California Credit Card Fraud Attorney

Any person who possesses an incomplete access card, with intent to complete it without consent of the issues, or with the intent to defraud, makes, alters, varies, changes, or modifies access card account information on any part of an access card, including information encoded in a magnetic stripe or other medium on the access card not directly readable by the human eye, or who authorizes or consents to alteration, variance, change, or modification of access card account whether by another, or designs, makes, possess, or traffics in card making equipment or incomplete access cards with the intent that the equipment or cards be used to make counterfeit access cards, is guilty of credit card fraud.

There are different actions that constitute what identity theft is in the state of California. Any person who willfully obtains personal identifying information of another person and uses that information for any unlawful purpose, including to obtain, or attempt to obtain, credit, goods, services, real property, or medical information without the consent of that person, is guilty of identity theft.

Additionally, any attempt to obtain personal information in an attempt to defraud a person is identity theft. Trying to defraud, sell, transfer, or convey personal identifying information is also identity theft.

Personal information that could potentially be obtained includes but is not limited to a person’s name, address, telephone number, account numbers, driver’s license number, mother’s maiden name, date of birth, PIN number, tax ID number, employee identification number, government passport number, and social security numbers.

Examples of identity theft include signing someone else’s name on a credit card charge, using someone else’s identification card to buy goods, giving false information to a bank or police officer in order to avoid arrest, signing a check in someone else’s name, using someone else’s personal information with intent to commit a crime, and transferring property in someone else’s name.

Credit card fraud can be confusing and difficult to fight alone; let Weber Law navigate it for you.  There are also instances where a judge can make discretionary sentences; it is important to have legal counsel that can advocate for you in that instance.