Re:All zeros in a bank card's CVC code
by merty on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:53PM
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I once had a credit card with the CVC code of 007. Although it looks cool and everything, I spent a few hours on the phone to manage to activate it.
Why?
Simply because only a few days prior to the arrival of my card, the bank switched to voice-command-only menus on their hotline without a regular menu fallback.
I remember looking at the back of the card and saying, “oh, here we go...” to myself. Unsurprisingly, telling the system “zero-zero-seven”, “double-zero, seven” or even pausing and yelling “SEVEN!” did not work.
In the end, I made the system connect me to a random human-being who then transferred me to someone else and that person redirected me to the regular, typing-based interface.
A few weeks later, they updated their system to fall back to the old system after the 5th error ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why?
Simply because only a few days prior to the arrival of my card, the bank switched to voice-command-only menus on their hotline without a regular menu fallback.
I remember looking at the back of the card and saying, “oh, here we go...” to myself. Unsurprisingly, telling the system “zero-zero-seven”, “double-zero, seven” or even pausing and yelling “SEVEN!” did not work.
In the end, I made the system connect me to a random human-being who then transferred me to someone else and that person redirected me to the regular, typing-based interface.
A few weeks later, they updated their system to fall back to the old system after the 5th error ¯\_(ツ)_/¯