A. A person is guilty of credit card forgery when:
1. 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;
2. 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
3. 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.
B. A person falsely makes a credit card when he makes or draws, in whole or in part, a device or instrument that 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 that was validly issued.
C. 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.
D. Any person who, with intent to defraud, alters or tampers with a gift card or its packaging is guilty of gift card forgery.
E. Conviction of credit card or gift card forgery is a Class 5 felony.
Code 1950, § 18.1-125.4; 1968, c. 480; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1980, c. 99; 1985, c. 266; 2026, cc. 196, 197.
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1 in the last 5 years), 1997–2024 · leading case:
Gheorghiu v. Com., 701 S.E.2d 407 (Va. 2010).
Gheorghiu v. Com., 701 S.E.2d 407 (Va. 2010).
· cites it 3× “2-192, eight counts of credit card forgery, in violation of Code § 18.2-193, three counts of credit card *410 fraud in violation of Code § 18.”
Gheorghiu v. Commonwealth, 682 S.E.2d 50 (Va. Ct. App. 2009).
· cites it 6× “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 violation of Code § 18.2-193 (case numbers CR06-441 through CR06-448); five counts of identity theft, in violation of Code § 18.”
Kovalaske v. Commonwealth, 692 S.E.2d 641 (Va. Ct. App. 2010).
· cites it 2× “Appellant was arrested and indicted on charges of credit card forgery, in violation of Code § 18.2-193, credit card theft, in violation of Code § 18.”
Garrison v. Commonwealth, 549 S.E.2d 634 (Va. Ct. App. 2001).
· cites it 2× “2-192, credit card forgery, in violation of Code § 18.2-193 and credit card fraud, in violation of Code *301 § 18.”
Hamilton v. Pallozzi, 165 F. Supp. 3d 315 (D. Maryland 2016).
“2-192 ; credit-card forgery in violation of Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-193 ; and credit-card fraud in violation of Va.”
Michael Ryan Bruton v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 755 S.E.2d 485 (Va. Ct. App. 2014).
· cites it 2× “2-195(l)(a), and two counts of credit card forgery, in violation of Code § 18.2-193. During a two-day bifurcated trial, the Commonwealth’s evidence during the guilt-determination phase proved beyond a reasonable doubt that on May 8, 2011, appellant used a credit card number…”
Roberto Brito Arrate v. Commonwealth of Virginia (Va. Ct. App. 2019).
· cites it 26× “Sparks informed Brito Arrate that the card had 2) the gift cards in question did not meet the definition of a “credit card” for purposes of Va. Code § 18.2-193 because the gift cards didn’t operate by means of “charging the account of the cardholder with a bank or any other…”
Gheorghiu v. Commonwealth, 671 S.E.2d 407 (Va. Ct. App. 2009).
· cites it 4× “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 violation of Code § 18.2-193 (case numbers CR06-441 through CR06-448); five counts of identity theft, in violation of Code § 18.”
Ogunde v. Jaddou (E.D. Va. 2024).
· cites it 9× “Ogunde was convicted of Credit Card Forgery in violation of Va Code Ann. § 18.2-193. (ECF No. 193.) Va Code Ann.”
Ronnie Leon Bryant v. Commonwealth of Virginia (Va. Ct. App. 2019).
· cites it 3× “2-192 may be had in any county or city where a credit card number is used, is attempted to be used, or is possessed with intent to violate § 18.2-193, 18.2-195, or 18.2-197.” See 2008 Acts ch.”
William Richard Hasson, III v. Commonwealth (Va. Ct. App. 2006).
· cites it 4× “2-195), and four counts of credit card forgery (Code § 18.2-193).5 I would reverse the other two convictions and remand for a new trial.”
Keith Lamonte Hill v. Commonwealth of VA (Va. Ct. App. 2002).
· cites it 3× “1 Code § 18.2-193(1)(c) provides: A person is guilty of credit card forgery when: * * * * * * * [h]e, 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…”
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-193(1) — 1 case
Roberto Brito Arrate v. Commonwealth of Virginia (Va. Ct. App. 2019).
“Sparks informed Brito Arrate that the card had 2) the gift cards in question did not meet the definition of a “credit card” for purposes of Va. Code § 18.2-193 because the gift cards didn’t operate by means of “charging the account of the cardholder with a bank or any other…”
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-193(1)(a) — 1 case
Roberto Brito Arrate v. Commonwealth of Virginia (Va. Ct. App. 2019).
“Sparks informed Brito Arrate that the card had 2) the gift cards in question did not meet the definition of a “credit card” for purposes of Va. Code § 18.2-193 because the gift cards didn’t operate by means of “charging the account of the cardholder with a bank or any other…”
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-193(1)(c) — 2 cases
Ogunde v. Jaddou (E.D. Va. 2024).
“Ogunde was convicted of Credit Card Forgery in violation of Va Code Ann. § 18.2-193. (ECF No. 193.) Va Code Ann.”
Keith Lamonte Hill v. Commonwealth of VA (Va. Ct. App. 2002).
“1 Code § 18.2-193(1)(c) provides: A person is guilty of credit card forgery when: * * * * * * * [h]e, 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…”
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-193(2) — 1 case
Roberto Brito Arrate v. Commonwealth of Virginia (Va. Ct. App. 2019).
“Sparks informed Brito Arrate that the card had 2) the gift cards in question did not meet the definition of a “credit card” for purposes of Va. Code § 18.2-193 because the gift cards didn’t operate by means of “charging the account of the cardholder with a bank or any other…”
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-193(3) — 1 case
Roberto Brito Arrate v. Commonwealth of Virginia (Va. Ct. App. 2019).
“Sparks informed Brito Arrate that the card had 2) the gift cards in question did not meet the definition of a “credit card” for purposes of Va. Code § 18.2-193 because the gift cards didn’t operate by means of “charging the account of the cardholder with a bank or any other…”
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-193(c) — 1 case
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