Is it illegal to collect threatening text messages?

Legal analysis: it is illegal to intimidate text messages. Some collection companies will take extreme measures to maliciously collect debts, such as falsifying facts, sending SMS messages such as PS, insults, threats, intimidation and abuse to borrowers or family members, and even repackaging contact information to other institutions, which seriously involves breaking the law and infringing on reputation and privacy.

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 less than 5 days or fined for less than 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for more than 5 days 10 days, and may also be fined up to 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;

(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.