Article 269/2Fabrication ou détention d'outils destinés au piratage d'une carte électronique
Statutory text (Thai original)
ผู้ใดทำเครื่องมือหรือวัตถุสำหรับปลอมหรือแปลง หรือสำหรับให้ได้ข้อมูลในการปลอมหรือแปลงสิ่งใด ๆ ซึ่งระบุไว้ในมาตรา ๒๖๙/๑ หรือมีเครื่องมือหรือวัตถุเช่นว่านั้น เพื่อใช้หรือให้ได้ข้อมูลในการปลอมหรือแปลง ต้องระวางโทษจำคุกตั้งแต่หนึ่งปีถึงห้าปี และปรับตั้งแต่สองหมื่นบาทถึงหนึ่งแสนบาท
English translation
Whoever makes a tool or object for forging or altering, or for obtaining data used in forging or altering, anything specified in Section 269/1, or possesses such a tool or object in order to use it or to obtain data used in forging or altering, shall be liable to imprisonment from one year to five years and a fine from twenty thousand baht to one hundred thousand baht.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Firm annotation
Section 269/2 is a preparatory offence: it reaches back from the forgery itself to the means of committing it. Two forms of conduct are covered, making such a tool or object, and possessing one, and two purposes, forging or altering anything specified in Section 269/1, and obtaining the data used in forging or altering. Nothing need have been forged yet, which is what allows police to intervene against a card fraud operation before any card is produced. In practice the subject matter is skimming heads fitted to ATMs and payment terminals, magnetic stripe encoders, blank card stock, and the captured track and PIN data itself, which falls within the words obtaining data. The penalty is identical to the completed forgery under Section 269/1, one to five years with a mandatory fine, which is unusual and reflects how central the equipment is to organised card fraud. Section 269/3 punishes bringing such tools into or out of the Kingdom, and Section 269/7 raises the penalty by one half where the conduct relates to a payment or cash withdrawal card.
Why this matters in practice
The practical significance is that possession is complete on proof of purpose, so a defendant found with encoding equipment and blank cards faces the same one to five year range as someone who actually produced forged cards. The contested issue at trial is almost always purpose rather than possession, because much of the equipment has legitimate uses in the payment industry. Anyone operating point of sale or card issuing equipment in Thailand should be able to document why it is held. Seizure of equipment normally triggers charges under this Section together with Section 269/1 and, where cards have been used, Section 269/4 and theft under Section 334.
Décisions de la Cour suprême interprétant cette section
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Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 2490/2558 (2015)
Where an offender intends each forged card to be used separately, in a manner likely to cause damage to the cardholder or issuing bank, holding several forged cards for use constitutes several distinct offences, one per card. On the separate Section 269/2 charge of possessing a device for forging or for obtaining electronic card data, the Supreme Court acquitted one co-defendant: the recording device was found in another defendant's car, he was not shown to have joined in the forging, and his admission in the arrest record was inadmissible under section 84 final paragraph of the Criminal Procedure Code, so the doubt was resolved in his favour under section 227 paragraph two.
The defendants were charged under Sections 269/1, 269/2, 269/4, and 269/7 for forged payment cards. Because each card was intended to be used separately, the conduct was held to be five counts of jointly possessing electronic cards for use.
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Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 1517/2564 (2021)
Forging an electronic card under Section 269/2 supports conviction alongside document forgery and theft, because a payment card is treated as both an electronic card and a right document.
In a multi-count prosecution under Sections 264, 265, 266, 269/1, 269/2, 269/4, and 269/7 together with theft under Section 334, the defendant was convicted on several counts, with the payment card treated as both a right document and an electronic card.
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- Décision 2490/2558 (2015)
- Décision 1517/2564 (2021)
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Foire aux questions
Quelle est la peine encourue pour falsification d'une carte de crédit ou d'une carte bancaire ?
Forging the card itself is Section 269/1, not this section, and it carries imprisonment from one to five years and a fine from 20,000 to 100,000 baht. Section 269/2 is the preparatory offence beside it: making, or possessing for that purpose, a tool or object for forging or altering an electronic card or for obtaining the data used to do so, and it carries the same one to five years and 20,000 to 100,000 baht. Where the card is one the issuer has issued to a person entitled to use it for payment or for withdrawing cash, Section 269/7 makes the punishment one half heavier. Section 269/3 is a different offence again, bringing such a card or tool into or out of the Kingdom.
Les cartes contrefaites multiples sont-elles comptabilisées séparément ?
Oui. Lorsque plusieurs cartes contrefaites sont fabriquées ou détenues dans l'intention d'être utilisées séparément, les tribunaux les considèrent comme plusieurs infractions distinctes et imposent des peines cumulatives.
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<blockquote cite="https://www.thailawonline.com/fr/thai-penal-code/section-269-2/"><p>Quiconque fabrique un outil ou un objet destiné à la contrefaçon ou à l'altération, ou à l'obtention de données utilisées pour contrefaire ou altérer l'un des éléments spécifiés à l'article 269/1, ou détient un tel outil ou objet en vue de l'utiliser ou d'obtenir des données utilisées pour la contrefaçon ou l'altération,...</p><footer>Penal Code, s. 269/2 (Thailand): <a href="https://www.thailawonline.com/fr/thai-penal-code/section-269-2/">ThaiLawOnline</a></footer></blockquote>
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