Preface
I don't know how many people have this habit of putting their phone number behind the front windshield, and if they encounter an emergency or their car is in the way, they can also have an emergency solution.
Such an act that is convenient for others and for oneself has been targeted by some people, and has even become a "means of accumulating money".
Today, let's debunk the chain of interests behind this method and see how they use the car phone to make a profit.
All of the statements in this article are based on reliable sources and are reproduced at the end of this article
Information is money!
I believe that many car owners will leave a "car moving phone" on their cars, whether it is a tight parking space, or a conscientious scratcher, it is a contact information.
But this emergency measure actually leaked his personal privacy and became a means of profit for people with intentions.
In Guangzhou and Shenzhen recently, a recruitment information for part-time jobs has attracted a lot of media attention, this recruitment information seems to be in good condition, but the content of the work is full of doubts.
This part-time job requires employees to take photos of vehicles on the street, and the requirements are a group of photos of the front of the car and a photo of the phone moving the car, and the group is paid 0.5 yuan.
There are also requirements for the brand recruitment information of the vehicle, not only for luxury cars, but also for the license plate, which must be the license plate of Shenzhen City or Dongguan, Guangdong Province to count.
How easy is this kind of work to do? As a special economic zone in the mainland, Shenzhen has countless major supermarkets and high-end communities, and you can take a lot of photos as long as you walk around these shopping malls.
In this case, a reporter contacted the publisher of the recruitment information and communicated some information with the other party as a candidate.
Source: Red Star News
This part-time job is indeed as loose as imagined, as long as the car logo and license plate are exposed, and then the phone in the car is taken to pass the set of photos.
However, you need to download a software on your phone to paint the watermark to ensure the authenticity of the photo.
For the conditions on the recruitment: "Brand requirements for vehicles: Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche, Audi, Lexus, Land Rover, Volvo, Ideal, NIO. ”
The recruiter also added on the phone, saying that there is no restriction on the brand, as long as the vehicle amount is greater than 250,000 yuan, it can be counted.
Is there a quantity requirement for this part-time job? The recruiter also said: There is no limit to the number, but if it exceeds 100 tickets, there will be an incentive prize of 10 yuan, and every 100 tickets after that can receive this incentive again.
Perhaps in order to impress the reporter, the recruiter also taught the other party some tricks, such as where to go to shoot the most appropriate, or how to save time on the road to shoot a few more places.
Where does the information go?
Take money to buy a phone, and the owner of the number is still a successful person with a net worth of at least one million, and what the recruiter is doing is really becoming more and more curious.
Through further investigation, the reporter found that this kind of recruitment information is not a new routine recently, as early as August 2023, a recruiter named "Ping An Insurance" posted this part-time position on major platforms.
Not only that, in this year's recruitment, although the recruiter's information did not mention his unit, when the reporter contacted the recruiter's WeChat, he found that the employee's WeChat name also had the word "peace".
Since the mainland has bound the mobile phone number to the ID card, the mobile phone number can actually query a lot of personal information, such as the credit of the account owner, the permanent residence address of the account owner, and the WeChat of the account owner.
Nowadays, many people use selfies as WeChat avatars, and WeChat nicknames can also be queried across the network, and if there is a Douyin account with the same nickname, the possibility that the two accounts are the same person is greatly increased.
And then speculate through the mutual relations in the Douyin account, videos, comments, likes, etc., in fact, the information of your family members has basically been exposed.
The same method is also applicable to users of software such as Zhihu, Weibo, and Bilibili.
In this way, can you understand the seriousness of leaking personal privacy?
Of course, according to the current news, the part-time recruitment publisher does not have such far-reaching malicious intentions, and most likely just wants to sell insurance.
But after an in-depth investigation of the recruiter's circle of friends, the reporter found something unusual.
Good way! Very smart!
There is a promotional copy in the recruiter's circle of friends, and the product advertised is a loan app called "Lu Account Room".
On the details page of this app, you can see that the car loan in the loan project has the same vehicle requirements as in the job posting.
Seeing this, the reporter called the official customer service of Ping An Guarantee (click on the QR code of the land account room to jump to the app).
After consultation, the reporter learned that the land account room was a product of Ping An Guarantee (formerly known as Ping An Puhui), but when the reporter said his identity and asked what the recruitment information was, the customer service said that it still needed to be verified.
And this verification was a long time, and no one contacted the reporter until the report was issued.
I don't know how the recruiter came up with this method to accurately promote car loan services for customers who own luxury cars.
This method is obviously several times more cost-effective than the previous needle in a haystack.
But is it enough to be cost-effective and simple? Doesn't this act infringe on the personal privacy of the car owner?
Let's take a look at how Li Lanlan, director of the Data Compliance Center, interprets this incident.
Breaking the law!
It stands to reason that all the vehicles that were photographed were parked in public places, and even the mobile phone number on the vehicle was left by the owner himself.
Li Lanlan, a professional lawyer, believes that in this incident, both the photographer and the part-time job poster constituted an illegal act.
Because the information collected by the photographer is the personal information of citizens, plus the parking location and whereabouts are more private and sensitive information.
Although the car moving number was left by the car owner on his own initiative, this number is only used for moving the car in a broad sense, so it is obviously illegal to be leaked to commercial use.
Therefore, the photographer's behavior has constituted an infringement of citizens' personal privacy.
As for the part-time job poster, he belongs to the entrusting party, and he also needs to bear civil liability for purchasing citizen information with money, and whether it is necessary to increase criminal liability according to the severity of the circumstances.
summary
Put your phone number behind the front windshield, and if you have nowhere to park in an emergency, you can also have an emergency solution when someone else's road
Such an act that is convenient for others and for oneself is actually used by people with intentions.
This time it's about insurance agencies buying this information, but what if a bad guy impersonates a traffic authority to ask for a fine, or commits fraud based on personal information?
Therefore, car owners must pay attention to the authenticity of the information on the phone, and pay attention to their social platform account passwords and nicknames, and try not to be consistent.
Sources of information in this article:
Red Star News2024-05-14-Dare to leave a phone to move the car? Someone is eyeing it!
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