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		steve8918 on Dec 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 860k Stratfor Accounts Dump About 10 years ago, American Express had a service where you could create one-time credit card numbers for using it online. I loved it. For whatever reason, a couple of years later, they got rid of the service. It's times like these when a service like that would have been perfect.

politician on Dec 30, 2011 [–]

So, Citi provides a similar "Virtual Account Number" service which allows a cardholder to create a new cc# with a new expiration date and a specific balance, but the billing address cannot be customized which reduces the usefulness of the service.

As far as I know, it's also free.

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