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 softwa

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).