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HRS §708-8100.5

Changing credit card numbers on a card's magnetic strip

This law makes it a crime to change or tamper with the numbers on a credit card's magnetic strip to defraud someone. It also makes it a crime to use or sell such a card. This is a serious felony.

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The statute, as written — Fraudulent encoding of a credit card

(1) A person commits the offense of fraudulent encoding of a credit card if, with the intent to defraud the issuer, or another person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value, the person: (a) Intentionally changes, alters, erases, adds, creates, tampers with, or manipulates a credit card number by encoding credit card numbers onto the magnetic strip of the credit card; (b) Knowingly uses, utters, or offers a credit card with changed, altered, erased, added, tampered with, or manipulated magnetically or electronically encoded credit numbers on the magnetic strip of a credit card for the purpose of obtaining money, goods, services, or anything else of value; or (c) Knowingly sells, or distributes any credit card with changed, altered, erased, added, tampered with, or manipulated magnetically or electronically encoded credit card numbers on the magnetic strip of the credit card. (2) Fraudulent encoding of a credit card is a class B felony.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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