Credit Card Theft In Canada

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Introduction
In this paper, credit card theft, and how it happens will be discussed through statistics, facts from resources, and cases from Canadian courts. Credit card theft as defined in the Criminal Code of Canada is found in section 342, and states: “(1) Every person who steals a credit card, possesses, uses or traffics in a credit card of a forged or falsified credit card, knowing that it was obtained, made, or altered, or uses accredit card knowing that it has been revoked or cancelled.” ((CC 342 (1)) Subsection 3 of Section 342 deals with Unauthorized use of credit card data, and it is defined as “Every person who, fraudulently and without colour of right, possesses, uses, traffics in or permits another person to use credit card data, …show more content…

“Cattral, Brunet, and Beauchamp operated a business under the name of Canadian Barcode, and through this business they sold supplies which were used to commit credit card fraud. Cattral was convicted of five counts, Brunet of five counts and Beauchamp of six counts of buying or selling devices intended to be used to commit credit card fraud. Cattral was also found guilty of four counts of possession of stolen credit card data and one count of obstructing justice. Brunet was also found guilty of one count of conspiring to commit credit card fraud and one count of breaching a condition of her bail. In addition, Cattral, Brunet and Beauchamp were convicted of one count of committing offences for the benefit of a criminal organization, namely selling devices intended to be used to commit credit card fraud for the benefit of Cattral, Brunet and Beauchamp, who were members of the criminal organization. Shanghavi was convicted of three counts of possession of stolen credit card data, one count of trafficking in stolen credit card data and two counts of being in possession of two mini data loggers, which are devices which were intended to be used to commit credit card fraud. The MIR38 was one of the devices intended to be used to commit credit card fraud, which was sold by Canadian Barcode. This device was designed to fit over the card reader slot on an Automated Teller Machine (“ATM”) and to record and store credit and debit card information of each card as it passed through the device and into the ATM. This device is able to store the financial data contained on the magnetic stripe on the back a payment card of approximately 150 200 cards. The financial data captured by the device was then transferred from the device onto forged credit cards, which were then used to withdraw money from bank accounts or to purchase consumer goods. The KT100 device was the inner workings of the MIR38 and was designed for installation in

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