day long.
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