There is a loophole in the ID card when it is reported lost. 300 yuan can use it when it is bought! Peking University students suspected of killing their mothers have bought more than 30 online …

  Reporter Yan Huiying, Shi Linjing


  According to the Beijing News, on April 25th, the reporter learned from Fuzhou Public Security Bureau that Wu Xieyu, a Peking University student suspected of killing his mother, had been arrested. According to an insider close to the police, Wu Xieyu was arrested on April 21 while boarding a plane at Chongqing Jiangbei Airport. With more than 30 ID cards, I bought them online and have been active in China for three years.


  According to the investigation of Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporter, when citizens report the loss of their ID cards, only a few application scenarios can identify them as reported documents, such as verification by public security organs and business handling by financial system. If I hold an old card that has been reported lost to take a train, stay in a hotel, surf the Internet in an Internet cafe, etc., the system will still judge this card as "true and valid".


  ID card "loss reporting" has become a decoration. You can buy one from 300 yuan to 350 yuan on the Internet.







A Shanghai resident shows two generations of identity cards. (Xinhua News Agency) Xinhua News Agency (photo by Lai Xinlin)

A Shanghai resident shows two generations of identity cards. (Xinhua News Agency) Xinhua News Agency (photo by Lai Xinlin)


  The resident identity card is an important identity document for citizens living in People’s Republic of China (PRC). However, according to the investigation by Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporter, a large number of resident ID cards are lost every year in China, and some of them are traded by criminals through the Internet, and even used for illegal and criminal activities.


  According to the reporter’s investigation, when citizens report the loss of their ID cards, only a few application scenarios can identify them as reported documents, such as verification by public security organs and business handling by financial systems. If I hold an old card that has been reported lost to take a train, stay in a hotel, surf the Internet in an Internet cafe, etc., the system will still judge this card as "true and valid". The "loss reporting" of ID cards has become a decoration, and this loophole has made it possible for black transactions of ID cards.


  The black transaction of ID card exposes the weak awareness of citizens’ personal information security, the need to improve the relevant system of ID card, and the difficulty in supervising online transactions. Experts suggest speeding up the social sharing process of ID card loss reporting information, improving the scientific and technological content of ID cards, and leaving no opportunities for criminals.


  The phenomenon of "being registered" and "being a legal person" is frequent.


  "People sit at home, and the pot comes from the sky."


  "Last year, I was going to register as a member in a national hotel chain, but the customer service reminded me that my ID card had already been registered in the hotel. But this is the first time I have stayed in this hotel, and it is impossible to have a member with an ID card. " Zou Yi (a pseudonym), a citizen of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, told reporters that she remembered that she had accidentally lost her ID card in 2017. "It is likely to be used by others."


  If the "registered member" is still a trivial matter, the "being a legal person" incident that broke out repeatedly in the past two years has aroused great concern about the great risk and potential harm of losing the ID card.


  From the data released by public security organs in some areas, it can be seen that the current loss of identity cards is relatively common-since the implementation of the "three systems" of accepting resident identity cards in different places, reporting the loss and recruiting them for loss, as of mid-April 2017, the Shaanxi Provincial Public Security Department has accepted more than 200,000 reports of loss reporting, nearly 1,000 lost and recruited them, and returned more than 200; Changsha accepted nearly 30,000 reports of loss, received more than 80 lost documents picked up by the masses and returned 47 lost documents.


  Many of the lost identity cards have been fraudulently used by others or even used for illegal activities.


  Nowadays, real-name registration is required for staying in a hotel, buying a house, buying a mobile phone card, opening a bank card and industrial and commercial registration, and there are also real-name records for bank transfers. Some lawless elements are eyeing the lost ID cards and engaging in illegal activities with the second-generation ID cards they bought, so as to identify themselves and escape the crackdown and supervision.


  In August last year, the Netan Brigade of Wuyuan County Public Security Bureau in Jiangxi Province cracked a case of buying and selling resident ID cards involving many places in the country. In March 2018, when the Netan Brigade of the bureau conducted an inquest on the suspect’s mobile phone in a credit card fraud case, it was found that among the QQ friends of the suspect Wang Mobo, a man with the net name "Sunflower" had the behavior of buying and selling identity documents. After investigation, the true identity of "Sunflower" is Liang.


  After Liang was arrested, it was found through trial and evidence collection that since 2017, Liang has searched for information on ID cards through Baidu Post Bar, QQ, etc., and added a number of QQ groups to buy and sell ID cards, and then obtained ways to buy ID cards. Advertise in the circle of friends and WeChat groups or QQ groups, and those who are interested in buying will talk privately to make demands.


  After the ID card is bought and sold, personal privacy information will be leaked and money will be lost.


  Jia Haihong, director of the criminal department of Henan Qianye Law Firm, pointed out, "In recent years, some lost and stolen ID cards have been traded abnormally through the Internet. After losing their ID cards, they will even be used by others to handle bank cards and credit cards, engage in fraud, money laundering and other criminal activities. Many citizens are’ sitting at home, pots come from the sky’ and have to prove’ I am not me’ for no reason."


  It can still be used normally after reporting the loss.


  You can buy it by searching for "sfz"


  Since the implementation of the resident ID card system in 1985, ID cards have been widely used. However, with the rapid development of social dynamics and informatization, the security risks of lost and stolen ID cards have gradually emerged, which are related to the weak awareness of citizens’ self-protection, the need to promote the relevant system of resident ID cards, and the gaps in network supervision.


  -citizens’ awareness of personal information security is weak. According to the director of a police station in Honggutan New District, Nanchang City, there was a mandatory requirement in the past for people to lose their identity cards. If they need to reissue them, they need to report the loss first. "But many people are too troublesome and feel that it will increase their economic burden and delay time, so now they all come directly to the police station to reissue them, even if they lose them, they don’t report the loss or reissue them. There is a practice of’ no need to make up, it will take time to make up’."


  -The promotion of the ID card related system is relatively slow. According to the regulations of the Ministry of Public Security, if a resident ID card that has been reported lost has been renewed due to its expiration or damage, or if it has been renewed for other reasons, the original resident ID card will be regarded as an invalid document and will be pushed to relevant departments through the information system of the Ministry of Public Security. In November 2015, the Opinions of the Ministry of Public Security on Establishing the System of Receiving and Reporting the Loss of Resident Identity Cards in Different Places proposed that an information system for reporting the loss of resident identity cards would be established to provide verification services for all departments and units that use the cards.


  However, Dr. Ma Chuang of Henan Collaborative Innovation Center for Social Governance of Zhengzhou University said that although the public security departments have been interconnected with railway, civil aviation, communications and other management departments, they are not fully interconnected, and the phenomenon of inter-departmental fragmentation governance still exists, and many scenarios do not have online verification conditions.

  In addition, the relevant person in charge of the Household Affairs Office of the Public Security Bureau of Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province introduced that because of technical problems, even if the current second-generation resident ID card in China is reported lost, its electronic chip can still be identified and the information is still available, and the statement in the newspaper is only in a legal sense.

(Editor: Zhao Yanping HF094)