I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.

  • IHawkMike@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Three digits is not that easy to get by brute force. It’ll be locked for fraud pretty quickly.

    However the CVV is usually only required for card-not-present purchases. One way around that is to imprint the number onto their own magstripe card and run it as a card-present transaction.