Your credit card CVV code is one way to help keep your credit card information safe online. November 19, in Learn. Your credit card CVV code may not be in the same place on every credit card. Keeping your credit card CVV safe and out of sight is a great start, but you can do more to keep your credit card information safe.
Consider these tips to further protect yourself. To protect yourself from cyberthieves and hackers, keep your account passwords in a secure place. Many or all of the products featured here are from our partners who compensate us. This may influence which products we write about and where and how the product appears on a page. However, this does not influence our evaluations.
Our opinions are our own. Here is a list of our partners and here's how we make money. When you're buying something online or by phone, you'll often be asked for your credit card's CVV number, sometimes also called the card security code.
CVV is short for card verification value, and it's a key security feature. The CVV is a three- or four-digit code that's printed on your credit card as a fraud-prevention measure. The merchant is prohibited, for security purposes, from storing the code. See related: Virtual card account numbers grow as a way to fight fraud. In industry-speak, this is called a card-not-present transaction. In rare cases, you may be asked to share your security code in person if a merchant, such as a vendor at a conference or a crafter at a fair, processes your card manually using a credit card imprinter or writes your card information on a piece of paper.
In this scenario, proceed with extra caution. But a smaller business or hobbyist accepting manual card payments may not have such stringent security practices.
Credit card holders are protected from liability by the Fair Credit Billing Act. See related: How to report and protect yourself from credit card fraud. Requiring you to provide your credit card security code may slow down a payment somewhat by requiring you to track down and enter three to four more numbers. But merchants are asking for this data for a good reason. The editorial content on this page is based solely on the objective assessment of our writers and is not driven by advertising dollars.
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Teresa Bitler is a former CreditCards. Kelly Dilworth is a personal finance contributor and former staff reporter at CreditCards. She began her career in journalism at The Atlantic in , then detoured into nonfiction book publishing for several years. Share on linkedin LinkedIn. Share on pinterest Pinterest. Share on whatsapp WhatsApp. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.
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