Fraud prevention is a major concern for many people. To prevent fraudulent charges, most merchants require customers to provide their debit or credit card number, its expiration date and a numeric ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Mira Norian / Investopedia A bank identification number (BIN) is the initial set of four to ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South ...

Imagine a world without credit card fraud. Impossible, you might say. And you'd probably be right. But any effort to rein it in helps. Every time your bank card is cloned or skimmed from an ATM or by ...

When shopping online and paying with a credit card or debit card, you have to enter the three-digit CVV (card verification value) from the back. These are card-not-present transactions, and entering ...