Those who help others maintain their cards are generally sentenced to less than five years.

Helping others maintain their cards is suspected of illegal business operations. Using point-of-sale terminals (POS machines) and other methods to directly pay cash to credit card holders through fictitious transactions, false prices, cash returns, etc. If the circumstances are serious, they will be convicted and punished for the crime of illegal business, and will generally be sentenced to not more than five years in prison. Imprisonment or criminal detention, and concurrently or solely a fine of not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income.

Article 225 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China. Whoever commits the crime of illegal business operations in violation of national regulations and commits one of the following illegal business activities, disrupts market order, and the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to five years in prison. The following fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention, together with or solely a fine of not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income, shall be imposed; if the circumstances are particularly serious, the sentence shall be not less than five years of fixed-term imprisonment and concurrently fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income, or property confiscation:

(1) Operating special items or other restricted items as stipulated in laws and administrative regulations without permission;

(2) Buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export origins Certificates and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated in laws and administrative regulations;

(3) Illegal operations of securities, futures, and insurance businesses without approval from relevant national competent authorities, or illegal fund payment and settlement Business;

(4) Other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt market order.