Provided "technical support" for "naked chat, extortion", "post-95" guy sentenced to ten months in prison
China News Service, March 12 (Reporter Xu Mingrui) Recently, gangs involved in crimes and crimes have used "beauties" with charming avatars, seductive "selfies", and a delicate tone... After tempting men to "naked chat", they carried out blackmail. Many people have suffered.
On March 11, Shanghai Baoshan District People's Court (hereinafter referred to as Shanghai Baoshan Court) opened a court hearing and pronounced a verdict on a criminal case of "making mobile phone software illegally invading and obtaining the victim's address book" in accordance with the law.
The defendant Liu was sentenced to ten months imprisonment and fined RMB 5,000 for the crime of providing intrusion into computer information system programs.
Judge Zhang Guobin of the Criminal Division of Baoshan Court.
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"Good evening, my little brother, my sister is a part-time anchor for the newcomer, and if my brother gives my sister a follow-up in the live broadcast room, he can have a one-on-one naked chat for free."
After receiving such a private message, Mr. Wu (pseudonym) started his nightmare journey.
In September 2020, Mr. Wu received a private message from an "anchor" and added QQ friends to each other when he checked his friend information on a chat and dating software.
The other party invited Mr. Wu to chat naked and sent a software QR code for Mr. Wu to download.
After the naked chat ended, Mr. Wu received a screenshot of his naked chat video and a screenshot of his address book, and was threatened to send the naked chat video to his address book friends without paying.
The threatened Mr. Wu transferred more than 300,000 yuan to the account provided by the other party several times that day according to the request of the other party.
According to Zhang Guobin, the judge in charge of the case and the judge of the Criminal Tribunal of Baoshan Court, most of the victims of naked chat are young people, because they are worried that naked chat will be exposed and affect their work and life. Many of these victims will obediently submit. If you don’t have that much money, you can transfer the relevant money through online loans or small loans."
On March 11, the People's Court of Baoshan District, Shanghai opened a trial on this case.
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After investigation by the public security agency, the software was made by Liu.
Starting from February 2020, Liu, who is studying software engineering, is making profit, and through network contact, in accordance with the requirements of Wang et al. (a separate case), he has produced more than 40 mobile apps with ambiguous names and explicit homepage pictures, and provided background management. System and other technical support, and follow-up maintenance after the above-mentioned application mobile phone reports the virus.
The function of the above seemingly ambiguous mobile phone program is specially made for illegally obtaining user's mobile phone address book information.
After the victim is tricked into scanning the code, Wang and others can obtain the victim's address book through the program, and finally commit the crime of extortion by threatening to announce the victim's naked chat video to his friends in the address book.
In March 2021, the procuratorial organ filed a public prosecution against Liu.
On March 11, the Shanghai Baoshan Court held a public hearing on Liu and pronounced the verdict in court.
During the trial, the defendant Liu had no objection to the facts of the crime and the conviction and sentence.
According to Liu's account, because he did not have a job during the epidemic, he "accepted orders" on relevant websites before he implemented such behavior.
After the trial, the Shanghai Baoshan Court held that the defendant Liu had violated national regulations and provided a program specifically for illegally obtaining computer information system data. The circumstances were serious. His behavior had constituted the crime of providing a program for intruding into computer information system and should be punished according to law.
The facts of the crime charged by the public prosecution agency are clear, the evidence is indeed sufficient, and the charges are convicted.
According to Liu's confession and voluntary confession and punishment, the defendant Liu was sentenced to the crime of providing intrusion into the computer information system program, sentenced to ten months in prison, and fined RMB 5,000; detained the crime tool ( One mobile phone and one computer) were confiscated according to law; the illegal income of defendant Liu was confiscated according to law.
It is reported that the defendant Liu was born in 1999 and is only 22 years old.
Zhang Guobin said that because cybercrime involves all aspects and requires the relevant perpetrators to have a relatively good educational background and knowledge reserves, the relevant perpetrators are also showing a trend of younger age. "Many "post-95s" and "post-00s" also As a defendant, he was punished.” (End)