Rent a WeChat account, this kind of "business" cannot be done

　　What would you do if someone wanted to rent your WeChat account?

Faced with this problem, 20-year-old Peng Gang chose to agree.

He and his friends rented their WeChat accounts to others to promote overseas gambling websites, and even acted as "middlemen".

Recently, the Kaizhou District Procuratorate of Chongqing City filed a public prosecution. The court sentenced defendant Peng Gang to ten months in prison, suspended for one year, and fined 8,000 yuan for the crime of helping information cybercrime activities. The defendant Liu Guang was sentenced to one year in prison. Two months, the sentence was suspended for one year and six months, and a fine of 15,000 yuan; the defendant was sentenced to ten months in prison, suspended for one year and one month, and a fine of 8,000 yuan.

　　Rent WeChat account to earn pocket money

　　"Renting a private WeChat account for advertising, the daily rent ranges from 100 yuan to 130 yuan..." In March 2020, college student Peng Gang, in order to earn pocket money, looked for part-time information on various websites and post bars. This information Caught his attention.

　　"Usual part-time work is very hard and earns little money. It is easy to make money by renting out your WeChat account." With the idea of ​​giving it a try, Peng Gang forwarded this information to high school classmate Liu Guang, and approved The QQ account contacted "Shangjia".

The other party said that if Peng Gang and Liu Guang agree to rent their WeChat accounts, he will send a WeChat login QR code. After the QR code is scanned and logged in, they will receive the "rental fee" as agreed.

"Don't think too much, we mainly use it to advertise in WeChat groups, and it will not affect the daily use of WeChat."

　　After agreeing to lend the WeChat account, Peng Gang discovered that the other party actually posted gambling game advertisements in the WeChat group he joined, and also used his WeChat account to add many WeChat groups to post advertisements.

"At that time, we knew that they were doing online gambling, but thinking that it was just a loan for a day or two, it should not be considered a real crime." With a fluke, Peng Gang and others not only rented their WeChat accounts, but later started simply. The agency "business".

　　Develop offline and be a "middleman"

　　After becoming a "middleman", Peng Gang and others began to use the "rental fee" of 70 yuan to 100 yuan a day to pull subordinate agents and earn a price difference ranging from 30 yuan to 50 yuan per person.

　　In order to obtain more benefits, Peng Gang and others have used their WeChat Moments to continuously attract young people, especially those born after 95 and 00.

Later, in order to facilitate the management of the subordinate "agents", they also called Wenguan to set up a studio to concentrate on this "business".

　　In this process, the three people have a clear division of labor, Peng Gang is responsible for docking "home" and pulling business, and Liu Guang and Wenguan are responsible for "drawing agent", "control group" and "shanghao".

　　The so-called "control group" is to pull people who are willing to rent out WeChat account into a QQ group to control it, and regularly send the QR code of WeChat login to the group. Whoever grabs this QR code, "Up" "Home" will use whose account to log in to send gambling website information.

Those who grab the QR code will send a screenshot of their mobile phone WeChat to the QQ group to confirm. This is the so-called "on account".

　　Peng Gang said that "Shangjia" would transfer money according to the situation of "Shangjia" every 3 days. At first, it was 100 yuan per day for a WeChat account. Later, according to the group sending gambling website information, it was 1.5 to 2 yuan per group.

　　"We know that this matter may be illegal, and we dare not post part-time advertisements on the Internet, but spread it among classmates and friends in the name of online part-time jobs." Peng Gang said that they focused on developing their friends and classmates as subordinate agents. Money comes quickly, and many people are happy to join.

At the same time, these people have attracted people in their WeChat circle of friends, and then developed the next level of "agents", earning the price difference layer by layer.

　　"This kind of spread is like a virus, and more and more people join in the end." The prosecutor handling the case said that the phenomenon of "one transmission to ten" and "ten transmission to one hundred" circle transmission phenomenon is very typical in this case.

　　Most of the people involved in such cases are young people

　　In August 2020, Peng Gang and three others were arrested by the police, and the case was transferred to the Kaizhou District Procuratorate for review and prosecution.

According to the survey, within 4 months, Peng Gang and others collected nearly 300 WeChat accounts, with daily net income reaching thousands of yuan.

During this period, they illegally profited nearly 110,000 yuan through this “online part-time job”.

The procuratorial agency found that Peng Gang and other three people, knowing that others used WeChat accounts to commit crimes, provided them with advertising and promotion and other assistance, which constituted the crime of helping information cybercriminals.

　　In December 2020, the Kaizhou District Procuratorate prosecuted Peng Gang and three others.

Recently, the court made the above verdicts on the defendants Peng Gang, Liu Guang, and Wen Guan on the crime of helping information cybercrime activities.

　　After handling this case, the Kaizhou District Procuratorate sorted out a batch of criminal activities using online social accounts.

The prosecutor found that the key target groups of such cases are "post-00s" and "post-95s"; criminal tools are mainly social accounts, and it can be completed with only one mobile phone for pre-contact, in-process operations and post-incident transfers. Cybercrime closed loop.

The prosecutor reminded young people that the Internet is not a place outside the law, and the use of private online social accounts must also comply with laws and regulations.

　　(The persons involved in the case are all pseudonyms)

　　(Drawing: Ren Mengyuan)

Manning Du Ying Wu Jiajia