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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62758</law_id><section_number>18.2-193</section_number><catch_line>Credit card forgery</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-198.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Crimes Involving Fraud</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Offenses Relating to Credit Cards</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> A person is guilty of <span class="dictionary">credit card</span> <span class="dictionary">forgery</span> when: <a id="paragraph-228805" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-193/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1a" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> With <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to defraud a purported <span class="dictionary">issuer</span>, a person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value, or any other person, he falsely makes or falsely embosses a purported <span class="dictionary">credit card</span> or utters such a <span class="dictionary">credit card</span>; or <a id="paragraph-228806" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-193/#1a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1b" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> He, not being the <span class="dictionary">cardholder</span> or a person authorized by him, with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to defraud the <span class="dictionary">issuer</span>, or a person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value, or any other person, signs a <span class="dictionary">credit card</span>; or <a id="paragraph-228807" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-193/#1b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1c" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> He, not being the <span class="dictionary">cardholder</span> or a person authorized by him, with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to defraud the <span class="dictionary">issuer</span>, or a person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value, or any other person, forges a <span class="dictionary">sales draft</span> or cash advance/withdrawal draft, or uses a <span class="dictionary">credit card</span> number of a card of which he is not the <span class="dictionary">cardholder</span>, or utters, or attempts to employ as true, such forged draft knowing it to be forged. <a id="paragraph-228808" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-193/#1c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> A person falsely makes a <span class="dictionary">credit card</span> when he makes or draws, in whole or in part, a device or instrument which purports to be the <span class="dictionary">credit card</span> of a named <span class="dictionary">issuer</span> but which is not such a <span class="dictionary">credit card</span> because the <span class="dictionary">issuer</span> did not authorize the making or drawing, or alters a <span class="dictionary">credit card</span> which was validly issued. <a id="paragraph-228809" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-193/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> A person falsely embosses a <span class="dictionary">credit card</span> when, without the authorization of the named <span class="dictionary">issuer</span>, he completes a <span class="dictionary">credit card</span> by adding any of the matter, other than the signature of the <span class="dictionary">cardholder</span>, which an <span class="dictionary">issuer</span> requires to appear on the <span class="dictionary">credit card</span> before it can be used by a <span class="dictionary">cardholder</span>. <span class="dictionary">Conviction</span> of <span class="dictionary">credit card</span> <span class="dictionary">forgery</span> shall be punishable as a Class 5 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <a id="paragraph-228810" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-193/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-125.4; 1968, c. 480; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1980, c. 99; 1985, c. 266.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
