Is it illegal to cheat people by divination and buy strings?

Wang Huiqing, a doctoral student at Nanjing University Law School, believes that "network divination" is a traditional feudal superstition covered with modern technology, and modern technology is used to meet the psychological needs of contemporary youth for self-liberation. At present, network divination has spawned illegal activities such as network pyramid selling and network fraud. On the one hand, it shows the development trend of pyramid selling, on the other hand, it also breeds online fraud. Some operators find potential customers for them by setting up marketing personnel, and obtain the basic information of the parties, such as age, marital status, work situation and so on. , through professional speech, to convey to the operator. After obtaining the relevant information, the operator States the basic information of the parties by false divination, gains the trust of the parties, and then asks them to buy.

Divination has a long history. In ancient China, people often used tortoise shells, yarrow, copper coins, bamboo sticks and other means to infer good or bad luck in the future. Later, cards, astrology and other divination methods introduced from abroad gradually became popular and were sought after by some young people.