Business and Professions Code 7027.3 BP is the California statute that makes it a crime when a person: willfully and intentionally uses, with the intent to defraud, a contractor's license number. Under California Penal Code 7 PC, “willfully” means that a person commits an act with purpose or willingness. Further, a person has an “intent to defraud” if he intends to deceive another person out of money or other property.