Reporter’s undercover "WeChat group for rent": Publish gambling and other illegal information to trick students into participating
"Certificate rent V letter plus me, check out before six o'clock" "Regular part-time job, earn 50 yuan to 300 yuan a day", during summer vacation, in the student class or part-time group, similar part-time advertising messages often appear to attract students to rent WeChat.
Sophomore student Zhang Lei (pseudonym) rented out WeChat at a price of 10 yuan per hour after seeing this type of information. After the lease period ended, he discovered that his WeChat account was blocked. In addition, some students mentioned that WeChat was stolen after renting out.
A reporter from the Beijing News found that in the rental WeChat account industry chain, various advertisements will be published after the account is rented, even including pornography, gambling and other content, and the remuneration will be calculated based on the length of the rental and the content of the release.
A hirer admitted frankly that in order to get more people to join, they would also recruit students to act as agents.
On July 12 this year, the Wuhan police issued a message stating that they are currently handling a case of using WeChat rental to implement online fraud. The police believe that the high school student who rented out the WeChat account in the case is an accomplice of fraud and is currently under further investigation.
Students strayed into the WeChat rental trap and their account was blocked
"Lease your WeChat account and make a proper payment of one hundred yuan every day." On July 28, Zhang Lei saw such a part-time job message in the campus part-time group.
Zhang Lei told the Beijing News reporter that during the communication, the other party promised to pay according to the length of the rental period and pay 10 yuan per hour, which is only used to publish normal advertising. "My WeChat friends only had more than 200 people. I thought I could make some money, so I gave them their WeChat account and password and asked him to rent them for 1 day."
On July 29, when the lease ended, Zhang Lei tried to log in to WeChat again and found that the account had been blocked by the platform. At the same time, the people who rented WeChat could no longer be reached.
A reporter from the Beijing News found that many students have the same experience as Zhang Lei.
Xiaoli (pseudonym) is a senior high school student, according to her introduction, as early as 3 years ago, she saw part-time advertisements for renting WeChat.
"It was the WeChat that my classmates rented out first, so I joined together." Xiaoli mentioned that the other party also promised before renting out that it was only used to publish voting information and would not do illegal things.
When the one-day rental period ended, Xiaoli received a rent of 30 yuan, and when she logged in to WeChat again, she found that her WeChat avatar had been replaced with a picture of an online beauty, but she could still use it normally. A few days later, she discovered that WeChat was banned. After asking her classmates, she learned that other students who rented out WeChat had encountered the same situation before, but they all continued to rent after they were unblocked by friends.
Lure students to participate, release gambling, pornography and other information
A reporter from the Beijing News found that in the rental WeChat account industry chain, various advertisements will be published after the account is rented, even including pornography, gambling and other content, and the remuneration will be calculated based on the length of the rental and the content of the release.
On July 28, a netizen named "Yue Yao Ran Xing Chen" in the QQ group named "Student Part-time Job" posted multiple times about renting part-time jobs on WeChat.
Through this netizen, a reporter from the Beijing News contacted its online. The other party claimed to be the boss of the WeChat business. "These people who post part-time information in the group are my agents, and most of them are students. The agent recruits 50 people every time. , You can earn nearly 1,000 yuan in remuneration."
The "boss" revealed that most of the renters of WeChat are students, and the agency will usually claim that the use of WeChat is to publish formal content, but in fact they are illegal advertisements, including gambling, pornography, etc. Therefore, WeChat can easily be blocked.
"When students decide to rent out WeChat, I will tell them that if their account is officially blocked, they will be paid." The above-mentioned "boss" stated that WeChat will pay 100 yuan a day, 300 yuan for three days, and permanent ban will pay. More, but it is the WeChat account that has been certified by the real name.
On July 29, a reporter from the Beijing News added an agent account as a student, and after agreeing to rent out WeChat, he was pulled into a new QQ group. There are 9 members in the group, 8 of whom are students renting out WeChat, and the rental price is 50 yuan per day.
About 5 hours later, the accounts of 8 people in the group were officially banned. The reporter's WeChat login page showed that the account was restricted from logging in due to harassment, malicious marketing, fraud and other violations, and it was necessary to apply for unblocking. The blocking period ranged from 1 to 3 days.
WeChat issued a reminder, lawyer: renting an account is equivalent to authorizing others to use
The Beijing News reporter noticed that after WeChat account is rented out, it will also face the risk of account theft.
Netizen Daye has rented out WeChat account many times, but when she rented out the last time, she discovered that her account was stolen. "It was good for rent at first, but after the other party logged in with my account and password, he deleted my WeChat group, untied my credit card, bank card, mobile phone number and email. Then I learned that deleting my friends prevented me from looking Back to the password, unbinding is to prevent me from appealing."
The Beijing News reporter found that the "Tencent WeChat Software License and Service Agreement" clearly stipulates that WeChat users only have the right to use their accounts. Users cannot rent or transfer their registered accounts to others, nor can they rent or borrow other's WeChat accounts. .
Regarding account security issues, the WeChat Security Center once released information stating that once violations of the account are found, the WeChat security system will suspend it. The use of WeChat to publish pornographic, gambling, fraud, harassment, advertising and other illegal information will be restricted from use. Criminals often need a large number of accounts to engage in illegal activities.
The WeChat Security Center reminds that users who rent out their accounts may participate in the operation of the online black and gray industry without their knowledge, or they may be stolen, directly damaging the vital interests of themselves and their relatives and friends.
In addition, on July 24, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Notice on Launching a Special Rectification Action to Promote App Infringement of Users’ Rights and Interests", which mentioned that relevant companies are urged to strengthen the protection of APP personal information, and promptly rectify and eliminate illegal collection and use of user personal information and harassment User and other issues, purify the APP application space.
Regarding the legal issues involved in renting WeChat, Fu Jian, a lawyer at Henan Yulong Law Firm, believes that if WeChat is leased to criminals for a certain amount of remuneration, it can be regarded as authorizing WeChat to be used by the other party. According to the specific circumstances of the case, serious ones can even be identified as accomplices or help criminals of lawbreakers and need to bear corresponding legal responsibilities.
Fu Jian reminded that WeChat is related to privacy and security. Lease of personal WeChat to others may not only cause privacy leakage and property loss, but also may be used by criminals to assume additional debts and affect credit investigation.
Student was investigated for renting WeChat, police: suspected of fraud
On July 12 this year, the Wuhan police issued a message stating that the police in Qingshan District of Wuhan City handled a case of using WeChat rental to commit online fraud. Among them, the person who rented WeChat was approached by the police and is under investigation.
According to the police handling the case, in order to conceal their own identity information, the fraud suspects used WeChat, QQ part-time group, Tieba and other online platforms to post part-time advertisements on WeChat rental, and then used other people's WeChat account to post part-time information such as swiping orders in the group, thereby committing fraud.
The police found 17-year-old student Xiao Li (a pseudonym) through the real-name authentication WeChat account. After investigation, it was discovered that Xiao Li saw a part-time job loan on WeChat on the Internet, and the other party promised "30 yuan a day, no impact on the account owner."
The police said that Xiao Li wanted to make money without going out, without any loss, and rented the WeChat account to the other party. After that, Xiao Li unblocked and rented again after his account was reported to be frozen. The other party used Xiao Li's WeChat account to add unfamiliar friends, induced them to swipe orders, and carried out fraud, resulting in the victim being defrauded of more than 60,000 yuan.
Wuhan police believe that Xiao Li provided help to criminals suspected of fraud and was an accomplice of fraud. The case is currently under further investigation.
Beijing News reporter Liu Mingyang and intern Huang Ying