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by tzs 2220 days ago
Capital One and Citi let you create virtual CC numbers.

Bank of America used to, but they discontinued that feature a few months ago, saying that with electronic wallets such as Apple Pay and similar that do not disclose your card number to the merchant there is no longer a need for virtual CC numbers.

I've got a couple Capital One cards and their virtual numbers are quite convenient. They are created from their Eno browser extension. Invoke Eno on the checkout page of a site, and it lets you pick and existing virtual card or lets you create a new one for that site.

I use it on Firefox, but recently the Eno extension disappeared from the Firefox extensions store, and they no longer list Firefox as a supported browser (although existing installations continue to work). If this is permanent it will not be as convenient for Firefox users--they will have to use Chrome to create new virtual cards, which they can of course still use in Firefox.

On your account pages at C1 you can view your virtual numbers, suspend them, and delete them but you cannot create new ones. That has to be done through the Eno browser extension.

I have no idea what Citi's virtual card system is like.