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:Well, it is not so dificcult for an employer of a shop (or for the owner of the shop too) to look at the secutity code without being seen as suspicious. On some cards the security code is on the front and in other cases is next to the signaure box on the back of the card (which the merchant has contract right and duty to check at). The code is enought small to be memorized, so there no need to write it down immidiately rising suspicious. Morover in many case I see the teller write down on the credit card recipes many informations (the number of the day selling, and so on). The security code could be written among the same datas without rising souspicious, or it can even be written in a encripten form. if the fraud is made some time later (even months since the card is usually valid for 2 years and all the information needed, including the security code, do not change in the meantime) it would very difficult to track down all the place it was used in the time. And unless the teller is so silly to buy things online and have them sent to his/her postal address, it is very difficult to link among the use of the credit card and a specific sale, when the card was use.
:I have to say that my opinion is that this, so called, security code only add a very little protection, and this addictional small protection is completely void when you reveal the CCV2 data. It is difficult to have a really safe system when the card is used at distance. All the datas sent can be read by at leat someone and if the exactly same datas is all is needed to make another transaction, the protection is rather low. In my opinion the only way to solve this issue is that among the datas trasmited should be only know by the owner and that this data change at any time of use (and optionally depends also on the name or on the code of the merchant). [[User:AnyFile|AnyFile]] 13:45, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
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