Letter fraud is a crime of fraud, and you can be sentenced if the fraud reaches 3000 yuan. Fraud of public or private property worth more than 3,000 yuan and less than 10,000 yuan is a "relatively large amount" and is generally punished with fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance. Those who defraud more than 30,000 yuan 10,000 yuan are "huge" and will be sentenced to 3 years to10 years in prison and fined. Those who defraud more than 500,000 yuan are "extremely huge" and will generally be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of 10 years or life imprisonment, and will also be fined. The groups infringed by telecom fraud have extensive characteristics and are not specific. They cast nets all over the sky and concentrate on calling or texting a certain number or area for a certain period of time. The victims include all social strata, including ordinary people, business owners, civil servants and school teachers. All walks of life may become victims of telecom fraud, which spreads widely and has a bad social impact.
Characteristics of telecommunication crime:
1, criminal activities spread widely and developed rapidly. Criminals often take advantage of people's psychology of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and release false information to the masses by fabricating false telephone calls and text messages. In a very short time, the scope of publication is very wide, and the scope of infringement is very large, so the scope of loss is also very wide.
2. The means of information fraud are updated very quickly. At first, I just bought a "local cannon" with very little money to get short messages, and later it developed into any software and radio station that displayed numbers. On the internet, this has become a highly intelligent scam. From the perspective of fraud excuses, from the most primitive winning fraud and consumption information to kidnapping, extortion, telephone arrears, car tax refund and so on. Criminals can always come up with all kinds of tricks.
3, gangs commit crimes and have strong anti-investigation ability. Criminal gangs generally adopt long-distance and non-contact fraud. The internal organization of criminal gangs is very strict. They adopt enterprise operation and have a fine division of labor. Some people are responsible for buying mobile phones, opening bank accounts, making phone calls and transferring money. The division of labor is very fine, and the next process does not know the situation of the previous process. This has also brought great difficulties to the public security organs.
4. Transnational crime is more prominent. Some criminals publish false information in China to deceive overseas personnel, and some often publish short messages abroad to deceive domestic personnel. There are also collusion and chain crimes at home and abroad, which are very hidden and difficult to crack down on.
I hope the above content can help you. If in doubt, please consult a professional lawyer.
Legal basis:
Article 266 of the Criminal Law
Whoever defrauds public or private property in a relatively large amount shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated. Where there are other provisions in this Law, such provisions shall prevail.
Article 1 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Fraud.
Those who defraud public or private property in an amount of more than 3,000 yuan but less than 10,000 yuan, more than 30,000 yuan but more than 100,000 yuan and more than 500,000 yuan are respectively deemed as "a large amount", "a huge amount" and "a particularly huge amount" as stipulated in Article 266 of the Criminal Law.