Section 10-15-4 - Prohibited activities involving magnetic strip or stripe on payment card

(a) No person shall use a scanning device to access, read, obtain, memorize, or store, temporarily or permanently, information encoded on the magnetic strip or stripe of a payment card with the intent to defraud the authorized user, the issuer of the authorized user's payment card, or a merchant.(b) No person shall use a reencoder to place information encoded on the magnetic strip or stripe of a payment card onto the magnetic strip or stripe of a different card with the intent to defraud the authorized user, the issuer of the authorized user's payment card, or a merchant.Amended by 2003 Ga. Laws 78, § 2, eff. 7/1/2003.Amended by 2003 Ga. Laws 9, § 10, eff. 5/14/2003.