On April 10, the WeChat Security Center issued an announcement to crack down on the rental and sale of WeChat accounts.
According to the announcement, recently, the WeChat Security Center found that some users used the WeChat social function to post relevant content such as renting and selling WeChat accounts such as "idle trumpets for pocket money" in the circle of friends and WeChat groups.
The online black and gray industry obtains normal WeChat user accounts through leasing and purchasing, and then uses the accounts to carry out illegal and criminal acts and evade supervision. The WeChat team has been cracking down on the behavior of renting and selling WeChat accounts on the platform to prevent users from falling into traps and becoming "accomplices" of criminals breaking the law and committing crimes.
For such violations, after verification and confirmation, the Weixin Security Center will take a step-by-step approach according to the severity of the violation in accordance with relevant national laws and regulations, the Tencent Weixin Software License and Service Agreement, and the Weixin Personal Account Usage Specification.
Some examples of violations
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The WeChat Security Center reminds everyone that scammers usually seek to rent an account in many ways, such as: liking merchants, swiping praises, canvassing for children, etc., and promising that "it will not interfere with the normal life of users" and "will not be used for illegal purposes". In order to dispel the vigilance of the victim, sometimes the user will be actively advised to withdraw the money from the account first.
The whole rhetoric seems simple and harmless, and the scammers make you think that "renting out your WeChat account" is just lending your account to others, but in fact it is helping the scammer bypass the security protection of WeChat, and once you agree to open up the account to them, you will face huge risks.
Risks of renting and selling WeChat accounts
1. Whether you give your account password or scan the code to let the other party log in to your account, it means that your personal privacy will also be out of protection, and chat records and other content may be stolen.
2. Without prior notice, your friend does not know about your rental account, and the scammer is likely to impersonate your identity to borrow money from your friend, apply for a loan, etc.
3. During the period when the account is rented, it is also likely to be used for malicious acts such as publishing false advertisements, soliciting prostitution and spreading bad information, and even to commit online fraud crimes.
4. Because real-name accounts have payment functions and generally have no abnormal transaction records, they are easily targeted by illegal gangs and used to split and "launder" the stolen money in their hands to evade the tracking of regulatory authorities and police. And once the WeChat account rented by the user is involved in the "money laundering" storm, the account will no longer be "innocent".
5. If the user chooses to rent and sell even though he knows that the criminals will use the account number and collection code for illegal and criminal activities, he may be held legally responsible for helping the crime.
Renting and selling WeChat accounts not only violates the relevant user agreement norms of WeChat, which may lead to penalties such as account bans, but also brings extremely high security risks to users themselves, resulting in personal privacy information leakage, property losses, impersonation of loans and loans, etc., and in serious cases, they will become accomplices in illegal and criminal activities. Please do not try it.
In addition, we also remind everyone not to scan the QR code from unknown sources at will, especially if you scan the code offline in various names, it is likely to scan the code to authorize the login account. You will also be penalized if your account is logged in by scammers and used for various illegal activities.
If you are accidentally deceived and your funds are lost, please call 110 to report to the local public security organ as soon as possible, and at the same time make a complaint through the client, and the WeChat team will deal with it in time after verifying that the situation is true.
[Source: WeChat Security Center]
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