                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CREDIT CARD FORGERY (§ 18.2-193)

1. A person is guilty of credit card forgery when:

   a. With intent to defraud a purported issuer, 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 credit card or utters
   such a credit card; or

   b. He, not being the cardholder or a person authorized by him, with intent to
   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 intent to
   defraud the issuer, or a person or organization providing money, goods,
   services or anything else of value, or any other person, forges a sales draft
   or cash advance/withdrawal draft, or uses a credit card number of a card of
   which 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 or in
part, a device or instrument which purports to be the credit card of a named
issuer but which is not such a credit card because the issuer did not authorize
the making or drawing, or alters a credit card which was validly issued.

3. A person falsely embosses a credit card when, without the authorization of
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 to appear on the
credit card before it can be used by a cardholder. Conviction of credit card
forgery shall be punishable as a Class 5 felony.

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