570.135. Fraudulent procurement of a credit or debit card — penalty — limitation of liability.
It’s illegal to lie or steal someone’s info to get a credit or debit card.
This law makes it a crime to use false information or someone else’s identity to get a credit or debit card without permission.
1. A person breaks this law if they:
- Knowingly make a false statement about someone else to trick a bank into giving them a card;
- Get someone’s personal info without permission and use it to get credit, goods, or services in that person’s name;
- Knowingly have a credit or debit card that was fraudulently obtained.
2. This offense is a class A misdemeanor.
3. A business (like a company or store) is not guilty of this crime just for taking credit card applications or payments — unless there is clear proof the business helped commit the fraud.
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