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Perhaps because everyone looks at the front of their card every day and in doing so, catches a glance of the expiration and card number. The front of most cards
by CamelCaseName 9y ago
Perhaps because everyone looks at the front of their card every day and in doing so, catches a glance of the expiration and card number. The front of most cards is also much less "busy" than the back, allowing for things to pop out.
Put these numbers on the back of the card, and I think they'd be fairly hard to find for first time buyers. So, to answer your question, maybe the solution is to bring the CVV to the front of the card? ...or does that defeat the purpose?
- sciolistse 9y agoAmEx has theirs on the front, but I don't know if that says anything about it defeating the purpose or not. Having it on the back prevents getting both cc number and cvv off single picture.. so I guess that's something.
- SomeHacker44 9y agoMy Chase Sapphire has both the CC and CVV numbers on the back. My AmEx cards have a 3 digit CVV seeming number on the back in addition to the four digit one on the front.
- needcaffeine 9y agoWe used to have lots of failed transactions until we explained to users that the CVV on an Amex is the 4-digit number on the front.
- tmd83 9y agoBut why does Amex does it differently with their 4 digit CVV? Goolge search doesn't reveal any good answer. Thats a big confusion. Anyway cards could have put CVV beside the number if they wanted. In that case I think people would have found them.
- notpeter 9y agoConfusingly Amex has both a 4 digit CID (Front) and 3 digit CSC (Back). The latter I think is only ever used internally by Amex, not for transaction processing.
- tixocloud 9y agoDifferent systems which use different fraud algorithms proposed by different people from the other credit card issuers.