What Are Nuisance Calls?

Harassment calls refer to selling products or fraudulent acts of impersonating the police or bank staff and intentional telephone harassment.

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On July 30, 2018, the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress voted to pass the revised "Telecommunications Regulations of Jiangxi Province", ^[6]

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According to Voice of China reports: "Harassment calls" are ubiquitous, and some harassment phone marking software has emerged as the times require. ^[8] But now this service that facilitates users' refusal to harass phones is suspected to be "smell", and some normal-used phones may also be maliciously tagged. ^[7]

Recently, Mr. Yin from Zhejiang found that his phone was marked as an "educational and scientific research institution". "After seeing the caller ID, no friend was willing to answer my call." Inquiries on related platforms will be charged an inquiry fee, and cancellation will be charged separately. ^[8-9]

Normally used phones, however, are inexplicably marked as "harassment" or are tied to personal information. The resulting rights damage and the consequences of information disruption cannot be underestimated. In 2017, the media reported a typical case: the Guangxi and Henan Provincial Public Security Departments have all seen office phones marked as "phishing" and "harassment" by mobile phone software. Earlier reports showed that the phone numbers of journalists and doctors were labeled with career information. ^[7-8]

This encounter with Mr. Yin has torn another dark corner of the mobile phone tagging industry: using malicious tags to create a "tag-query-cancel" black industry chain. ^[2]

The "Network Security Law" clearly stipulates that if a network product or service has the function of collecting user information, its provider shall clearly indicate to the user and obtain consent. Obviously, some normal phones are also labeled, which violates the user's right to know first. And using this kind of label to "reverse" users spend money to query, cancel, even more wrong. ^{[4] [9]}