Virginia Credit Card Fraud Laws Maryland Massachusetts
Credit card fraud is very heavily prosecuted in Virginia, Maryland & Massachusetts. Credit card fraud is a crime of moral turpitude. Theft and fraud committed using a credit card or any similar payment mechanism as a fraudulent source of funds in a transaction is credit card fraud. Obtaining goods without paying, or to obtain unauthorized funds from an account is credit card fraud.
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The following are some of the laws in VA, MD & MA:
- § 18.2-194. Unauthorized possession of two or more signed credit cards or credit card numbers.
When a person, other than the cardholder or a person authorized by him, possesses two or more credit cards which are signed or two or more credit card numbers, such possession shall be prima facie evidence that said cards or credit card numbers were obtained in violation of § 18.2-192.
- Md. CRIMINAL LAW Code Ann. § 7-107. Bad checks – Prosecution as theft.
(a) Scope of section.- A person who obtains property or a service by a bad check under the circumstances described in Title 8, Subtitle 1 of this article may not be prosecuted for theft under this part unless that person:
(1) makes a false representation that there are sufficient funds in the drawee bank to cover the check; and
(2) commits deception as provided under § 7-104(b) or (e) of this part.
(b) Presumptions.- If a person is prosecuted for theft under this section, the presumptions of § 8-104 of this article apply to the same extent as if the person were prosecuted under § 7-104 of this part.
Whoever, with intent to defraud, (a) makes or causes to be made, either directly or indirectly, any false statement as to a material fact in writing, knowing it to be false and with intent that it be relied on, respecting his identity or that of any other person, or his financial condition or that of any other person, for the purpose of procuring the issuance of a credit card, or (b) takes a credit card from the person, possession, custody or control of another without the cardholder’s consent by any conduct which would constitute larceny, or who, with knowledge that it has been so taken, receives the credit card with intent to use it or to sell it, or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or cardholder,or (c) receives a credit card that he knows to have been lost, mislaid, or delivered under a mistake as to the identity or address of the cardholder, and who retains possession with intent to use it or to sell it or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder,
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