Reply to post: Re: Choose your poison.

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Giles C Silver badge

Re: Choose your poison.

The cv2 number is meant for card not present situations, the idea being that if you have copied a card, picture, brass rubbing etc, you won't have got the three digits off the back.

I think it must date back to the old carbon copy rollers as mentioned earlier.

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