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My credit card was ripped off 4 times in the last year. Recently, I had a credit card for less than a week.

Since then, I started to use Virtual numbers. It's a feature that generates a virtual credit card number that I am opting to use per vendor. Hopefully, this will expose the vendors that are leaking this sensitive information.



I wish my credit card companies supplied virtual numbers. PayPal used to have this feature but discontinued it.


Good idea. Which bank or credit card are you getting this service through?


The only two live US banks with this on the consumer side are Citi and BoA. The unfortunate thing is that the functionality is all accessed via old flash applications.


Citi has a Windows program also.


You are correct. Forgot about that one since it's just their flash app wrapped to work on Windows with a bit of extra copy & paste functionality.


Would it be vulnerable to flash exploits, then?


Bank of America has this feature (I'm sure others do also).


I do that too (with BoA) but only for vendors that I don't use often because it is easier like that, hence I am still at risk.


We're building exactly this product for exactly this reason at Final. Email me and I'll make sure that you're an initial user.




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