Is it illegal to send scary text messages?

Legal analysis: publishing false terrorist information may constitute the crime of releasing false dangerous substances.

Legal basis: Article 291-1 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) puts in false explosive, toxic, radioactive, infectious disease pathogens and other substances, or fabricates terrorist information such as explosion threat, biochemical threat, radiation threat, or spreads it knowingly, thus seriously disrupting social order, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance; If serious consequences are caused, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years. Whoever fabricates a false danger, epidemic situation, disaster situation or warning situation and spreads it on the information network or other media, or knowingly spreads it on the information network or other media, thus seriously disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance; If serious consequences are caused, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.