Section 474 Of Chapter 4. Forgery And Counterfeiting From California Penal Code >> Title 13. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 4.
474
. Every person who knowingly and willfully sends by telegraph or
telephone to any person a false or forged message, purporting to be
from a telegraph or telephone office, or from any other person, or
who willfully delivers or causes to be delivered to any person any
such message falsely purporting to have been received by telegraph or
telephone, or who furnishes, or conspires to furnish, or causes to
be furnished to any agent, operator, or employee, to be sent by
telegraph or telephone, or to be delivered, any such message, knowing
the same to be false or forged, with the intent to deceive, injure,
or defraud another, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail
not exceeding one year, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision
(h) of Section 1170, or by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars
($10,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.