How To: Get Unlimited Free Trials Using a "Real" Fake Credit Card Number

When I see the words "free trial," I know I'm probably going to have to whip out my credit card and enter in the number to "not get charged." Then I end up forgetting about the trial and want to kick myself in the ass when I see my statement at the end of the month.

In order to avoid that rigmarole, you can actually use fake credit numbers instead of your own, and you can do that using the site getcreditcardnumbers.com, which can generate up to 9,999 credit card numbers at a time, or just one.

Now, to be completely clear, these numbers cannot be used to purchase any item. Nada. Zilch. Nothing. For that to work, you would need a valid expiration date and CVV or CSV number. This site merely provides the standard 16 digit credit card number that can be used to bypass certain online forms that only ask for the number.

How Does It Work?

The credit card number generator uses a system based off of the Luhn Algorithm, which has been used to validate numbers for decades. You can learn more about the algorithm on their webpage, or check out the Null Byte guide on how credit card algorithms work. A fake number will work for sites that store credit card information to either charge you later or ask you to upgrade.

For sites that ask for an upfront fee or have an automatic charge sometime down the line (Hulu Plus, Netflix, Spotify), this won't work since they ask for more than just a credit card number for validation. You can, however, get unlimited free trials on those sites using a simple trick with your email address if you have a valid card number with expiration date and CSV.

Getting a Card Number on Android

There's also an Android application for getting fake card numbers called CardGen (update: CardGen is no longer available in the Google Play Store). You can generate and validate credit card numbers directly from the app, making it easy to use on the go as well. Validation, in particular, would be useful if you were accepting credit card payments on your own site and wanted to make sure the cards were legit.

How to Get Unlimited Free Trials Using a "Real" Fake Credit Card Number

The app is ad-supported, but since it's free, I can live with that. In the generate field you can select from most of the major credit card providers, including American Express, Mastercard, Visa, and Discover. The disclaimer explains what the app does and how you should use it.

What would you do with these credit card number generators? Let us know in the comments section.

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50 Comments

hhmm worthy to look at this...

Both work great. Thanks again

what happens when a trial ends and the company tries to charge you and there's no money on a vanilla pre paid card? Will the service just end or would that person have to pay fees and crap or going to jail?

They will send you emails reminding you to update your paying method since your card was declined, they will annoy you for months and after a while they would just forget about you, I have done this and never got into any trouble.

is really interesting. i mean everything.

Dont you guys deal with how to bypass surveys,

tangina nyo lhat ..!.. i will kill you all

give me a true credit card

Give me real credit card

Is that real?

Wtf -- Alls Fake

Okay here's the thing its generating "Real" Fake credit card ## don't you think those "Real" Fake credit card could actually belong to someone "really" and you'd be really screwing them?

This isnt for buying netflix, its for signing up for a trial, it doesnt even give you a CSC

... Real/Fake is Oxymoron. That's your answer.

On Wich Websites Can I Use This?

What i must write in CVV on xbox?

Yeah what sites can you use it on?

No point without the cvc and name. Junk!

Well i want real credit card numbers

I won't credit card number

can we use them for buying something online?

Try it buy a bloody book and learn to read

To all of you that are trying to get real cards with valid dates and everything, that is highly illegal and is not accepted here or anywhere else, and you WILL be thrown in jail. It's not worth the years in prison away from your family for a few expensive (or non-expensive) items.

Hey Captain Obvious,

Shut up

It's for things like magazine subscriptions free make up free food samples even including such things as free wine samples and free cigar samples .

Always with the condition that you will be obligated to purchase a monthly subscription later

I clear the survey but still doesn't fade away the page. Is there any other way to do it? I want a hulu for free trail without card.

You are trapped in what is called a circle jerk. You will not get anything from it but more surveys.

can i use ths for facebook???

doesnt even work i just tried it

it din't work on xbox live 30 days free trial

Folks, this is USELESS. Ask yourself, WHAT online merchant or site that ever asks for a CC #, even if for a "free trial" fails to also ask for the expiration date and CSC? Answer: NONE. Duhhhhhhhhhhhh.

its working

Cool!

I have found the simplest solution is to use an actual prepaid gift card, like a Visa Vanilla. I've received several as gifts, spent most of the money on them, but the $2- $5 still recorded as the official balance ensured that their numbers will be valid until their expiration dates, the last of which is in six years! So long as no one tries to charge me for a so-called "free service", everything is fine. But if they do, they will not succeed in doing anything more than alerting me that they tried to rob me!

this has to be highly illegal because a random credit card number could be someones real credit card number so how do you scum bags feel steeling from people

It is not using a real human beings credit card number whatsoever.... You can't purchase anything at all and there is no other information that is generated than a line of numbers that would be used as a credit card. It is worthless if you do not have the CVC number or the billing address or the name associated to a card people! aedpp and that is it.

why doesnt this work for shomi? can i put any expiration date and cvv?

can you help me how to get cvc and date ?

yes im stuck with that to :')

how are u supposed to know ur cvc number , zip code "asked at netflix" , the 1st and last name that matches the "card" , and the expiration date. how anyone? admin?