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Cory Doctorow gets scammed
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this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2024
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Hold on the scammer could spend 8000 usd without even knowing the card's PIN number?
It's a credit card, they don't typically have pins like debit cards do. They do have a 3 digit CVC code on the back, but 3 digits is pretty easy to get just by brute force guessing.
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.