6-3-409. Fraudulently obtaining telecommunications services deemed misdemeanor.
(a) A person is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or both, if, with intent to defraud or to aid and abet another to defraud any other person of the lawful charge, in whole or in part, for any telecommunications service, he obtains, attempts to obtain or aids and abets another to obtain or to attempt to obtain any telecommunications service:
(i) By charging the service to an existing telephone number or credit card number without the authority of the subscriber thereto or the legitimate holder thereof;
(ii) By charging the service to a nonexistent, false, fictitious, or counterfeit telephone number or credit card number or to a suspended, terminated, expired, cancelled, or revoked telephone number or credit card number;
(iii) By use of a code, prearranged scheme, or other similar stratagem or device whereby the person, in effect, sends or receives information;
(iv) By installing, rearranging, or tampering with any facilities or equipment, whether physically, inductively, acoustically, or electronically; or
(v) By any other trick, stratagem, impersonation, false pretense, false representation, false statement, contrivance, device, or means.
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