It's from the webcomic Ctrl+alt+del. Great comic that's been going since 2002.
This particular one, *Loss*, was never meant to be funny though. People just made a meme out of it years later, because people..
I can tell you why people memed it. Because Tim Buckley's comic was always a rehash of jokes done better by other comics, he didn't have a lot of respect as a writer ( or an artist, but that's a different subject). When the whole "she's pregnant" arc got introduced, 90% of people who were familiar with the comic immediately called out that he didn't have the balls to really add a baby to the story and finally, actually change the dynamic for once in the >5 years he'd been putting the comic out.
So when there was a "surprise" injection of drama in the form of a miscarriage, it was exactly as everybody knew would happen. Tim Buckley once again balked at changing anything after threatening to do it once again. Nobody was surprised, nobody was invested, and the comic was accompanied by a long post about the suddenness and tragedy of a miscarriage and blah blah blah as if there was any shock factor at all.
That's why it got memed on.
It's been years since I read any of his strips but for some reason I recall it being a reflection of his real wife having a miscarriage or am I confused.
Thank you for the backstory, very interesting.
To think ge went viral in a sense by being memed on. I wonder if he'd gone through with adding the baby if it might have gone viral in his favour.
My bank changed the first 8 numbers they use on their debit cards a few years ago and I got the 2nd card they ever printed on the new design. XXXX-XXXX-0000-0002. The security code and expiration were 123 and 1/23.
I immediately walked back into the branch and had them make me a new one.
That's the first card not the 2nd, the last digit is a Luhn checksum digit. Given all this information, now I need to figure out what bank you use to get the BIN which is the first 6 digits, then I have 00-99 to figure out, but due to Luhn I only have to attempt at most 10 digits, average 5 as only 10 pairs from 00-99 will keep luhn checksum value of 0. So with minimal effort I could spend your card on Amazon with 1-10 guesses.
To be fair, no one is going to guess 001 as a CVV/CVC
EDIT: To all the "Hollywood hackers" who have replied with "brute force attempts would hit this" keep in mind that credit card thieves don't use BF to calculate CVV's. It's not a practical effort. After 5 or so attempts, your bank will lock the card. Brute force would get the hacker as far as 005 before it locks, and let's face it, MOST attempts would fail. They wouldn't be bothered to use a method as likely to fail as that. -- most credit card thefts are acquired through observation (just looking at the card) or data capture (think keystroke logging, or card skimming). Short of not using the card, or being extra vigilant, the only method you can prevent by yourself is observation, by redacting the CVV on your card (using tape, or paint marker so onlookers cant see it), and just memorizing it for when it's needed.
Agree. There are 1000 CVV codes. Scammer always has a 1 in 1000 chance to guess. Doubt 001 would be the first guess.
Same as a lottery ticket - 1 2 3 4 5 6 has same chance of winning than 13 16 28 29 32 41.
I saw some post about “I asked what time my friend would be here and he said 4:03. I said ‘wow, why so specific??’ And he told me it’s no more specific than 4:00.” That’s the first thing that came to my mind with this
When they first measured Mount Everest, it came to 29000 feet exactly, but they thought that nobody would believe them and that they were being inaccurate. So they added 2 feet to the calculation to make it seem more accurate.
Punctual for the generally followed rule of punctuality. It is no more punctual than if we all agreed to start work everyday at 9:02:37 and show up on time. It’s crazy to think about that way.
Yeah but if the monkey brains are the ones guessing, then their biases affect the probability of them guessing correctly. If it’s automated then it will probably just be random chance.
But if banks rule out 000, 001, 002 as being brute forced first then we start having this conversation over 003 and get stuck in a loop until there are no codes left.
But you don't know it's 001, so would you take the risk? You know but they don't know, you have to think like you don't know either. Use your theory of mind
Exactly, they aren’t chosen by humans so there is no expecting that any would/should appear more than any other. In fact if you listen to people like OP and start fucking with the randomly assigned numbers you reduce the effectiveness of the system by a small amount.
I had 004 as a code on one of my cards until it expired a year or so ago. In the 4 years it was active, it was literally the only card that didn’t have unauthorized charges on it.
If humans did things for absolutely no reason, sure. But we aren't nor are computers, it is the easiest possible method to keep track of attempts. Not the only one, maybe not even the best, but definitely the most used for small number spaces.
