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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 817
FRAUDULENT PRACTICES
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817.60 Theft; obtaining credit card through fraudulent means.
(1) THEFT BY TAKING OR RETAINING POSSESSION OF CARD TAKEN.A person who takes a credit card from the person, possession, custody, or control of another without the cardholder’s consent or who, with knowledge that it has been so taken, receives the credit card with intent to use it, to sell it, or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder is guilty of credit card theft and is subject to the penalties set forth in s. 817.67(1). Taking a credit card without consent includes obtaining it by conduct defined or known as statutory larceny, common-law larceny by trespassory taking, common-law larceny by trick or embezzlement or obtaining property by false pretense, false promise or extortion.
(2) THEFT OF CREDIT CARD LOST, MISLAID, OR DELIVERED BY MISTAKE.A person who receives a credit card that he or she knows to have been lost, mislaid, or delivered under a mistake as to the identity or address of the cardholder and who retains possession with intent to use it, to sell it, or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder is guilty of credit card theft and is subject to the penalties set forth in s. 817.67(1).
(3) PURCHASE OR SALE OF CREDIT CARD OF ANOTHER.A person other than the issuer who sells a credit card or a person who buys a credit card from a person other than the issuer violates this subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in s. 817.67(1).
(4) OBTAINING CONTROL OF CREDIT CARD AS SECURITY FOR DEBT.A person who, with intent to defraud the issuer, a person or organization providing money, goods, services, or anything else of value, or any other person, obtains control over a credit card as security for a debt violates this subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in s. 817.67(1).
(5) DEALING IN CREDIT CARDS OF ANOTHER.A person other than the issuer who, during any 12-month period, receives two or more credit cards issued in the name or names of different cardholders, which cards he or she has reason to know were taken or retained under circumstances which constitute credit card theft or a violation of this part, violates this subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in s. 817.67(2).
(6) FORGERY OF CREDIT CARD.
(a) A person who, with intent to defraud a purported issuer or a person or organization providing money, goods, services, or anything else of value or any other person, falsely makes, falsely embosses, or falsely alters in any manner a credit card or utters such a credit card or who, with intent to defraud, has a counterfeit credit card or any invoice, voucher, sales draft, or other representation or manifestation of a counterfeit credit card in his or her possession, custody, or control is guilty of credit card forgery and is subject to the penalties set forth in s. 817.67(2).
(b) A person other than an authorized manufacturer or issuer who possesses two or more counterfeit credit cards is presumed to have violated this subsection.
(c) A person falsely makes a credit card when he or she makes or draws in whole or in part a device or instrument which purports to be the credit card of a named issuer but which is not such a credit card because the issuer did not authorize the making or drawing or when he or she alters a credit card which was validly issued.
(d) A person falsely embosses a credit card when, without the authorization of the named issuer, he or she completes a credit card by adding any of the matter, other than the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the credit card before it can be used by a cardholder.
(7) SIGNING CREDIT CARD OF ANOTHER.A person other than the cardholder or a person authorized by him or her who, with intent to defraud the issuer or a person or organization providing money, goods, services, or anything else of value or any other person, signs a credit card violates this subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in s. 817.67(1).
(8) UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A STOLEN CREDIT OR DEBIT CARD.A person who knowingly possesses, receives, or retains custody of a credit or debit card that has been taken from the possession, custody, or control of another without the cardholder’s consent and with the intent to impede the recovery of the credit or debit card by the cardholder commits unlawful possession of a stolen credit or debit card and is subject to the penalties set forth in s. 817.67(2). It is not a violation of this subsection for a retailer or retail employee, in the ordinary course of business, to possess, receive, or return a credit card or debit card that the retailer or retail employee does not know was stolen or to possess, receive, or retain a credit card or debit card that the retailer or retail employee knows is stolen for the purpose of an investigation into the circumstances regarding the theft of the card or its possible unlawful use.
History.s. 3, ch. 67-340; s. 3, ch. 84-297; s. 2, ch. 85-43; s. 69, ch. 85-62; s. 1269, ch. 97-102; s. 1, ch. 2011-184.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 817.60
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S817.60 1 - LARC - THEFT OF CREDIT CARD - M: F
S817.60 2 - LARC - LOST OR DELIVERED BY MISTAKE CREDIT CARD - M: F
S817.60 3 - FRAUD-ILLEG USE CREDIT CARDS - PURCHASE SELL ANOTHERS - M: F
S817.60 4 - FRAUD-ILLEG USE CREDIT CARDS - AS DEBT SECURITY - M: F
S817.60 5 - FRAUD-ILLEG USE CREDIT CARDS - DEAL IN ANOTHERS - F: T
S817.60 7 - FRAUD-ILLEG USE CREDIT CARDS - SIGN ANOTHERS - M: F
S817.60 8 - LARC - POSS RECEIVE RETAIN STOLEN CREDIT DEBIT CARD - F: T
S817.60 6a - PASS COUNTERFEITED - FALSELY MADE CREDIT CARD - F: T
S817.60 6a - FORGERY OF - FALSELY EMBOSS OR ALTER CREDIT CARD - F: T
S817.60 6a - PASS FORGED - FALSELY EMBOSSED OR ALTERED CREDIT CARD - F: T
S817.60 6a - COUNTERFEITING OF - FALSELY MAKE CREDIT CARD - F: T
S817.60 6a - POSSESS COUNTERFEITED - CREDIT CARD INVOICE SALES DRAFT VOUCHER ETC - F: T
S817.60 6b - POSSESS COUNTERFEITED - POSSESS 2+ COUNTERFEIT CREDIT CARDS - F: T

