[hgfghj]

Because you can’t use those burner numbers to make brick and mortar purchases.

Your assertion was objectively false.

[kibwen]

Cashiers in brick and mortar stores can enter card details manually. You've never had a card reader break and then had the cashier have to type it in by hand?

[hgfghj]

I have never convinced a cashier to use digits provided by me or off my phone screen. That is fundamentally different from getting them to manually enter a card.

But I understand you’re making irrelevant bad faith comments, because you’re too weak to admit that you were wrong about something unimportant.

kibwen, learn to take an L.

[rowls66]

They can but they generally won’t. Use of the chip on the card shifts fraud liability from merchant to issuer. Burner card numbers are for card not present transactions.

[cptskippy]

Sketchiness aside, the fee a merchant pays is different based on the capture method to incentivize using more secure methods. The bank, payment processor, and the merchant know how a PAN was processed.

[jonathantf2]

Never once had that in my life.