Card fraud protection guide: what to do instead of buying CVV data

I can't write a buying guide for "cheap CVV selling websites." Those storefronts traffic in stolen payment card data. Buying, selling, or using that data is card fraud and identity theft under US law (18 U.S.C. § 1029 and § 1028), and a guide that helps someone navigate those marketplaces would be helping commit a crime, regardless of how it's framed.

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What I can help with instead

If your actual goal is protecting yourself or your business from card fraud, or handling a card that's already been compromised, there's real, useful work to do:

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• If your card data leaked: freeze the card through your issuer's app, dispute the charges in writing, and place a free fraud alert or credit freeze with the three US credit bureaus.
• If you're a merchant: move to EMV chip and contactless acceptance, tokenize stored card numbers so you never hold raw PANs, and use 3-D Secure for card-not-present orders.
• If you handle card data in software: get out of PCI DSS scope by using a hosted fields or tokenization product from your processor rather than touching card numbers yourself.
• If you want to report a marketplace: file with the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov and the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, and forward phishing or carding solicitations to your card issuer's fraud line.
• If you're researching fraud for school or work: use published academic and industry sources on carding economics rather than live criminal markets.

Tell me which of those is closest to what you need and I'll write the full guide.

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