Can I file a case for threatening text messages?

A threatening short message can be put on file, and the general short message intimidation is just an act of violating public security management. However, it is a crime to send threatening text messages knowing that the other party has heart disease, or to blackmail the other party through text messages to achieve the purpose of extorting money, and the amount of extortion reaches the standard of filing a case. Whoever publishes false explosive, toxic, radioactive, infectious disease pathogens and other information, or fabricates terrorist information such as explosion threat, biochemical threat and radiation threat, or spreads it knowing that it is terrorist information, thus seriously disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance; If serious consequences are caused, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years. Intimidation is illegal, and the degree of punishment depends on the harm caused by intimidation. Threatening means threatening others by harming their rights and interests or public interests, which makes them feel fear and panic. If the threat is serious, you can consider calling the police. The public security organ may take administrative detention measures against the other party according to relevant regulations. If the circumstances are serious, the criminal responsibility of the other party shall be investigated according to the crime of stirring up trouble. The elements of the crime of intimidation are as follows:

1, the infringed legal interest is the peace of personal daily life and the freedom of life safety from intimidation by others;

2. The object of behavior is a single natural person;

3. Behavior is intimidation, that is, informing others of things that endanger life, body, freedom, reputation, property, etc. to make them afraid;

4. Once the perpetrator's threatening behavior is completed, it can make the victim feel fear, which can constitute a crime of intimidation. What the perpetrator threatened does not have to become a fact.

Legal basis: Article 42 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Public Security Administration Punishment commits one of the following acts, and 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.