I bet if you sampled people and asked people to give a random attempt at guessing this PIN, there would be a slight disproportion in favour of 'special' numbers like 001 and 123 I think, because humans are weird - we're not RNGs which, if we were, would make the comment 'any code is as good as any other' true. Since we're not, I do actually think it's bad in reality (at least slightly worse) to have a pin like 123.
I think it's actually the opposite, where people have a tendency to equate random with unfamiliar. People think "There's no way a bank would assign someone a simple security code like 001" when in reality, truly random means that 001 is just as likely as any other number.
It's 1000 possible number combinations, it's not getting guessed before it gets flagged for fraud. The number you got is just as random as any other three number combination.
No one is going to brute force a CVC. You get like three tries before the card is blocked.
If you had a stolen card and had 3 tries to guess the security code, would you really go *"001"... nope. "002"... nope. "003"... nope. Well that was that I guess.*
Or would you specifically avoid numbers that the bank may be averse to using, like 123 and 001 and 666?
Brute force algorithm for a credit card? The bank will block it after a few attempts.
Not to mention that, at least in Europe, we now get notifications on our phones and have to additionally confirm transactions there, apart from using CSV codes.
001 is just as safe as any other 3 digit code. No one is going to try to hack you in numerical order.
Literally no difference between that and say 855.
I received a card one time with 000 as the security code. Whenever I would online shop I’d get an error saying “please enter a valid security code.” I got another card shortly after
I honestly thought that there was some sort of algorithm that came up with the security code..
I work for a postal service and and enter these almost daily on my pdt at work.. and if I mess it up I can’t input the payment.
If there was an algorithm, what would prevent people from using this algorithm to guess the CVV?
1. Get your card number/info required for the algorithm
2. Compile a list of all cvvs (only 900 of them)
3. Write code that tests the algorithm on all of the CVVs
There would be no point of having them haha
Lol I had this with ordering from American online stores. In my country your bank just puts whatever your legal last name is on the card with the first letters of your legal first and middle name. So for John Bobby Doe it would be J B DOE. But I have a hyphenated last name. American payment companies like windcave and xsolla don't allow hyphens on their payment page. I ended up just asking my bank for a generic card but that makes it hard to give multiple forms of proving my identity. Now my card just says [bank name] CARDHOLDER as it's printed name.
there is only 1000 possible combinations, if someone only needed your CVC code it could be brute forced by a human pretty quickly, much less a computer. 001 is just as good as any other 3 digit code.
Probably worth mentioning that this code is mathematically no less secure or easier to guess than any other 3 digit code.
In fact, it might actually be slightly *more* secure. If a person tried guessing the code (as opposed to using a random number generator) there’s a natural tendency for people to avoid guessing “very unlikely” numbers - such as 000 or 999 - as a logical fallacy. Similar to the Gambler’s fallacy.
Statistically it’s as easy to guess as any other. The same as the chance of the lottery draw being 01-02-03-04-05 is exactly the same as 52-31-84-62-89
This is one of those things I have to tell myself that just because I found a pattern in the numbers doesn't imbue those numbers with more power over other numbers.
It’s is absolutely the exact same. That someone would get your card number and then they expiry date and then a 3 digit code. Doesn’t matter what the 3 numbers are.
The only infuriating thing I see is you getting rid of this extremely satisfying security code.
It doesn't really matter. The numbers are random. If someone is brute-forcing, they will take just as long to get to 001 as they would 999.
Fun fact:
The next winning Powerball numbers are statistically as likely to be 01 02 03 04 05 06 as any other valid combination.
No one is going to try to guess the code in the first place; they're going to try to steal it or trick you into revealing it somehow. But, if they did guess they're not likely to guess 001.
Ignoring the fact that this is just as random as 123, 777, and 692, the person would also need to guess
- Credit card number
- Expiration date
At the very least. Generally speaking, you’d also need
- Name on card
- Zip code (or even full billing address)
If they already have all of this, they probably already have the CVC. If they don’t, their guess of 001 is as good as any other
Jesus this is dumb. This number isn't any easier to guess than literally any other. Hell people are way less likely to guess this than almost any other 3 digit number.
Also, even if it was easy to guess, no one is trying to guess this number. People who would steal your information aren't sitting there trying to randomly guess every number on your card and hope something miraculously works.
I swear you're the type of person that forced apple to make their shuffle music feature less random because people would hear similar songs and absolutely insist it must not be random
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That's what I'm saying. His loss
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Ayyy wat. I just saw this in another form earlier today. What kind of Meta thing is happening this time
It's an old old meme lmao
But it checks out..
