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GLB Act and Co-Mail
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The pretexting provisions of the GLB Act
The GLB Act, Sec. 521.
(a) PROHIBITION ON OBTAINING CUSTOMER INFORMATION BY FALSE PRETENSES.-It shall be a violation of this subtitle for any person to obtain or attempt to obtain, or cause to be disclosed or attempt to cause to be disclosed to any person, customer information of a financial institution relating to another person -
- by making a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation to an officer, employee, or agent of a financial institution;
- by making a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation to a customer of a financial institution; or
- by providing any document to an officer, employee, or agent of a financial institution, knowing that the document is forged, counterfeit, lost, or stolen, was fraudulently obtained, or contains a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation.
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