What should I do if I receive threatening text messages?

You can call the police after receiving threatening text messages. Threatening behavior is a violation of public security management, and generally cannot be placed on file as a criminal case.

The threat of sending information is considered as intimidation. For those who repeatedly send threatening information to interfere with the normal life of others, the public security organ may be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan.

The crime of intimidation refers to the criminal act of threatening the safety of others by hurting others' life, body, self, reputation and property. The components are as follows:

(a) the legal interests infringed by this crime are the peace of personal daily life and the freedom of life from intimidation by others.

(2) The object of this crime is a single natural person.

(3) The act of this crime is intimidation, that is, informing others of things that endanger life, body, freedom, reputation, property, etc. to make them afraid. The content of injury is limited to the injury to life, body, freedom, reputation, property and other matters. The actor can objectively inform others of the content of the harm, regardless of whether the actor really has the intention to realize the harm subjectively. The harm informed by the actor must be controlled by the actor, which is generally considered to be enough to cause harm objectively. Intimidation must be carried out in a direct or explicit indirect way, excluding uncertain indirect ways. The so-called indirect certainty means that although the perpetrator did not directly intimidate the victim, he informed the specific person of the fact of intimidation and clearly informed the victim. The so-called uncertainty indirectness means that the actor only threatens an unspecified person with facts, and does not explicitly tell anyone to tell the victim to threaten the facts.

(4) The threat of the perpetrator, once completed, can make the victim feel scared and can constitute this crime. What the perpetrator threatened does not have to become a fact.

Legal basis:

People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law

Article 42 Whoever commits one of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:

(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;

(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;

(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives; (5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;

(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.