Isn’t it attractive to have a part-time job like this where you can get paid every day without any skills, just sit for a while and brush your face? The moment you complete the facial verification by "blinking and nodding" in front of the camera, your identity information may have been treated as a commodity and flowed into the hands of criminal gangs such as telecommunications fraud and online gambling.
After face authentication, job seekers were actually registered as legal persons of multiple companies.
Xiao Zhang, a 20-year-old job seeker, saw a job posting in a local part-time WeChat group: Help the live broadcast room to increase popularity and act as an Internet celebrity fan, without any threshold. Xiao Zhang followed the address and came to a shop along the street with a human resources sign.
Ying Jiangmin, a police officer from the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Jiangbei District Branch of the Ningbo Municipal Public Security Bureau: It advertises zero threshold, no work, and daily payment. Job seekers are attracted by this easy money-making model. After the job seekers arrived at the store, the staff lied and asked them to hand over their identity documents and cooperate with the app to recruit new users and register and authenticate their real names. Although the job seeker had doubts, he wanted to get paid every day, so he cooperated with the staff to hand over his identity document and perform facial verification.
After the entire process was completed, Xiao Zhang received the agreed commission of 200 yuan on the spot. But after returning home, I received a large number of harassing text messages advertising and selling.
Ying Jiangmin, a police officer from the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Jiangbei District Branch of the Ningbo Municipal Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province: He had doubts in his heart. Through the State Council’s One-Card Inquiry Mini Program, he found out that there were more than 20 mobile phone cards under his name, and he was even registered as a legal person. The job seeker asked the studio, and the studio said that these mobile phone numbers and company legal person information would be automatically canceled in the future, in order to prevaricate the job seeker.
Subsequently, Xiaozhang further checked and found that he was registered as the legal representative of multiple companies, and one of the companies issued VAT invoices but failed to pay the tax. After realizing the abnormality, Xiao Zhang called the police for help.
Claiming that there is no threshold and quick payment, it tricks job seekers into handing over personal information.
Xiaozhang's experience is not unique. After the police interviewed many job seekers and sorted out their capital flows, they found that a large number of job seekers were attracted by part-time job advertisements with low thresholds and daily wages. Criminals specifically target students with little social experience and the elderly who are unfamiliar with new online scams. They place part-time job advertisements on campus and around vegetable markets to accurately induce people to take the bait. How does this black industrial chain operate?
After investigation, Xu and others opened a human resources studio and obtained virtual mobile phone numbers and online accounts without real names from online account dealers. These accounts themselves are not "valuable". What is really being targeted is the face and identity information that can complete real-name authentication. The studio uses "filling the live broadcast room, becoming fans" and "app attracting new users" with daily wages as bait to attract job seekers to the store, induce job seekers to provide documents, complete face verification, and package and sell their real-name mobile phone numbers and accounts to upstream for profit.
Wang Weiyao, President of the Criminal Tribunal of Jiangbei District People's Court of Ningbo City: Only specific citizen information bound through facial recognition can be traded and used in the market. They may be used to register companies, commit telecommunications network fraud, or open online casinos, etc. The amount of money the defendant earned per number was not high, but between March and June, the defendant's illegal income had reached 420,000, which shows that the amount of citizens' personal information he obtained was very large.
Different from traditional cases of infringement of citizens’ personal information, this new model is more confusing. In past cases, the victims often had their information stolen or leaked without their knowledge. In this case, the victim was present in person and cooperated throughout the entire process.
Wang Weiyao, President of the Criminal Tribunal of Jiangbei District People's Court of Ningbo City: They often use the propaganda rhetoric of "just sit down for a while, take a photo, and the day's work will be completed on the same day", which can easily relax the vigilance of victims. They took the initiative to enter the store, took out their ID cards, and cooperated with face recognition. And they blinked, nodded, and shook their heads in front of the camera. They thought they were punching in to earn wages and did not realize the risks behind them.
After the trial, the Ningbo Jiangbei District People's Court held that the defendant Xu and others violated relevant national regulations and sold citizens' personal information. Their behavior constituted the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information, and the circumstances were particularly serious. The court took into account the circumstances of each defendant's crime, their attitude of confession and repentance, etc., and sentenced the defendants to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from three years to three years and four months in accordance with the law. They were also fined and all illegal gains were recovered. At the same time, in addition to the 12 defendants related to the studio in this case, the court also sentenced five upstream dealers in accordance with the law.
You need to be careful when applying for jobs by using your face, and the judge reminds you of the risks and ways to protect your rights.
Behind the seemingly easy daily part-time job is a black industry chain that resells citizens’ information. In this case, many parties did not know that their identity information had been used to register companies, falsely issue invoices, and even money laundering and other illegal and criminal activities until the public security organs came to their door. So, how can ordinary people self-check the use of personal information? How do you protect your rights after discovering that it has been used fraudulently?
Many job seekers have a fluke mentality: they think that if they just come to register an account by swiping their faces and are not involved in any crime, nothing will happen to them. The judge reminded that once the identity information is used by others to commit crimes, the registrant will be included in the scope of investigation. It will take a lot of time and energy to prove one's innocence.
Wang Weiyao, President of the Criminal Tribunal of Jiangbei District People's Court of Ningbo City: For the victims, they may face the risk of criminal investigation. Just like in this case, the public security will summon them, which may freeze his property and cause certain credit risks; at worst, if he is deeply involved and provides a bank card or cooperates with transfers, he may be charged with the crime of assisting information network criminal activities or covering up or concealing criminal proceeds. In this process, he needs to prove his innocence, and the cost of safeguarding his rights is still very high.
So, how can ordinary people check themselves regularly and stop losses in time? What should you do if you find that your personal information has been used fraudulently?
Wang Weiyao, President of the Criminal Tribunal of Jiangbei District People's Court of Ningbo City: You can regularly check the registration and use of your mobile phone number and Internet account through the One-Card Check applet of the Anti-Fraud Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. You can also check the company registration information under your name through the WeChat applet of Qichacha and Electronic Business License, and you can also check offline with your ID card. Once you discover that personal information has been used fraudulently, you must immediately save the screenshots of the self-examination and WeChat transfer records, WeChat chat records, off-site travel records and other evidence, report to the public security organs, and simultaneously submit a cancellation application to the platform market supervision department.
When applying for a job, special attention must be paid to the qualifications of the employer and the purpose of the information.
The judge reminded that the part-time job names of this type of scam are constantly being updated. Live broadcast rooms to increase popularity, apps to attract new users, account testing, and mobile phone number card opening momentum may all be camouflage to obtain real-name information. How to identify part-time jobs involving fraud? The judge reminded that regular employees generally do not require face verification in unfamiliar software or unknown links. Even if face verification is required, the purpose of verification will be clearly informed. Job seekers should pay special attention to the situation when their original ID cards are used for a long time. In addition, you need to pay special attention to the qualifications of the employer and the purpose of information use. Once you find that personal information may be used illegally by others, you must call the police as soon as possible.
