I use virtual cards for lots of online transactions and subscriptions/memberships. More and more places are now not accepting the use of virtual cards. They are able to detect that a virtual card is being used by the first six digits of the credit card number that is generated. Is there anyway around this? A way to hide the fact that I’m using a virtual card?? I’ve tried using a VPN, TOR, and a variety of virtual card numbers. But it seems like it comes down to those first six card numbers.
All you can really do it contact the company (I’m guessing privacy.com?) about it so they can try and fix it.
It’s actually through my bank. They allow me to create as many virtual cards I want for online transactions. But as I stated, becoming harder and harder to use. From what I understand though, it’s pretty much industry wide with virtual cards that they have a distinctive BIN number , which is the first six digits of the card. So it’s not really anything that privacy or my bank can fix. It’s just the way virtual cards work. I appreciate the reply and suggestion, though!
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Yea, it’s just unfortunately how it is. You could try using a visa vanilla card, but there are sites that block those too.