1. If the credit balance exceeds 10,000 yuan and is not returned for more than 3 months after two collections by the card-issuing bank, it constitutes a crime of credit card fraud and requires criminal liability and a sentence.

2. If you do not fall into the above circumstances, you will not be criminally responsible and will not go to jail.

However, no matter how much you owe, if you fail to repay it overdue, you will have a bad credit record, which will have a serious impact on your future credit card or loan applications.

"Criminal Law"

Article 196: Whoever commits the crime of credit card fraud or theft under any of the following circumstances and conducts credit card fraud activities and the amount is relatively large shall be sentenced to not more than five years in prison Fixed-term imprisonment 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 sentence is not less than five years but not more than 10 years of fixed-term imprisonment, and a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan; If the amount is particularly huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, the person 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 have his property confiscated:

(1) Using counterfeit goods 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.

"Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases Obstructing the Management of Credit Cards"

Article 6 The cardholder shall, for the purpose of illegal possession, exceed If an overdraft is made within a prescribed limit or within a specified period and is not repaid for more than three months after being called upon twice by the card-issuing bank, it shall be deemed a "malicious overdraft" as stipulated in Article 196 of the Criminal Law.

If any of the following circumstances occurs, it shall be deemed as "illegal possession for the purpose" as stipulated in the second paragraph of Article 196 of the Criminal Law:

(1) Knowingly not possessing A large amount of overdraft due to the ability to repay the loan cannot be returned;

(2) The overdraft funds are squandered wantonly and cannot be returned;

(3) Escape, change contact information, and evade after overdraft Bank collection;

(4) Escape and transfer funds, conceal property, and evade repayment;

(5) Use overdraft funds to carry out illegal and criminal activities;

(6) Other behaviors of illegally possessing funds and refusing to return them.

A malicious overdraft, if the amount is more than 10,000 yuan but less than 100,000 yuan, shall be deemed as a "relatively large amount" as stipulated in Article 196 of the Criminal Law; if the amount is more than 100,000 yuan but less than 1 million yuan If the amount exceeds 1 million yuan, it shall be deemed as a "huge amount" as stipulated in Article 196 of the Criminal Law; if the amount exceeds 1 million yuan, it shall be deemed as an "especially huge amount" as stipulated in Article 196 of the Criminal Law.

The amount of malicious overdraft refers to the amount that the cardholder refuses to return or the amount that has not been returned under the conditions specified in the first paragraph. Excludes compound interest, late fees, handling fees and other fees charged by the card-issuing bank.