China’s government has issued a public reminder to all and sundry that online lottery sales are, for the time being at least, strictly illegal.

On Tuesday, 12 Chinese ministries and commissions issued a joint communiqué “resolutely prohibiting the unauthorized use of the Internet to sell lottery tickets” while vowing to “seriously investigate and deal with corporate or personal illegal and illegal online sales.”

The 12 government bodies that signed on to the announcement include the Ministry of Finance that oversees lottery operations, the People’s Bank of China as well as the feared Ministry of Public Security.

The government plans a “three-dimensional remedial action” that tasks the Ministry of Culture and Tourism with policing the “unauthorized use of online sales in online games,” while banking officials will monitor “the provision of payment settlement services” to unauthorized lottery operations.