18.2-192 - Credit card theft.
§ 18.2-192. Credit card theft.
(1) A person is guilty of credit card or credit card number theft when:
(a) He takes, obtains or withholds a credit card or credit card number fromthe person, possession, custody or control of another without thecardholder's consent or who, with knowledge that it has been so taken,obtained or withheld, receives the credit card or credit card number withintent to use it or sell it, or to transfer it to a person other than theissuer or the cardholder; or
(b) He receives a credit card or credit card number that he knows to havebeen lost, mislaid, or delivered under a mistake as to the identity oraddress of the cardholder, and who retains possession with intent to use, tosell or to transfer the credit card or credit card number to a person otherthan the issuer or the cardholder; or
(c) He, not being the issuer, sells a credit card or credit card number orbuys a credit card or credit card number from a person other than the issuer;or
(d) He, not being the issuer, during any twelve-month period, receives creditcards or credit card numbers issued in the names of two or more persons whichhe has reason to know were taken or retained under circumstances whichconstitute a violation of § 18.2-194 and subdivision (1) (c) of this section.
(2) Credit card or credit card number theft is grand larceny and ispunishable as provided in § 18.2-95.
(Code 1950, § 18.1-125.3; 1968, c. 480; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1976, c. 318; 1985,c. 266.)