Legal analysis: Any person who repays a credit card on his behalf and commits a malicious overdraft constitutes the crime of credit card fraud.
The essence of credit card repayment is like a credit card cash-out. The essential feature of credit card cash-out is to convert the credit limit of the credit card into cash through deception.
If this act is carried out for the purpose of illegal possession, or if the overdraft amount cannot be returned within the prescribed period after being carried out, and the overdraft amount is still not returned after being called by the card-issuing bank, it constitutes a crime of bank card fraud.
Legal basis: Article 196 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China. Whoever commits credit card fraud in any of the following circumstances and the amount is relatively large shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or Criminal detention and a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; if the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, the person shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and shall also be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan; if the amount is particularly huge Or if there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan, or his property shall be confiscated:
(1) Using a counterfeit credit card, or Using a credit card fraudulently obtained with false identification;
(2) Using an expired credit card;
(3) Pretending to use another person’s credit card;
(4) Malicious overdraft.
The term "malicious overdraft" as mentioned in the preceding paragraph refers to the cardholder's behavior of overdrafting beyond the prescribed limit or within the prescribed period for the purpose of illegal possession and failing to return the card after being called upon by the card-issuing bank.
Whoever steals a credit card and uses it shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 264 of this Law.