                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FRAUDULENT APPLICATION FOR CREDIT CARD; PENALTIES (§ 18.2-195.2)

A. A person shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if he makes, causes to be
made or conspires to make, directly, indirectly or through an agency, any
materially false statement in writing concerning the financial condition or
means or ability to pay of himself or of any other person for whom he is acting
or any firm or corporation in which he is interested or for which he is acting,
knowing the statement to be false and intending that it be relied upon for the
purpose of procuring a credit card. However, if the statement is made in
response to an unrequested written solicitation from the issuer or an agent of
the issuer to apply for a credit card, he shall be guilty of a Class 4
misdemeanor.

B. A person who knows that a false statement has been made in writing concerning
the financial condition or ability to pay of himself or of any person for whom
he is acting or any firm or corporation in which he is interested or for which
he is acting and who with intent to defraud, procures a credit card, upon the
faith of such false statement, for his own benefit, or for the benefit of the
person, firm or corporation in which he is interested or for which he is acting,
and obtains by use of the credit card, money, property, services or any thing of
value, is guilty of grand larceny if the value of whatever is obtained is $1,000
or more or petit larceny if the value is less than $1,000.

C. As used in this section, &#8220;in writing&#8221; shall include information
transmitted by computer, facsimile, e-mail, Internet, or any other electronic
medium, and shall not include information transmitted by any such medium by
voice transmission.

HISTORY: 1991, c. 546; 2007, c. 518; 2018, cc. 764, 765; 2020, cc. 89, 401.