According to a report by China Youth Daily on January 22, in July 2023, Li Xue, who was studying in college in Ningxia, leaked his personal information because of a "part-time job" that required facial verification. Later, he inexplicably became a member of many companies in Sichuan. The legal representative or executive of the company.
In September of that year, he failed to pass the qualification review when applying for the civil service examination and failed to take the exam.
In a group chat called "Impersonation Victims", nearly 400 victims' identities were used forcibly, making it difficult for them to pass their job background examinations and make it difficult for them to take public exams or become editor-in-chief.
Due to a part-time job experience, a college student inexplicably became a "legal person" of the company, and his personal life was affected. It seemed like a "misfortune fell from the sky", but in fact this was a routine designed by criminals, that is, in the name of "part-time job", salary temptation, etc. College students participate in related activities through facial recognition.
College students completed face recognition and identity authentication during online company registration without knowing it.
Such counterfeitly registered companies often operate abnormally or engage in illegal activities.
The above reports show that criminals seek profits and evade responsibilities through the above tricks, and some of the "legalized" college students' employment has been deeply affected, some have had their subsistence allowances revoked, and some have fallen into legal disputes... At the same time, the victims It is very difficult to cancel the relevant business establishment.
In 2019, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the "Guiding Opinions on Cancellation of Company Registrations Obtained by False Use of Others' Identity Information", which provides specific opinions on the acceptance, publicity, investigation, cancellation, punishment and correction of false registrations.
Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the "Regulations on Preventing and Investigating Illegal Activities in the Registration of Counterfeit Enterprises", which will be officially implemented on March 15, 2024.
The regulations increase the intensity of crackdowns on false registrations and set administrative penalty responsibilities such as confiscation of illegal income, fines of 50,000 yuan to 1 million yuan, and revocation of business licenses, and connect criminal liabilities.
The promulgation of relevant opinions and regulations is expected to provide a strong deterrent to criminals who use other people's identities to register companies.
In recent years, the phenomenon of citizens being "legalized" has appeared frequently, often pointing to the lax control of the company registration process.
At present, company registration procedures and procedures are becoming increasingly convenient, which is a good thing for entrepreneurs, but it is also easy for criminals to take advantage of loopholes.
As mentioned in the above report, some criminals take advantage of loopholes in facial recognition, identity authentication, and online signature links in the online company registration process, or pretend to be college students to register, or purchase facial recognition data to complete registration.
Some people may think that during the face recognition process, the system will ask the applicant to blink, shake his head, etc., making it difficult to fake.
But in fact, once college students who don't know the truth are taken advantage of, they will often cooperate with the criminals to complete the identity authentication.
Moreover, face recognition can also be successfully completed using pre-recorded videos.
It is not difficult to see that if the relevant loopholes are not plugged, the phenomenon of "being legalized" will continue to occur.
There have been many examples showing that face recognition is not a perfect identity verification method and faces many risks of fraud in reality.
In the company registration process, counterfeiting not only disrupts market order and breeds illegal crimes, but also causes great harm to the victims of the "legal person".
Therefore, while increasing the intensity of subsequent crackdowns and penalties, how to prevent counterfeiting from passing certification is worthy of in-depth consideration by local market regulatory authorities.
Of course, it is equally important to promptly investigate and punish relevant illegal activities, personnel and related industry chains, and to promptly remind college students and other groups to increase their vigilance and prevent facial information from being illegally used.