What are the risks of giving your ID number to others?

Identity card is a document used to prove the identity of the holder and a unique tool to prove everyone's citizenship. The legal risk of handing over the ID card to others;

1. It may be used by criminals to steal accounts of online social platforms or steal property in financial accounts; If the face information matches the whereabouts information, it may be used by criminals for precision fraud, extortion and other illegal and criminal activities.

2. Giving your ID card to others may not only lead to property losses, but also lead to "being loaned". Some online lending institutions still use manual auditing or low-tech machine auditing when conducting "live testing". Once the public's ID card is mastered by criminals, the face "alive" with the above-mentioned black technology is likely to be fake, so that unsuspecting people are "loaned" and bear huge debts.

Resident identity card is a legal document for citizens to prove their identity. If leased, lent or transferred to others, it may be used by others to cover up their true identity and carry out various illegal and criminal activities. It is harmful to society to disturb the use and management of resident identity cards. Therefore, it is necessary to make these three acts illegal and punish them. Rental refers to the purpose of making profits, and giving the resident ID card to others for use within a certain period of time; Lending refers to giving a resident ID card to others for free within a certain period of time; Transfer refers to the long-term transfer of the right to use resident identity cards to others, including paid transfer and free transfer. The resident identity card shall be a real resident identity card legally obtained in accordance with the provisions, mainly the resident identity card of the actor himself, and may also include the resident identity of others. The mainland officially began to renew the second-generation resident ID card with built-in contactless IC card smart chip. The surface of the second-generation ID card adopts anti-counterfeiting film and printing anti-counterfeiting technology, and personal color photos can be used to read the information in the digital chip by machine.

The legal risks of giving your ID number to others are as follows:

1. Once the citizen's ID card information is obtained by criminals, all aspects of citizens' lives may be threatened, and the probability of encountering financial security crisis and traffic medical risks is extremely high. My name, address and ID number are clear at a glance, and my personal information is exposed in the network without cover, which is very dangerous;

2. The losses caused by identity information disclosure mainly come from telecom fraud and online banking theft. After collecting a large amount of personal information, they generally cast a net to induce users to take the bait with accurate personal information description;

3. Being fraudulently used in some network applications that need to provide ID information, and then the same as above;

4. Some financial applications that are not strictly audited and can only be opened by fax ID cards are fraudulently used and then used for illegal activities;

5. Some systems that only provide ID card information and contact phone numbers, and can log in or reset passwords without SMS verification, can find out real-name numbers through ID cards through improper channels, so as to enter. Leaking information is mostly light, and tampering with information leads to unpredictable consequences.

I hope the above content can help you. If in doubt, please consult a professional lawyer.

Legal basis:

Article 16 of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Identity Card Law

One of the following acts, given a warning by the public security organs, and impose a fine of 200 yuan. Illegal income, confiscate the illegal income:

(a) using false certification materials to defraud the resident identity card;

(2) Renting, lending or transferring a resident identity card;

(3) illegally detaining another person's identity card.