Pick a Number?

script

I know this is not the right place to ask.

But I much prefer to stay with all my friends in this acclaimed forum.

So during a relaxing pint in the Pub last night someone asked –

“You know that the first 4 numbers on a credit card – indicate what “type” of card it is – Visa, MasterCard etc. Which numbers means which?”

I’m thinking 4 means a Visa.

And 5 means a MasterCard.

But it might be worth a free pint tonight if I stun everyone with the full details.

dollparts

The card number's prefix is the sequence of digits at the beginning of the number that determine the credit card network to which the number belongs. The first 6 digits of the credit card number are known as the Issuer Identification Number (IIN). These identify the institution that issued the card to the card holder. The rest of the number is allocated by the issuer. The card number's length is its number of digits. Many credit card issuers print the first four digits of the IIN on their card, just beneath where the number is embossed, as an added security measure.


Mastercard- 51-55
Visa - 4
Visa electron- 417500,4917,4913,4508,4844
Maestro - 5018,5020,5038,6304,6759,6761,6763
Solo-now dead I think? -6334, 6767

HTH, tell your mates to get the drinks in:D

dollparts

and if you really wanna be clever.....

Switch was re-branded as Maestro in mid 2007. Maestro is now VISA Electron's main competitor in the European debit card market.
Solo can be used outside of Britain if the card displays Maestro.

fiveyearplan

Barclaycard visa 4929
Lloyds business visa 4177
Mint mastercard 5460
Monument visa 4265

..... I had loads more but thats enough to be getting on with!

script

Wow Dollparts - thanks so much.

I have a good feeling that I'll be on free drinks all night...

I'll try and get a glass of wine sent over to you.

script

Cheers fiveyear - these should be worth at least a couple of pints.

dollparts

script wrote: »

Wow Dollparts - thanks so much.

I have a good feeling that I'll be on free drinks all night...

I'll try and get a glass of wine sent over to you.

Mine's a large red please!

If you don't mind risking a kick under the table for being too clever, you could explain the following......

Origin: 1888

Long before the first credit cards were issued in California in the 1950s, an American visionary of the nineteenth century imagined them. Not only that; he envisioned that a cashless society, using credit cards for purchases, would exist at the end of the twentieth century. Falling asleep in 1887, the narrator of Edward Bellamy's novel Looking Backward, published in 1888, wakes in the year 2000 to an America whose problems have been solved by getting rid of buying and selling. Instead, "A credit corresponding to his share of the annual product of the nation is given to every citizen on the public books at the beginning of each year, and a credit card issued him with which he procures at the public storehouses, found in every community, whatever he desires whenever he desires it." It works for travel abroad too: "An American in Berlin [for example] takes his credit card to the local office of the international council, and receives in exchange for the whole or part of it a German credit card, the amount being charged against the United States in favor of Germany on the international account."
Bellamy's credit card is actually what we nowadays would call a debit card, one that draws from an established account. The plastic credit card first issued by California's Bank of America in 1956 was more radical. It did not require prepayment but offered the bank's own credit, instantly, for purchases at a great variety of participating businesses. With credit cards, businesses could offer customers the convenience of credit while the bank took the risk (and a percentage of the price).
We have a long way to go before reaching Bellamy's vision of a cashless society, and we are farther than ever from his vision of a society without banks, retailers, and advertising, but the end of the twentieth century has put credit cards in nearly everyone's hands, with accounts immediately accessible by computer almost anywhere in the world.:D:D:D

script

Blimey Dollparts it's like learning a script.

But I'll have it word perfect by tonight (maybe with a few prompts written on my arm...)

dollparts

Go for it! why not just stand on a barstool and read off a piece of parchment:D

tigerfeet2006

Doll you are a legend

dollparts

tigerfeet2006 wrote: »

Doll you are a legend

aww, only on days ending in 'y' :rotfl: