Is SMS threat illegal?

1. Is SMS threatening illegal? First of all, if the short message is threatening, but the circumstances are relatively minor and the criminal punishment is not reached, then according to Article 42 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Public Security Administration Punishment: "Anyone who commits one of the following acts shall be detained for less than five days or fined less than 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, he 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; (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; (6) Peeping, stealing, eavesdropping or spreading others' privacy. "One of the following acts shall be detained for five days or fined five hundred yuan. If the circumstances are serious, they may be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may also be fined up to five hundred yuan. First, write threatening information or threaten the personal safety of others in other ways. Second, publicly insult others or fabricate some facts to slander others. Third, fabricate facts to frame others, or try to subject others to criminal or public security punishment. Fourth, threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses or their close relatives. Fifth, sending some bad and scary things to the victims many times has interfered with the normal life of others. Sixth, sneak shots or peep, eavesdrop and spread other people's private information. According to article 293 of the relevant laws and regulations of our country, in the crime of stirring up trouble. If one of the following acts disrupts social order, it is judged that the circumstances are bad and have reached the point where criminal punishment can be imposed. First, hit him at will. Second, chasing or intercepting others, insulting or intimidating others. Third, seize and occupy public property or private property by force or violence or arbitrary destruction. Fourth, in public places, public places cause serious disorder. Whoever gathers others to commit the above-mentioned acts for many times and seriously undermines social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and may also be fined. However, if you just send text messages to intimidate others and do nothing else, then this should belong to the former, that is, if the circumstances are relatively minor, you can report it to the public security organ, because it is also illegal. But because the circumstances are not too serious, according to the above, you will be detained for less than five days or fined less than 500 yuan. Generally speaking, simple intimidation will not constitute a crime, but some acts can also constitute a crime, such as: first, asking for property in the process of intimidation may directly constitute extortion. If the amount is relatively large, he may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years. If the amount is especially huge and there are other serious circumstances, it can be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years. Second, according to the relevant laws and regulations of our country, those who release false virulent, radioactive and infectious pathogens and knowingly spread them with fabricated terrorist information, thus seriously disrupting social order, can be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, and those who cause particularly serious consequences can be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years. In other words, this kind of intimidation can directly constitute a crime.