How to handle threatening phone calls?

Police tip: Don't trust the threatening phone to call the police at the first time.

After receiving threatening phone calls, the general public must call the police as soon as possible and try to get in touch with their families, whether they involve themselves or their families. Don't trust each other if you can't get in touch temporarily. After calling the police, the police will contact them in various ways. Criminals often use the victim's panic and bewilderment to control the victim and guide the victim to be deceived step by step.

Therefore, in this case, don't panic, contact your family and call the police at the same time. If you can't take care of yourself at the same time, you can also ask your neighbors or friends for help. The more people involved, the faster you can see through the scam.

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1, slight threat

Sending threatening phone calls or text messages is minor and does not involve crimes, but it also violates the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment and should be punished by public security administration.

Article 42 of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment stipulates that anyone who commits one of the following acts 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;

(five) sending obscene, insulting, threatening or other information for many times, interfering with the normal life of others;

(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.

2. Threats constitute crimes

Threatening others, if the circumstances are bad and constitute a crime, shall be convicted and punished according to the crime of stirring up trouble.

Article 293 of the Criminal Law stipulates that anyone who commits one of the following acts of provoking troubles and disrupting social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance:

(a) beating others at will, and the circumstances are bad;

(two) chasing, intercepting, insulting or intimidating others, and the circumstances are bad;

(three) extortion or arbitrary damage, occupation of public or private property, if the circumstances are serious;

(4) Causing serious disorder in public places.

Whoever gathers people for many times to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph and seriously undermines social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and may also be fined.

References:

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