A. A person is guilty of credit card or credit card number theft when:
1. He takes, obtains, or withholds a credit card or credit card number from the person, possession, custody, or control of another without the cardholder's consent or who, with knowledge that it has been so taken, obtained, or withheld, receives the credit card or credit card number with intent to use it or sell it, or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder;
2. He receives a credit card or credit card number that he knows to have been lost, mislaid, or delivered under a mistake as to the identity or address of the cardholder, and who retains possession with intent to use, to sell or to transfer the credit card or credit card number to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder;
3. He, not being the issuer, sells a credit card or credit card number or buys a credit card or credit card number from a person other than the issuer; or
4. He, not being the issuer, during any 12-month period, receives credit cards or credit card numbers issued in the names of two or more persons that he has reason to know were taken or retained under circumstances that constitute a violation of § 18.2-194 and subdivision 3.
B. Any person who, with intent to defraud, acquires or retains possession of a gift card or gift card redemption information without the consent of the gift card holder, gift card issuer, or gift card seller is guilty of theft.
C. Any violation of this section is grand larceny and is punishable as provided in § 18.2-95.
Code 1950, § 18.1-125.3; 1968, c. 480; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1976, c. 318; 1985, c. 266; 2026, cc. 196, 197.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
75
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9 in the last 5 years), 1976–2025 · leading case:
Scott v. Commonwealth, 789 S.E.2d 608 (Va. 2016).
Scott v. Commonwealth, 789 S.E.2d 608 (Va. 2016).
· cites it 10× “Only the credit card conviction is before this Court on this appeal, Scott not having appealed his remaining convictions.”
Sandoval v. Commonwealth, 455 S.E.2d 730 (Va. Ct. App. 1995).
· cites it 20× “2-91, and of credit card theft, Code § 18.2-192. He contends that the evidence was insufficient to prove that he was guilty of either charge.”
Darnell v. Commonwealth, 408 S.E.2d 540 (Va. Ct. App. 1991).
· cites it 50× “Darnell, appeals his convictions of two counts of taking, obtaining, or withholding a credit card in violation of Code § 18.2-192. He contends that the trial court should have dismissed the charges on double jeopardy grounds because he had previously been convicted of petit…”
Gheorghiu v. Com., 701 S.E.2d 407 (Va. 2010).
· cites it 7× “3, 36 counts of credit card theft in violation of Code § 18.2-192, eight counts of credit card forgery, in violation of Code § 18.”
Gheorghiu v. Commonwealth, 682 S.E.2d 50 (Va. Ct. App. 2009).
· cites it 22× “An Arlington County jury convicted Mihai Gheorghiu (appellant) of thirty-six counts of credit card theft, in violation of Code § 18.2-192 (case numbers CR05-1231 through CR05-1240, CR06-453 through CR06-469, and CR06-752 through CR06-760); eight counts of credit card forgery, in…”
Meeks v. Com., 651 S.E.2d 637 (Va. 2007).
· cites it 6× “I Meeks was charged in a two-count indictment in the Circuit Court of the City of Alexandria with felony credit card theft, in violation of Code § 18.2-192, and with misdemeanor credit card fraud, in violation of Code § 18.”
Raymeka Monique White v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 807 S.E.2d 242 (Va. Ct. App. 2017).
· cites it 5× “That code section provides, in pertinent part, that “[a] person is guilty of credit card fraud when, with intent to defraud any person, [she] .”
Kovalaske v. Commonwealth, 692 S.E.2d 641 (Va. Ct. App. 2010).
· cites it 4× “2-193, credit card theft, in violation of Code § 18.2-192, and credit card fraud, in violation of Code § 18.”
Howard v. Com., 706 S.E.2d 885 (Va. 2011).
· cites it 2× “FACTS On March 3, 2008, Ronnie Lee Howard was indicted by the Grand Jury in the Circuit Court of Botetourt County for one count of credit card theft, Code § 18.2-192, and one count of breaking and entering, Code § 18.”
Bunn v. Commonwealth, 466 S.E.2d 744 (Va. Ct. App. 1996).
· cites it 4× “Code § 18.2-192 provides that credit card theft is grand larceny.”
James Hamilton v. William Pallozzi, 848 F.3d 614 (4th Cir. 2017).
“2-195; (2) credit card theft, in violation of Va. Code § 18.2-192; and (3) credit card forgery, in violation of Va.”
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-192(1) — 1 case
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-192(1)(a) — 18 cases
Scott v. Commonwealth, 789 S.E.2d 608 (Va. 2016).
“Only the credit card conviction is before this Court on this appeal, Scott not having appealed his remaining convictions.”
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-192(2) — 2 cases
Darnell v. Commonwealth, 408 S.E.2d 540 (Va. Ct. App. 1991).
“Darnell, appeals his convictions of two counts of taking, obtaining, or withholding a credit card in violation of Code § 18.2-192. He contends that the trial court should have dismissed the charges on double jeopardy grounds because he had previously been convicted of petit…”
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-192(a) — 1 case
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-192(l)(a) — 2 cases
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