Is it illegal to send verification code with the mobile phone card of Cat Pool?

Illegal, verification code is a program that automatically distinguishes users from computers and people. Verification code is the main "passport" of many network platforms.

Verification code can prevent malicious password cracking, ticket brushing and forum flooding, and effectively prevent hackers from constantly trying to log in to specific registered users by using specific program brute force cracking methods.

Using the cat pool to send verification codes in batches disturbs the platform verification order and endangers network security.

Huangpu Branch of Guangzhou Public Security Bureau organized and deployed a newly formed professional team to combat new crimes, and successively destroyed three "card merchants" criminal dens located in Dongqu Street, Luogang Street and Changzhou Street in Huangpu District, and successively arrested five suspects, and seized more than 30 computers for committing crimes, more than 0/00 sets of cat pools/KLOC, and more than 40,000 mobile phone cards.

With the popularization of Internet technology, people can participate in social activities or enjoy various services through a mobile phone without leaving home. Mobile phone number and verification code have become the main "passports" of many network platforms. In order to meet the market demand, a so-called "coding platform (also known as verification code platform)" black industry has quietly emerged.

"Card merchants" mainly refer to users who have a large number of mobile phone cards. They use the software provided by the coding platform to register a large number of accounts on various network platforms, and automatically send the received short message of verification code back to the coding platform, and then the coding platform directly sends the corresponding mobile phone number and verification code to various downstream "customers" for use and charges a certain fee.

In this process, any mobile phone number of the "card dealer" can be used once, and the corresponding income can be obtained. Downstream customers are often closely related to criminal activities such as online fraud and telecom fraud, and "card merchants" have become one of the prominent criminals behind telecom fraud.

Cat Pool refers to a device with a communication module, which can send and receive short messages and support the simultaneous use of multiple mobile phone cards. Generally, there are 8 slots, 16 slot or even 128 slot (that is, 8, 16 or 128 mobile phone cards can be inserted at the same time). Only through the cat pool can "card merchants" realize the effect that multiple mobile phone cards work at the same time and send and receive a large number of SMS verification codes.

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People's Network-Graduate students "raise" phone cards for profit. The police seized more than 40,000 mobile phone cards.