Credit card cards. Merchants often advertise which cards they accept by displaying acceptance marks – generally derived from logos – or this may be communicated in signage in the establishment or in company material (e.g., a restaurant's menu may indicate which credit cards are accepted). Merchants may also communicate this orally, as in "We take (brands X, Y, and Z)" or "We don't take credit cards". The credit card issuer issues a credit card to a customer at the time or after an account has been approved by the credit provider, which need not be the same entity as the card issuer.
Credit card fraud more typically used to verify credit card data obtained directly from the victims by skimming or phishing. A set of credit card details that have been verified in this way is known in fraud circles as a phish. A carder will typically sell data files of the phish to other individuals who will carry out the actual fraud. The market price for a phish ranges from US$1.00 to US$50.00 depending on the type of card, the freshness of the data and credit status of the victim. Credit cards are produced in BIN ranges. Where an issuer does not use random