2013 Mississippi Code
Title 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 19 - FALSE PRETENSES AND CHEATS
§ 97-19-31 - Credit cards; use of credit numbers or other credit device to obtain credit, goods, property or services
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to obtain or attempt to obtain credit, or to purchase or attempt to purchase any goods, property or service, by the use of any false, fictitious, counterfeit or expired telephone number, credit number or other credit device, or by the use of any telephone number, credit number or other credit device of another without the authority of the person to whom such number or device was issued, or by the use of any telephone number, credit number or other credit device in any case where such number or device has been revoked and notice of revocation has been given to the person to whom issued.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to use or to assist another to use a credit number or other credit device in connection with any fraudulent scheme, means or method with intent to defraud the issuer of such credit number or other credit device.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain or attempt to obtain by the use of any false or fraudulent scheme, device, means or method, telephone or telegraph service or the transmission of a message, signal or other communication by telephone or telegraph, or over telephone or telegraph facilities.
(4) The word "notice" as used in subsection (1) of this section shall be construed to include either notice given in person or notice given in writing to the person to whom the number or device was issued. The sending of a notice in writing personally signed by the issuer or his duly authorized agent or employee by registered or certified mail in the United States mail, duly stamped and addressed to such person at his last address known to the issuer, shall be prima facie evidence that such notice was duly received.
(5) Any person who violates any provision of subsections (1), (2) or (3) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars ($ 50.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($ 500.00) or imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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