18.2-193 - Credit card forgery. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-193. Credit card forgery.

(1) A person is guilty of credit card forgery when:

(a) With intent to defraud a purported issuer, a person or organizationproviding money, goods, services or anything else of value, or any otherperson, he falsely makes or falsely embosses a purported credit card orutters such a credit card; or

(b) He, not being the cardholder or a person authorized by him, with intentto defraud the issuer, or a person or organization providing money, goods,services or anything else of value, or any other person, signs a credit card;or

(c) He, not being the cardholder or a person authorized by him, with intentto defraud the issuer, or a person or organization providing money, goods,services or anything else of value, or any other person, forges a sales draftor cash advance/withdrawal draft, or uses a credit card number of a card ofwhich he is not the cardholder, or utters, or attempts to employ as true,such forged draft knowing it to be forged.

(2) A person falsely makes a credit card when he makes or draws, in whole orin part, a device or instrument which purports to be the credit card of anamed issuer but which is not such a credit card because the issuer did notauthorize the making or drawing, or alters a credit card which was validlyissued.

(3) A person falsely embosses a credit card when, without the authorizationof the named issuer, he completes a credit card by adding any of the matter,other than the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires toappear on the credit card before it can be used by a cardholder. Convictionof credit card forgery shall be punishable as a Class 5 felony.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-125.4; 1968, c. 480; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1980, c. 99; 1985,c. 266.)