Cases Citing Statute 817.60

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State v. Young, 357 So. 2d 416 (Fla. 2d DCA 1978).

Cited 15 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...r statute. We note in passing that this case is distinguishable from the recent supreme court decision in Fayerweather v. State, 332 So.2d 21 (Fla. 1976). There it was held that conduct violative of both the State Credit Card Crime Act (specifically Section 817.60(1)(3), Florida Statutes [1973], dealing with receiving stolen credit cards) and the statute making it unlawful to receive stolen property (Section 811.16) may be punished under the latter statute, notwithstanding that the State Credit Card Crime Act sets a less severe punishment....
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Fayerweather v. State, 332 So. 2d 21 (Fla. 1976).

Cited 11 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...shall not be construed to preclude the applicability of any other provision of the criminal law of this state ... unless such provision in inconsistent with [its] terms... ." The issue to be decided is whether conduct which violates both the State Credit Card Crime Act, Section 817.60(1), (3), Florida Statutes 1973, and the provision making it unlawful to receive stolen property, Section 811.16, Florida Statutes 1973, may be punished under the latter, even though the former, a newer law, sets a less severe punishment....
...Petitioner was convicted of receiving stolen property, a credit card, in violation of Section 811.16, Florida Statutes 1973, and sentenced to five years imprisonment. Petitioner contends his sentence may be no longer than one year, the maximum set by the State Credit Card Crime Act for violation of Section 817.60(1), (3), Florida Statutes 1975....
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State v. Cogswell, 521 So. 2d 1081 (Fla. 1988).

Cited 7 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1988 WL 20971

...argument but left the question open. That question has now been firmly and unequivocally answered in Batchelder. In Fayerweather v. State, 332 So.2d 21 (Fla. 1976), we considered "whether conduct which violates both the State Credit Card Crime Act, Section 817.60(1), (3), Florida Statutes 1973, and the provision making it unlawful to receive stolen property, Section 811.16, Florida Statutes 1973," could be punished under the latter, more severe punishment....
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In re Stand. Jury Instructions in Crim. Cases-Report No. 2012-04, 131 So. 3d 720 (Fla. 2013).

Cited 5 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 38 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 877, 2013 WL 6305393, 2013 Fla. LEXIS 2640

...Arson — second, de- 806=01(2) 4242 greeNone Arson — second 806.01(2) 12.2 degree Attempt_777.04(1)5.1 Criminal mischief 806.13 12.4 Comment This instruction was adopted in 1981 and was amended in 1992 [ 603 So.2d 1175 ] and 2013. 14.8 UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A STOLEN [CREDIT] [DEBIT] CARD § 817.60(8), Fla....
...If a person does not have exclusive possession of an object, knowledge of its presence may not be inferred or assumed. Lesser Included Offenses UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A STOLEN [CREDIT] [DEBIT] CARD — 817,60(8) CATEGORY ONE CATEGORY TWO FLA. INS. NO. STAT. None Attempt 777.04(1) 5.1 Comments Pursuant to § 817.60(8), Fla....
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Collins v. State, 626 So. 2d 991 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1993).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1993 Fla. App. LEXIS 10656, 1993 WL 417571

to run concurrently with all other counts. Section 817.60(1), Florida Statutes (1991) (credit card theft)
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DPB v. State, 877 So. 2d 770 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2004 WL 1393381

