1, illegal lottery is an illegal business activity, which constitutes the crime of illegal business operation;

2. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income;

3, there are other particularly serious circumstances, can be sentenced to more than five years in prison, and impose a fine of more than one time and less than five times the illegal income or confiscation of property.

The national public security department characterized this behavior as the crime of organizing a casino and sentenced it to 3- 10 years in prison depending on the amount.

If you participate in the purchase of black lottery tickets, you generally do not bear criminal responsibility, but only involve public security violations. However, if the amount involved is large, you may be investigated for criminal responsibility. Black is mainly divided into two categories. The first category refers to the production and distribution of one or n kinds of lottery tickets by individuals or groups for profiteering without the approval of any department, organ or country. It looks like an underground casino, and it is difficult to guarantee the fairness, impartiality and openness of lottery numbers. The second category usually refers to individuals or groups who use the lottery issued by the state to build a platform privately, greatly increase the bonus on the original basis, and create new ways to improve the winning rate, and make money by taking advantage of the vagaries of digital lottery. Lottery numbers are unified nationwide, and it is necessary to pay attention to the guarantee of funds. Black color is generally divided into: online and offline, offline is generally called black village. A person collects money from lottery players in various places or lottery players buy and sell black lottery tickets in fixed places, and then a data table is used as a guarantee. The other is online, where lottery players buy lottery tickets online through websites or black platforms. At present, all the lottery tickets that are not bought in stock are black.

I hope the above content can help you. Please consult a professional lawyer if you have any other questions.

Legal basis:

Article 225 of the Criminal Law

Whoever, in violation of state regulations, commits one of the following illegal business operations and disrupts the market order, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times for illegal gains or confiscation of property:

(a) operating a franchise or monopoly commodity or other commodities whose operation is restricted by laws and administrative regulations without permission;

(2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations;

(three) without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, illegally engaged in securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in fund payment and settlement business;

(four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order.