TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 31

FALSE PRETENSES, CHEATS AND MISREPRESENTATIONS

18-3125.  Criminal possession of financial transaction card, financial transaction number and FTC forgery devices. It is a felony punishable as provided in subsection (3) of section 18-3128, Idaho Code, for any person:

(1)  To acquire an FTC or FTC number from another without the consent of the card holder or the issuer with the intent to use to defraud, or to, with the knowledge that it has been so acquired, receive an FTC or FTC number with the intent to use to defraud, or to sell, or to transfer the FTC or FTC number to another person with the knowledge that it is to be used to defraud;

(2)  To acquire an FTC or FTC number that he knows to have been lost, mislaid, or delivered under a mistake as to the identity or address of the card holder, and to retain possession with the intent to use to defraud or to sell or transfer to another person with the knowledge that it is to be used to defraud;

(3)  To, with the intent to defraud, knowingly possess a false, fictitious, counterfeit, revoked, expired or fraudulently obtained FTC or any FTC account number;

(4)  To, with the intent to defraud, knowingly obtain or attempt to obtain credit or purchase or attempt to purchase any goods, property or service, by use of any false, fictitious, counterfeit, revoked, expired or fraudulently obtained FTC or FTC account number;

(5)  To, with the intent to defraud, knowingly produce to another person or procure, a false, fictitious, counterfeit, revoked, expired or fraudulently obtained FTC or any FTC account number;

(6)  To, with the intent to defraud and while making an application for an FTC to an issuer, knowingly make or cause to be made, a false written or oral statement or representation respecting his name, personal identifying information, occupation, financial condition, assets, or to materially undervalue any indebtedness for the purpose of influencing the issuer to issue an FTC.

History:

[18-3125, added 1981, ch. 164, sec. 4, p. 290; am. 2002, ch. 72, sec. 2, p. 159; am. 2007, ch. 33, sec. 3, p. 77; am. 2015, ch. 62, sec. 1, p. 171.]