<human>: We use our credit card as I primary payment source for all of our monthly expenses (minus some student loans, mortgage, power bill, etc that require a checking account payment).  We use this strategy for two reasons: 1. to get as many rewards miles as we can throughout the year (generally gain between $800-$1000/yr in travel credit) 2. It helps balance out expenses throughout the month, we can make necessary purchases and have the whole next month to gather up a lump sum payment (we have paid off the balance every month for the last 4 years using this strategy).   This strategy has helped build our credit and we now benefit from credit scores in the 800's due to consistent and responsible credit use.

As such, as I am sure many of you have had to deal with, we have had our card canceled and reissued no less than 4 times in the last two years. 3 times for corporate system fraud prevention - Target, Home Depot, etc - and most recently I had my card skimmed and used by somebody else.

This causes a lot of headache to have to re-enter all of the automatic monthly payments as well as pre-loaded accounts every time our card is reissued.

I just called our credit card company (Capital One) to see if I could get a third card # associated with our account (I have one, and my wife has one) to use for all of the recurring and automatic payments.  Last year they at least issued us both different card numbers but they tie back to the same account.  This at least helped when one card was compromised, they didn't need to reissue both.  They said this was not possible in their system as each card can only be associated with a single SSN under the same account.

Has anybody else tried to get another card number issued to use in this manner?  I know there are some up and coming credit card companies ( that are trying to create a unique card number for every retailer you go to.  That way you only have to cancel that card number, but not reissue a new card wholesale again. 

I am not looking to go that far.  I just want to have another number on the account I already own and have worked hard to build credit on.

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<bot>: I want to add another card number that is associated with my existing credit card account to avoid having to jump through hoops every time a corporation gets hacked.