How many WeChat payment accounts are bound to your ID card? Check the official guide

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Nowadays, personal privacy seems to be less and less valuable, and the outflow of personal information can easily be used by criminals to engage in various activities, causing serious harm to both individuals and society.

According to CCTV reports, in early September this year, Tieling, Liaoning Province cracked a major case of infringement of citizens' personal information, with the amount involved reaching more than 50 million yuan.

It is reported that in early July this year, Tieling police discovered that a Liaoning netizen named Wang organized a group of people to set up a studio in Anshan, Liaoning, illegally registered and purchased WeChat accounts, and used citizen ID information to register the WeChat accounts with real names, and then sold them to illegal criminal gangs, and the number of accounts issued was quite stable.

Upon investigation, it turned out that someone had taken advantage of his position to provide Wang with a large amount of personal real-name information data of citizens. These thousands of black accounts had already flowed into the market, and were used for money laundering, prostitution, proxy brushing, gambling, loan scams, fraud, drugs, etc.

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So, in addition to protecting personal privacy, what else can we do? At least we should know whether our identity information has been abused.

WeChat officials released a guide today, which allows you to check whether your ID card has been bound to WeChat payment by others through WeChat.

Step 1: Open WeChat, and click "Me" - "Settings" - "General" - "Accessibility";

Step 2: Enter "Accessibility" and click [WeChat Payment] - [Help Center] - [Real Name Issues];

Step 3: In the "Real Name Issue" section, click "Query Accounts Under Your Name" and enter your name, ID number, and scan your face for verification;

Step 4: After identity verification, you can see the WeChat payment account bound to your personal ID card. If it is not your account, click [Clear] to unbind it.

According to the "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (No. 9)", Article 253 of the Criminal Law stipulates: Whoever sells or provides citizens' personal information to others in violation of relevant national regulations shall, if the circumstances are serious, be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall be fined or fined alone; if the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall be fined.

Anyone who violates relevant national regulations by selling or providing to others the personal information of citizens obtained in the course of performing duties or providing services shall be subject to heavier penalties in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.