{"id":174,"date":"2006-08-23T06:27:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T13:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merchantaccountblog.com\/archives\/174"},"modified":"2006-08-23T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T13:34:11","slug":"how-to-spot-a-fake-credit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/174\/how-to-spot-a-fake-credit-card","title":{"rendered":"How to spot a fake credit card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently stumbled upon a great pdf guide on the features of each type of credit card from the four major credit card companies. Each cart type has a very clear diagram outlining the card identification features of that particular card. <\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Screenshot of the Visa diagram.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/images\/visa-fake.jpg\" alt=\"Visa Card Diagram\" style=\"border:1px solid #000; margin:5px;\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Mastercard, Amex and Discover are available in the guide)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>From what I have been reading, card counterfeiters are getting so good at reproducing cards that it is virtually impossible to distinguish the difference between a well made fake, and a real credit card. Most businesses wont check each card to ensure that it is real. It would take too much time, and it simply isn&#8217;t that big of a problem. But, if you ever do have a question, this guide should give you what you need to verify a card is real.<\/p>\n<p>The file is rather large (~1Mb), so you may want to download it instead of opening it in your browser window. <strong>Right Click<\/strong> and select <strong>&#8220;Save Target As&#8221;<\/strong> to download the guide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/all-card-verification.pdf\">Credit Card Identifying Features<\/a> <sup>.pdf<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>This guide is also available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/downloads\/\">download area<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently stumbled upon a great pdf guide on the features of each type of credit card from the four major credit card companies. Each cart type has a very clear diagram outlining the card identification features of that particular card. Screenshot of the Visa diagram. (Mastercard, Amex and Discover are available in the guide) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guides","category-merchantaccounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}