The credit card security code is a set of 3 or 4 digits on the credit card. It is used to prove that the payer has a credit card at the time of transaction, thus preventing credit card fraud.

Its generation method is that the bank extracts the account number, validity period and service code of the card, arranges them and then calculates them through a series of complicated algorithms. After this set of numbers is generated, only the issuing bank and the holder of the bank card know what this number is.

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The security code of UnionPay card is called CVN2, which has three digits and is printed on the back of the credit card after the last four digits of the card number.

The security code of MasterCard is called CVC2, which has three digits and is printed on the last four digits of the card number on the back of credit card.

The security code of DiscoverCard is called CardmemberID ID, which has 3 digits and is printed on the signature column on the back of the credit card.

The security code of JCB card (JapanCreditBureau) is called CAV2(CardAuthenticationValue2), which has 3 digits and is printed on the last 4 digits of the card number on the back of the credit card.

The security code of AmericanExpress is called CID(cardentificationnumber), which has 4 digits and is printed above the credit card number on the front of the credit card.

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