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My friend and I were 13 and called 1-900 numbers back when it was popular. We took his moms credit card and changed some numbers around. Eventually a number we

by wil421 6y ago

My friend and I were 13 and called 1-900 numbers back when it was popular. We took his moms credit card and changed some numbers around. Eventually a number we made up worked. It was a hilarious moment but I was scared to death we would be found out. Nothing ever happened but somebody got a charge.

saagarjha 6y ago
Do they not ask for a CVV or any other verification?
- soylentcola 6y ago
  We did something surprisingly similar once as stupid kids/teens and it was in the days before CVV. Just touch tone to enter a card number (although we did this little experiment from a payphone using a 1-800 (toll free) sex line). Typically, you entered a card number after some initial "pitch". AFAIK, 1-900 numbers only worked by billing you on your phone bill.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    Guess I'm showing my youth, because I've never seen a credit card be used without a CVV. And I think that's a poor security model…
    - wil421 6y ago
      It was at the end of the 90s maybe 2000. Messing with pay phones or prank calling on one was another fun thing to do. The good numbers (1-900) didn’t work on pay phones. ;-) Call collect!
  - wil421 6y ago
    Haha I guess if your credit card failed they just billed the line. His brother most likely got blamed for it.
- modoc 6y ago
  In the 90s many sites didn't ask for CVV, including AOL. And many gas station receipts printed the entire credit card number. And that's how some kids got online in the early-mid 90s...
  - soylentcola 6y ago
    I seem to remember using fake CC generators that didn't really "work" for billing but they would pass basic muster to activate the 30-day trials in their software. In retrospect this was moronic because it couldn't have been that hard to figure out where these obviously fake trials were being set up every month but somehow it worked until I was able to get a university dial-in account or a "cracked" version of those free services that showed an ad window in exchange for free dialup (the cracked versions hid the ad window).
- devrand 6y ago
  Heck, Amazon doesn't even ask for a CVV.

by wil421 6y ago

saagarjha 6y ago

Do they not ask for a CVV or any other verification?

soylentcola 6y ago
We did something surprisingly similar once as stupid kids/teens and it was in the days before CVV. Just touch tone to enter a card number (although we did this little experiment from a payphone using a 1-800 (toll free) sex line). Typically, you entered a card number after some initial "pitch". AFAIK, 1-900 numbers only worked by billing you on your phone bill.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  Guess I'm showing my youth, because I've never seen a credit card be used without a CVV. And I think that's a poor security model…
  - wil421 6y ago
    It was at the end of the 90s maybe 2000. Messing with pay phones or prank calling on one was another fun thing to do. The good numbers (1-900) didn’t work on pay phones. ;-) Call collect!
- wil421 6y ago
  Haha I guess if your credit card failed they just billed the line. His brother most likely got blamed for it.
modoc 6y ago
In the 90s many sites didn't ask for CVV, including AOL. And many gas station receipts printed the entire credit card number. And that's how some kids got online in the early-mid 90s...
- soylentcola 6y ago
  I seem to remember using fake CC generators that didn't really "work" for billing but they would pass basic muster to activate the 30-day trials in their software. In retrospect this was moronic because it couldn't have been that hard to figure out where these obviously fake trials were being set up every month but somehow it worked until I was able to get a university dial-in account or a "cracked" version of those free services that showed an ad window in exchange for free dialup (the cracked versions hid the ad window).
devrand 6y ago
Heck, Amazon doesn't even ask for a CVV.