The court found that the defendant Gao helped others to unseal WeChat accounts to make money part-time through the self-help unsealing function of WeChat at school, and set up a "super studio" on 20 19 1 1 to help others unseal WeChat accounts.
Knowing that others used WeChat to commit fraud and other criminal activities, Zhang and his girlfriend still instructed studio members to help them unblock WeChat accounts many times by means of "pre-adding friends" and "unblocking face to face".
It is reported that this case is the first "WeChat unsealing" case in China.
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Relevant laws and regulations:
According to Article 287 bis of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), whoever knowingly provides technical support such as Internet access, server hosting, network storage, communication transmission, etc. for others to commit crimes, or provides assistance such as advertising promotion, payment and settlement, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or shall only be fined.
The prosecutor reminded:
At present, the WeChat platform has been cracking down on illegal accounts, which has spawned a gray industry to help WeChat unseal. In particular, some college students regard it as a part-time job, thinking that they can earn pocket money by moving their fingers, but they don't know that they have violated the law and become "accomplices" in illegal crimes such as fraud. Here, the prosecutor warned everyone not to embark on the road of illegal crimes in order to covet immediate interests.
Hangzhou Net-The first case of the national "WeChat unsealing" was decided in Hangzhou.