If you’ve made a purchase online or over the phone, you’re probably familiar with the three sets of credit card numbers you have to hand over. These numbers include the credit card number, the ...

Professor Basie Von Solms, Director of the Centre for Cyber Security at the University of Johannesburg, has advised consumers to scratch out the CVV (Card Verification Value) number which is displayed ...

South African banks have warned that scratching out a credit card’s CVV number has risks, including leaving your card void and it being rejected by merchants. Professor Basie Von Solms, Director of ...

CVV stands for Card Verification Value. Usually, CVV is a three-digit number (Visa and MasterCard), but, in some cases like American Express uses four digits. The number is found at the back of the ...

US-based PNC Bank is in the middle of a pilot project that aims to test out credit cards with constantly changing card verification values (or CVVs) to reduce online credit card fraud. The dynamic CVV ...

If you have done any type of online shopping, you will most likely have had to input your credit card’s CVV. The CVV is the three digits on the back of your card (four on the front if you have an ...

Recently, when Kapil Raj returned from a business trip abroad, he was shocked to know his credit card had been misused. "Your card has been compromised," informed his bank. They asked Raj to refrain ...

Have you checked security risks before using credit card? The credit card is a much maligned and revered instrument occupying space in everyone‘s wallet. While it has many advantages and disadvantages ...

A person called the doctor over the phone and told him to provide his bank details, including the CVV number of his ATM card on the pretext to activate his ATM card which have been blocked, the police ...