[merty]

I once had a credit card with the CVC code of 007. Although it looks cool and everything, I spent a few hours on the phone to manage to activate it.

Why?

Simply because only a few days prior to the arrival of my card, the bank switched to voice-command-only menus on their hotline without a regular menu fallback.

I remember looking at the back of the card and saying, “oh, here we go...” to myself. Unsurprisingly, telling the system “zero-zero-seven”, “double-zero, seven” or even pausing and yelling “SEVEN!” did not work.

In the end, I made the system connect me to a random human-being who then transferred me to someone else and that person redirected me to the regular, typing-based interface.

A few weeks later, they updated their system to fall back to the old system after the 5th error ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[auiya]

Ah but this was a British system. You should have said "naught-naught-seven"