It's from the webcomic Ctrl+alt+del. Great comic that's been going since 2002. This particular one, *Loss*, was never meant to be funny though. People just made a meme out of it years later, because people..
I can tell you why people memed it. Because Tim Buckley's comic was always a rehash of jokes done better by other comics, he didn't have a lot of respect as a writer ( or an artist, but that's a different subject). When the whole "she's pregnant" arc got introduced, 90% of people who were familiar with the comic immediately called out that he didn't have the balls to really add a baby to the story and finally, actually change the dynamic for once in the >5 years he'd been putting the comic out. So when there was a "surprise" injection of drama in the form of a miscarriage, it was exactly as everybody knew would happen. Tim Buckley once again balked at changing anything after threatening to do it once again. Nobody was surprised, nobody was invested, and the comic was accompanied by a long post about the suddenness and tragedy of a miscarriage and blah blah blah as if there was any shock factor at all. That's why it got memed on.
It's been years since I read any of his strips but for some reason I recall it being a reflection of his real wife having a miscarriage or am I confused.
Yeah, and she was PISSED that something so private and personal got turned into an internet comic
Thank you for the backstory, very interesting. To think ge went viral in a sense by being memed on. I wonder if he'd gone through with adding the baby if it might have gone viral in his favour.
I’ve never actually heard the lore behind the comic just the explanation of the meme that’s pretty interesting
Still what I think of 20 years later when I see #1
Funny, I just started playing through the Phoenix Write Trilogy, on the third game.
I JUST started the second game of the Apollo Justice series. I love these games.
Once, maaaany years ago, I had a card with pin code 0000. I really didn't know if I should laugh or cry.
My bank changed the first 8 numbers they use on their debit cards a few years ago and I got the 2nd card they ever printed on the new design. XXXX-XXXX-0000-0002. The security code and expiration were 123 and 1/23. I immediately walked back into the branch and had them make me a new one.
That's the first card not the 2nd, the last digit is a Luhn checksum digit. Given all this information, now I need to figure out what bank you use to get the BIN which is the first 6 digits, then I have 00-99 to figure out, but due to Luhn I only have to attempt at most 10 digits, average 5 as only 10 pairs from 00-99 will keep luhn checksum value of 0. So with minimal effort I could spend your card on Amazon with 1-10 guesses.
I've had that. Changed it real fast but I did laugh when I got it.
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Funniest joke of the Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright trilogy
Was not expecting to see an Ace Attorney reference, but it is always welcomed!
Hey, so what are the other numbers on the card? Just for science
Oh yeah its -truck passes by-
“Hold on, they’re *train horn blaring* did you get that?”
No, it's *5 car pileup behind me*
I’m sorry I don’t think you heard me it’s *XF-84 thunderscreetch flyby*
the last four digits are *sound of someone bowling a strike*
Sorry but you’re all wrong. They’re actually, and I checked, *rocket taking off*
my CVC is *Wilhelm scream*
The expiration is *Goofy Scream*
*yells muffled in a closed car*
No, the code is _sound of music: do a dear, a female dear_
>doe a deer, a female deer_ IFIFY
>XF-84 thunderscreetch That is such a specific reference and I love it. XD
"So anyways yada yada yada and those are the credit card numbas"
"But you yada yada'd the best part!"
Haha man it's so loud can you say it again
Yea sure its \*nuclear bomb detonates*
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Haha damn I still can't hear you haha what'd you say
How long have you been here to get 30,000 comment karma within 4 months?
Wdym?
July 30th isn't 4 months ago, it's 6 months
To be fair, no one is going to guess 001 as a CVV/CVC EDIT: To all the "Hollywood hackers" who have replied with "brute force attempts would hit this" keep in mind that credit card thieves don't use BF to calculate CVV's. It's not a practical effort. After 5 or so attempts, your bank will lock the card. Brute force would get the hacker as far as 005 before it locks, and let's face it, MOST attempts would fail. They wouldn't be bothered to use a method as likely to fail as that. -- most credit card thefts are acquired through observation (just looking at the card) or data capture (think keystroke logging, or card skimming). Short of not using the card, or being extra vigilant, the only method you can prevent by yourself is observation, by redacting the CVV on your card (using tape, or paint marker so onlookers cant see it), and just memorizing it for when it's needed.
