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by chatmasta 3084 days ago
That’s actually very interesting. Thanks.

Do they do this via a partnership with MasterCard or something? Basically similar to prepaid cards?

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They should be using an issuing processor (a financial institution that works with Visa or MasterCard) to issue card numbers. Issuing processors can easily generate card numbers programmatically + on the fly.
Thanks for the info. I haven’t heard the term issuing processor before.