1. The following shall also be considered guilty of fraud and shall be punished with imprisonment for six months to three years:
a) Those who, with intent to profit, by obstructing or unduly interfering with the operation of an information system or by improperly introducing, altering, deleting, transmitting or suppressing computer data or by using any other computer manipulation or similar artifice, obtain an unauthorized transfer of any asset to the detriment of another.
b) Those who, by fraudulently using credit or debit cards, traveler's checks or any other tangible or intangible payment instrument other than cash or the data contained therein, carry out transactions of any kind to the detriment of the cardholder or a third party.
2. The following shall be punished with the same penalty provided in the preceding paragraph:
a) Those who manufacture, import, obtain, possess, transport, trade, or otherwise provide to third parties devices, instruments, data, or computer programs, or any other means specifically designed or adapted for the commission of the frauds provided for in this article.
b) Those who, for fraudulent use, steal, appropriate, or unlawfully acquire credit or debit cards, traveler's checks, or any other tangible or intangible payment instrument other than cash.
3. The penalty shall be reduced by half for those who, for fraudulent use and knowing that they were obtained unlawfully, possess, acquire, transfer, distribute, or make available to third parties credit or debit cards, traveler's checks, or any other tangible or intangible payment instruments other than cash.