Re:Amazon Knows Your New Bank Card Number Before You Do
by dbg31415 on Sunday February 12, 2017 @06:46PM
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Better workflow would be to cancel the account by contacting customer support.
Some cards offer one-time-use numbers, those work great for one-time transactions but a vendor won't be keen on accepting them for recurring payments as you would have to re-enter a card number every billing cycle.
Typically disposable numbers are easy to identify (for the vendor at any rate), much the same way a Visa or MasterCard are different from each other.
You can see a few parterns here:
https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/vhelp/paypalmanager_help...
Re:Amazon Knows Your New Bank Card Number Before You Do
by pfranz on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:30AM
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Bank of America years ago had disposable credit card numbers. I found them awkward to generate (I think it was a Java applet?) and I couldn't use the criteria I preferred. They might have changed that.
Final https://getfinal.com/ is a startup that looks to be built around this concept.
Re:Amazon Knows Your New Bank Card Number Before You Do
by crisopolis on Monday February 13, 2017 @03:25AM
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Final is a credit card (requires approval by a third party bank and etc.) that tries to be a virtual card generator.
If you want disposable cards https://privacy.com would be better suited.
When I cancel a card, that doesn't mean that certain people should predict their own capacity to use a new card.
Glad to know that the destruction and replacement of a card might not work. I will now reconsider my tactics for revocation.
Clearly, I need to destroy, uproot the account, migrate elsewhere across provider boundaries, and deny further awareness of cards that might possess the property of re-use.
Certain companies must only be aware of disposable numbers, since they seem to be frisky about what I'd elect for them to know.