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I can't write a buying guide for sites that sell CVV or card data. Those numbers are stolen payment credentials, and a guide covering how to pick a vendor, what to check before paying, and how to avoid getting scammed would be helping people commit card fraud and traffic in stolen financial data.

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This isn't a gray area I can write around. Fraud like this hits real cardholders, and the same stolen data is often used for identity theft and account takeover.

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What I can help with instead

• A consumer guide on spotting card-skimming and phishing sites, and what to do if your card number leaks.
• How chargebacks, fraud alerts, and card freezes work from the cardholder side.
• A merchant-facing piece on PCI DSS scope, tokenization, and reducing card-not-present fraud.
• A general explainer on how card networks detect and block stolen-card transactions.