What should I do when I encounter online fraud, when I encounter rumors and slanders, and when teenagers are infringed by obscene or violent information on the Internet? Be sure to think of 12377 at the first time!
At present, many criminals have set their sights on the field of "cyber crime", and from time to time, there will be cases in which people encounter cyber fraud. This is because, on the one hand, the cost of crime is low, on the other hand, the success rate of "collecting money" through the Internet remains high. During the second National Cyber Security Publicity Week, the organizers organized a series of activities to make the general public more alert to illegal and bad information on the Internet. This time, Zhang Chenggang, director of the Internet Illegal and Bad Information Reporting Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Reporting Center"), accepted an interview with the reporter to let the public know more about the reporting center and listen to how he taught the general public to reduce the harm of illegal and bad information on the Internet through "reporting".
????What is the report center for?
The reporting center was established in 2005. In May last year, it was transferred to the National Internet Information Office (hereinafter referred to as the "National Network Information Office") for direct management. The duties of the reporting center are: to accept and dispose of the public’s reports of illegal and bad information on the Internet; Guide websites all over the country to carry out reporting work; Conduct international exchanges and report harmful information that violates China laws and regulations and infringes on national interests to overseas websites.
The scope of reporting includes domestic websites, forums, communities, blogs, Weibo and other interactive platforms, instant messaging tools such as WeChat and QQ, storage tools such as network disks and cloud disks, and all kinds of illegal and bad information spread by various Internet applications such as mobile clients and application stores; It also contains illegal and bad information such as overseas websites infringing on China’s national interests and involving violent videos.
In fact, the reporting center is not far from people’s lives. Zhang Chenggang said that in people’s daily life, they can report to the reporting center when they encounter telecom and online fraud, find obscene and pornographic information on the website, or encounter online rumors. The specific report content mainly includes the "seven bottom lines" such as violation of laws and regulations, socialist system, national interests, citizens’ legitimate rights and interests, social public order, morality and fashion, and information authenticity. These illegal and bad information can be accepted by the report center.
????Four reporting channels are unimpeded 24 hours a day.
In order to facilitate people’s reporting, the reporting center has set up four reporting channels. They are:
1. Call 12377 for 24 hours;
2. Browse the website of the reporting center (www.12377.cn) to report;
3. Send an email to jubao@12377.cn to report;
4. Download the mobile client "Report 12377" to the mobile phone and report it at any time.
In addition, Zhang Chenggang introduced that the entrance to the reporting center has been set up on the home pages of major news websites, and people can report at any time.
According to official data, in 2014, the reporting center accepted about 1.1 million reports. Among them, about 80% is obscene and pornographic information, about 10% is information about fraud and gambling, the third analogy is more harmful political information, especially audio and video that promotes violence and terror, and the fourth category is information about people’s personal privacy or reputation being violated.
According to Zhang Chenggang, according to the analysis results of the latest report data, obscene and pornographic harmful information has a new communication feature, that is, it develops to the mobile terminal and cloud storage, such as using network disk to spread, or spreading through Weibo, WeChat, QQ, etc., and obscene and pornographic information spreads more widely by relying on the mobile Internet, which has also caused troubles for relevant departments to obtain evidence. Therefore, when people encounter this kind of situation, they must report it in time, so that the criminals can be brought to justice more quickly.
????How to report more effectively?
In order to improve the efficiency of reporting, Zhang Chenggang reminded the general public to provide evidence that is beneficial to the investigation and evidence collection of relevant functional departments as much as possible when reporting. For example, chat records with online fraudsters, transfer records of bank cards, Alipay, etc. Zhang Chenggang reminded the general public that when encountering illegal and bad information on the Internet, reporting it at the first time can effectively prevent the spread of such information. When encountering obscene, pornographic and violent information, people only need to submit the specific website to the reporting center, and the staff will quickly dispose of it according to the source of the reported information.
When encountering online fraud, you must report the case to the local public security department at the first time. And keep as much evidence as possible, including bank payment records or transfer documents, screenshots of complete chat records that can reflect communication accounts, screenshots of total recall, SMS records, and emails. After that, the public security department’s receipt for receiving the police or filing a case, evidence materials, illegal website addresses, illegal instant messaging accounts, etc. should be submitted to the reporting center. Doing so will not only hopefully recover the losses that have been caused, but also effectively prevent criminals from cheating others.
????Report what the director of the center wants to say to you.
Zhang Chenggang said that at present, the reporting center receives about 1,000 pieces of fraudulent information every day. He reminded the general public to be cautious when encountering suspicious online links. It is very rare to know that "stuffing cakes are missing from the sky". However, if you are required to provide links such as ID number, telephone number, bank card number or Alipay account number, the "mystery" of online fraud may be hidden.
In addition, many people’s legal awareness is relatively weak. Faced with false and rumor information circulating on the Internet, many people do not have the awareness of "not believing in rumors, not spreading rumors", and some will actively create or spread rumors. According to the latest judicial interpretations of the two courts, if the same defamatory information is actually clicked and viewed more than 5,000 times, or forwarded more than 500 times, it can be considered as’ serious circumstances’ as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 246 of the Criminal Law, which can constitute the crime of libel. This kind of seemingly insignificant information may have violated the bottom line of the law when it is forwarded at will.
It is reported that one of the important sections of the second cyber security publicity week is to focus on youth cyber security publicity and education, and set up a national cyber security youth science base. In order to reduce the possibility of teenagers being infringed by illegal and bad information on the Internet as much as possible, the reporting center has also made a lot of efforts. For example, during the winter and summer vacations, the reporting center will issue tips such as "How to protect minors from harmful information on the Internet" to make teenagers and their parents more alert. During the Spring Festival, the reporting center will release simple and easy-to-understand tips such as "Top Ten Forms of Internet Fraud and Preventive Measures" to make people more careful. Before the second security week, the report center also participated in the activities of entering the community, so that people can get a close look at the report center and think of reporting it at the first time when they encounter online fraud.
Although the number of reports received by the reporting center every day has kept the staff busy, Zhang Chenggang also hopes that more netizens will participate in the reporting work, because purifying the network environment will not only benefit others, but also help themselves. He hopes that the general public will not only keep in mind the five numbers "12377" during the security week, but also actively report illegal and bad information on the Internet, so that illegal information on the Internet will disappear under the supervision of the general public. (China Netcom Chai Shasha)