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Virginia Computer Crimes Act: Va. Code. § 18.2-152.1 et. seq. – Law Office of Samuel C. Moore, PLLC
Virginia Computer Crimes Act: Va. Code. § 18.2-152.1 et. seq.
The Virginia Computer Crimes Act contains multiple specific offenses as outline below:
Computer Fraud, § 18.2-152.3 , is defined as
Such a crime is either a Class 1 Misdemeanor or Class 5 Felony, depending on the amount or value involved.
§ 18.2-152.3:1 prohibits certain activity relating to unsolicited electronic communications (Spam), and violations can range from a Class 1 Misdemeanor to a Class 6 Felony.
§ 18.2-152.4 prohibits “computer trespass”, which among other things involves using a computer to alter financial transactions, using a computer to injure property of another, and erasing or altering data. Violations range from a Class 1 Misdemeanor to a Class 6 Felony.
§ 18.2-152.5 prohibits a person to “intentionally examine without authority any employment, salary, credit or any other financial or identifying information…” Depending on the circumstances this, too, can be either a Class 1 Misdemeanor or a Class 6 Felony.
§ 18.2-152.5:1 further prohibits the “use a computer to obtain, access, or record, through the use of material artifice, trickery or deception, any identifying information…” Such a violation is either a Class 6 or Class 5 Felony.
§ 18.2-152.6 states ” Any person who willfully obtains computer services without authority is guilty of the crime of theft of computer services, which shall be punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. If the theft of computer services is valued at $2,500 or more, he is guilty of a Class 6 felony. “
§ 18.2-152.7 prohibits the use of a computer to cause “physical injury to an individual”. This is a Class 6 Felony, and a Class 3 Felony if done “maliciously.”
§ 18.2-152.7:1 states ” If any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, shall use a computer or computer network to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten any illegal or immoral act, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.”
§ 18.2-152.8 defines certain types of property specifically subject to ‘Embezzlement”, as below:
§ 18.2-152.12 provides for the recovery of civil damages for a violation of any of the above.
If You Have Been Charged With A Computer Crime
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