How to determine the legal effect of short messages

1. In daily civil disputes or criminal cases, SMS is a kind of evidence and can also be used as evidence. Electronic evidence, which belongs to one of the seven kinds of evidence stipulated by law, is valid evidence.

1. SMS, as electronic evidence, has the characteristics of uncertain source and can be copied and deleted. Therefore, the evidential force of SMS itself is very low. It belongs to indirect evidence, and there is no other corresponding evidence to support it. It is generally difficult to adopt single and unique SMS evidence in judicial practice.