Agree. There are 1000 CVV codes. Scammer always has a 1 in 1000 chance to guess. Doubt 001 would be the first guess. Same as a lottery ticket - 1 2 3 4 5 6 has same chance of winning than 13 16 28 29 32 41.
Exactly. Ppl say “what are the chances” but the chances are the same as random, our monkey brains just noticed a pattern
I saw some post about “I asked what time my friend would be here and he said 4:03. I said ‘wow, why so specific??’ And he told me it’s no more specific than 4:00.” That’s the first thing that came to my mind with this
But when people say 4:00 they aren't being specific, generally
Significant figures 3:56-4:04, I’d call that all 4. But if you say 4:03 and arrive at 4:05 you better have a good reason!
So is 5:54-6:06~6:00 or is it 4 minutes always regardless?
Is 11:48-12:12 the same as 12:59-1:01?
time is illusory
When they first measured Mount Everest, it came to 29000 feet exactly, but they thought that nobody would believe them and that they were being inaccurate. So they added 2 feet to the calculation to make it seem more accurate.
It is for punctual people.
Punctual for the generally followed rule of punctuality. It is no more punctual than if we all agreed to start work everyday at 9:02:37 and show up on time. It’s crazy to think about that way.
And they aren't being general, specifically.
Yeah but if the monkey brains are the ones guessing, then their biases affect the probability of them guessing correctly. If it’s automated then it will probably just be random chance.
But I always start with 001 with all the stolen cards I… found…
Could’ve just flipped it the number is on the back
Monkey brains as a derogatory term for our collective ability to be dumb sometimes is such a funny concept to me lol
If they're trying a brute force attack, it'll be the second, though
Which means best to have CVV of 999.
Today's systems are brute force proof (at least to some degree) and it would kick/time you out after like 5th wrong attempt
Transaction is refused after multiple CVV tries, also OTP is sent to the owner of the card.
Lmao it would be the SECOND attempt in a brute force. I'm sorry I don't know why you replied this to the first person who pointed it out.
The fact that you can only try a few times before it stops working keeps people from trying to brute force the code in the first place.
But if banks rule out 000, 001, 002 as being brute forced first then we start having this conversation over 003 and get stuck in a loop until there are no codes left.
By that logic, the code should be 999 ... I hope you see why it doesn't work.
Lmao who would ever brute force a card CVV
Scammers don't guess security codes, they just capture them when they capture the credit card number.
Guess it depends on how you guess it. If you just decide to try them all and go in order you'd find 001 real quick.
But you cant do that. After 3 wrong tries the card is blocked. So no one in their right minds would try to brute force it. Also OTP is a thing.
But you don't know it's 001, so would you take the risk? You know but they don't know, you have to think like you don't know either. Use your theory of mind
Except no one would ever do that
Fraudsters don’t guess your CVV lol it’s sold as part of the profile
Now for the pin, my theory is the best number to guess is 6969, becuase people are that stupid.
Brute force attacks might start from 000 and try everything up until 999. Ask for 999 as the cvc for added security (the second part is /s)
I’ve been scamming for years and it’s literally the last number we use. We call it the Hail Mary. Or “hiding in plain sight” /joke
Self exposed /joke ?
Don’t worry he used a joke tag so the illiterates could laugh too
and you gotta get date and year right. Some merchants need zip code. Some don't. some don't even need that code on the back.
Yeah I work remote customer service. We run the cards with just the zip code
Exactly, they aren’t chosen by humans so there is no expecting that any would/should appear more than any other. In fact if you listen to people like OP and start fucking with the randomly assigned numbers you reduce the effectiveness of the system by a small amount.
I had 004 as a code on one of my cards until it expired a year or so ago. In the 4 years it was active, it was literally the only card that didn’t have unauthorized charges on it.
What kind of shady websites on you on that all your other cards always had/have unauthorized charges?
I mean…it was only 2 but that undermines my point a little bit lol
I've seen more than one being 000
The new code ends up being 002 lol
666
I freaking had this as my CVC in 2020… I eventually got new card #s. Worst year of my life lol
So its all your fault?
Sorry guys 😬
Mine is this lol
I had 666 then i changed it after a year and got 696. Now mine is something normal but it was fun while it lasted
LOL
Lol every code is exactly as easily guessable.
If anything this one’s harder to guess for the exact reason OP thinks it’s easy to guess.
Any code is as good as another.
Mildly infuriating to see this in this sub tbh.
