Is it illegal to make harassing calls? What is the law and the severity of punishment?

This situation is not suspected of committing a crime, and can only be punished according to the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment.

According to Article 42 of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment: "Anyone who commits one of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 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.

(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.

Sending other information many times to interfere with the normal life of others is a violation of the above provisions. If you are suspected of disturbing the normal life of others, you can report it to the public security organs and demand that they be held accountable for public security administration.

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Encountering harassing calls can be solved in the following ways:

1, set the blacklist.

For low-end attack software, you can only use the same number or several numbers to call the victim and send harassing text messages. This situation is relatively simple, just add the attacker's number to the blacklist one by one. Open the settings on the desktop, click Phone-Blacklist-Add, and then add the number.

2. Turn on the mode of intercepting strange incoming calls.

Usually, a large number of strange numbers are used for attacks. Nowadays, smartphones, whether Android or IOS, have their own strange call interception mode.

In the dialing interface, click the function option button in the lower left corner, select harassment interception, click the setting button in the upper right corner to enable harassment interception, click the arrow on the right side of the interception rule, and select to intercept strangers. Turn on the mode of intercepting strange incoming calls, and the incoming calls and short messages that are not stored in the phone address book list will be intercepted, but the existing incoming calls and short messages in the address book will not be affected.

3. Install third-party interception software.

If the phone doesn't come with a strange phone interception mode, you can download a third-party APP through the application market to intercept it.

4. Enable the call forwarding function.

For non-smart phones that don't have call interception function and can't install app, it is a good choice to turn on call forwarding. Select Always Transfer as the call transfer mode. Fill in the transfer number with empty number or stop number, and never fill in the available number, because this is equivalent to transferring all attacks to the number you set.

If you know the attacker's number, you can call the attacker's number, which is called rewarding him.

5. Enable voice mail

After the voice mail is opened, all incoming calls will be transferred to the voice mail, all ringing calls will be connected and charged, and the attacker will have a certain loss of telephone charges, and the calls of relatives and friends will not be missed.

All three operators can open voice mail. Take China Mobile as an example, download "and leave a message" in the application market, register the login account, turn on the voice mail function, and set the call transfer to "always transfer" to "+86 12599".

6. Turn off or enable flight mode.

If none of the above methods work, you can turn off or turn on the flight mode at an appropriate time, because "calling you to death" is usually for revenge or extortion, and the attacker has a corresponding cost every time he makes a phone call. If he can't achieve his goal for a while, he will stop attacking.

7. Report harassing phone numbers

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