Title 18.2. Crimes and Offenses Generally
Chapter 6. Crimes Involving Fraud
§ 18.2-192. Credit card or gift card theft; penalty. (2026 updated section)
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.