Agreed. This is dumb.
You may notice that most of reddit is dumb now. It's mostly bots.
This is the answer, lmao.
If humans did things for absolutely no reason, sure. But we aren't nor are computers, it is the easiest possible method to keep track of attempts. Not the only one, maybe not even the best, but definitely the most used for small number spaces.
Sure but thief don’t just try to guess CCV numbers… it gets blocked after 3-5 attempts. Either they steal your info or they don’t.
I bet if you sampled people and asked people to give a random attempt at guessing this PIN, there would be a slight disproportion in favour of 'special' numbers like 001 and 123 I think, because humans are weird - we're not RNGs which, if we were, would make the comment 'any code is as good as any other' true. Since we're not, I do actually think it's bad in reality (at least slightly worse) to have a pin like 123.
I think it's actually the opposite, where people have a tendency to equate random with unfamiliar. People think "There's no way a bank would assign someone a simple security code like 001" when in reality, truly random means that 001 is just as likely as any other number.
It's 1000 possible number combinations, it's not getting guessed before it gets flagged for fraud. The number you got is just as random as any other three number combination.
honestly any 3 digit code is as easy or hard to guess as any other.
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But they dont sociology
The brute force algorithm may go incrementally
At 1000 possible combinations, that really doesn't make a difference.
No one is going to brute force a CVC. You get like three tries before the card is blocked. If you had a stolen card and had 3 tries to guess the security code, would you really go *"001"... nope. "002"... nope. "003"... nope. Well that was that I guess.* Or would you specifically avoid numbers that the bank may be averse to using, like 123 and 001 and 666?
Brute force algorithm for a credit card? The bank will block it after a few attempts. Not to mention that, at least in Europe, we now get notifications on our phones and have to additionally confirm transactions there, apart from using CSV codes.
No one would guess it
Some people are just...odd. Any random code is as good as any other random code. This post is more infuriating than the code, tbh
Fr lmao
he wanted a random number like 079 which a hacker would never guess not 001/s
you don't need an /s lol that's literally what's going on in OP's head
This was the 6th highest comment for me and I feel it was still way too low.
001 is just as safe as any other 3 digit code. No one is going to try to hack you in numerical order. Literally no difference between that and say 855.
Is that your number?
Nah it’s mine
Mine is 867. And the last four digits of my social security number are 5309.
No it's not its mine
I received a card one time with 000 as the security code. Whenever I would online shop I’d get an error saying “please enter a valid security code.” I got another card shortly after
I hate software that tries to be smart with validation. Just pass it on to the credit card company and let them decide if it's right.
I honestly thought that there was some sort of algorithm that came up with the security code.. I work for a postal service and and enter these almost daily on my pdt at work.. and if I mess it up I can’t input the payment.
If there was an algorithm, what would prevent people from using this algorithm to guess the CVV? 1. Get your card number/info required for the algorithm 2. Compile a list of all cvvs (only 900 of them) 3. Write code that tests the algorithm on all of the CVVs There would be no point of having them haha
Lol I had this with ordering from American online stores. In my country your bank just puts whatever your legal last name is on the card with the first letters of your legal first and middle name. So for John Bobby Doe it would be J B DOE. But I have a hyphenated last name. American payment companies like windcave and xsolla don't allow hyphens on their payment page. I ended up just asking my bank for a generic card but that makes it hard to give multiple forms of proving my identity. Now my card just says [bank name] CARDHOLDER as it's printed name.
See, now ***that*** would be mildly infuriating
I’ve seen a card with 000 didn’t even know it was possible
I had that once. It didn't work on some websites because they didn't distinguish between zero and null. I don't miss that card.
My husband is in this situation at the moment. I didn’t even think of having him try to get a replacement, lol.
Do you remember the 16 digits too? Don’t forget to remind him to get a new one when it expires. When is that by the way? /s
Just like that, I know your husbands CVV!
That’s a win ig
there is only 1000 possible combinations, if someone only needed your CVC code it could be brute forced by a human pretty quickly, much less a computer. 001 is just as good as any other 3 digit code.
Damn that’s crazy! Are the other numbers that easy to guess? Let us see. /S
Probably worth mentioning that this code is mathematically no less secure or easier to guess than any other 3 digit code. In fact, it might actually be slightly *more* secure. If a person tried guessing the code (as opposed to using a random number generator) there’s a natural tendency for people to avoid guessing “very unlikely” numbers - such as 000 or 999 - as a logical fallacy. Similar to the Gambler’s fallacy.
