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Way back when AOL was on floppies there was software called AOHELL that would generate fake name, address, and fake CC just to sign up for AOL free 40 hours.
I’m sure credit cards were always a problem. I think the first 4 or 8 numbers of the card are the issuing bank and location. Something like that. So it’s super predictable.
I learned from a friend how to dial in with some terminal to create an account like that manually. There were some magic numbers/strings involved, but I can't remember details. I just remember the com port had to be set to 7n1, not 8n1 like for all other stuff I did
Oh man, you just unlocked a core memory... Remember "punterz"? Lol good times.