...proscribed by statute." Hence, we concluded that the court did not have to orally impose that condition. W.J., 688 So.2d at 957. In this case, after being placed on probation, D.P.B. was charged with credit card theft. This offense is a violation of § 817.60, Fla....
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Gorday v. State, 907 So. 2d 640 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2005 WL 1761995

...The officer observed Gorday attempting to use a credit card to purchase gas. Gorday and her codefendant were arrested and charged in Circuit Court with armed robbery with a deadly weapon — scissors. Additionally, they were charged in County Court with credit card theft, a first degree misdemeanor under section 817.60(1), Florida Statutes (2002), arising from the same incident....
...pardy bars subsequent punishment or prosecution." M.P., 682 So.2d at 81. In this case, Gorday was charged both with armed robbery of the victim's purse, in violation of section 812.13(2)(a), and theft of the credit card found therein in violation of section 817.60(1)....
...SSESSION OF CARD TAKEN. — A person who takes a credit card from the person, possession, custody, or control of another without the cardholder's consent ... is guilty of credit card theft and is subject to the penalties set forth in s. 817.67(1).... § 817.60(1), Fla....
...ny other firearm-related offenses. Section 790.22(7) ... provides that `[t]he provisions of this section are supplemental to all other provisions of law relating to the possession, use, or exhibition of firearms.'"). That is, there is no language in section 817.60 to evidence an intent for credit card theft to be punished separately from other theft penalties provided by law when the credit card theft arises out of a single criminal episode....
...rse of the taking there is the use of force, violence, assault, or putting in fear." § 812.13(1), Fla. Stat. (2002). The statutory elements of credit card theft are essentially the taking of a credit card from a person without the person's consent. § 817.60(1), Fla....
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NS v. State, 988 So. 2d 1153 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2008 WL 2986441

...Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Jerome Smiley, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. Before RAMIREZ, WELLS, and ROTHENBERG, JJ. ROTHENBERG, J. N.S., a juvenile, appeals from an order withholding adjudication of delinquency and placing her on probation for credit card theft in violation of section 817.60(1), Florida Statutes (2006)....
...nt into evidence and in allowing the victim to testify about the information it contained. *1155 Although the introduction of the victim's bank statement was error, we find that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. N.S. was charged pursuant to section 817.60(1) with taking or receiving the victim's credit card after it was taken without the victim's consent, with the intent to use, sell, or transfer the credit card to a person other than the issuer of the credit card or the credit card holder....
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Ruben B. Casais v. State, 204 So. 3d 969 (Fla. 5th DCA 2016).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 17378

...Burden, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kristen L. Davenport, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee. EDWARDS, J. Ruben Casais appeals from his conviction for uttering a forged credit card in violation of section 817.60, Florida Statutes (2015)....
...was not whether Appellant did something wrong or committed some other crime by using the altered gift cards. The only question for the jury, and now for this court, is whether Appellant was guilty of uttering a forged credit card in violation of section 817.60....
...was not whether Appellant did something wrong or committed some other crime by using the altered gift cards. The only question for the jury, and now for this court, is whether Appellant was guilty of uttering a forged credit card in violation of section 817.60....
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A.M. v. State, 794 So. 2d 645 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2001 Fla. App. LEXIS 7474, 2001 WL 574843

stole her mother’s credit card, a violation of section 817.60(1), Florida Statutes (1999). The evidence also
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Pastoria v. State, 312 So. 2d 808 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1975).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1975 Fla. App. LEXIS 14930

...F. S.A., along with Fraudulent Use of Credit Card in violation of Section 817.61, F.S. 1969, F.S.A., which is a part of the State Credit Card Crime Act of 1967, and with Possession of Credit Card Lost, Mislaid or Delivered by Mistake in violation of Section 817.60(2), F.S.1969, F.S.A., which is also a part of the State Credit Card Crime Act of 1967....
...It appears from the record in the present case that the conduct of the defendant which violated Section 831.01, F.S.1969, F. S.A., which is Count I of the Amended Information is the same conduct which was also a violation of Section 817.61, F.S.1969, F.S.A. and Section 817.60(2), F.S.1969, F.S.A....
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Sanchez v. State, 507 So. 2d 673 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 1234, 1987 Fla. App. LEXIS 8185

