Crime laws, continued...
1. Producing, using, or trafficking
in counterfeit access devices. (The offense must be committed
knowingly and with intent to defraud.)
Penalty: Fine of $50,000 or twice
the value of the crime and/or up to 15 years in prison, $100,000
and/or up to 20 years if repeat offense.
2. Using or obtaining unauthorized
access devices to obtain anything of value totaling $1000 or more
during a one-year period. (The offense must be committed
knowingly and with intent to defraud.)
Penalty: Fine of $10,000 or twice
the value of the crime and/or up to 10 years in prison, $100,000
and/or up to 20 years if repeat offense.
3. Possessing 15 or more counterfeit
or unauthorized access devices. (The offense must be committed
knowingly and with intent to defraud.)
Penalty: Fine of $10,000 or twice
the value of the crime and/or up to 10 years in prison, $100,000
and/or up to 20 years if repeat offense.
4. Producing, trafficking in, or
having device-making equipment. (The offense must be committed
knowingly and with intent to defraud.)
Penalty: Fine of $50,000 or twice
the value of the of the crime and/or up to 15 years in prison,
$1,000,000 and/or up to 20 years if repeat offense.
5. Effecting transactions with access
devices issued to another person in order to receive payment or
anything of value totaling $1000 or more during a one-year period.
(The offense must be committed knowingly and with intent to defraud.)
Penalty: Fine of 10, or twice
the value of the crime and/or up to 10 years in prison, 100,000
and/or up to 20 years if repeat offense.
6. Soliciting a person for the purpose
of offering an access device or selling information that can be
used to obtain an access device. (The offense must be committed
knowingly and with intent to defraud, and without the authorization
of the issuer of the access device.)
Penalty: Fine of $50,000 or twice
the value of the crime and/or up to 15 years in prison, $100,000
and/or up to 20 years if repeat offense.
7. Using, producing, trafficking
in, or having a telecommunications instruments that has
been modified or altered to obtain unauthorized use of telecommunications
services. (The offense must be committed knowingly and with intent
to defraud.)
This would cover use of “Red Boxes,”
“Blue Boxes” (yes, they still work on some telephone
networks) and cloned cell phones when the legitimate owner of
the phone you have cloned has not agreed to it being cloned.
Penalty: Fine of $50,000 or twice
the value of the crime and/or up to 15 years in prison, $100,000
and/or up to 20 years if repeat offense.
8. Using, producing, trafficking
in, or having a scanning receiver or hardware or software used
to alter or modify telecommunications instruments to obtain unauthorized
access to telecommunications services.
This outlaws the scanners that people so
commonly use to snoop on cell phone calls. We just had a big scandal
when the news media got a hold of an intercepted cell phone call
from Speaker of the US House of Representatives Newt Gingrich.
Penalty: Fine of $50,000 or twice
the value of the crime and/or up to 15 years in prison, $100,000
and/or up to 20 years if repeat offense.
9. Causing or arranging for a person
to present, to a credit card system member or its agent for payment,
records of transactions made by an access device.(The offense
must be committed knowingly and with intent to defraud, and without
the authorization of the credit card system member or its agent.
Penalty: Fine of $10,000 or twice the value
of the crime and/or up to 10 years in prison, $100,000 and/or
up to 20 years if repeat offense.
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