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Identity Theft and Identity Fraud

Definition of identity information

402.1 For the purposes of sections 402.2 and 403, identity information means any information — including biological or physiological information — of a type that is commonly used alone or in combination with other information to identify or purport to identify an individual, including a fingerprint, voice print, retina image, iris image, DNA profile, name, address, date of birth, written signature, electronic signature, digital signature, user name, credit card number, debit card number, financial institution account number, passport number, Social Insurance Number, health insurance number, driver’s licence number or password.

• 2009, c. 28, s. 10.

Identity theft

• 402.2 (1) Everyone commits an offence who knowingly obtains or possesses another person’s identity information in circumstances giving rise to a reasonable inference that the information is intended to be used to commit an indictable offence that includes fraud, deceit or falsehood as an element of the offence.

False Pretences

False pretence

• 361 (1) A false pretence is a representation of a matter of fact either present or past, made by words or otherwise, that is known by the person who makes it to be false and that is made with a fraudulent intent to induce the person to whom it is made to act on it.

• Exaggeration

  (2) Exaggerated commendation or depreciation of the quality of anything is not a false pretence unless it is carried to such an extent that it amounts to a fraudulent misrepresentation of fact.

• Question of fact

  (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), it is a question of fact whether commendation or depreciation amounts to a fraudulent misrepresentation of fact.

• R.S., c. C-34, s. 319.

False pretence or false statement

• 362 (1) Every one commits an offence who
  • (a) by a false pretence, whether directly or through the medium of a contract obtained by a false pretence, obtains anything in respect of which the offence of theft may be committed or causes it to be delivered to another person;
  • (b) obtains credit by a false pretence or by fraud;
  • (c) knowingly makes or causes to be made, directly or indirectly, a false statement in writing with intent that it should be relied on, with respect to the financial condition or means or ability to pay of himself or herself or any person or organization that he or she is interested in or that he or she acts for, for the purpose of procuring, in any form whatever, whether for his or her benefit or the benefit of that person or organization,
    • (i) the delivery of personal property,
    • (ii) the payment of money,
    • (iii) the making of a loan,
    • (iv) the grant or extension of credit,
    • (v) the discount of an account receivable, or
    • (vi) the making, accepting, discounting or endorsing of a bill of exchange, cheque, draft or promissory note; or
  • (d) knowing that a false statement in writing has been made with respect to the financial condition or means or ability to pay of himself or herself or another person or organization that he or she is interested in or that he or she acts for, procures on the faith of that statement, whether for his or her benefit or for the benefit of that person or organization, anything mentioned in subparagraphs (c)(i) to (vi).

• Punishment

  (2) Every one who commits an offence under paragraph (1)(a)
  • (a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding ten years, where the property obtained is a testamentary instrument or the value of what is obtained exceeds five thousand dollars; or
  • (b) is guilty
    • (i) of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or
    • (ii) of an offence punishable on summary conviction,
    where the value of what is obtained does not exceed five thousand dollars.

• Idem

  (3) Every one who commits an offence under paragraph (1)(b), (c) or (d) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.
  
  
  

  Theft by person required to account

• 330 (1) Every one commits theft who, having received anything from any person on terms that require him to account for or pay it or the proceeds of it or a part of the proceeds to that person or another person, fraudulently fails to account for or pay it or the proceeds of it or the part of the proceeds of it accordingly.

• Criminal breach of trust

  336 Every one who, being a trustee of anything for the use or benefit, whether in whole or in part, of another person, or for a public or charitable purpose, converts, with intent to defraud and in contravention of his trust, that thing or any part of it to a use that is not authorized by the trust is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

  • R.S., c. C-34, s. 296.

  
  
   You may hate God and you may hate Christians but who says you have the right to live in and spit on the Brit Milah; that being the rules that keep you and others safe? It is a place where you can live and raise children safely to enjoy life, liberty, health and property. Amen; so let it be!