Section 127.12. Credit card laundering.

 

(1)  No merchant may present to or deposit into a credit card system for payment, or cause another person to present to or deposit into a credit card system for payment, any credit card sales draft generated by a telephone transaction that is not a sale by that merchant to the holder of that credit card.

(2)  No person may employ, solicit, or cause a merchant to violate sub. (1) .

(3)  No seller engaged in a telephone transaction may, by means of a business relationship or affiliation with a merchant, obtain access to a credit card system unless that access is authorized by that merchant's written agreement with the credit card system operator, or with an acquirer licensed or authorized by the credit card system operator.

Cr. Register, July, 1999, No. 523 , eff. 8-1-99.