CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE SECTION 484

484. (a) Every person who shall feloniously steal, take, carry, lead, or drive away the personal property of another, orwho shall fraudulently appropriate property which has been entrusted to him or her, or who shall knowingly and designedly, by any false or fraudulent representation or pretense, defraud any other person of money, labor or real or personal property, or who causes or procures others to report falsely of his or her wealth or mercantile character and by thus imposing upon any person, obtains credit and thereby
fraudulently gets or obtains possession of money, or property orobtains the labor or service of another, is guilty of theft. 

etc.