...denied, 469 U.S. 1220 , 105 S.Ct. 1206 , 84 L.Ed.2d 349 (1985); Council v. State, 442 So.2d 1072 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983). We agree with Sanchez that the trial court erred in categorizing the offense of credit card theft as a third-degree felony for violation of section 817.60, Florida Statutes (1985)....
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D.W. v. State, 428 So. 2d 363 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 18935

retaining possession of a credit card, pursuant to Section 817.60(1), Florida Statutes (1981). Reversed and remanded
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Simmons v. State, 594 So. 2d 853 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1992 Fla. App. LEXIS 1869, 1992 WL 36977

...State, 594 So.2d 823 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992). Since the trial court’s intent is not clear, these sentences should be reversed and remanded for clarification. Next, although not raised by the appellant, the written sentence reflects that appellant was charged under section 817.60, Florida Statutes, with five counts of forgery of a credit card ticket....
...Although both parties assert that this matter was discussed before trial, the matter did not arise until the sentencing hearing. Appellant’s motion to strike amended informations only addressed the state’s elevation of the counts “of wrongful use of a credit card, misdemeanors under Fla.Stat. 817.60(7), to felonies under the general forgery statute.” Section 817.60(7) concerns signing the credit card of another....
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D.P.B. v. State, 877 So. 2d 770 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2004 Fla. App. LEXIS 8741

...cribed by statute.”' Hence, we concluded that the court did not have to orally impose that condition. W.J., 688 So.2d at 957 . In this case, after being placed on probation, D.P.B. was charged with credit card theft. This offense is a violation of § 817.60, Fla....
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State v. Vikhlyantsev, 602 So. 2d 636 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1992 Fla. App. LEXIS 7454, 1992 WL 157486

...differing results when applied to the same factual situation.” 442 U.S. at 122 . Likewise, in Fayerweather v. State, 332 So.2d 21 (Fla.1976), the Florida Supreme Court considered whether conduct which violated both the State Credit Card Crime Act, section 817.60(1), (3), Florida Statutes (1973), and the provision making it unlawful to receive stolen property, section 811.-16, Florida Statutes (1973), could be punished under the latter, more severe punishment....
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Levi v. State, 297 So. 2d 617 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1974).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1974 Fla. App. LEXIS 6868

DOWNEY, Judge. Appellant was charged and convicted of violating § 817.60(5), F.S.1971, F.S.A., which prohibits dealing in credit cards of another....
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State v. McCurdy, 257 So. 2d 92 (Fla. 3d DCA 1972).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1972 Fla. App. LEXIS 7337

brought down in the current compilations as F.S. § 817.60 (6), F.S.A., provides that— “A person who, with
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In re Forfeiture of One 1973 Mercedes Benz Motor Veh. V.I.N.: 10806712020253, 423 So. 2d 535 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1982 Fla. App. LEXIS 22175

Fla.Stat. (receiving stolen property) and Section 817.60(2) Fla.Stat. (possession of a stolen credit
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In Re: Stand. Jury Instructions in Crim. Cases-Report 2018-10., 259 So. 3d 765 (Fla. 2018).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...officer’s employing agency, unless otherwise prohibited by the employing agency. This instruction was adopted in 2014 [148 So. 3d 1204] and amended in 2018. 14.8 UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A STOLEN [CREDIT] [DEBIT] CARD § 817.60(8), Fla....
...n object, knowledge of its presence may not be inferred or assumed. Lesser Included Offenses - 11 - UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A STOLEN [CREDIT] [DEBIT] CARD—817.60(8) CATEGORY ONE CATEGORY TWO FLA. STAT. INS. NO. None Attempt 777.04 5.1 Comments Pursuant to § 817.60(8), Fla....
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N.S. v. State, 988 So. 2d 1153 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2008 Fla. App. LEXIS 11834

ROTHENBERG, J. N.S., a juvenile, appeals from an order withholding adjudication of delinquency and placing her on probation for credit card theft in violation of section 817.60(1), Florida Statutes (2006)....
...into evidence and in allowing the victim to testify about the information it contained. *1155 Although the introduction of the victim’s bank statement was error, we find that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. N.S. was charged pursuant to section 817.60(1) with taking or receiving the victim’s credit card after it was taken without the victim’s consent, with the intent to use, sell, or transfer the credit card to a person other than the issuer of the credit card or the credit card holder....

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