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Re:Criminals can guess Visa number and security code in six ... by flukus on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:54AM (#13103819)
> Yeah, that's not a big number, even manually, much less for a hacker.

But how many false attempts do you have to make before the suspicious activity is picked up? At one a day you probably aren't going to get it right.

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Re:Criminals can guess Visa number and security code in six ... by Mz on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:25PM (#13107819)
I am not a hacker, but other remarks here have cast light on how hackers do that. Those remarks fit with what I know about fraud from when I processed insurance claims for a living.
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