§1693n — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

Makes it a crime for a person to lie, give wrong information, or leave out required information under this part of the law, or to otherwise fail to follow any rule in this part. Also makes it a crime, when doing business across state lines or with other countries, to use, try to use, or plan to use fake or fraudulently gotten debit cards or codes to get money, goods, or services that total $1,000 or more within any one-year period; to move or sell those fake debit devices across state lines or to other countries; to receive or hide things worth $1,000 or more that were bought with such devices and that moved in interstate or foreign commerce; to receive or move transportation tickets bought with such devices worth $500 or more within any one-year period; or to provide money, goods, or services worth $1,000 or more using such devices while knowing they are fake or fraudulently obtained. "Debit instrument" means a card, code, or other device (not a check or similar paper) used to start an electronic funds transfer.

Title 15, §1693n

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(a)Whoever knowingly and willfully—

(1)gives false or inaccurate information or fails to provide information which he is required to disclose by this subchapter or any regulation issued thereunder; or

(2)otherwise fails to comply with any provision of this subchapter;

(b)Whoever—

(1)knowingly, in a transaction affecting interstate or foreign commerce, uses or attempts or conspires to use any counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained debit instrument to obtain money, goods, services, or anything else of value which within any one-year period has a value aggregating $1,000 or more; or

(2)with unlawful or fraudulent intent, transports or attempts or conspires to transport in interstate or foreign commerce a counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained debit instrument knowing the same to be counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained; or

(3)with unlawful or fraudulent intent, uses any instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce to sell or transport a counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained debit instrument knowing the same to be counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained; or

(4)knowingly receives, conceals, uses, or transports money, goods, services, or anything else of value (except tickets for interstate or foreign transportation) which (A) within any one-year period has a value aggregating $1,000 or more, (B) has moved in or is part of, or which constitutes interstate or foreign commerce, and (C) has been obtained with a counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained debit instrument; or

(5)knowingly receives, conceals, uses, sells, or transports in interstate or foreign commerce one or more tickets for interstate or foreign transportation, which (A) within any one-year period have a value aggregating $500 or more, and (B) have been purchased or obtained with one or more counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained debit instrument; or

(6)in a transaction affecting interstate or foreign commerce, furnishes money, property, services, or anything else of value, which within any one-year period has a value aggregating $1,000 or more, through the use of any counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained debit instrument knowing the same to be counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained—

(c)As used in this section, the term “debit instrument” means a card, code, or other device, other than a check, draft, or similar paper instrument, by the use of which a person may initiate an electronic fund transfer.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 917 of Pub. L. 90–321 was renumbered section 918 and is classified to section 1693o of this title.

§1693n Criminal Liability

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