Delito de falsificación de tarjetas de crédito en Virginia

Explicación Simple

Falsificar una tarjeta de crédito significa hacer una tarjeta falsa o usar una tarjeta que no es tuya para robar. Si alguien lo hace, puede tener problemas muy serios con la ley.

Es como si alguien hiciera un billete falso para comprar cosas. Al final, quien lo hace se mete en problemas porque está engañando a otros.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Carlos encuentra una tarjeta de crédito en el suelo. En lugar de devolverla, decide usarla para comprar un teléfono nuevo. Carlos no es el dueño de la tarjeta y, al usarla, está cometiendo un delito.

Penalidades

La falsificación de tarjetas de crédito se castiga como un delito de clase 5, lo que puede incluir penas de prisión.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

Va. Code § 18.2-193 - Credit card forgery. (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. Code 1950, § 18.1-125.4; 1968, c. 480; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1980, c. 99; 1985, c. 266.