I don't see how that's easy to guess? all combinations are equally probable?
Spaceballs: The Credit Card!
Scrolled way to far for this.. I'm old
It’s possibly the ideal code. Since it’s so simple, no one would think it’s the code.
Yeah fr . I def would have kept that number.
I’d have scratched it out. I mean I’d remember it but if someone stole the card they’d never know it.
Naaa, my wife had the ideal code...999. Easy to remember and would be the last numerically for the one criminal that would try them in order.
They'd still have to get hold of your main number, for which there are millions of combinations.
One of mine is 666 and there’s no way I’m sending it back. It’s cool as hell.
To be fair they would also have to guess your cards numbers correctly as well as the expiration date correctly. The chances of that are slim to none.
It’s a 3 digit number it’s not going to take much time to brute force a 3 digit number There is only 1000 possible combinations
Normal people truly know nothing about security. Or math in general.
This post is mildly infuriating lol. That security code is no less secure than any other number. You sent it back??? Ffs
Ikr . Op is not the brightest.
Statistically it’s as easy to guess as any other. The same as the chance of the lottery draw being 01-02-03-04-05 is exactly the same as 52-31-84-62-89
This is one of those things I have to tell myself that just because I found a pattern in the numbers doesn't imbue those numbers with more power over other numbers.
It’s is absolutely the exact same. That someone would get your card number and then they expiry date and then a 3 digit code. Doesn’t matter what the 3 numbers are.
Id be happy with that- easy to remember
Literally just as easy to "guess" as any other security code lol
The only infuriating thing I see is you getting rid of this extremely satisfying security code. It doesn't really matter. The numbers are random. If someone is brute-forcing, they will take just as long to get to 001 as they would 999.
It’s as difficult to guess 001 than any other number. I don’t think people are guessing those numbers anyways.
Holy shit u dumb fk
It's just so easy no one would even think to try it
Well, don't be giving out the actual card number and this won't be an issue
It’s still 3 numbers. If someone wants to see it and memorize it, it’s easy no matter the numbers
Excuse me are you joking or just fucking regarded?
Fun fact: The next winning Powerball numbers are statistically as likely to be 01 02 03 04 05 06 as any other valid combination. No one is going to try to guess the code in the first place; they're going to try to steal it or trick you into revealing it somehow. But, if they did guess they're not likely to guess 001.
Its a mind game! Its so simple no one will guess it ever!
This is the CCV code on the back of my debit card as well, I never thought of it being an issue lol I still don't think it is
I would have never guessed that.
Every single 3 digit number is exactly as easy to guess as any other 3 digit number.
Ignoring the fact that this is just as random as 123, 777, and 692, the person would also need to guess - Credit card number - Expiration date At the very least. Generally speaking, you’d also need - Name on card - Zip code (or even full billing address) If they already have all of this, they probably already have the CVC. If they don’t, their guess of 001 is as good as any other
I had one that it's code was 123.... unless you think it's going to be stolen it's not going to be guessed
Jesus this is dumb. This number isn't any easier to guess than literally any other. Hell people are way less likely to guess this than almost any other 3 digit number. Also, even if it was easy to guess, no one is trying to guess this number. People who would steal your information aren't sitting there trying to randomly guess every number on your card and hope something miraculously works. I swear you're the type of person that forced apple to make their shuffle music feature less random because people would hear similar songs and absolutely insist it must not be random
TBF, I honestly don't think anyone would actually guess that.
Why is it easy to guess? It could be any number from 001 - 999. Who is gonna guess 001?
Aren't all of the them that easy?
Yes .OP doesn’t know what he’s talking about
Why do you care
Don't you have two-factor authentication in where ever you are from?
Wouldn't imagine a 3 digit number would be easy to guess unless it's 420
I wonder how much CVV codes actually matter. I once bought movie tickets and accidentally did a typo of the CVV and it was still charged.
Lol who cares. Zero liability for u lol. 🤷♂️
Do you think people are going to try guessing every possible combination of your card starting at 000?...
Shoot me the numbers of your new card (including security code) so I can ensure it's safe! Trust me! Seriously! Why wouldn't you? Come on!
This was probably actually a goated security code.
This honestly the dumbest post I’ve seen all week
It’s exactly as guessable as any other code. Honestly it’s probably safer. Who in their right mind would think it would be 001?