What should I do if I get harassed by phone calls every day from someone selling my house?

You can call the police. If you receive harassment calls from selling your house, if the situation is serious, you can call the police no matter how many times, and the police will investigate and deal with it. It is illegal to use phone calls to harass others in their normal lives. The victim can call the police and request the public security organs to investigate and deal with them in accordance with the law. When reporting a crime, you must provide the other party’s phone number, recording, phone list, etc.

Legal Analysis

If you continue to receive malicious harassment calls from people selling your house, you can first call the police, but you must keep the call records or text message records as evidence. After calling the police, the police will try their best to find the culprit. Usually the punishment will not be very serious in this case. In serious cases, it will be administrative detention or a fine. However, if the other party is harassing others, you can file a civil lawsuit against them and demand reasonable mental and other compensation. This law is formulated in order to maintain public security order, ensure public safety, protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations, regulate and ensure that public security organs and their people's police perform their public security management duties in accordance with the law. Because making harassing phone calls does not constitute a crime and will not be sentenced, it does fall within the scope of public security management and can be detained for up to five days or fined up to 500 yuan. According to relevant laws and regulations, there are three types of detention: administrative detention, criminal detention, and judicial detention.

Legal Basis

Article 42 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China" Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan The following fines shall be imposed; if the circumstances are more serious, the person shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than five hundred yuan: (1) Writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others in other ways; (2) Blatantly insulting others or fabricating Slandering others with facts; (3) Fabricating facts to frame others in an attempt to subject others to criminal prosecution or public security penalties; (4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives; (5) Sending obscene, insulting, threatening or other information multiple times to interfere with the normal life of others; (6) Peeping, filming, eavesdropping, or disseminating other people's privacy.