The crime of purchasing credit card information is serious. If the perpetrator constitutes a crime of purchasing credit card information, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined.

legal ground

Article 177 of the criminal law

Whoever knowingly holds or transports counterfeit credit cards, or knowingly holds or transports a large number of counterfeit blank credit cards, which hinders the management of credit cards, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan.

Whoever steals, buys or illegally provides credit card information of others shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Any employee of a bank or other financial institution who takes advantage of his position to commit the crime mentioned in the second paragraph shall be given a heavier punishment.