The punishment shall be imprisonment and a fine or either of these two penalties for any deliberate act which
intends to flood the electronic mail with messages causing it to stop functioning, inactivate it or destroy its contents.
Article 11
Shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of at least one year and a fine not less than two hundred and fifty
thousand dirhams and not in excess of one million dirhams or either of these two penalties whoever takes over a
personal property, benefit, deed or its signature whether for oneself or for other persons and without legal right, by
resorting to any fraudulent method or by adopting a false name, or false personation through the computer network,
or an electronic information system or any information technology means.
Article 12
Shall be punished by imprisonment and a fine or either of these two penalties whoever gains access, without
legal right, to credit or electronic card numbers or data or to bank accounts numbers or data or any other electronic
payment method by using the computer network or an electronic information system or any information technology
means.
The punishment shall be imprisonment for a period of at least six months and a fine not less than one hundred
thousand dirhams and not in excess of three hundred thousand dirhams or either of these two penalties, if it is
intended to use these data and numbers to take over the funds of others of to benefit from the services which they
provide.
If he has reached to take over the funds of others whether for himself or for others, he shall be punished by
imprisonment for a period of at least one year, and a fine not less than two hundred thousand dirhams and not in
excess of one million dirhams or either of these two penalties.
Shall be punished with the same penalty specified in the preceding paragraph, whoever publishes or re-publishes
credit or electronic card numbers or data or bank accounts numbers of data which belong to others or any other
electronic payment method.
Article 13
Shall be punished by imprisonment and a fine not less than five hundred thousand dirhams and not in excess of
two million dirhams or either of these two penalties whoever forges, counterfeits or reproduces a credit card or debit
card or any other electronic payment method by using any information technology means or computer program.
Shall be punished by the same penalty whoever:
1- Manufactures or designs any information technology means or computer program for the purpose of
facilitating any of the acts specified in paragraph 1 of this Article.
2- Uses, without authorization, a credit or electronic card or debit card or any other electronic payment method
aiming to obtain, whether for himself or for others, the funds or properties of others or benefit from the services
provided by third parties.
3- Accepts to deal with these forged, counterfeited, reproduced cards or other electronic payment method with
his knowledge of its illegality.
Article 14
Shall be punished by imprisonment and a fine not less than two hundred thousand dirhams and not in excess of
five hundred thousand dirhams or either of these two penalties whoever obtains, without legal right, a secret number,
code, password or any other means to have access to an information technology means, website, electronic
information system, computer network or electronic information.
Shall be punished with the same penalty whoever prepares, designs, produces, sells, buys, imports, displays for
sale or make available any computer program or any information technology means, or promotes by any means links
to websites, computer program or any information technology means designed for the purposes of committing,
facilitating or abetting in the commission of the crimes specified in this Decree-Law.
Article 15