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How do you do that?

About 6-8 years ago, all major credit card companies in US has the virtual CC service: BoA, Citi, Chase, you name it. Passing one period, they all started to shut down the service, saving Citi.

I don't know why Citi still has this service, and seems to keep developing it (it used to be a Flash page, and since Flash is out commissioned, they rewrote the whole service into HTML).

So if you are in US, get a Citi CC or something like privacy.com.

Does citi let you create any no. of virtual numbers and can you set limits for them ? I sorely miss the BoA flash feature and haven't found a replacement. I would sign for citi if it's the same.

I just tried generating 5 numbers without problem. It seems you can generate as many as you want.

You can set expiration time and daily spending limit for the numbers. Also optionally assign a name for each number.

Note that I have two Citi CC but only one card has this service. So some card may not. The one available to me is the double cash card.

Not sure about the US but in Europe there is Revolut that allows you to create virtual credit card numbers tied to your main account. They can be deleted/disposed of at any time in the app.

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